That could be applied to my first car, a red '99 Daewoo Matiz. 11 trouble-free years of driving. All points fit, except the 4) and the 9).
It had a light that went on when the car thought it had almost no more fuel (but that was completely random, from 1/4 of the tank to two sips of petrol. But that could take you almost everywhere. Slowly, but very far.).
And I actually got laid in there, more than once. Soft seats, high roof, reclinable seats... Nobody complained. So don't lose faith.
It actually was my mother's, so when she bought a Fiesta like mine we scrapped it. At Ford they took off 6000€ (5200£/8000$) from the price of the new car, because we were buying the LPG model. When we bought it, we paied it just less than 10000€ (18.500.000 lire, that was), and more than 10 years later we get 60% of that back. Ain't that nice?
You made me want an Atos so badly. And that's a first.
What happened to the Fiesta's headlamps? This looks 'shopped.
Maths fail there, corrected. Still, it would take half a day/a full day more to arrive, that's not an improvement, it's called "going backwards".
Wow, an article wrote five years ago and last modified three years ago, with most of the links that give me a 404.
That's like me saying "No, really, I went on the moon with my cocoa powered VW T1 back in 2006, here's the site on which I posted the photos: http://www.herestheproofofwhatisaid.com/"
The thing is, I don't know (nobody does) what will be the next power source for cars, when petrol will run out. But I'm sure it won't be batteries+electricity.
Batteries have improved, but they still have lots of downs and not many (or better, no) ups. Nobody will buy a car that, after N kilometers will need X hours of recharge.
If I went to work by an electric car, I could charge it when I'm in my office...
But if I had to go from where I live (100km from Milan) to visit my family 50km from Bari, Apulia, southern Italy (total: 1000km) I would have to stop ten times (once every 100km) for AT LEAST half an hour. That's 8h 30m of travelling, and another 5h of charging the batteries. But that's IF the batteries took half an hour to charge fully.. At the actual state, to charge a battery at 100% it takes at least 1 or 2 hours, so I will take 18h30m to 28h30m to arrive.
Or I could take my petrol powered Fiesta, stop every 700km or so, (3 times going back and forth) and be there in less than 10h.
As I said, I don't know whether fuel cells will be the future or not, but whatever will be the "next" fuel, it should be as similar to petrol as it can be. Lots of km's between refuelling, possibility to stop at a X station and buy more fuel that fills up your "tank" in less then 5 minutes.
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Reason : Whoops, maths fail.
Source?
We all are able to make up numbers like that.
e.g.
"A $1.01 fill of cocoa & peanut butter will make my 1951 VW T1 go to the moon and back".
What's wrong with READING?
An example should clarify why I don't think battery powered electric cars will catch on; the numbers I use aren't REAL numbers, I use them to let you know easily what I mean.
Let's say I sleep 8 hours per night, then go to work 80km from my house (using a motorway), and the car takes 10 hours to be at 100% charge (=100km), I will run out of juice, because (as usual) the "theorical" range is far better then the real range. But let's say I will make it in time and without running out. I work 2 hours, then my wife/child/mum/etc calls me and has an emergency, near home. My car will only have around 20% charge, which should be 20km in ideal conditions. But being an emergency, I would drive faster than the usual 50kph of the "ideal conditions". I would therefore stay where I am for another 8 hours to drive (slowly) to my home hoping my wife/child/mum/etc is ok even if I didn't help her/him.
With a petrol/diesel/LPG/ethanol/hydrogen/[putanyliquidpowersourcehere] car, I could stop at a petrol station and put more fuel in giving me full range in a couple of minutes, drive at 130kph on the motorway, and be home in an hour or little more.
IF there is a high-power electrical source where you work/where you live. If not, it will take HOURS, possibly more than your sleep/your working time. Not to mention that we have 3 cars in our house. It happened that all three cars were almost out of juice at the same time: we went to a petrol station and filled up.
Having said that we all need to go to work/school in the morning, could we charge 3 cars at a time? Surely not. So either my father or my mother or me would go to work/school in the morning, the other two won't. And that's not good.
