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Title: top gear... Post by craig on Nov 14th, 2005, 6:54am i guess several of you watched top gear last night,and it's now on for the next 5 weeks,dont know what they plan to do with that scorpio,but in the preview for this series i could clearly see 1 being driven by richard hammond.................... obviously something to ridicule the car i reckon,but i to watch i suspect...... ;) |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by Paul B on Nov 14th, 2005, 7:15am Hmm... drove it into a sand dune or something didn't they Craig? Shame they're not going to realise they're mistakes and praise the car. :( |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by craig on Nov 14th, 2005, 11:20am well amanda said it was a sand dune (i disagreed,but now know shes right again >:(),so will have to wait and see,but as for clarkson praising it up,i'll have a long wait i guess..... }{.... BTW tonight on 5th gear on channel 5 at 8 pm they are doing an item on different petrols (forecourt,supermarket,premium etc ),thought that may be of interest to some of you,i know in my opinion the "premium" petrols i believe are better... :) |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by Chad66 on Nov 15th, 2005, 12:08pm Missed 5th Gear last night.....was there anything of substance in the petrol comparisons then?? I must admit, my 12v runs far better on Esso than any other, gets better mpg, smoother and more even idle...definitely poorer on petrol from the local Morrisons.... |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by LiverpaulH on Nov 15th, 2005, 9:32pm Petrol comparisons test was ok, they were checking BHP on three different types of cars, shopping, mediocre hot hatch and scooby, with three types of fuel, supermarket, optimax and ultimate. The optimax was top in all tests with ultimate second. Even more difference between supermarket petrol and the decent fuels on the one torque test they did. Made very little difference on the shopping car tho. I was a touch disappointed as they were all done one after the other (tank was drained though). I think the longer they had tested i.e a couple of weeks the more difference there would have been. One of the benefits of the better fuels is the clesning effect over time. On a personal note I've always thought optimax was the best of the lot and the tests showed that was the case especially in better cars, not economy minded cars. Cheers Paul |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by bobtheyop on Nov 16th, 2005, 7:39am hello paul, which brands,fuel companys,are we talking about for the optimax and ultimate. missed the programme,but usually fill up at morrisons because of the lpg, cheers, bob. |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by bobtheyop on Nov 16th, 2005, 7:41am ps, it looked like james may was driving the scorp by remote with hammond in the back! |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by LiverpaulH on Nov 16th, 2005, 11:24am on 11/16/05 at 07:39:44, bobtheyop wrote:
The brands are shell (optimax), bp (ultimate) and just a supermarket, none in particular was mentioned. Paul |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by Pegasus on Nov 16th, 2005, 1:04pm The octane ratings were also different: supermarket= 95; ultimate= 97 and optimax = 98. What they don't tell us is whether its the octane rating or the "little extras" BP & Shell put into their fuels that make the difference. I'm very happy using Sainsbury's 97 octane as its only a few pence more than 95 octane (and sometimes same price). :) Amended: BHP (torque, ft ib, in brackets) for a Subaru Imprezza was 235 (232) with 95, 248 (248 ) with ultimate and 249 (258 ) with optimax, compared with supermarket brand. They reckon you're car engine needs to be of a certain spec to appreciate the difference. Interestingly, they also said the ECU adapts to the octane rating. Paul |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by andyjones on Nov 16th, 2005, 2:33pm i run optimax in my sierra cosworth and have done for a couple of years. case of having to because alot of garages don't sell super unleaded. for a car which loved leaded ive had no problems running optimax. :) |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by bobtheyop on Nov 16th, 2005, 9:14pm thanks paul,pegasus and andy,interesting,put some texaco super unleaded in today,which was 97. only problem was the price 99.9p per litre!!! cheers, bob. :o |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by craig on Nov 21st, 2005, 3:32am well saw it last night and i thought it was quite amusing !!!,did like that R\C vauxhall at the end though,shame about the price tag.. :o :o,and what about that scorpio,what a waste of a wood and leather steering wheel... ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by Paul B on Nov 21st, 2005, 7:51am What a waste altogether I say. Did anyone else recognise it though? Looked famiiar to me. I'm sure it belonged to someone from this site. I went to look at the old MSN group photos thing to confirm my thoughts, but the link doesn't work any more. :( Liked the RS4 Audi though :) |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by Dazzer0016 on Nov 21st, 2005, 10:03am it also had the Recaro trim aswell |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by Paul B on Nov 21st, 2005, 11:40am Yep, the Recaro seats, wood/leather steering wheel and the peeling chrome 12-spoke alloys. |
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Title: Re: top gear... Post by Octavian_P on Nov 22nd, 2005, 8:03am With atuomatic air coditioning .......what a waste :'( |
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