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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2024 14:58:29 GMT
Indeed. Would make a nice downsizer for me. The only thing stopping me is that I'd spend all my time in the cabin, I wouldn't need the thatched cottage which comes with it at all. It's even got a barn for cars and things.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2024 14:59:40 GMT
Thanks Vić. That house would be the perfect excuse for spending my days horizontal. Duck or Grouse signs would be obligatory. |
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Post by WDB on Feb 29, 2024 15:25:52 GMT
Would make a nice downsizer for me. Downsizing would certainly be a consideration. How far above flood level is it down there? |
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Post by bpg on Feb 29, 2024 16:24:52 GMT
Perfect for climate change, winter in the toasty annex. If the summer is a hot one relocate to the damp and draughty grade II cottage.
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 1, 2024 7:41:19 GMT
Strange really. I haven't thought about 'freewheeling' on a higher speed trip. I know that on the very odd occasion I have turned off all regenerative braking by accident the car rolls very easily, much more so that an ICE car and at the back of my mind I did wonder why I needed that form of braking on the motorway, it never crossed my mind to turn it off deliberately.
Must try that on my next trip. Does it improve efficiency? I suppose it must if only by a little.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2024 8:46:10 GMT
Perfect for climate change, winter in the toasty annex. If the summer is a hot one relocate to the damp and draughty grade II cottage. Indeed. I must admit I'm quite taken with the property, and it's in a great location for us. If the cottage had, or could have (I doubt it's possible with the GII listing), an upstairs bathroom, I think I might be going to have a look. |
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Post by WDB on Apr 18, 2024 8:07:04 GMT
This one takes me back to the 1980s, when the Audi 100 and the Renault Fuego first got the term ‘drag coefficient’ into the automotive press. So I asked my fluid-mechanics specialist dad about it and learned that it doesn’t mean much on its own. And now it’s back, and journos are still getting it wrong. For one thing, it’s a coefficient, a dimensionless multiplier. A number. So it’s not 0.27Cd, it’s just 0.27. And for another, we can’t simply quote the Cd for one shape as evidence that it suffers more or less drag than another. So statements like this, concerning a certain large BMW, are at best stretching the meaning of ‘slippery’ and, more probably, just wrong. Despite the iX’s boxiness, the Cd is still an air-cleaving 0.25. That’s slipperier than an i8 (0.26). Er, no. If we’re comparing drag at matching speeds, then we can accept that some of what we need to multiply the Cd by are the same in each case: the v-squared-over-2 and the density of the fluid medium — i.e. air. But the ‘reference area’ is very much not the same. For a car, that might be the frontal area or the entire surface over which air has to flow — hence things like flat wheels and flush door handles. But however you define it, the size of an iX means it is not going to suffer less drag than an i8. Here’s an explanation from a source I think we can accept as authoritative: www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/drag-equation |
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Post by Rob on Apr 18, 2024 18:44:09 GMT
They made a big thing in the motoring press when the Calibra was new. The less powerful engine with narrower tyres had the better coefficient.
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 19, 2024 3:45:38 GMT
Didn’t Audi start this game in the mid-80s when they launched their new 100 with a CD figure of 0.3 or something?
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Post by bpg on Apr 19, 2024 5:59:51 GMT
For those who prefer their automotive experience with a Zhōngguó twist, the Hongqi Mingshi.
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Post by EspadaIII on Apr 19, 2024 7:49:51 GMT
Cor - that is a proper 'knock off'.
Yes the 1983? Audi 100 had a Cd os 0.3 if you bought the lowest model. The posh models had a higher Cd becuase of the larger tyres and other stuff. And if you squint, you can see echoes of the NSU Ro80 in the rear pillar.
Wans't this the first use of the 'Vorsprung Durch Technik' line in their adverts? They claimed 1,000km range from a tank of petrol and that you could beat the Chermans to the deckchairs.. or some such rubbish. Funny at the time, less so now.
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