car engine oil extended change

Only 4 mine takes 5

5 no problem - in a previous car of same design I have had 4 people in complete comfort

ROTFLMAO

Sorry they are all over in San Fransisco

Quite good in mine

Mine is a longitudinal V6 about 2 foot long, gearbox is under transmission tunnel. guess what I have discs all round, and indipendant suspension.

My car has no trunk because it is not an elephant! It has a boot!

We've seen then - huge and rotund

Not surprised

Some of these engines produced less power per litre than 1950s large Diesels

Less than a 1.6 and half of a 3.0

Infact not much more power thant the Rover K Series 1.4

I don't know what you mean by a *big Merc or BMW* The last BMW I looked at was an econobox. Smaller than my Mercury Sable.

100 to 150 mph is freaking fast. I don't know if you've done the experiment yourself, but I've gone over 120 miles/hour on deserted highway before, and it is freaking fast. How much over is unknown, because that's where the speedometer stops.

Tires are the weak point, the point being are they RATED for that speed for over 10 minutes at a time? In most cases the answer is NO. And if/when you lose a tire at that speed, you're on Heaven's doorstep before you hit the ground.

Now people crossing the desert out West of me, I don't expect them to drive at 55 miles/hour. At that speed *out there* it seems you're not moving. 80 miles/hour would be my self-imposed limit...a compromise between covering distance and staying within the safety parameters of the vehicle I drive.

I know of no *normal* vehicles built in the USA that are designed to reach and _maintain_ 150 miles/hour other than Police Interceptor cars, and these are not usually available to the general driving public, for obvious reasons.

Lg

You must be an idiot. Perhaps you were oxygen deprived before you were born, perhaps it isn't your fault. But you're still an idiot.

40,000 die on the highways in the US every year. That's more than your country loses in wartime. And that's every 12 months, every day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The death from accidents never stops. And I have seen the aftermath of them up close and personal.

The shit Eurotrash machines are ripped into 2 or more segments, and usually there are NO SURVIVORS. The big American vehicles have a broken headlight, and a shaken-up driver.

Lg

It's how people cross the desert on the way to California. Until Highway Patrol catches up with them.

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It's quite strange, but most manufacturers seem to make a *range* of different size models...

BMW make a 1-series, 3-series, 5-series, 7-series. The 1-series is small. The 7-series is large.

Then there's two different sizes of BMW 4x4s. Hey - you lot build one of 'em. It's crap off-road.

Merc make... well, no, let's not even go NEAR Merc's range. They're running out of letters.

No, it isn't.

100 certainly isn't "freaking fast". It's towards the upper end of the range of typical UK motorway cruise speeds.

It's perfectly normal in Germany - in fact, if you're "only" doing 150, you're quite likely to be in somebody's way.

Yes, thank you.

Paging Alastair...

You had your eyes open?

Yes, thank you.

At that speed on a UK motorway, you'll be in the way. On the Autobahn, you'll be a chicane.

We also have "lane discipline" here - that means that, unless you're overtaking you move back out of the overtaking lanes (left in the UK/right in EU) - admittedly, that can be theoretical in the UK...

Well, quite. I think you'll find that was the point. You make crap cars.

Oh, and

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Lawrence Glickman wrote something quite bizarre, possibly in an effort to confuddle the world. It went like so;

The proper European tyres fitted to most BMWs and Mercedes are rated to do >150mph pretty much indefinately. Don't forget that quite a bit of the German Autobahn network is unlimited, speed wise, and lots of German businessmen take full advantage of this for hours at a time.

Good simile. Explains the fact they can't go round corners or stop efficiently.

How much money did Lincoln lose last year?

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Congratulations - That's over twelve times more than die on UK roads. But your population's less than five times ours.

And you've got all that extra space around your really really safe cars...

How do you do it? Could it be that none of you can drive for toffee?

I'm confused. I thought that since WW1 it was generally a good thing NOT to have lots of people killed in wars?

Anyway, most of the ones we do lose in "war" are shot by "friendly fire" by you lot.

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Legal in Germany...

At least I'm not a Merkin!

Shit driving or shit cars

Sounds like bollocks

Catch up - they ain't fast enough

In message , Lawrence Glickman writes

Not a problem, the standard tyres for my car are rated to 168mph and the car will only do a little over 145mph.

Lots. I'm happy to report I don't have stock in the company. The Town Car is a boat. It rides like a boat, and handles like a boat. The reason -I- don't like it is because it is too long to park at the curb. It is a boat. And with zero feedback from the road, if you're not watching where you're going, the car can drift anywhere. You have to drive that vehicle entirely by sight, which means you can't take your eyes of the road for even a few seconds, because there is no

*feel* for where the vehicle is going.

It takes getting used to, and is laborious because it becomes mentally exhausting after a short time.

It's hard to say which we kill more of with friendly fire...our own or our allies.

yes, I spent a year in Germany. The thing about that country, is it isn't all that large. So the question becomes "what's the hurry"? And regarding the autobahn, there are posted speed limits on large segments of it _now_. In many places it is speed restricted. Or have they changed that since I was there?

I've done 150, my current car I have only done 110 - haven't been on a good enough road yet to go flat out

Mine are standard ones rated for somewhere around th 140-150 mark

Most European cars would be safe and secure at 100

Ignoring supercars you have all the big BMW, Mercs, Audis, Jaguars and the quicker variants of mainstream cars, plus the Japanese turbo stuff like the Subaru Impretza and Mitsubushi Evos

With my last car I stability checked my caravan at that - yes it was stable and it will be safe doing that in France!

I knew it was OK at 70 and took it up carefully with no traffic around