So how to solve this? Why, fitting a car with a special tank in which you put a flammable liquid, and then when the liquid runs out you pull into... let's call it a "petrol station", fill it up in a couple of minutes and you never have to go brass rubbing (when recharging your electric car). (BTW, © Jeremy Clarkson)
Yes, I do watch Top Gear. But that doesn't mean I don't have MY OWN opinion. Sometimes, it is the same as Top Gear's presenters', sometimes it isn't. 'Cause I have a brain, you know.
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I had a Matiz, and it sounded great! Like a Porsche with a cough
Let's say I work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Will I want to stay at least a quarter of an hour, more likely half an hour to "fill up" my car? No, I'd prefer to use 5 minutes of that time to fill up the hydrogen and use the rest of that time to go home and relax.
Now we have understood that more fuel efficency can be achieved by cutting weight (my Fiesta is 60kg lighter than the previous model, even by being bigger). Using batteries ADDS a lot of weight. Using a fuel cell keeps the weight roughly as it is now. What's the future?
Electric cars and hybrids are shite now, and sorry for the French. Too much weight, too little range, price a lot higher than petrol cars (31,000£/36.000€ for a small Peugeot that has to be recharged every 100/150km? I mean, WTF?). And they aren't what people will drive in 10, 20 or even 50 years, cause they will still be shite (again, sorry!) and not interesting.
If there were hydrogen pumps, I would have liked to buy a fuel cell car, even now.
They won't. At least as they are now. Electric cars ARE the future, batteries aren't.
With batteries, even the best ones, you have to recharge them. With my petrol Fiesta (not very polluting and quite economical - 5.7l/100km or 41.3mpg) I go to a petrol station, put petrol in, pay and go away. Total time: 5ish minutes.
With an electric car it takes AT LEAST 3 times that, with high power outputs and very good batteries. In real life, it will take some half-hours. People can't afford to stay still that much.
With fuel cells, you use hydrogen (at a pump it takes as long as the petrol to fill up) and you are using an electric car with no batteries (= less "fuel") and virtually unlimited range (with small times to fill up), and it produces only water.
What's better? What's REALLY the future? :P
They don't need a gearbox because an electric motor produces its maximum torque at 0 (zero) RPM, whereas a petrol engine produces 0 torque at 0 RPM, and its maximum at 2000-4000 or more RPM.
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Did you try the "Renew lease" button? Sometimes it helps.
Yes, and it simulates every automatic gearbox there is in reality. In fact my friend's Golf Plus 1,9TD redlines everytime, even when you press lightly the throttle.
Please, when replying to a topic, read what the topic of the topic (:schwitz
is. We are discussing a tweak that simulates a REAL automatic transmission, that shifts at low RPMs when touching lightly the throttle, at high RPMs when needed and that kicks 2/3 gears down when you press hard the pedal.Thanks!
BTW, not so bad, at all! Keep up the good work!
It's been two weeks since the last post... PLEASE LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!!!11!!1!1!oneone
Yes, so everyone of us should download your mod, backup our "data" folders, install your mod, with the risk that we all won't like it? Yeah, count on it.
Or, more likely (as I suppose you have your mod installed), you can press the "Print" button on your keyboard while you are "inside" the car, then exit or Alt+Tab outside LFS and paste it (Ctrl+V) inside Paint, then save it as a .jpg or .bmp and show it here.
Hello, can you keep playing nfs high stake
and/or buy live for spee.
and/or buy live for spee.
An automatic gearbox doesn't have a clutch, it has a torque converter. At 0% throttle (idle) and car stationary with "Drive" ("D") selected, it will go a lil' bit forward.
When going at a speed of (for example) 10MPH a gear is fully engaged. When going faster, it will select the best gear for your speed. If you release the throttle, it will engage top gear, i.e. for a 4-speed transmission it will engage 4th, for a 5-speed it will engage 5th etc.
A car in neutral is completely free. A car in the highest gear has still some engine breaking, even if REALLY just a little bit.
The only way for ANY car to go into neutral is... putting the stick/selector into neutral. NO car, even the automatic ones, will EVER go to neutral if you don't want it to. (Of course, except for a gearbox problem).
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