What are Volvo 850 Diesels like?

Try using the HGV pump for a car (before the attendent shouts at you via the PA system)...

Most outside of London are diesel and therefore quick. But when you get close to London, many more are LPG thanks to the Kengestion charge.

Oh surely not!

Do you remember a time when there were more pollutants than carbon dioxide?

These lentil-eating car-hating huggers should say it how they mean it: they want millions of people to remain in poverty. Because providing energy is bad for carbon dioxide emissions. No power for Africa and China means people remain in the dark.

*rant above clipped so probably doesn't make much sense*

20 starts? Nah - unless Toyota were making unreliable crap at that time.

To which I say "Fuck them, they're going nowhere anyway".

cheers, clive

Exactly what happened to me. I now have 80 quid fills for 500-600 miles in a rear drive well balanced medium sized luxobarge with minimal noise and fuss.

S60 / S80 D5s are coming down to the low price range now and tweak to

200bhp+, the old TDi is heavier, less frugal and not as tweakable.

*Jeeesus*! I get 32-39mpg with the same lump in my LWB 9-seater Caravelle, and I do _not_ hang about. I suppose the Volvo version is set to a higher state of tune? The ACV lump in the 'velle is 102bhp.

JB

That's 19.5 to the gallon for the V8 Lexus...

Ah. That's pretty good then.

I used to use the HGV pump sometimes when I had a 205 Diesel. It was hilarious, £5 worth (nearly 9litres) would slosh into the tank in what seemed like seconds.

Laterally they started shouting at me and the last few times I have tried they won't start the pump till you've gone in and paid, even if they are willing to let you use it at all. )c:

I have a collection of chequered shirts specifically for Saab filling days... :)

Heheheh

"I never wanted to be a weatherman..."

I'm thinking of the Weird Al song, "Driving my Truck."

Shame it's just some cheesy "did it myself" video.

This is my favourite:

that reminded me of this

Can they be played with as much as the T5 petrols?

£63 for 440kms mixed use including two 5mph crawls (40minutes one day just to drive 50metres and turn right at a set of lights). Not bad but I could do with the reduction.

I did a thing as part of my degree where we had to teach a class of primary kids about the environment for an afternoon. The only "pollution" they knew about was CO2, which whilst it wouldn't be good for you to breathe in huge amounts, isn't very likely to make you seriously ill any time soon. They'd no concept that there were other pollutants that can kill you, or make your bones turn to dust or make any manner of horrible thing happen. Bear in mind that this was in Sheffield, somewhere which until a couple of decades ago was a very polluted place, and still has a lot of contaminated land.

For once I agree with you, and I'm not even drunk. A hell of a lot of communists made some strange moves when Russia packed up. They all said "I still really disagree with XYZ", and went looking for other people who disagreed with XYZ too. Some ended up in the far right, others in the green movement.

FWIW the figures on what's being spent on the Kyoto treaty and what the cash could have done otherwise is very enlightening. You're talking about projects on the scale of clean water worldwide, or global education.

At $AUS2.33 a litre for basic 95ron petrol, things don't get much sicker here.

Old and diesel is sick, it's the cure.

It's lucky you get paid your salary in pounds then isn't it? If you were paid the same number of pounds as you were in AU$, you'd have a real problem running any car.

But Diesel's even more expensive than petrol here...

(c: