5th Gear New Series- Two Presenters Axed
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EDLT said:
LuS1fer said:
Well I enjoyed the Camaro and Challenger, a nice counter-point to the Leaf.
They both seemed a bit rubbish in the corners though. Do they have LSDs or were they bother spinning the inside wheel for another reason?
RichyBoy said:
Why did kryton neglect to mention the battery replacement costs, I'm sure that will put a dent in running the thing. The show seemed like a big advert except for the westfield who probably didn't have enough cash lol.
A Prius battery pack is about £1500 and is specified to last the life of the vehicle. Not bad considering the cost of turbo/injector replacement on modern diesels - which seem to need doing rather more frequently.AnotherClarkey said:
RichyBoy said:
Why did kryton neglect to mention the battery replacement costs, I'm sure that will put a dent in running the thing. The show seemed like a big advert except for the westfield who probably didn't have enough cash lol.
A Prius battery pack is about £1500 and is specified to last the life of the vehicle. Not bad considering the cost of turbo/injector replacement on modern diesels - which seem to need doing rather more frequently.EDLT said:
AnotherClarkey said:
RichyBoy said:
Why did kryton neglect to mention the battery replacement costs, I'm sure that will put a dent in running the thing. The show seemed like a big advert except for the westfield who probably didn't have enough cash lol.
A Prius battery pack is about £1500 and is specified to last the life of the vehicle. Not bad considering the cost of turbo/injector replacement on modern diesels - which seem to need doing rather more frequently.Thought the CR-Z vs DS3 test was very silly, the two are not rivals in the slightest. The DS3 is a hatchback, not a coupe (Citroën don't even call it a coupe FFS) and it's in the B-seg supermini sector for size. The Honda is an all together bigger car and is a coupe. Don't see why anyone would compare the two. A better test would have been DS3 vs Audi A1 or MINI .... and CR-Z vs Scirocco TDi or RCZ HDi.
Max_Torque said:
It's pretty funny when various people try to add up the carbon "costs" of something, there are so many ways of doing it that it is practically pointless. What of course no one mentions is that luckily we already have a pretty good system for counting the environmental impact of something, and that is it's, er, Cost. The price of an item pretty much reflects the effort that has gone into that item, so a car that costs £30k (like the leaf) will have pretty much generated twice as much Co2 as say a £15k car before it is even driven anywhere.
Any evidence to back up this supposed fact?Max_Torque said:
I also find it slightly suprising that a unbiased review could consider a small family car costing £25k (actually 30 before the gov chip in!) to be "reasonable value for money", yes, it has Sat Nav and electric windows, but that sort of thing is now std on a £10k car.
It IS pretty good value for money when you consider you will never tax it, never put petrol in it, and servicing is minimal.Max_Torque said:
There is only 1 truely green solution, and that unfortunately involves expending your own effort to move yourself via legs or a bike ;-) which for most "enviromentalists" is never going to happen....
Agree there is never going to be such thing as a "green" car, but the Leaf is about as good as you can get at the moment whilst still driving around a large hatchback.
brilliant! Nice one JP 
Anyone want to buy the Ibiza used in the 2 wheel stunt?
Its on eBay - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
Its on eBay - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
va1o said:
Anyone want to buy the Ibiza used in the 2 wheel stunt?
Its on eBay - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
Might be worth having for the rollcage and seats.Its on eBay - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
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