I have bought a bloody Volvo. FFS -- Dan L http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/ 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7) X-FOT#000 DIAABTCOD #26 BOMB#18 (slow) OMF#11
Mine's a diesel. With a slushbox too. -- Dan L http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/ 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7) X-FOT#000 DIAABTCOD #26 BOMB#18 (slow) OMF#11
Heather's had a V40 for years. Perfect for dogs, golf clubs & children. ....and Dan, I thought we established a few years ago, you're not that old.
Meh, left me a bit cold. Fast, obscenely competant, but not very exciting. Point to point there's probably not much quicker though I'll give you that.
I tested one of them too, sounds good when abused Lot of grip too. Faster than a boggo WRX, not as good as an STi WRX.
Heh, it's akkshirley my second Volvo. I had a V70 a few years back and really liked it. -- Dan L http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/ 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7) X-FOT#000 DIAABTCOD #26 BOMB#18 (slow) OMF#11
Cane wrote I've had my V40 2.0i for eighteen months and being an ex-plod lurking vehicle it appears to have had a relatively easy life & goes luvverly. (Also, the tricky stuff is cared for by a really really good guy in Gloucester - ex-Volvo one-man-band he is, with all the kit. So if you are looking for that sort of thing I can tell you if you ask nicely.)
You should've tried my lads Pulsar when he had it. That fucker could catch pigeons and it ATE Subaru's for breakfast. It dyno'd at a tad over 450bhp and it would wheelspin in the dry in third. If you were REALLY heavy on the throttle and rough with the clutch, you could lay darkies in every gear but 5th. I'm convinced that Nissan made the body shells out of cornflakes packets too. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate I miss my old Cosworth. There's just no substitute for a genuine 530 bhp.
Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate Roger TBH the amount of maintenance it needed, mucking out horses would probably have been easier.
Pete M wrote Just imagine having to harness 530 horses to the cart before popping down the shop for the paper, and having to muck them out every day.
Pete M wrote I have no knowledge or experience of them, so can I assume they needed vast amounts of tlc, but what might normally have gone off-song on a regular basis?
Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate Roger The problems weren't usually engine or gearbox related on mine, but everything else was under stresses much bigger than the standard car could impose. Take a 200 bhp car and give it 500+ and things do wear out quite a lot more quickly, even when you have all the best bits. Mine had had a huge amount of money spent on it (over £25k) and was immensely good fun, but it did need fettling pretty much permanantly to keep it right. Oil change every 3000 miles, plugs every 3000, tyres every 1000 or every track day, brake pads would last maybe 6000 miles. Needed between £50 and £100 a week spending on consumables, not including fuel. Saying that, driven semi-sensibly it was a brilliant, brilliant car and could even be pretty economical on a run - I got 38 mpg on the motorway quite often, but that's like having a Fireblade and keeping it below 4000 rpm. It'll do it but it's pretty much missing the whole point. I miss it. It was far cheaper to run and maintain than either of the Integrales that replaced it and a vast amount quicker in a straight line.
Pete M wrote A picture emerges of something fanatical and v v enjoyable. OK. Even my Vulva croons and begs me to drop a gear and boot it, when at the legal limit, so I try to imagine the same request being made at double that, with somewhat greater response. (Thinks ... V40 around a track? Ooooh that would be embarrassing.)
Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate Roger 5th gear, 120+ mph it'd smoke the rear tyres just with the throttle. I miss that. I'm seriously considering making my Golf into a track day tool, but I think I'd be wiser to just sell it.
He's had a couple of them too, but they're not as good as the Pulsar was for townie stuff. great for longer distances, but for point and squirt, he Pulsar as unbeatable. Maybe specs tinted with nostalgia? I've not driven a Cossie that I thought much about. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
