Irony overload

No. I had a Ram truck one time with the same engine and transmission,
which was awesome in the Canadian Rockies. I imagined it wouldn't be
much more stable than that.0

Sure, I imagine it would, which was why, as I said, I was only
_almost_ considering one. I was going to test-drive one (the 300c) but
never got round to it, and clearly it wouldn't really have been
suitable.

What I really wanted, of course, was a full-cab Ram truck, but that
was Vetoed on the grounds that it wouldn't fit in the parking garage
at our ski flat, or for that matter any other parking space in
Switzerland or France.

And fuel would have been an issue as well, of course. The R36 has
averaged about 9.2 l/100km from new, and is now on about 36000 km. The
Magnum, despite it having the efficiency saving of switching off half
the engine on overrun, would most likely have used 50% more than that,
so... quick sums... oh, not half as much as I expected. Something like
two grand more in fuel over that period.

Heh. Boat-like handlilng as well, no doubt.

 

Look just **** off where your are toler^h^h^h^h^**** you already have.

It's 25.6mpg folks

That's IMPERIAL gallons BTW

 

No it's not.

Your arithmetic is weak, old man. It's just under 31mpg Imperial,
25mpg US.

 

VBG
I did it in US just to see if anyone would check.
<warm glow>
You can still rely on UKRM for detail, pedantry and grammar.

 

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On 2010-04-12 17:51:20 +0200, Ace <> said:

Chrysler/Dodge cars

I suspect the truck might have been more stable. The Magnum was truly horrible.

Or F150 double cab.

I see a few of that ilk around here and wonder how the **** they get
down some of the side roads and where they park - unless they just
drive them like Americans - ie not give a ****.

"Just cos you can afford to buy it, doesn't mean you can afford to run
it..." or something.

I've been in boats that handled better.

 

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Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
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They're about the same width as a Tranny and you don't think twice about
where that'll fit.

 

I heard today that the Hummer isn't being built anymore and that even the
Chinese have decided not to import it because of its ability to drink oil
fields dry. Now coming from China, that's a fucking hell of an indictment.

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If I was driving a Transit around here I'd have to think carefully
where to park. My A6 Estate can be troublesomely long in some car parks.

 

but still got it wrong. In US it's actually 24.7

Well yes, but not from you, it would seem.

 

I can imagine.

Oh no. Had one of those in Colorado a coupla years back. Dreadful
thing, not a patch on the Ram. Really handled like a pig, and a
****-awful gearbox, only 3-speed+O/D and never seemed to have any
power to speak of.

 

I was talking about the Dodge Ram, which is really a _fuck_ sight
wider than a tranny, and about half as long again.

 

FFS it was as close as a 2 second google search for a convertor came up
with. This IS ukrm after all.

 

I used to have an ex-Nato 5.2 V8 Dodge pick-up[1] & it was fucking
huge. Had to pick routes very carefully when off-roading as it wouldn't
always fit through field gates.

[1]
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30756362&l=2180c3d584&id=135707324
6

 

Having just moved from Melbourne to Sydney I stayed in a hotel for a
week til I found somewhere to live. I found a Formule 1 near work, but
it was in Kings Cross, which is Sydneys sex district. Going back to
the hotel one night there was a Rolls Royce parked out the front of
the hotel with huge chrome wheels and rubber band tyres and the
licence plate "SENSAI". I couldn't help but think that the drug
dealers are getting more and more blatant. He might as well have had
sticker across the back window saying "BOOK ME!".

Kev

 

Dodge Ram
Length 190.8 in (4,846 mm)
or 210.8 in (5,354 mm)
Width 79.5 in (2,019 mm) Unclear if includes mirrors.

Ford Transit (2006)
Length 4863mm or 5230mm
Width 1974mm (2360mm inc mirrors)

 

Dodge Rams come normally with a short (6') or long (8') box, a
standard or extra cab (tiny back seat,) or a crew cab (w/a full back
seat.) I have a Ram 1500 long box with a standard cab and it's 229"
long. The crew cab with a long box is 259.4" long. The 79.5" wide is
without mirrors. (They fold in.)

It's a pain to find a parking spot for my truck, and the big crew cab
must be damn near impossible. One problem around here is that the
building code requires a minimum number of parking places for new
development. To maximize land use, they make all their spaces for
"compact" cars. You can fit a full size pickup in a compact space, but
there's no room to open the door.