It's my Birthday & I got....

[J0Al1]

A rather lovely Golf TDI Sport...... (just like this one).

I'm feeling all posh.

I LOVE diesel cars. Missed them, not had one for 10 years!

[Renton]

Nice

My boss has one (08 I think) goes like stink!
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[mistergixer]

I don't know how anyone can get excited about a diseasel - they're the most uninspiring engines ever invented; low revving and don't even make a satisfying noise when revved.
They should remain where they belong - agricultural applications, not in cars, and certainly not in bikes.
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Nice cars with fantastic engines but the brakes are REALLY sharp on them, bet you headbutt the steering wheel on the first drive out .

[Phoenix]

[tatters]

I,ve got a 58 plate bluemotion one, gutless engine but have got 75mpg on the motorway a few times and 50-60mpg around town
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[J0Al1]

[Billing]

happy birthday MissEdwood


My mum has a Skoda Octavia 1.9TDi, solid motor, and similar to the VW.

As for diesels not being fun, what about the old Fabia VRS? I'm sure that was a diesel and it was bloody quick XD
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[Kickstart]

[Billing]

fair enough, I'm not too hot on the whole performance diesel thing, wouldn't have one by choice, but can see the appeal to those that would.

I'd have something the size of a shoe with a reasonably large nitroglycerin/petrol powered engine any day of the week
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[Fawbish]

[Kickstart]

Hi

The changes you feel when accelerating are the changes in torque with rpm. When you feel a surge at (say) 8k that is torque picking up. Hence you can have something that feels like it is accelerating harder and harder as the revs increase.

Power is just torque x rpm, so as rpm increases power increases even if torque is dropping off a bit and acceleration is getting slowly worse until the point that torque drops away rapidly.

It is that tailing off of torque that I find uninspiring. Charlottes Thunderbird has peak torque at about 4000rpm, then drops off before really tailing off from 6500rpm, and this to me just makes revving it feel pointless. May as well change up and go to sleep. In comparison the TZR250 has peak torque at about 10k, having twice the torque it had at 5k. This just encourages you to play with the revs.

Read an interesting bit in a car magazine a week or so ago. Think it was Nissan saying that the next generation Micra won't have a diesel version. Their new 3 cylinder petrol engine costs them about £650, while an equivalent diesel clean enough to get through the next emissions standard would cost them about three times that.

All the best

Keith
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[Sam_Y_93]

[J0Al1]

Some fucking WANKER has scraped up the bumper.... ASSHOLE.. My first day of owning it.



Mighty fucked off

[chrisw]

[J0Al1]

Fuck fuck fuck them!


Just lost money on the sale of my old car cos of previous owner scrapes. .. . . The ones wont even come out - gouged the plastic.. . It was immaculate.

TOSSERS

[mistergixer]

^^ That's the reason i won't buy a 'nice' new-ish car anymore - if it's pristine, any dents, dings etc are extremely noticeable and feck you right off.
If the car's a tatty looking shed to start with, new knocks aren't quite as apparent.
When i've had 'nice' cars in the past they've always been a source of worry, i couldn't give a fuck what happens to my rather tatty MR2 - i've had a replacement numberplate bezel for months (to replace the one that was knackered by someone reversing into it in a carpark and then fucking off without leaving a note), but can't really be bothered to swap it over.
A few battle scars adds to its character.

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[Sam_Y_93]

sorry to hear what a downer on your birthday too (happy birthday by the way )

did they leave a note or have they fuck off?
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[J0Al1]

Thanks Sam_Y_93


Its not that bad.

[Sam_Y_93]

did you overreact?

I did that when I came off my bike came home to tell my dad how bad it was then went to look at it the next day (was around my nans) and found it wasn't that bad what so ever
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[J0Al1]

PHEW, false alarm, I feel better now.

[SlimRick]

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