Boredom...

Booner! said:
Solari, I won't tell you again... get the VX220... you know what I would do in your position! :D
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I just spoke to a guy from the road next to me who has 2 garages for rent... I'm going to call my insurers tomorrow and find out what difference it will make if I have a garage ;)

25 seconds walk from my door... I could live with that!
 
DreXeL said:
It's not 'below average' for an N/A 2.0 engine.
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Great, but lets compare it to other 200bhp engines not other N/A 2.0 engines, especially as other 2.0 engines are more economical, cheaper to buy, loads cheaper to run/insure etc.

It is a 200bhp car. Performance, half the time, equal to a 140bhp car is in some peoples eyes a disadvantage. All I'm saying..
 
Right, so you are denying that a VTEC engine develops most of its power higher up the rev range?
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Today's another day, so I'll have one more go. I'll try and be as objective as possible here.

Everybody knows where a Type-R develops its peak bhp, so why bother asking me such a basic question? I owned one for 2 years, and currently own a 1.8T Leon Cupra which has been rr'ed at 208bhp (so anywhere between 200-210bhp then), and would therefore have a good 50lb/ft more torque round about the 2000-3000rpm range. Overall, i'd be hard pressed to tell you which of these two cars has a marketly better straightline performance, all things considered. Something like an 140bhp focus (with similar torque) however...

Point youre missing completely is that, despite these two cars having 6 gears, I know for a fact the Type R would reach its 8000rpm limit quicker than the Cupra would be reaching its 6500rpm limit. Despite the extra engine torque, gearing comes into it, torque at wheels, call it what you will.

So one is loping at 60-70mph at say 3000rpm...you drop a gear. Nothing to it. Not rocket science. Its not hard, Its actually fun. There is enough torque at 4000rpm, and the revs are rising high enough (and keep rising, acceleration is not snapshot figures) to keep up with turbo cars of the same BHP. This is why it is a fallacy to compare EP3/FN2/DC5's with cars of similar torque outputs. They simply outpace them too much if you use 5% of your brains capacity. I will readily admit you need no brain to mash a turbo car's loud pedal. Simply wikipedia'ing torque figures and such does not explain away the fact that Vtec engined cars will regularly keep up (again straight-line/in-gear/dropping gear - ignoring chassis/handling/etc here for now) with comparable bhp cars. All it takes is a slight presence of mind.

OP - Try one. You might like it, you might not.
 
the op should take bike test and get a fast bike... you'll NEVER get bored of one, just the same as you'd never get bored of a 700bhp supercar (same if not better performance on the bike)

best of all, no more than the price of a hatchback-shopping-mobil
 
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