Sry, now you've got me feeling like a bit of a ****.
Lawnmowers vs tractors
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Grr.
At least no-one has come in with the dturbo of doom yet...
I should point out that, money no object, diesels wouldn't have a look in IMHO.
Here, diesel is cheaper than Petrol - wonder how the figures would stack up...
Shame it's not the same colour though, eh?
[TW]Fox;13413307 said:
No, because I always tend to perform overtakes at maximum attack therefore I'll be in the right gear anyway.
But you're not everyone.....nor can you speak for everyone.
You're a keen driver, one that's been involved with the IAM. The majority of motorsits are far less clued up and even less interested in driving. For people like you and I prior planning is an automatic reaction, and as such it's rare that we are caught off guard by the actions of another motorist.
Sadly, this is the exception and not the rule.
[TW]Fox;13413324 said:
In thery. In practice, its rubbish because its used to create utterly meaningless stats like 'The Skoda Fabia Super Rallye RS Diesel does 60-65 in 6th faster than a Honda NSX!'
Yea, I'm sure it does. But so what
That's a top gear roll-on though. Even the laziest of drivers wouldn't amble along in 6th and attempt to overtake without changing down. They might in 4th or 5th though and to get back to my original point even if they'd dropped down from 5th to 4th for a leisurely overtake then been caught off guard needing some extra whoosh, the diesel has plenty of it on demand.
Very true fox, and anyone that doesnt get a move on with overtaking shouldnt be bloody overtaking in the first place.
In an ideal world I'd agree with you. But we don't live in an ideal world do we? The basic fact of the matter is that we have thousands upon thousands of drivers on our roads who shouldn't even be there at all.
[TW]Fox;13413428 said:
I just cant do it at anything other than max - being on the wrong side of the road is the most dangerous place you can put your car. I like to make sure I'm there for as little as possible
So yea, if I pulled out to overtake in the 530d in 4th it'll make it quite nicely. But if I drop the 530i into 3rd it'll make it even quicker so isn't that the 'in gear advantage' made irrelevent? If I drop the 530d to 3rd it'll go better but then I'll need to change gear half way through..
I totally agree with your post.
However, I shouldn't need to point out that you take a more keen and, dare I say it, professional attitude to the task of driving and that just because you would do something a certain way doesn't mean you're the barometer by which all other drivers would do the same task.
Many panic, to a varying degree, and changing down isn't the first thing that occurs to them.....flooring it is.
It's been an intersting off-topic dalliance, all the same
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