www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40748897
"Over the past couple of weeks there has been a number of collisions where driving styles have not reflected the road and weather conditions. Please take more care."
Nicely put :-)
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>> www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40748897
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Had the car one hour!!
I really can't think of much to say, other to wonder whether he was on winter tyres?
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If you can't control your right foot in a car that powerful and with tyres wide enough to aquaplane on a few minutes drizzle, you will soon be integrated with the scenery. As many expensive car drivers demonstrate daily, money does not equal skill.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Fri 28 Jul 17 at 08:07
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It can be as much, if not more fun, on a public road anyway, to wring the best out of a small low powered car than to have to hold back in a powerful one.
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An acquaintance of mine some decades ago received a huge commission cheque after selling a rather huge amount of office equipment to a company.
He duly spent the lot on a brand new Vx Belmont SRi (you can work out how long ago that was), drove it out of the dealership and within a couple of miles had wrapped it into a barrier, writing it off.
Of course, being a t***, he hadn't even insured the car and bang went 12 grand or so.
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>> Of course, being a t***, he hadn't even insured the car and bang went 12
>> grand or so.
You didn't have to tell us he was a terwat, we knew that when you said he chose the belmont.
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>> Vx Belmont SRi
Of all the cars available, a Belmont SRi!!!
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....I suspect it was very available......
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James Hunt said that the most fun car he ever had was his old Austin van.
I think the most fun he had involved a large number of BA stewardesses:)
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>> It can be as much, if not more fun, on a public road anyway, to
>> wring the best out of a small low powered car than to have to hold
>> back in a powerful one.
There is a lot of truth in this, IMO.
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>> There is a lot of truth in this, IMO.
There isn't, its annoying, nasty noisy and tedious. The real skill, and therefore real fun is to get a large ponderous badly handling but powerful car to cover the same distance in less time than the agile little car.
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Depends on where and how far you're going for me. If I'm off on a long run, give me a wafter every time, but for a ten mile country lane dash, I'm happier in a little nippy thing. Not that I'd turn down the chance of a shot of a supercar either, but as a daily driver, probably not for me, even if I was in a position to afford it.
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>> The real skill, and therefore real fun
>> is to get a large ponderous badly handling but powerful car to cover the same
>> distance in less time than the agile little car.
That's fun too, but in a very different way.
One of the most fun drives I have ever had was in a car with 32 bhp. A 1976 Mini 850 around some Oxfordshire lanes that I know so well I could almost drive blindfolded (traffic aside). There were cars with four times the power holding me up on a number of occasions.
Thinking about it, the lack of power was frustrating in the sense that overtaking any of them was nigh on impossible, but a sweet handling, well balanced car without much mechanical grip and modest power is truly a joy on the right roads.
I took my M140i along that same road after I had run it in. It was a lot of fun, and so much faster everywhere, as you would expect with an extra 303 bhp and modern fat, sticky, Michelin Pilot Supersports. It got the adrenaline flowing in a way the Mini didn't, but I felt an almost equal sense of frustration that I couldn't get anywhere near its limits without driving it way beyond speeds I was comfortable with on a public road. Apart from the odd "squiggle" from the tail under power out of some of the tighter, clear sighted corners, it was just very neat and tidy and grippy, as you would expect from a competent, well designed modern car.
In almost every situation I'd take the BMW. But on that road, then, in those conditions, I would absolutely have killed for another Mini.
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>> I really can't think of much to say, other to wonder whether he was on
>> winter tyres?
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I doubt if it occurs many drivers that brand new tyres have nice shiny unscuffed treads possibly with slippery mould release chemicals on them that don't stick to wet (or dry) roads very well.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Fri 28 Jul 17 at 11:43
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A couple of other car incidents are linked at the bottom of the report.
Mercedes Benz car buried under hay bales
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-40653083
I'm sure there's a jokey caption or two that could be concocted from the photo of that car under the bales of hay.
McLaren supercar destroyed in crash
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40476901
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>> Mercedes Benz car buried under hay bales
>> www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-40653083
I think an incident like that would be survivable with few injuries in any modern car where the occupants were wearing seat belts.
>> McLaren supercar destroyed in crash
>> www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40476901
Haven't we done this one?
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South Yorkshire, nuff said.
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...such cars didn't used to be allowed in the Socialist Republic of SY......
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What caused the fireball? Is carbon fibre that flammable, magnesium rims look intact thought they would have been spitting metal everywhere.
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>>What caused the fireball?
Evaporating petrol will usually do it, when you add a spark or two!
Carbon fiber flame resistance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w608hwWqRQI
Last edited by: zippy on Fri 28 Jul 17 at 21:52
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An expensive one hours drive - Duncan
