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Your acceleration is all about power to weight ratio. While you can out-accelerate, you are really accelerating nothing more than yourself and a bicycle frame with an extra set of wheels on one side. Think motorcycle. Why do you think nobody can catch them. Same reason. Weight to power ratio. All power, no weight.

I'm driving a 3,800 pound car, with 200 pounds of myself, that is pushing 2 tons around. That extra power from the engine does indeed do something useful.

You are driving a few sardine cans that have been spot welded together, and my 6 horsepower lawnmower engine would be enough for you to drive the highways if you could find the right gears. Fortunately for you, most 10 speed bikes or higher already have the right combination. Just weld two of them together and run a common axle from one to the other.

I'll stick with the 2 ton Beast Master. It gives a better ride.

Lg

Conor ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

And it doesn't really help, since our nearest Wal-Mart is about 3,000 miles away. If you exclude Asda. Which is a bit of a rule for life, really. Not that they do oil-changes, anyway.

Funny how they are still no safer in a crash, isn't it?

Must be because all the badly fitting panels fall off the nasty glossy plastic at the first sign of trouble...

I have had the misfortune to witness how a 2 ton POS has to be driven to make decent progress on our roads in the UK. He was maxed out at

60mph and could only do this speed by using the WHOLE road width verge to verge at every curve. The body roll looked quite disturbing. I'm fairly sure I could go about 80mph down that road and still not touch let alone cross the white lines into the oncoming traffic's half of the road. If I used all the road like the POS, I'm sure 100+mph would be possible. Unlike the owner of the POS I won't be testing this as I don't want to be sampling prison food for dangerous driving. I would like to hear him explain to a magistrate that it was perfectly safe as he could see over the hedge top. He won't see an Elise or TVR or Noble, on test from the specialist sports car dealer at the end of that road, though a 60" high hedge until it's way to late.

The village I live in has traffic calming humps, tarmac bumps about 4" high and 5ft long, across the full width of the road. I and most others in Euro/Jap cars drive over these at 30mph without drama. Heavy, softly sprung MPV's, SUV's and the like either pogo for 100yds or have to slow down to under 20mph to avoid being bounced out their seats.

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Everything you say matches what I've learned.

I use a full synthetic in all my vehicles, because they are superior for both hot and cold temperature extremes.

One synthetic manufacturer recommends 25,000 miles or one year per oil change. At the 6 month point, they say to change the filter and the quart of oil that goes with it. This practice gives you excellent time between full changes, and the quart in the middle protects against additive consumption caused by short trips, low useage, etc.

My general practice is just to change all the cars at the same time, once a year, with a good oil filter. I seem to have pretty good results; failures happen but they are not oil-related.

(This is sort of a re-post, since my original post didn't show up.)

I meant that when I got it with 120,000 on the clock, I never changed the oil to the day I got rid of it. I forgot to add I had @350,000 miles on the clock when I got rid of it.

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In the US we have big road and big machines and lots and lots of space. Your entire Country could easily fit inside one of our States. I once took a Fiat from Rhode Island to Florida and back again. That was _not_ fun.

Sure if you only have a small distance to drive, on your dinky roads your dinky cars are just the ticket. Just bring that dinky rollerskate over here, the skateboard with a steering wheel on it, and try driving from NY City to San Diego California and back. If you are alive by the time you leave New York State, you'll be wanting to see a proctologist for your impacted rectum.

For your environment, dinky makes sense. You live in a dinky country. Here...dinky will be run over by a truck and the lorry driver won't even feel the bump.

Lg

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If a US made vehicle ( I can't think of any offhand, say a full sized Lincoln Town Car ) came upon one of your sardine cans, there is no doubt in my mind which car would win. It wouldn't be yours.

Lg

Hmm, I guess I must be odd, the best long-distance road trip car I've ever owned, in my opinion, was my '84 Scirocco. Close second would be the '02 GTI 1.8T. The Impala is a distant near-last, ahead of only the vehicles that I didn't actually trust to make a long distance drive.

nate

Lawrence Glickman (Lawrence snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Could it fit inside Rhode Island?

Really? Merkin cars do quite poorly in crash testing - the true test not being how crumpled the car is but whether the passenger compartment survives, i.e you can still open the doors and don't have your knees and ankles broken by the pedals being shoved up.

If merkin cars were so good, the Honda Accord would never have made the best selling car in the US would it?

The State of Rhode Island is too large for a dinky Eurocar. If you just want to go to the shopping center, your dinky Eurocar isn't even any good for that; there is no room in it for the goods you are going to purchase.

Please keep your dinky cars off our superhighways. They make a terrible *spot* on the windshield when we hit them.

Lg

Conor ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

To be fair, the Honda Accord they buy in the US IS an American car. It's designed in America, it's built in America, it's only sold in America.

Lawrence Glickman (Lawrence snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

That's the same Rhode Island that's smaller than Cornwall, is it?

So good in fact that Detroit is now mostly derelict because anyone with any sense is buying imports.

Talking of which, your lorries are shit as well. You have to have 500 speed gearboxes to make up for the gutless engines which despite being larger capacity than Euro lorries manage to produce far less power and torque whilst using far more fuel even though they run at around 10 tonnes LESS than Euro lorries. Seems to be a common theme for merkin engines. European/Japanese engines seem to always be able to produce the same power on 1/2-1/3 of the engine capacity.

Anyone want a laugh?

Lets compare your gutless wallowy Lincoln Town Car to a Jag.

Engine capacity: 4.6 litres. BHP: 205

TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE BHP from a 4.6 litre engine. Fuck me, I'd want my money back.

Jaguar:

Engine capacity: 3 litres BHP: 227.

So: over 10% more power from an engine 2/3 the size. I won't embarrass you by posting the specs from a 4.6 litre European car.

He's a merkin. They're so feckin stupid they can't even get the geography of their own country right.

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It's possible.

Best I ever rode in was a full sized Lincoln Town Car. You have to get used to driving one of those...as there is no sense of ROAD under the vehicle. It is more like piloting a boat or an airplane.

Europe is full of Leprechauns. Little people and Fairies...so a little dinky car there makes sense. That way they don't need wooden blocks to reach the gas and brake pedals.

In the Land of the Giants, here in America, sometimes we splatter ( quite by accident ) one of those Eurodinks on our windshields. I've noticed they come off if you rub hard enough with windshield wiper fluid.

Lg

Cornwall? What is a Cornwall? Some kind of new dog breed you've come up with? Leave it to the Limeys...always thinking of something New.

The Toyota Camry was the top selling passenger car of 2005 in the USA.

Best 10 selling luxury cars of 2005 in the USA according to Forbes:

Luxury:

1. Lexus RX
2. BMW 3 series (10 a penny and regarded as a mid range repmobile in the UK)
3. Honda Acura
4. Infiniti G35
5. Lexus ES330
6. Cadillac DeVille
7. Cadillac CTS
8. Honda Acura MDX
9. Mercedes Benz C Class

10.Cadillac Escilade

So 60% of the top 10 luxury are EuroJapanese and the highest place merkin shitbox is at number 4.

In the top 10 of all vehicle types in the US, EuroJapanese cars take up

40%.