Whats the slowest thing you have been in!?

penski · 27 Jan 2007 at 00:46

[TW]Fox said:
Sometimes I don't beleive a word you say, penski.

This is one of those times

My grandad, my grandma, my mum, my dad, my sister, me and two cousins. I was about five, my sister eight and the cousins three and four. Not as difficult as you'd think at first. Grandad driving, dad in the passenger seat, my muma nd gran in the back with the cousins on their knees, sister in the middle and me in the passenger footwell.

Boot crammed with luggage and suitcases tied to the roof rack.

*n

TomO · 27 Jan 2007 at 10:49

1987 1.0L fiat panda
1990 Suzuki vitara 1.6 automatic (only 3 gears - as slow as the panda!)

and for those of you that think the 2.5D transit's are slow try one with a Luton box on it. that barely hits 50 on a flat let alone up a hill. when its full up with furniture it wont exceed 40-45!

CaneyJ · 27 Jan 2007 at 12:14

Mini 850 Automatic

[huzeeee] · 27 Jan 2007 at 12:34

Probably a kettler safari

Jez · 27 Jan 2007 at 12:55

Dogbreath said:
Probably the same as you. The normaly aspirated diesel trannys realy are gutless slugs, it only needs a tiny incline and you are struggling to hold 50mph.

Indeed, it could barely crack 60 flat out for miles on the M4

I must have used about £100 of diesel that day, all for around 60 miles total journey.

tb2000 · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:02

Jez said:
Indeed, it could barely crack 60 flat out for miles on the M4 I must have used about £100 of diesel that day, all for around 60 miles total journey.

I would think it had something wrong with it for it to do that kind of MPG!

Jez · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:07

tb2000 said:
I would think it had something wrong with it for it to do that kind of MPG!

It was made in 1988, was loaded with around 3 tonnes of stuff, and had a 2.5L diesel with almost twice the miles of my merc, with me with my foot to the floor. Thats probably what was wrong with it

tb2000 · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:15

Jez said:
It was made in 1988, was loaded with around 3 tonnes of stuff, and had a 2.5L diesel with almost twice the miles of my merc, with me with my foot to the floor. Thats probably what was wrong with it

Lol could be! Saying that, I knew someone who had a similar age Transit 2.5D with plenty of miles on it a few years back that was used as a breakdown vehicle for coaches (so it usually carried loads of heavy stuff and tools about) and that went remarkably well! Perhaps it hadn't done quite as many miles as yours!

Raikiri · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:21

Driven: '76 (I think) Land Rover

Passenger: My brother had a Fiat Panda was 900cc afaik, was a long time ago though.

calnen · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:37

My 1980s, 47cc scooter. It topped out at 25mph :cool:

tb2000 · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:39

Raikiri said:
Driven: '76 (I think) Land Rover

Passenger: My brother had a Fiat Panda was 900cc afaik, was a long time ago though.

Lot of people saying about how slow the old Land Rovers were (I agree most of them were) but by the same token you could pretty much pull a house down with one!

BigT · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:46

I think the slowest car I've probably driven is a Lagonda Tourer, although in its day it was one of the quickest. Trouble is it's day was 1927.

Bunka · 27 Jan 2007 at 14:09

It's a toss up between the car I learnt in: 1.3 Ford Ka

Or a Renault Kangoo 1.7D van. Had no guts, but somehow managed to get just over 90 on the M6.

Steve W · 27 Jan 2007 at 14:11

Memories of one of my runabouts about 18 months ago. Peugeot 106 XND Graduate. Was a 1.4 diesel and would do about 70 mpg. If you really, really thrashed it it would do about 70 mph eventually.

There is a hill from Yeovil to Sherborne that my Mondeo 1.8 TD will at a push do 85 mph at the top, from a standing start at the roundabout at the bottom. The Peugeot after thrashing it hit 46 mph up the same hill.

saitrix · 27 Jan 2007 at 14:13

Mr_Sukebe said:
Daf 33 with one broken rubber band. The Daf had a "variomatic" gearbox, for which read a much older version of CVT. Instead of a steel belt, used a BIG rubber band. The one my mother owned had one broken one for half the time she owned it, before my father realised.
Still, even at it's best it was a wheezing heap.

So it was 1WD!

Slowest I have driven is probably a 1.3 Escort.

Fusion · 27 Jan 2007 at 14:14

LDV Convoy. I'd take an old, sluggish Transit over one of these heaps anyday.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 27 Jan 2007 at 14:34

As a passenger - My nan's Peugeot 106. Damn, she's a slow driver.

As a driver - My Royal Mail Vauxhall 1.3 turbo diesel van. The things done 13k, but looks and feels as if it's been to the moon and back. Ooh that's nasty thing to drive, no power at all. (except in second gear when the turbo winds up

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Raikiri · 27 Jan 2007 at 16:27

tb2000 said:
Lot of people saying about how slow the old Land Rovers were (I agree most of them were) but by the same token you could pretty much pull a house down with one!

True I had the thing on two wheels at one point

Offroading is so much fun...

sigma · 27 Jan 2007 at 16:35

Bunka said:
It's a toss up between the car I learnt in: 1.3 Ford Ka

Or a Renault Kangoo 1.7D van. Had no guts, but somehow managed to get just over 90 on the M6.

The kangoo felt like a rocket after i had to drive the slowest van ever!

It was a Merc Vito Van (diesel) :eek:

just the thought of driving it now makes me shudder! I had to drive it to deliver catering supplies. It was slow enough when empty, but when it was full of cans/bottles/food etc etc it was beyond a joke!

I'd get overtaken by everything whilst trying to accelerate on dual carrigeways! It barely managed to get to 70+ I was given a Kangoo for a week or so and that thing felt stupidly quick in comparison