Monaro v Disco
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Arrived in Cavalaire last night at 8pm after an 820 mile drive down from Kent in my Land Rover Discovery HSE. We left at 5:40am went straight on to le shuttle and ran the motorways at between 100-110mph all the way down stopping a couple of times for diesel (running at 21mpg) and another couple for lunch and loo. I thought of using the Ro but decided as we were taking the kitchen sink that the Disco would be the better bet. The traffic we hit over the last 12 miles was horrible and the thought of clutching the Ro through it doesn't appeal, but I just wonder what time the Ro would have taken off the journey? In reality and having some due care for frog road users, not that much I reckon. Still, out for a few cold beers now, temperature here been 34 degrees all day and not a cloud in the sky. Any of you got work in the morning?!!
Well, not quite the same journey but the Ro and me are currently sitting in Amsterdam, having had a run up here on company petrol for a meeting in the morning. Bit of traffic = just under 3.5 hours from the tunnel to Schiphol, but it's all good! I get sick of schlepping around airports, and did think about biking up here but with threats of torrential rain, plus the general boredom factor of bikes on long motorway runs, the Ro won out.
35 degrees C outside temperature most of the way - the aircon temperature dropped and engine temp up a couple of degrees in traffic! 35 degrees wouldn't have been pleasant on the bike either!
Got the return run tomorrow.
35 degrees C outside temperature most of the way - the aircon temperature dropped and engine temp up a couple of degrees in traffic! 35 degrees wouldn't have been pleasant on the bike either!
Got the return run tomorrow.
oh boo hoo you have to fly to work
Money grabber! You dont know pain until you have to get up at 6am to drive to filton and then fly on a saab twin prop into hamburg on one engine. And the bloody cabin crew had run out of champers.
Back to the OP, I have to say I really miss my Disco. The comfiest most accomplished car I've flogged.Seriously good bits of kit
Money grabber! You dont know pain until you have to get up at 6am to drive to filton and then fly on a saab twin prop into hamburg on one engine. And the bloody cabin crew had run out of champers.Back to the OP, I have to say I really miss my Disco. The comfiest most accomplished car I've flogged.Seriously good bits of kit
Yeah back to work tomorrow morning and then i'm off for five weeks. I will spend most of that Having meals out, drinking, sunbathing and having quality time with my family. If i do need to drive anywhere i will be using the Ro. Theres no other vehical i'd want to drive. I buzz from the moment i get in it until about an hour after i get out. Heaven
Lewis07 said:
ran the motorways at between 100-110mph all the way down stopping a couple of times for diesel (running at 21mpg) and another couple for lunch and loo. , but I just wonder what time the Ro would have taken off the journey? !
My guess is the Ro would not be any quicker but driving at 90mph and achieving 25mpg and having one less fuel stop might have been, somebody with a calculator might be able to confirm or rubbish my assumption....
Monnington said:
C8PPO said:
plus the general boredom factor of bikes on long motorway runs, the Ro won out. [quote]
Roll-ons against each other, max outs, wheelies and general arsing about sorts that one out.....
for about ten minutes max before you get bored of that and the fear factor as you each end up egging each other on. Bikes on the road are boring now (for me).Roll-ons against each other, max outs, wheelies and general arsing about sorts that one out.....
No fun unless at jail term speeds at which pouint you have thrown getur life more at the mercy of external events than your own skill too.
I have been bike free for 2 years and don't miss it one bit. I will possibly get a little twist and go for commuting (to keep up my NCB) but if I were to get another bike it be a cruiser
Took a detour east of Antwerp on the way back top avoid an 8 mile jam. Found myself on a straight dual carriageway road with traffic lights about every two miles, and at a set of lights pulled up beside a Cayenne Turbo. Gave it the berries off the line but he clearly hadn't realised it was game on - until the next set of lights. Stationary at red, lights change, I wasn't going to bother but he went for it and I responded. I was pleasantly surprised - result = Cayenne driver having plenty of time to review the rear styling of a Monaro, up to around 160 clicks, when I backed off and let him get on with it.
I thought those things were quicker than that?
I do use another forum which largely consists of 20-somethings bragging about how many Veyrons they've thrashed this week, and I always desist from that sort of post over there, but I really was expecting the Cayenne to disappear in a cloud of dust, and instead it was the other way round. I'm completely standard, apart from some straight-through tailpipes, and in fact was running on 95RON as that was all the Shell garage which I used had, and I'm personally convinced the car runs better on higher-octane fuel.
I thought those things were quicker than that?
I do use another forum which largely consists of 20-somethings bragging about how many Veyrons they've thrashed this week, and I always desist from that sort of post over there, but I really was expecting the Cayenne to disappear in a cloud of dust, and instead it was the other way round. I'm completely standard, apart from some straight-through tailpipes, and in fact was running on 95RON as that was all the Shell garage which I used had, and I'm personally convinced the car runs better on higher-octane fuel.
You want "back of C-17" pictures, you want this thread
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Bonnie and Clyde said:
....Thats not what i've heard......
Busted!!!!!!
C8PPO said:
You want "back of C-17" pictures.....
My one was C-130....but yours are WAY cooler! That must have been one hell of an experience. Those C-17's are amazingly huge... I took a 90 minute flight in one 3 weeks ago - there were only 7 passengers in it and no cargo.... it was like being in a Cathedral...and obviously a huge waste of the taxpayers money (luckily it was a US C-17
).Demolition Man said:
Stigmundfreud said:
oh boo hoo ......the bloody cabin crew had run out of champers....
I bet your cabin attendant wasn't 6ft3, moustache and shout at you through a megaphone!
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