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Post by dixinormus on Dec 9, 2021 22:36:04 GMT
I picked up a rental Golf TDi at Hamburg airport about 20 years ago. Drove most of the way to Copenhagen at high speed on the motorway in 5th before I happened to look down and notice that the car had a 6-speed box 😬😂
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Post by WDB on Dec 10, 2021 7:17:34 GMT
MrsB1 drove our Toyota Verso for four years and only ever used sixth when I prompted her. (And quite often not even then, so I learned not to prompt, if you know what I mean 🙉)
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 10, 2021 10:18:22 GMT
Didn't many HGVs have multiple speed gearboxes. Something like ten gears plus a splitter (whatever that is)? I have memories of drivers moving gearsticks on an almost constant basis, also with a stalk for a Telma braking system (no idea what that did either).
I saw on YouTube a huge HGV in Norway which was 100% electric. Must have taken a long time to fully charge.
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Post by WDB on Dec 10, 2021 11:07:35 GMT
A large vehicle would have room for multiple chargers, wouldn’t it?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2021 15:22:26 GMT
This little Yoda is growing on me so much I've started looking at petrol auto Avensiseses of the same sort of age...coming back to that old "why am I paying finance for the Civic when a solid old £2.5k Avensis would do me just as well" thinking. It's just bloody billy basics brilliant (with aircon). These old Toyotas are surley the top bangernomics choice, if you can find one with the history and condition of this one. Which ain't that hard given it's an old duffer's kind of car when new. I mean really, why do I need anything more than this? www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202110198654717 |
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Post by Humph on Dec 10, 2021 15:31:13 GMT
Agree with the principal, especially given the usage you describe. Still think you’d miss an estate now though. Not that budget estates don’t exist.
Funnily enough, I was chatting this morning to a guy I was parked next to, mainly about his bike which must have cost him several thousand pounds. He was loading it into the back of his ancient but apparently honest old Focus estate.
Not an unusual scenario in mtb land. Posh bike/basic car combo is quite common.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2021 15:53:21 GMT
You know what, when I bought my first Leaf I traded in my 06 reg, 90k mile Mazda 6 2.0 TS2 auto estate for it. In retrospect that was a mistake, I should have traded the Merc in and kept the Mazda. I just looked it up and it's done 20k miles since I traded it in and it has just passed another MOT.
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Post by Humph on Dec 10, 2021 15:57:08 GMT
A 2001 Mondeo estate I used to own still shows up as taxed and MOTd.
365,000 miles I think it was on, last time I checked. Something like that anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2021 16:01:35 GMT
My one and only Mondeo, an S-reg 1.8LX estate, appears to have expired at its MOT in January 2016. I are sad. It's last pass, in Dec 14, it was just under 170k miles. I bought it when it was a year or so old, with 7k miles on the clock, for £7k. One of my best buys, and probably the best truth be told.
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Post by WDB on Dec 10, 2021 17:11:13 GMT
I remember trying the predecessor version to this Corolla in 1993: the rather svelte long-tailed Liftback version, with a less goofy front end and a superb (for the time) twin-cam 1.6 that was good for about 115PS and delivered it with impressive smoothness. And even this high-spec version came, unusually for the 1990s, with an undefaced steel roof. My younger self balked at the likely cost of insurance and bought an 82PS Astra instead. Mistake. There’s one very like it here. I think the one I drive was white and the interior grey velour rather than blue. Definitely velour, though. I like velour. Damn, I really ought to have bought one of these. Maybe I still can. www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1401883 |
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Post by Rob on Dec 10, 2021 17:59:01 GMT
Assume that's what's on a lot of the slightly older coaches used on Corfu with drivers flicking a stalk up and down all the time. On the windy roads up the coast from Dassia to Kassiopi I was surprised they were not needing to change gears more often (not all were autos). So they must have more torque than I was expecting.
I bet they are a world away from some of the buses my father used to drive though, even the older ones.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2021 9:04:14 GMT
I remember trying the predecessor version to this Corolla in 1993: the rather svelte long-tailed Liftback version, with a less goofy front end and a superb (for the time) twin-cam 1.6 that was good for about 115PS and delivered it with impressive smoothness. And even this high-spec version came, unusually for the 1990s, with an undefaced steel roof. My younger self balked at the likely cost of insurance and bought an 82PS Astra instead. Mistake. There’s one very like it here. I think the one I drive was white and the interior grey velour rather than blue. Definitely velour, though. I like velour. Damn, I really ought to have bought one of these. Maybe I still can. www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1401883It's for sale in Slough, which is usually enough to save most people on this forum and others from temptation. Aside from that, yes. Terrific car. And yes, better looking than the later generation. My personal preference is for the generation before that though, with the slightly angualr spoiler on the tailgate. They look very smart in DCR. This type: www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1405290And of course these types: www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1316641It's too easy to catch the Corolla Virus. Highly transmissible. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2021 10:24:59 GMT
^^^ Can also lead to Avensisitis.
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Post by WDB on Dec 13, 2021 10:36:49 GMT
Don’t worry, I don’t really want one today; this was more an expression of retrospective regret because I suspect that Liftback would have suited my mid-twenties self very nicely. Given that I’ve pretty much accepted that I won’t be buying a Saab 900 — which was what that same younger self really wanted — it would be strange, verging on perverse, to take on something similarly ancient.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 13, 2021 15:09:16 GMT
There is something timeless about a nice early 1990s Japanese interior. Simple dash, very clear dials, decent stalk action.
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