Hope you have a blast with that, man!
Last Poster #6
- Thread starter jks9199
- Start date
- Status
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
My life expressed in one picture.
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
Wow! Sounds amazing. Enjoy! Take lots of pictures.
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
Give it time.
I will have to join DD in the laughter here.@Dirty Dog
I'm getting a new car and it ISfaster than your old antiquated corvette..... because it is turbocharged.....NOTHING will be able to beat my Turbocharged 4 cylinder Honda engine...because its TURBOCHARGED!!!!!!
I once drove a turbo charged - diesel.
Don't get me wrong, I did kick the beast up to a 100mph...but I don't think it could have kept up with the vette...
Pick me up in Savannah....I'll take a row boat out if I must!
no better than GPS...
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
Heck, I can go as luggage! I am Soviet - I can handle this. Besides, I fold up really small and fit into overhead compartments.
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
We had a Zaporozhets. It had a 40 horsepower engine. It was made the same year I was born. Ah, the good times we had with that poor little car... I saw a documentary about cars on History Channel once and was surprised to see Zaporozhets. It got an honorable mention. They said, "Just by looking at that car you could tell it was made in the Soviet Union."
I have a turbo diesel.
It's not fast...
What it is though is big enough to load with kids and paraphernalia for days out, big enough to load with crap for work and capable of towing crap for work.
All for a £450 outright purchase price and an average of 55mpg.
If I want fast I use a bike - because really, unless a car is absolutely stupid fast it's not bike fast, so what's the point? I can't afford a car that'll do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, and mediocre fast is like getting disturbed during happy fun time...
I have one of those, too, but it's gas. Never owned a diesel.
That's kind of the point @Xue Sheng was making. My vette IS "stupid fast" and a lot safer than a bike if something goes wrong at those speeds. On race tires, at sea level, it's capable of running the quarter mile in 9.6 seconds, at 146MPH. While still being street legal, with AC, a nice sound system, being comfortable enough for 4000 mile road trips, and capable of 30+ MPG if I can keep my foot out of the throttle.
Last edited:
IF......
A diesel is nice though when you have some pulling to do.
A loaded 2 horse trailer for examples.
And of course the stuff to go with the horses.
Last edited:
I did manage to do so for an entire day, on our last road trip. I'm always telling Sue that the vette is an economy car, and she scoffs (can you believe it???). She said if I could hit 30MPG, she'd accept the assertion. I kept out of it for an entire day (which was admittedly tough...) and hit 30. Showed it to her, and went back to my normal driving.
On the first two days of that trip, I got 22.2 MPG, and averaged just over 94 MPH.
Well done. That kind of restraint earns you a day at the track.I did manage to do so for an entire day, on our last road trip. I'm always telling Sue that the vette is an economy car, and she scoffs (can you believe it???). She said if I could hit 30MPG, she'd accept the assertion. I kept out of it for an entire day (which was admittedly tough...) and hit 30. Showed it to her, and went back to my normal driving.
On the first two days of that trip, I got 22.2 MPG, and averaged just over 94 MPH.
I am proud of you!I did manage to do so for an entire day, on our last road trip. I'm always telling Sue that the vette is an economy car, and she scoffs (can you believe it???). She said if I could hit 30MPG, she'd accept the assertion. I kept out of it for an entire day (which was admittedly tough...) and hit 30. Showed it to her, and went back to my normal driving.
On the first two days of that trip, I got 22.2 MPG, and averaged just over 94 MPH.
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
What's the point of being "stupid fast" anyway? There are speed limits all over the place. There are only a few places in the western world where you can go 146 MPH and not get a speeding ticket.
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
How DARE she?!
There are race tracks all over the place, too.
And not everyone obeys speed limits all the time. I did mention averaging 94 MPH over a two day period, right?
And it'll go a lot faster than 146, if I have more than a quarter of a mile to work with.
Last edited:
I assumed as much. I'm pretty sure my old Mercedes would do well over 100 still (okay, I actually know it can hit 100 easily - happy?), so that Vette should be able to lope along at that 146.There are race tracks all over the place, too.
And not everyone obeys speed limits all the time. I did mention averaging 94 MPH over a two day period, right?
And it'll go a lot faster than 146, if I have more than a quarter of a mile to work with.
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
You know... Microsoft Money listed speeding tickets as one of the leading causes of people wasting money in America. I am not saying - I am just saying...There are race tracks all over the place, too.
And not everyone obeys speed limits all the time. I did mention averaging 94 MPH over a two day period, right?
And it'll go a lot faster than 146, if I have more than a quarter of a mile to work with.
- Status
