How to park like a boss

Owen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5COAx5CKwA

Alanstrainor

Love the music!

Mycroft H

Awesome...

Just as an aside... Pantograph powered buses?

CiniO

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Love the music!

Music makes this video twice more interesting
And suits it perfectly.
All those gentle movements.

shedweller

BX 19 wrote: »

Awesome...

Just as an aside... Pantograph powered buses?

Seen them used in NZ. Good yokes actually and very quiet for city centres.

Nice parking too!

peasant

BX 19 wrote: »

Awesome...

Just as an aside... Pantograph powered buses?

Very common in ex eastern block countries. Often used in conjunction with trams ...the buses extend the the inner city tram network to the outskirts without the need for laying track, only power lines.
Some models even were hybrids with diesel and electric engines to be used on and off grid.

The commies weren't all bad, you know

Saab Ed

Are all Russian roads made of the same ****e that seems to be used in the manufacturing of all things in that country. Every Russian youtube clip involving a car/bus/truck seems to involve a random lack of traction and carnage.

CiniO

Saab Ed wrote: »

Are all Russian roads made of the same ****e that seems to be used in the manufacturing of all things in that country. Every Russian youtube clip involving a car/bus/truck seems to involve a random lack of traction and carnage.

I would bet it's not the roads. It's the tyres ;P

CiniO

peasant wrote: »

Very common in ex eastern block countries. Often used in conjunction with trams ...the buses extend the the inner city tram network to the outskirts without the need for laying track, only power lines.
Some models even were hybrids with diesel and electric engines to be used on and off grid.

The commies weren't all bad, you know

I've seen that thing once in one of eastern Polish cities.
Could be an interesting idea, but to build it, the cost of lying the power lines, would probably extend what could be gained.

During communism times, they were probably not looking at costs, but ideas only - that's why it was built.

101sean

They are trolleybuses, used to be common in the UK from the 30s the mid 60s, often replaced trams when the track wore out. Remember riding on them in Maidstone when I was a kid. Still common not just in E Europe.

Neat bit of parking!

Keith in cork

WIN!

mikemac

Love it

And yes, the music makes it even better

Victor

Is he no doing a u-turn at the top of a slip road?

corktina

101sean wrote: »

They are trolleybuses, used to be common in the UK from the 30s the mid 60s, often replaced trams when the track wore out. Remember riding on them in Maidstone when I was a kid. Still common not just in E Europe.

Neat bit of parking!

Never can resisit an oppotunity to posty a Reading trolleybus!

si_guru

This is my home town - my parents were of the trolley bus era!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/8gze_WIopPw

Tallon

Look like he's rolling on some brand new Accelera P

Tallon

Tallon wrote: »

Look like he's rolling on some brand new Accelera P

I doubt it.

Tallon

RoverJames wrote: »

I doubt it.

I know they're mostly used for drift cars, but some people do use them on their day to day cars

Tallon

Tallon wrote: »

I know they're mostly used for drift cars, but some people do use them on their day to day cars

I had them on the 520i I had last year, had never heard of them but they were on it when I bought it, found them very good. Bought a set for the ZT, again find them very good Both sets were Accelera Phi.

Quazzie

RoverJames wrote: »

I doubt it.

Driving in the rain and then suddenly sliding. Sounds exactly like Accelera tires to me.

Whoever it was, it looks they done really well to keep some manner of control on the car. They also got lucky with the break in the oncoming traffic.

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

Driving in the rain and then suddenly sliding. Sounds exactly like Accelera tires to me. ..............

And you've driven how many cars in rain with Accelera tyres?

Quazzie

Only the one, but its been well documented on the internet if you care to do a search.

Did you have them on the rear wheels of the 520i?

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

Only the one, but its been well documented on the internet if you care to do a search.

It's also well documented on Alfa forums that many Alfa 159 folk find the Accelar Phi great in 19" guise, also Alfa garages are recommending them.

Quazzie wrote: »

Did you have them on the rear wheels of the 520i?

Yep, full set of four, and a boardsie bought that 520i from the lad who I sold it to and also found the Accelera a fine tyre on it. I averaged 23mpg from the 520i over 6 months so it wasn't driven gently either.

No need for me to do a search to read about them when I have a 180bhp car outside shod with 4 of them

Also the OP of this very thread recently commented that he found Accelera not bad at all.

Was it Accelera Phi you drove on?

Quazzie

RoverJames wrote: »

Was it Accelera Phi you drove on?

I don't know to be honest. It was on my Dad's car and he asked me to have a look at it because the steering felt light on it when accelerating from stationary. It turned out it was wheel spin so i looked online for the tires, found some horrid reviews and changed them. The problem went after that. I can't remember if they were phi or not.

Absurdum

In Soviet Russia, boss parks you!

JJJJNR

In Soviet Russia car parks you..

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

I don't know to be honest. It was on my Dad's car and he asked me to have a look at it because the steering felt light on it when accelerating from stationary. It turned out it was wheel spin so i looked online for the tires, found some horrid reviews and changed them. The problem went after that. I can't remember if they were phi or not.

Weird, I didn't encounter that sort of lack of grip on ice in the cold spell last winter in the ZT, and the 520i really had to be encouraged to unsettle the back in the wet, in dry weather 'twas welded to the road.

Owen

Got to say I've driven Acceleras recently, and they were grand.

unkel

Anyone know what music this is?

Kudos and thanks waiting :cool:

not sure unkel, but it sounds like a haydn quartet to me

unkel

bluewolf wrote: »

not sure unkel, but it sounds like a haydn quartet to me

I'd say you're very warm!

unkel

Haydn String Quartet No.5 in D major, Op.64 'Lark'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTH74JxaKCQ

Wouldn't have found it without your help, bluewolf. Muchas gracias amigo

damn!
i had just narrowed it down to D maj and I was working through all the D maj quartets shoulda done that from the start :pac:

thanks! was driving me nuts

unkel

bluewolf wrote: »

thanks! was driving me nuts

Same here

Just had to find out what it was.

This vid has gone viral and was shown up all over the world in the last few days and we are the first to credit the music I think

unkel

I must have watched this about 100 times now and it still is beautiful

corktina

what a great thread. Rarely does a thread wander so far off topic as to include Classical Music and Trolley Bus videos.:D

Bumpstop

I think thats Torqauy, and thats an alternative intro to Fawlty Towers, for the east.
" BaSIL mind the trolley bus, Right Cybil fine, you drive"

Gary ITR

corktina wrote: »

what a great thread. Rarely does a thread wander so far off topic as to include Classical Music and Trolley Bus videos.:D

And Roverjames getting in something about his ZT and his BMW, it's got everything!



Sorry RJ it's like I'm picking on you lately :pac:

corktina

not quite everything, no mention of Nazi Germany yet.