hi all
just found this quote from Jeremy Clarkson on the Pirus, and thought i would share it with you all.......


"And what's so good about the Prius anyway? It does 45mpg, which makes it thirstier and dirtier than most diesels, it has two engines, which means two filthy production lines and imagine what it would look like alongside Berlusconi's Quattroporte and Merkel's Merc? A Prius would make Mr Blair look like an even bigger berk than he already is."


lol great minds think alike.........

hi guys
thanks for you support for russ......... but they got there ass kicked by the other guys
ho well back to lfs then ........

hi again
ok guys Russ and his m8's have made the final !!!
please vote for them !! lets support our own !!

http://www.googleidol.com/rock/index.htm

thanks ALZY.........

hi guys
For those of you that remember RUSS he was the leader of the GTR Team , then later in Team 400..
well he has one of those funny lip syn vidoes up on google, take a look and have a laugh espically if you know him !!!!

http://video.google.com/videop ... q=danger+zone&pl=true

for those who dont know russ is front right....

lol have fun......

lol you got to pick holes in things just cant accept it can you ?
we are thirty years down the line and we have hybred cars just to achive what d vizard did in the 70's .. i did not say it was a standard production car just a production car.. if you cant accept it, it's your problem not mine

when you say "our" i take it you mean you? as i dont belive i have exaggerated anything myself

hmmmmmmmmmmm
mini's are a production car, and once more David Vizard, built one totally for economy, back in the late 1970's and he was achiving 100 mpg with it. it retained it's standard "A" series engine, so was not extenslively modified, just a carefull build using chosen components ... cant make it clearer than that..
if you want proof of those figures you will have to check in this book, as the end economy figures and all the build spec's are in it.....
http://www.bevenyoung.com.au/prdt1149.htm

David Vizard is renouned as a mini guru has written several books on them and many other cars.. he is a free lance engineer as far as i know and is world renouned for being one of the best.

the point i was trying to make there is you cant compare a concept built trike type thing that one small person rides in, built of carbonfibre and other lavish meterials,that would probably get blown away in a gentle breeze, to a production road going car, capable of carrying passengers and practile use.. can you?

hi
lol dont you know what a mini is?? it must be the most famous car in the world !! basicaly the uf1 is based on it

Quote from varjsa-9 :

I say it's new, since it hasn't been done before

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By the way, where did that 100mpg come from ?

and take a look at this: http://www.guinnessworldrecord ... record.asp?recordid=43581

the 100 mpg came from the mileage per imp gallon that David Vizard achived from a mini back in the 70's..

as far as that guiness thing goes it is very impressive but its not a production road car capable of carrying passengers is it..

well this is not new technology really is it .. it's a mish mash of current technology put togther to help our goverments meet emmision levels they have promised each other to meet..
100 mpg is not world shattering, david vizard built a 100mpg mini back in the 70's and that was just a good engine build ... no pluging hair dryers into it

now when we get fuel cells that will be new technology!

Last edited by alzys177, Fri 13 Jan 2006, 23:14.

lol.. as i said i am in the motor trade and know all about computers and ecu's on cars.. i also know how many fault codes prove untraceable even by main dealers on there own cars.. and that is on conventional ic cars, let alone hybred cars which are even more complex....
lets not forget hybred technology is brand new to the market place and theses early cars are bound to have problems and faults not thrown up in testing as do all new concepts..

so basicaly your a guinie pig, driving a prospective hair dryer

HO MY GOD....
so many gadegts and gizmos.. would not like to be you when the ecu starts throwing out fault codes.. i am in the motor trade and main dealers have enough problems fault finding normal cars with out this little pandoras box....

but on the bright side you could be really eco friendly and recycle it into a hair dryer..

hi
i have recently been doing a lot of hotlapping for the olfsl ..
and spend a lot of time trying to work out were i am slowest and need to improve.. ( no scarky comments plz )
anyway the best game i have ever seen for this was SEGA RALLY.
dont know if any of you youngersters will remember it but it was excellent when it first came out and is still very playable now ..

any way in there hotlap type mode, you could race against a ghost car of the fastest lap or other player you wanted to beat..
this was excellent as it not only makes hotlapping less boaring, but lets you see were they are quicker than you..
if it could be done so you could download the lap of your choice by whoever and then run against a ghost car of them while setting your own time, as i remember the ghost car started a flying start as your car crossed the start finish line, so you both start togther......

ho well thats my thought anyway hope you like it ....