Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
How can a 250 horsepower car beat a 500 horsepower car??? Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwRgSZiKTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwRgSZiKTk
How to beat Porsche...
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Dorsetmike
Member
And I bet he did it on less than half the fuel the German heap used.
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Yep, the all too important power-to-weight ratio. I love those Caterhams just like I love Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, BMW...The Americans can have their own crap-cars. Although, I used to have a 429 Boss Mustang - best Ford ever built - made a pile of money off of it when I sold it...
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
And the text read: bye-bye, kraut...
teddy
Duckmeister
You have to keep these things in perspective guys. The Caterham, with all its race breeding is a fantastic little car, but it does lack certain things. Doors, a hood, a heater, rear seats, comfortable suspension for a long trip, climate controll for really hot days, radio........etc etc. My Porsche was usable as an everyday car. The Caterham would not be practical. Horses for courses.
teddy
teddy
JHC
Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Dead right teddy, I have a 8 hour trip to-morrow to attend a funeral of an old friend we will start of in the rain and finish in the rain now which car will I go in ???? The Z stays in the dry, give me a heater, the CD player, sat nav and room in the boot for all the stuff my darling wife will accumulate in the big city plus a couple of reds for me..... good night
Dorsetmike
Member
What do you need a Sat Nav for Colin, forgotten how to read a map?
Travelled a few miles on Sunday with friends, we used roads that we all know well, going out in the morning, no sat nav, no problems yet on the way back - same roads - sat nav on and this woman's voice kept chuntering away "at the next roundabout ... ... ..." " in 300 yards turn .. ... ..." enough to drive anybody up the wall.
There may be a few occasions when sat nav is useful, but for every day journeys more a distraction than anything else. I've even heard it used for the school run! Maybe they don't know how to switch it off.
Travelled a few miles on Sunday with friends, we used roads that we all know well, going out in the morning, no sat nav, no problems yet on the way back - same roads - sat nav on and this woman's voice kept chuntering away "at the next roundabout ... ... ..." " in 300 yards turn .. ... ..." enough to drive anybody up the wall.
There may be a few occasions when sat nav is useful, but for every day journeys more a distraction than anything else. I've even heard it used for the school run! Maybe they don't know how to switch it off.
teddy
Duckmeister
I could have done with a satnav in France. Just negotiated the new Paris ring road (both ways) for the first time. Not as straight forward as it looks on the map, particularly the return trip. The old Peripherique is too congested to contemplate these days whereas the new road is quite a good run. I used a Google print off for navigation, but a satnav would have made it even easier. Sorry to hear of your loss Colin but at least you will have a good quick run in the BMW
teddy
teddy
The SatNav that came with our rental car in the UK for some reason was "set" to keep us off the Motorways and instead on side routes with tons of round-a-bouts. The scenery was beautiful, but taking the slower country route made us miss all but the last few minutes of an organ concert at Liverpool Cathedral.
At our hotel, we looked up the next days travel on Google maps, and ignored the SatNav unless we were in places like Salzburg and London.
At our hotel, we looked up the next days travel on Google maps, and ignored the SatNav unless we were in places like Salzburg and London.
JHC
Chief assistant to the assistant chief
It is a god send if you are in an area that you don't know and my Wife is not a good map reader, my visit to Auckland on Thursday would have been a nightmare without it, if you get into the wrong lane that's it you finish up miles off course plus the fact that it has been about 8 years since my last visit and things have changed, and for every day journeys just don't switch it on
Dorsetmike
Member
Methinks a lot of users don't know how to switch it off, living about 200 yards from a primary school in an urban residential area, (catchment area of which school is less than a mile radius) I regularly hear the school run mums parking or pulling away with their sat navs chattering away.
Probably a bit of the "must have" mentality ... ... ... ... "Oh, listen everybody, I've got a SATNAV"