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- Tue May 28, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Speed Limiters - July '24
- Replies: 25
- Views: 322
Re: Speed Limiters - July '24
My Audi’s predictive cruise control reads speed limits. It often seems to go back to its database though. There’s one long 40 limit on an A-road near us where it decides to slow down to 30 for a second then realises it’s still 40 so speeds up again. No signs to misread.
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: FAO BMW i3-istas
- Replies: 10
- Views: 148
Re: FAO BMW i3-istas
I can see the appeal. Have you also considered an electric Mini? Same basic drivetrain tech should mean it’s reliable and with EV prices dropping you might get a much newer one for your budget.
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Randomness
- Replies: 8264
- Views: 1334236
Re: Randomness
Oh, a quick Google answered that one. 5,608,310 lbf⋅ft @ 102 rpm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA96-C I didn't spot the thermal efficiency in the Wikipedia article so I did some more digging. Apparently the engine is over 50% thermally efficient - i.e. more than half of t...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The House Projects Thread
- Replies: 2291
- Views: 570423
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Speed Limiters - July '24
- Replies: 25
- Views: 322
Re: Speed Limiters - July '24
Purely anecdotal, but I feel like I don't see anywhere near as much speeding as I used to. You just don't see that many people flying down the motorway doing a ton+ anymore, and seems like most of the crashes I see are lack of concentration more than anything (although probably braking assist would...
- Mon May 27, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bye Bye Sunak..
- Replies: 636
- Views: 175105
Re: Bye Bye Sunak..
https://newsthump.com/2024/05/27/care-worker-shortage-what-care-worker-shortage-asks-government-planning-to-get-all-18-year-olds-to-do-it-for-free/ Meanwhile, the nation’s current crop of 18-year-olds has reacted with precisely the amount of enthusiasm you’d expect at the prospect of an unplanned y...
- Mon May 27, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bye Bye Sunak..
- Replies: 636
- Views: 175105
Re: Bye Bye Sunak..
I don’t think people would piss away a whole year, I think it would be good for most people. It’s stupid though as the U.K. has a really well regarded professional military full of people who want to be there. I don’t see how taking time away from the professionals and putting it towards people who...
- Mon May 27, 2024 7:00 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Quintuple crown
- Replies: 7
- Views: 139
Re: Quintuple crown
WRC? Not sure if anyone has ever switched though.
- Sun May 26, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Moaning
- Topic: State of the Roads
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1191
Re: State of the Roads
I was rather unimpressed with the number of potholes on the M40 yesterday. Local authority maintained roads I sort of understand the maintenance issues but Highways Agency? That’s just evidence of how badly run the country is currently.
- Sun May 26, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Teh Spotted Thread
- Replies: 3584
- Views: 756723
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
It’s not far from here, I’ve not seen the Delta parked there before but the resident is an obvious Italian car perv, that’s a Fiat Coupe peeking in on the right, and choosing matching yellow for whatever the thing is on the left is a strong move. He probably remembers whose bum the headlight covers...
- Sat May 25, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Petrol Honda mowers
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2124
Re: Petrol Honda mowers
She was out so I took the opportunity. I did show her the photo when she got back. She looked amused and exasperated ![😂](//cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@latest/assets/svg/1f602.svg)
- Sat May 25, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Petrol Honda mowers
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2124
Re: Petrol Honda mowers
Finally got all my mowers together.
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The favourite is the second from the left, the one which should be wonderful but I don’t like is next to the Al-ko.
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The favourite is the second from the left, the one which should be wonderful but I don’t like is next to the Al-ko.
- Sat May 25, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bye Bye Sunak..
- Replies: 636
- Views: 175105
Re: Choose
Obvs the F1, though I would also spec and have built a Singer - or Tuthill or similar - 911. That wouldn’t be within 2 days so rules it out anyway.
- Fri May 24, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Decent car YouTubes
- Replies: 2852
- Views: 633847
Re: Decent car YouTubes
Same - I thought the F1's engine sounded nicer too.
- Thu May 23, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bye Bye Sunak..
- Replies: 636
- Views: 175105
Re: Bye Bye Sunak..
Yeah, hundreds of millions of pounds spent, no one sent, countless lost legal cases and the best they've had is a "rumour" that some illegals aren't crossing into NI because the threat of going to Rwanda. Thats the best lie the Tory's could come up with. It's not been a policy that has wo...
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bye Bye Sunak..
- Replies: 636
- Views: 175105
Re: Bye Bye Sunak..
I wouldn't vote Lib Dem now because they had their chance, fucked it up and aren't in any way a party capable of running the country. It was nearly a decade ago, at some point people are going to need to move past it. OK, they've had nearly 10 years but they have not moved things forwards one iota ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bye Bye Sunak..
- Replies: 636
- Views: 175105
Re: Bye Bye Sunak..
Vote Lib Dem. If it’s enough to stop either of the others getting a majority it’ll be a good thing. We all know what we’ll get from Labour. Years of everything still being shit but “it’s not our fault the conservatives did it”. Then the money hose gets turned on and everything is brilliant…. until ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:21 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Test drive report
- Replies: 232
- Views: 8756
Re: Test drive report
I did consider a GR86 - Jon offered me his allocation from the second batch - but I just didn’t want one as much. Not open-topped, it’s a bit of a one-trick pony to me: lovely to drive but that’s it. I’d rather have a GR Yaris I think. Just adding - the spec of that one in the video is pretty much w...
- Wed May 22, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bye Bye Sunak..
- Replies: 636
- Views: 175105
Re: Bye Bye Sunak..
Soggy.
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