Bloody nightmare things. I drove one around Donington last year, wish I'd known just how hard they were to get in and out of for someone who's
6'2" with loosely secured lower garments. By the time I'd managed to squeeze into the damn thing my tracksuit bottoms had wriggled down around my legs. Slightly embarassing with an instructor sat at on one side grinning and Phil Bennett outside :(
Nice.
I commented on this to the Lotus salesman, and asked all of the wrong questions, like what about crash safety (how am I going to get out of it?), what about ABS, and would they offer a diesel variant in due course, for CO2 reasons?
I was invited to leave. :)
you should have refused his invitation and told him not to be so pertinent :) my mates sister had an mgf thing it was nice as far as the accelerator pedal was very responsive but everything else was a bit crap she wanted to trade it in for an elese, but then found out that it was going to be more than useless as she's not acustom to perfoming bendy legged movements just to get into a car :)
Heh. I went next door to the Jaguar showroom about a week later, and was laughed at for suggesting they release a diesel for tax reasons.
Hmmmm!
Heh! Have you gone back there since?
Peter
It was in Norwich, I'd rather be b*ggered like you would Kylie than go back to Norwich.
:)
Not yet. But I'm sure they would "forget" me, heh.
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Is it the same for diesels? What about rotary engines, turbos, LPG? is there a market for motorbike engined 13000rpm 900cc screamer Nissan Micras?:)
Nissan 200SX
:D
Looks like a tax to encourage use of turbo's and NO2.
Nisan Micra March anyone?
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there is no such thing.
they make diesels dont they? iirc they have a rather powerful derv lump.
there is it's the import version because it's got square number plates :) don't know if it's turbo'd or not though
its called a March SuperTurbo iirc, and it is turbo'd along with a supercharger of all things... a bloke on this ng has one, odd thing but must be a hellofa lotta fun (they also made a version with just a turbo or just a supercharger, I cant remember tbh)
I was being pedantic btw, there is no such thing as a Nissan Micra March.
dojj waffled on in a quite bewildering manner to produce...
Nissan Micra / March. I think it's like saying Vauxhall Nova - Opel Corsa.
anyway,
its more like saying Vauxhall Corsa Nova
you mean a small motor thats not realy a bit of a goer then ;)
:P
They use Ford's TDCi *NOW* but they didn't then. They also told me that Jaguar would probably never use diesels. :)
Yes - it's Peugeot's 3.0 V6 Diesel lump, also to be found in the 407 (when it eventually arrives). Makes somewhere around 200bhp IIRC.
Except that it's not Ford's, it's Peugeot's :)
Pug did all the work - Ford just stumped up a load of development money, in return for the rights to use it.
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