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I really like the auto lights, especially the high beam, but form my experiance with lane departure, Id for go do with out them to not have it.
The lights are handy evey now and then when I get you need high beam, the lane crossing will do my nut in daily.
Though in your daily commute do get above 40 in a city? Alot of weaving over to the other side of the road I’d presume. In the more rural places the limits are mostly 60 between the villages, and most do 80 on the straighter roads.
Adaptive cruise control is a must, I think standard cc is dangerous. Especially on really long night runs.
Bob I looked in to that 1.7 if yours is the D4FD power plant, which it should be, it definitely does have a turbo. The engine is basically a standard DOHC CRI unit but the turbo is slightly different, as it has a veritable rate it can create boost at diffent times. Hyundai call it VGT (veritable geometry turbo charger). Bmw call there’s twin scroll turbo (catchier name) .
Basically the turbo can mimic a small turbo for low down torque, and as the pressure builds, it opens itself up to make itself bigger to become a larger turbo. Meaning the turbo can kick in earlier and stay on boost for a very large band across the rev range. No tiny peek torque, or turbo lag of old.
This may be why you don’t feel the turbo, and youll get very low peak, I’d guess, (not looked at the numbers) 1500rmp right thought to 4500rpm. Or pull like a tracker feeling.
You need to take the Rav4 hybrid for a test drive bob (when your bored) it had a CVT box, they don’t have the greatest reputation for drivers, but match a CVT with a electronic motor and it’s pull form just 200bhp is like a train. The CVT not having to change gears helps ad there is no cut in the pull. The car being a 4×4 isn’t dynamic, or that quick (7.5s), but the feelings of power, is greater than the BiL old BMW 3liter (v6 I think) diesel.
Surly your Tuscan must have a turbo on it bob?
What engine did you go for? I’m imagining a 2l diesel, and will have a turbo, a dieel with out a turbo isn’t a good experience. The FIL has an old Citroën pope mobile with a 2l na diesel and it’s does 60 in about 15s.
And all but the cheapest of City cars have a turbo on them, mainly for emissions. The new Ford and vauxhall (GM) 1 liter 3 cylinder petrol can do 120bhp at around 50mpg. Skoda have a 150bhp 1.4 turbo job that’s meant to be good too.
Saying that, the only new car I’ve come across with out a turbo is the new rav4 hybrid. That’s a 2.5litre NA plant, mated to a EV motor. And the thing really goes, and gets a real world 45mpg, which is amazing given the size of the car. They are using s allied up prius working. 1.8l upto 2.5l.
Update-yes bothe the 1.6petrol and the 1.7d are both turbo charged. Hope you got the diesel. The petrol has 175bhp but only 195lbft of torque. That isn’t alot for a car of thst size.
Your old Ford diesel would of had probably 150bhp and 280lbft. I’d imagine the 1.7d offers similar. A much better match for the Tuscon.
The auto lights and wipers etc should be stander on that spec. Key less entry I’m not sure about, but I wouldn’t pay extra for it, as you need the key on you anyway. Plus with my old Renault I had a “posh key card” and it was more pain that it was worth.
Money would be better spent on Apple carplay/android auto if that doesn’t come as standered.
Lane assist is a pita if it’s an option avoid it. The issue is it beeps and tugs on the wheel when you cross a white line, sounds obvious, but, in everyday life your crossing white lanes all the time. The system is stupid and shouldn’t engage untill your doing 55 (motorway speeds) when you don’t want to be drifting over the lines.
Like parking sensors the can’t be set to off, only disable them for a short time. A good idea yet to be implemented well.
Iirc the GTE trim is basically gti trim, I know the skoda and seats now come with android auto/Apple play, so unless you want leather seats (I wouldn’t, sticky or cold), there is nothing really of worth to add.
I’d be tempted to up the alloys, as it looks way better with a bigger more low profile tyre, but the downfall of a larger wheel is added tyre roar. My car has 19″ and at 80mph the road noise is a bit much.
The at GTE is a good car, a big jump in power, maybe a touch more than the focus st you had. It will defo have more diesel like low down torque given the electric motor, filling in the torque profile. You’ll have to re learn all your breaking and acceleration points. It will go, and stop, much quicker than the kia, and do it in a more refined way.
I just done a 40 mile round trip in the pergeot, my girl drove to work and I drove it home, the novelty of the small 1.1 litre manual city car has warn off. Still love the turning circle.
If I was ordering one (I’d go the polo) I’d go pearlescent white and black alloys. The rest standard.
My Octavia will be mat grey and black alloys. One day….
I’d never even heard of the DUP before today. But given their name one would assume a deal with the tories would be a no no? But I have zero idea of what they stand for. If anything.
I have little intrest in finding out tbh.
The golf isn’t that big, I just think it’s to big for the Golf. (if that makes sense). It’d about the same size as mine.
I’m a fan of lager saloon cars, but if I had to zip around a city I’d probably go for Fiesta St 200, now that’s a hot hatch, with city car abilities. The Ford interior is dated now, it’s overdue a refresh.
I’m getting a skoda Octavia estate vrs 230, I need a big boot and back doors ,im so over a small car (even thou its hardly small). I mention Skoda as it had the same dash as the golf, given its the same platform and dash, plus the Vrs shares the same diff and suspensions etc up as the gti and up (not vw up lol) platform.
