******Motors Chat - Round 6******

tossy wrote: »

My next car will probably be diesel ans slow lol

Welcome to the dark side:D

String wrote: »

Anyone gone to a previous Rock' n Rumble American car show? Worth going? It's on in Cork con rugby club tomorrow.

First year in Con and first year they called it 'Rock n' Rumble'.

If you like yank tanks, beer, bbq and rock music you'll have a fantastic day. If you're going as a spectator leave the car at home.

Kaiser D wrote: »

My neighbors built this, I can confirm it is indeed the scariest thing I have ever driven. It is fupping mental.

I have a couple of engines lying around, if anyone has something like this that needs engined up:P drop it off at Preds Shed

pred racer wrote: »

I have a couple of engines lying around, if anyone has something like this that needs engined up:P drop it off at Preds Shed

Aren't you old enough to need one yourself?? :P

Me legs are fecking bolloxed after two hours of driving that. . Sweating like feck too..... a few brown trousers moments

Atleaset I havent forgetting how to drive my now tiny focus !

Looking for a 2l petrol hatch, not peugot or citroen. There's a lot of crap on DD. Maybe another focus .

I was looking at a few of them. I'm not sold on them. Nah.

Hal1 wrote: »

I was looking at a few of them. I'm not sold on them. Nah.

What you want is a Focus ST :pac:

toastedpickles wrote: »

Hooray! Well I have the moolah here

Just pay the other lad the 80 man, your good after that as discussed

toastedpickles wrote: »

I know, but one swoop and all that, I'll be grand

I'll text you

Not the place for it, but honest its grand like discussed!

So I'm just back from a long motorway spin and I've come to a conclusion based on a few observations..

120 km/h isn't fast enough considering most people can't even hit that

This was prompted after I had some silly twit in a 3 series start drifting across the centre line to pass a truck - without noticing I was about to pass both of them as they were doing about 100-110!

As most people seemingly can't do/maintain 120 km/h on an open motorway - but will do 10-20 km/h under it - those of us who can will inevitably end up gaining on them and thus need to overtake to continue, especially when one of these people comes up behind an even slower vehicle - like say a truck.

However, with such a limited variance in speed, the actual overtaking move will take far longer and indeed encourage idiots that they can make their stupid manoeuvre without causing a problem.

I wasn't in any rush tonight but I noticed several example of idiots taking chances as a result of the above. It's actually MORE dangerous in my opinion that "speeding" because in the latter case you would be past them quicker and the greater difference in speed discourages their stupidity in the first place as they'd see you move out and gain on them faster.


Then there was the scummer who nearly caused a pile-up an hour earlier by cutting across me from the outside lane in an attempt to undertake a car ahead of him which he'd actually successfully intimidated enough that it was moving over anyway. As a side note, Quattro and quick reactions FTW.

Yer man then nearly swipes the front of my car and the back of the other one, but do our girls n boys in blue care - nope, cause it was a NI reg hatchback and while I could go making a statement, the response was such that there's no point (car mightn't be here tomorrow/could be a tourist/not on the system etc). Our heroes did say they'd put the word out but didn't seem overly optimistic/interested despite the road in question being covered with cameras

Fun evening eh? :mad: