How to learn to appreciate your car more - top tip

Adz · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:37

Drive 1100+ miles in 4 days in a Ford Transit.

The Audi feels soooooooo nice afterwards. Feels seriously quick too with its 152bhp vs. the van's god-knows-how little. Did they ever make a last gen LWB Hi-top transit without a turbo or was this one just broken?

What fool ever said vans were fun to drive?

GT3 · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:40

I do 1000 town miles a week in LWB Hi Top Transit/Sprinter/Iveco and manage just fine! The transits do have turbos but you really wouldn't know it!

DannyW · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:43

my work van is fast (110 hdi + tuning box

) but uncomfy and noisy

still nice to be back in a proper car though

Jonny ///M · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:45

My mates dads city link van feels fast and fun...turbo is bloody loud in it aswell! Sounds like a chaved up scooby most of the time...

Adz · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:46

I couldn't hear or feel any sign of one. This was a previous gen (the one which has just been replaced) with I'd assume a 2.5TD?

Granted I never actually opened the bonnet to check

.

When people talked about the difference between older diesels and the new common rail variety I didn't think it would be that profound but this thing was horrible.

I did however manage 85mph indicated, unladen, after 2 miles downhill with my foot nailed to the floor.

Adz · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:48

Jonny ///M said:
My mates dads city link van feels fast and fun...turbo is bloody loud in it aswell! Sounds like a chaved up scooby most of the time...

Errr... more info please. I want to try one of these vans which sound like scoobys.

Mine sounded like a horse being violated by a much larger horse.

Jonny ///M · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:50

Adz said:
Errr... more info please. I want to try one of these vans which sound like scoobys.

Mine sounded like a horse being violated by a much larger horse.

Wasn't so much the sound as in the scooby burble just that most around here have a really gay sounding dumpvalve which this van sounded like.

Muffin` · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:51

Driven the Company’s Kangoo 1.9D many times, and my god it has the comfiest seat in the world. Not the same seating angle as a transit thou.

Could cover many, many miles in that no problem, it going Thurr Well viaduct empty at 70+ is not a nice experience

GT3 · 2 Nov 2007 at 22:57

Adz said:
Errr... more info please. I want to try one of these vans which sound like scoobys.

Mine sounded like a horse being violated by a much larger horse.

Yep the transits sound crap, wheras sprinters/turbodailys are much quieter and you can hear the turbo spooling up and dumping quite clearly.

Squark · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:31

pah, I drove well over 1200 miles in 3 days in the woeful vauxhall combo

Awful awful van.
Loud, terribly uncomfortable, slow, and Im sure fumes were leaking into the cockpit.
I never want to drive that waste of metal again