I’m now wrestling with the idea of getting the all wheel drive variant, don’t need it, but 230 bhp through the front wheels is high, and I’ve never had an awd car.
Still have a year on my lease, so I have plenty of time to decide. The clincher will be how much I have saved up, and if I can get a deal on the AWD.
The good thing about the golf is it’s classless, like the original mini and the landeover defender, all cars that look good in any setting, posh or poor alike. So even though it’s not the mid level saloon your colleges have opted for, it wont stand out as inferior. Will look ad good in year one as year 4, and unlike the Lexus and jag, which will age fast.
Nice.
Oh Chris, is the new golf GTE The one with the hybrid motor. It’s ment to be be very good indeed. A big step up from the picanto in power, dynamics and style. (can a fair bit cooler).
Though personally I like today’s polo gti/gtd to the golf. I think the golf is now to fat. The polo gti I see as what the origanal gti team would of created if they was around today. Ie it’s more in the spirit if the origanal mk 1 gti.
One of my childhood favourite cars was a GTE just not golf, the Astra GTE, my favourite wad the xr3i. The GTE, xr3i and Gti was all about the same, I just never like the golf Shape as a kid, always preferring the Coupe style to the boxie vw shape.
Now I own a Coupe, I’m so over 2 door cars, and and an defo returning to an estate next. But a quick one.
In a city, there is little need for a quick car, but out in the hills, I couldn’t live with a city car. Though we have just got a pergeot for the kids, and small cars have their charms too. Like a small turning circle. My gtc has the worst ever, far worse than my laguna estate had!
Interesting for brexit indeed. Sad for the country.
I didn’t get an option John. Il have to see what turns up in the post. Cross my fingers the one I want has to option to just be a modem.
You can’t go wrong with a Hyundai, they own their own steel, non of the others do, and they put more high strength steel in their cars than all the Compition. A large percentage at that.
They make some of the best cars in the groups they are in. I really like the i40. Some of their cars arnt the prettiest or coolest, but they are good.
Also relatively cheap, like the French lot, not being German, they throw in most of the goodies you’ll pay a fortune for in a German car.
Glad your email is ar is working out for you bob, they are a nice car. As I said before there is two on my street. Well one now, some ran into one of them they have a loaner atm.
I love my auto wipers on my car, they are great. My car has auto lights, including auto high beam (which works brilliantly), auto lights*, and auto gear, a long with cruise control, it’s all making a very lazy driver.
Auto lights can be annoying if your going through sections on tunnels, it thinks it’s day/night /day… Annoying as when it turns the lights on, the digital display goes into night mode. A pain because that digital display has my speed in it!
But my auto high beam is fantastic. Took me a while to trust it no to blind anyone, at night in the lanes, but it works almost flawlessly. I’d say closes to 99/100 times. Which I realised is probably better than me. Who now and then would forget to turn it off till they flashed. As we all do. The auto doesn’t get it wrong in that way, just the 1/100 it will take a second or two longer than I would of done. So I’d say that’s a win for tech.
Don’t have auto fog lights, like a common plebeian I had to turn my own light on last week. This can’t continue I’m going to write to the oem and get at fog lights retro fitted lol.
One Google thing to come of this, I spoke to TT and they reduced my money thy bill by £15 ☺️, for me to sign up to another 24 months of course.
I think my issue is the white FTTC “modem” box. Re setting that brings my Internet back for about 2 hours. Then it dies again.
My router (seperate to the modem) reports “you isp DCHP does not function proper”. (see attachment) The router seems to be working fine, and only reseting the white modem brings me back in line.
TT are sending me a “super hub” so need to put that into modem mode or so thing when it arrives.
I read it all. being on Gmail I don’t the African oil spam emails or the like, never had one. So I was super interested in the offer. Rather reading what the offer was.
I can’t believe people fall for such scams.
The answer to your question was $3m
I wonder how much they got paid?
A few years back stevie wonder appeared on the Chase Bank concert for hurricane sandy (iirc) and it later come out his was paid $5m.
The wife said he did a televised message last night, my first thought was I wonder how much he eats for that. £50k maybe, $100k?
The wife said the concert was good. She was still on a high from being at the Robbie Williams concert the night before though. You’d think she was 18!
Amazing how fast councils (and whomever) can move when something happens on Parliaments doorstep.
That would take 5 years of community and council consultations in my village. I’m not joking, 5 years to cut a hedge back so kids didn’t need so walk around the hedge onto a busy road outside the high school.
My ssd just sits on the floor of my pc, on a spot of hot glue. To fit in my current gpu in surgery was need. The lower drive was removed.
Given cases next to never move, and the ssd doesn’t move (vibrate) I’ve not had any issues.
I fancied that 10%
It do like the idea mentioned be Tad Ka, a donation target show in percentage, if the costs have been covered that month.
I don’t mind paying, but as some have mentioned above, it would be the beginning of the end. People will slide away, and take up would be next to zero going forward.
So a more in your face donation approach may be worth a trail first.
Me I’d bin it. It will only happen again.
There was also one in Afghanistan, been a few this week.
My Mrs and the kids was at a Robbie Williams concert last night in Manchester. I told he to keep an eye out.
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