viabtor with fifth gear..

[ambuletz]

I'm sure there was a topic about that silly viabtor thing on here somewhere. Perhaps fifth gear are spending more time on here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ARKaGJ6uU

[paranoid airbag]

wow, fifth gear must be desperate.

[busta]

Maths time guys- how long would it take to recoup the £45 through saving 1.6% of fuel?

Just worked it out- In that Skoda, this nifty gadget would pay for itself in a mere 29,000 miles. Bargain.....

Edited by busta on Thursday 14th April 20:48

[alephnull]

BAD SCIENCE.

Almost as bad as the st you read in the newspapers about chocolate preventing cancer. How irritating.

[Flintstone]

busta said:

Maths time guys- how long would it take to recoup the £45 through saving 1.6% of fuel?

Assuming it saves anything.

[W00DY]

"It could just be down to minute changes in my driving style, but in this test I've shown it does make a difference"

No. No you haven't.

[Motorrad]

What a load of bks, firstly the idiot doesn't know why a larger scale is used in the most pertinent area of his speedometer (he's meant to be a fking motoring journalist) and then he claims the test was conducted in the 'same traffic' which is an impossibility.
Maybe the idea of this is just to wind up people who aren't complete morons?

[Mr GrimNasty]

Completely statistically insignificant difference before and after.
I leak more pee into my pants in a day than he saved with that thing! (I'm not even incontinent, honest.)

[ambuletz]

agreed. a 20ml difference hardly seems noteworthy. I wonder how long they spent making the video for that? They must have been buggered and thought 'ahh, lets upload it anyway'. They should have just said it was pointless.

[HappyTorque]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Completely statistically insignificant difference before and after.
I leak more pee into my pants in a day than he saved with that thing! (I'm not even incontinent, honest.)

Totally agree, but to be honest if you leak more than 20ml of pee in a day then it might just be worth sticking one of these things in your pants - you know, just in case it actually works!

[LukeSi]

you can't exactly complain about 65mpg from a car that size anyway.

[paranoid airbag]

alephnull said:

BAD SCIENCE.

may I be the first to say...
no st sherlock

[Presuming Ed]

The only conclusion I gain from that report is I could really do with a Skoda Superb in my life.

[Emeye]

What a load of bkss.

[ambuletz]

Presuming Ed said:

The only conclusion I gain from that report is I could really do with a Skoda Superb in my life.

they've had that as part of their fleet for quite a while now. Check their other vids.

[richtea78]

alephnull said:

BAD SCIENCE.

Almost as bad as the st you read in the newspapers about chocolate preventing cancer. How irritating.

At least Chocolate tastes nice, the viabator just looks like a dildo in your cigarette lighter!

[PhillipM]

Fifth who?

[DannyVTS]

Get Mythbusters to do it.

[farrendahl]

I really should put my glasses on, I had a horrible vision that it was going to be that VBH woman "Road Testing" something else starting with the letter V

[nouze]

alephnull said:

BAD SCIENCE.

Almost as bad as the st you read in the newspapers about chocolate preventing cancer. How irritating.

Or about 1 drink/day increasing risk of cancer.

DannyVTS said:

Get Mythbusters to do it.

That's a joke right? Wasn't it mythbusters who said that aircon makes no difference to fuel consumption?