Clean license & many V5s with my name on

fishman · 2005-04-20T09:32:09+00:00

It's now four years since my last motoring conviction so my license isnow officially clean!I got my conviction before I'd even passed my test (I was doing up anold MK2 Fiesta on the street outside my house ready for when I passedwhen plod did me for parking it on a public road without insurance).Believe me, ignorance is no excuse and I've had the stigma of an IN10on my license ever since. My current insurance docs say "Convictions:Driving uninsured" and it's ugly. Mind you, the insurance bods stillwant to know about the conviction for a further year don't they, damit.So they can whack an extra =A3150 on my premium (that's been the averagepremium hike over the years, on top of the original =A3150 fine when Igot the 6 points).It's just under four years since I passed and I realised today that theTi is my tenth car since passing my test. That's a new car every 4.8months.Am I on the way to becoming the next PeteM in terms of frequent carchanging or do I need a much higher average?

Apr 20, 2005 25 Replies

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Tim S Kemp 21 years ago

Their M5 V8 powered 3 series looks like a 3 series I could own too.

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Nom 21 years ago

Er, doesn't my Pug fit all those criteria ? I have no idea what the turning-circle is. There's *masses* of space with the back-seats folded - hell, they just lift out of the car too (yes, really !), if you want even more space.

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Peter Hill 21 years ago

what one of these?

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: seems to be one door short of requirements.2: 0-100km/h 7.9 s, bet there is a 0-60mph somewhere that meets the7.5sec spec - if not an exhaust and chip should sort it.Fails on 3 - no hatch so no way you will get a shower door in it. Wellnot without bending the glass you won't, unless your boot/cabin parcelslot is way bigger than normal. And I doubt a bike will go in anywayround without disassembly.4: Can't find true frontal area, Cd 0.28, Assuming width x heightallowing 150mm ground clearance it's just a tad over 0.6, taking thetyre area into account will make it worse but it gets narrower at topso yes should be about 0.6m^2.Fails on 5 - 11.5m like just about everything else these days exceptthe MX5 (9.5m or have they fecked that up on the new model?).

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Alistair J Murray 21 years ago

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I think I could come up with a coping strategy... :)

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Nom 21 years ago

Yes - this one

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Ah, you want a hatchback then ?

The figures I have, range between 6.5s and 7.5s.

7.9s is conservative enough for me to tell you that it's wrong :) Anyway, 285Nm makes the ingear times rather nice - 0-100km/h is a rather meaningless indicator.

Can't say I've tried either. But the boot is *large*. And as I said, the back seats simply lift out of the car if required.

Ah.

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Peter Hill 21 years ago

F*** B****** A***

Part of Demon's news server has got constipation and held on to my first posting of this for about 3 days. Seems the onward transmission of messages depended on which server they connect me to.

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