Deluded people on the road...
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...My boss owns a Renault Twingo RS 133 and thinks she kept up with a brand new Golf R32 the otherday. She also said that she has to use V-Power (Yet has no turbo) and her car does not run on anything else. She also said because of the weight of the car she could keep up with an Evo (Not sure which one she was referring too but by the sounds of it the fastest one) She also said she ripped apart a Ford Racing Puma and that it can out handle one!
Vital facts about this car:
0-60 8.6sec
119lbs/ft of torque
133bhp
hmm...
No wonder you get so many idiots on the road!
Vital facts about this car:
0-60 8.6sec
119lbs/ft of torque
133bhp
hmm...
No wonder you get so many idiots on the road!
John D. said:
Not only turbocharged cars require super. Renault may well recommend 97Ron for her Twingo. They did for the Clio 172/182 and the Twingo uses what is essentially a detuned version of the same engine I believe.
mine needs super, no turbo either.delusions of grandeur in car ownership are nothing new. when i was a kid i was utterly convincd my 2.0s capri was capable of 130mph. that's what the speedo told me anyway.
The Twingos are quite good, but those particular comparisons are a little farfetched. Might give a Racing Puma a fright, though.
Wouldn't surprise me if the V-Power thing is true, however; my 182 is only supposed to be run on 98RON or above, yet has no turbo (what's that got to do with it anyway?).
Wouldn't surprise me if the V-Power thing is true, however; my 182 is only supposed to be run on 98RON or above, yet has no turbo (what's that got to do with it anyway?).
Edited by David87 on Wednesday 22 December 21:34
I had a 4 year old S1 Elise in 2002 as a daily driver. I started a new job and a guy there mentioned he liked the Elise and told me that we had very similar cars. I was too polite to ask what it was at the time, but I went to the car park at 5.30 to find him getting into a last model Celica - and not the 190 at that. Apart from both cars being black and having 1.8 engines, I couldn't find much else in common between the two.
Ricardo88 said:
...My boss owns a Renault Twingo RS 133 and thinks she kept up with a brand new Golf R32 the otherday.
It's very easy to win a race when only one car knows they are in it.... But you should be encouraging her to get better cars...At least she is interested in them it seems.
Jasandjules said:
Ricardo88 said:
...My boss owns a Renault Twingo RS 133 and thinks she kept up with a brand new Golf R32 the otherday.
It's very easy to win a race when only one car knows they are in it.... But you should be encouraging her to get better cars...At least she is interested in them it seems.
Oh I do love these people.
There are so many more of them now that their "performance diesel" has a relatively decent amount of power. "I kept up with a Porsche/Impreza/Evo/M3 today from 0-60/70/90/140".
No you didn't. You kept up with a driver in a much faster car merely pulling away. As soon as he realised you were trying to prove something he actually pressed the right pedal into the carpet and left you standing.
I recently tested a Leon FR diesel to buy from work as an ex-company car. The sweet girl who gave me the keys said "don't kill yourself, I took it down to the petrol station to put some diesel in it and it's so quick it scared me."
OK, so it's a PD170, but you're unlikely to get blown away by acceleration as you have to change up every 3 seconds. Oh, and my daily has more power and weighs less.
There are so many more of them now that their "performance diesel" has a relatively decent amount of power. "I kept up with a Porsche/Impreza/Evo/M3 today from 0-60/70/90/140".
No you didn't. You kept up with a driver in a much faster car merely pulling away. As soon as he realised you were trying to prove something he actually pressed the right pedal into the carpet and left you standing.
I recently tested a Leon FR diesel to buy from work as an ex-company car. The sweet girl who gave me the keys said "don't kill yourself, I took it down to the petrol station to put some diesel in it and it's so quick it scared me."
OK, so it's a PD170, but you're unlikely to get blown away by acceleration as you have to change up every 3 seconds. Oh, and my daily has more power and weighs less.
HereBeMonsters said:
Oh I do love these people.
There are so many more of them now that their "performance diesel" has a relatively decent amount of power. "I kept up with a Porsche/Impreza/Evo/M3 today from 0-60/70/90/140".
No you didn't. You kept up with a driver in a much faster car merely pulling away. As soon as he realised you were trying to prove something he actually pressed the right pedal into the carpet and left you standing.
agree.There are so many more of them now that their "performance diesel" has a relatively decent amount of power. "I kept up with a Porsche/Impreza/Evo/M3 today from 0-60/70/90/140".
No you didn't. You kept up with a driver in a much faster car merely pulling away. As soon as he realised you were trying to prove something he actually pressed the right pedal into the carpet and left you standing.
as a rule i tend not to get into anything with any 4x4 offroad sports or anything diesel. it'd be like punching a 12 year old.
Ricardo88 said:
...My boss owns a Renault Twingo RS 133 and thinks she kept up with a brand new Golf R32 the otherday. She also said that she has to use V-Power (Yet has no turbo) and her car does not run on anything else. She also said because of the weight of the car she could keep up with an Evo (Not sure which one she was referring too but by the sounds of it the fastest one) She also said she ripped apart a Ford Racing Puma and that it can out handle one!
Vital facts about this car:
0-60 8.6sec
119lbs/ft of torque
133bhp
hmm...
No wonder you get so many idiots on the road!
She might be an exceptionally good driver.Vital facts about this car:
0-60 8.6sec
119lbs/ft of torque
133bhp
hmm...
No wonder you get so many idiots on the road!
Speed is dictaed by vision. It's easier to follow a car and keep up, even with substantially less power - much depends on brakes and handling as much as power. too much power can actually slow you down as it has to be more finely judged to avoid landing in a hedge. Certain roads will have an optimal speed pretty much any performance hatch could achieve.
I once kept up with an old 911 in an even older Austin A40 - not for long though.
I once kept up with an old 911 in an even older Austin A40 - not for long though.
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