Now that wasn't too bad....

I'd be pleased to get that from a supermini. Really should sort that binding caliper...

It's just the design superiority of the Alfa twin-spark lump over the ratty old Kent, see ;-)

I once got the 405 in the 40's :)

Pride :)

It was when i'd just got it, i did a 200+ mile run.

Nowadays i get nowhere near that...

I was working on the theory that I shouldn't go too far out of the 'green' sector on the rev-counter. Seemed to work - as I thought it would.

I was avoiding the 'wild' cam profile kicking in.

I once got high 14's out of the Saab

Pride ;-)

Wow - first you thought my 405 was an Mi16, now you think its worthy enough to compare to the Saab :)

Now this IS *pride*

//sits back and grins - then decides its 3:00am, and having just typed a

2,113 word essay, he should go to bed//

You were no longer in South Wales?

*grin*

Anyway, 46mpg out of my old Golf GTI. Brilliant cars. Compared to 25 from my Senator, and 31ish from the 306 (but on the rare occasions that I can bring myself to drive it, I thrash the nuts off it in the hope that the contract hire firm end up with a real dog).

Roll on April and an MX-5...

Richard

Heh.

Hairdresser ;-) I'm sure the 33 would get more, but I really am impressed with the 75 - for the size of car and the state of tune of the engine, especially given the age of the basic design, I think it's quite impressive. It's certainly better than my old 16v Boxer would have delivered on the same journey.

Is that the Alfa Twin Spark "oil burner" lump then?

I know Alfa engines sound nice and perform well and are more modern than the venerable kent but they can be a bit prima-donna ish...

-- James

Nah - the oil burners are the Fiat-based twinsparks (ie. Fiat block with Alfa TS head). Mine is the Real McCoy, 1950s designed 'classic' Alfa Twin-cam with only

8 valves. And it doesn't burn any significant amount of oil (bearing in mind it's 113k miles).

Bloody solid lumps they are.

What? You could have got a few hours of drinking in!! Bad form old chap. Students arent what they used to be in my day ;)

I did have to be in at 9am! And everyone else was in bed. But fair play, i should've really got a few hours of drinking in.

I was gonna take the 106 out for some fun as there was a very heavy frost last night ;)

that better be a BBR converted MX 5 or you shoulda got an MR2 (the better car IMO) :)

Aberdare / Merthyr Tydfil.

Purely out of interest, where in South Wales were you looking for a house? Not near Cardiff/Newport?

Not the Gurnos estate per chance?

Whilst both are classed as hairdresser cars, the Mk1 MR2 doesn't remotely compare to the MX5, which is a superb car.

I may have a slightly iffy collection of s**te old bangers in my sig, but I'm looking somewhere a tad more upmarket than that ;-)

"Like robocop but set in Aberdare." GLC are fantastic.

PS: I doubt anyone will have any idea what this post is about.