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I found a car friend today.
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Also saw an old fiesta that had been lowered quite a lot, enough that the silly man inside it had to stop half way over one of the speedbumps in Bluewater to check that his speed machine wasn't going to bottom out. I did an inside facepalm in response to the silliness I was watching.
 
badgeruk said:
Also saw an old fiesta that had been lowered quite a lot, enough that the silly man inside it had to stop half way over one of the speedbumps in Bluewater to check that his speed machine wasn't going to bottom out. I did an inside facepalm in response to the silliness I was watching.
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Haven't been to bluewater but my stock lowered Mazda 3 MPS struggles with many speedbumps... have to take them at a very slow pace much to the annoyance of traffic behind. Speed bump designers need to cater for a wider range of cars. Saying that old fiesta lowered quite a lot sounds like a laugh.
 
I have to crawl over them in both Z4s and my FR. My boss in his old 911 has to and ive seen plenty of over hot hatches and sports cars do the same (sure Vox did today as well), they are quite forgiving at Bluewater. But I have never seen anyone stop and get out to check as they have managed to lower there 1-1.4 litre fiesta to such a point that a pea in the road would rip the front bumper (no splitter here) right off.

I just can't see the point, I hate speedbumps in mine. Doing that to my car so every hole/bump in the road causes such problems makes no sense to me.
 
Neither did I :-\

http://www.carbuyer.co.uk/tips-and-advice/144957/hydrogen-cars-all-you-need-to-know

there are only eight hydrogen filling stations open to the public right now. Most of are in the south of the UK, with three in the London area (at Hendon, Teddington and Heathrow airport), another at Honda’s factory in Swindon, Wiltshire, and a fourth in Port Talbot in south Wales. Both Coventry University and Birmingham University have stations, too, while there’s also one in Nottingham. Further north, there’s a public hydrogen station in Rotherham as well.
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On further reading, it sounds like the average Hydrogen car can do 250-300 miles (assuming that's on a full tank), however it'll cost £50-£75 to fill up!? For £10 worth of diesel I get 100 miles, so that sounds like an awful amount of money for very little miles!
 
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It's a shame they didn't push for hydrogen instead of electric. It would have been far better IMO. Not only can you convert many existing engines to run on hydrogen but it's cleaner than battery manufacturing. It takes a lot of energy to separate the hydrogen at the moment, but that would improve with more research in to it.
 
swain90 said:
Neither did I :-\

http://www.carbuyer.co.uk/tips-and-advice/144957/hydrogen-cars-all-you-need-to-know



On further reading, it sounds like the average Hydrogen car can do 250-300 miles (assuming that's on a full tank), however it'll cost £50-£75 to fill up!? For £10 worth of diesel I get 100 miles, so that sounds like an awful amount of money for very little miles!
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All the reviews say its cheaper to run than petrol or diesel so that article must have the pricing wrong!?
 
Nasher said:
It's a shame they didn't push for hydrogen instead of electric. It would have been far better IMO. Not only can you convert many existing engines to run on hydrogen but it's cleaner than battery manufacturing. It takes a lot of energy to separate the hydrogen at the moment, but that would improve with more research in to it.
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Hydrogen cars have batteries in aswell.... they are EVs. Fuel cells just trickle the batteries ready for the high road load outside of crusiing speed demand.

And hydrogen is a a nightmare to store and transport and just a gimmick for the future mass usage.

Afraid when 'they' were pushing for a tech Mr Common Sense had a bulk of the decision.

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Hydrogen powered. I didn't know that they sold these here.
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Will be some tech demo, protoype or a lease. Not sold anyway.
 
dacads said:
Bad parking alert
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As much as I like to take the **** out of his parking, that's actually good parking as it stops the doors getting dinged and doesn't get in anyone's way. I always try to find end spots and park in the same way.

Saw some nice classics in my village today, assumed the citroen was worth maybe £30k but a friend tell me it's up to £170k :eek:

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