Pics of your Fast Estate...
Discussion
AC43 said:
FM I bet that is a crash/bang & uncomfortable thing on anything other than a super smooth motorway......
Drove a friends for 4 months taking him to hospital (on 18's) between Somerset/Bath cross country....any ripple/rough surface and the thing skipped on every bloody corner, and tiny pot-hole CRASH....just horrible. Why spoil a car/compromise it so badly just for looks by putting rubber bands on it ?
JMHO
Edited by Le Controleur Horizontal on Tuesday 18th June 00:04
sunnym3 said:
AC43 said:
Thank you!They are ispiri FFR6 21 x 10.5 that were Bronze last year when i bought them. Had them painted a Bentley chrome silver recently, and the wife curbed them the very first time she drove it again!! The car is lowered by 10mm and it's running 10mm front and 12mm rear spacers. Was trying to create a certain look without going ott.
PGM said:
Our spaniel loved hers and it allows you to pack the boot and the dog safely giving her the room needed. We have a steel crate at home too, they love them because it's somewhere they can feel safe and relaxed.
People love to comment on the way above but generally they have no clue what they are taking about.
I have a border collie so no need for a crate. She never needed it for training either as we gave her the attention she needed. I have nets in my boot so I can safely store items whilst she still has plenty of room to be a dog and enjoy her surroundings while we drive. People love to comment on the way above but generally they have no clue what they are taking about.
BricktopST205 said:
I have a border collie so no need for a crate. She never needed it for training either as we gave her the attention she needed. I have nets in my boot so I can safely store items whilst she still has plenty of room to be a dog and enjoy her surroundings while we drive.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2326736/we-need-talk-about-keeping-dogs-safe-carsBricktopST205 said:
Your dog hates that. Why not get a dog bar installed instead? Far better then being shoehorned into a box. Can the poor thing even look out the windows with the boot closed?
I'm not convinced it does hate that. Dogs usually benefit from being in smaller spaces when they want security. Our dog (also Labrador) has all of the mondeo boot to choose from but just sits on his bed from the moment he gets in till he gets out and same with the Audi Avant where he has about 40% of the boot and again just sits down as soon as he gets in and waits to get there.
Dog jumping from side to side excited is a bad place to be.
RW
Graveworm said:
Restraints are a good thing yes as we have one for ours when we go camping. (She will sit in the back as the rear is full of camping gear) Caging animals like dogs which are not den animals like foxes is another. 
Le Controleur Horizontal said:
AC43 said:
FM I bet that is a crash/bang & uncomfortable thing on anything other than a super smooth motorway......Drove a friends for 4 months taking him to hospital (on 18's) between Somerset/Bath cross country....any ripple/rough surface and the thing skipped on every bloody corner, and tiny pot-hole CRASH....just horrible. Why spoil a car/compromise it so badly just for looks by putting rubber bands on it ?
JMHO
Edited by Le Controleur Horizontal on Tuesday 18th June 00:04
The air suspension models are even smoother.
Le Controleur Horizontal said:
AC43 said:
FM I bet that is a crash/bang & uncomfortable thing on anything other than a super smooth motorway......Drove a friends for 4 months taking him to hospital (on 18's) between Somerset/Bath cross country....any ripple/rough surface and the thing skipped on every bloody corner, and tiny pot-hole CRASH....just horrible. Why spoil a car/compromise it so badly just for looks by putting rubber bands on it ?
JMHO
Edited by Le Controleur Horizontal on Tuesday 18th June 00:04
I’m sure you could get 17’s but any performance model would be a bigger wheel, smaller profile tyre and a worse ride.
Perhaps you should borrow something with 70 profiles next time... do you have a freind with a 3 litre MK1, Granada estate ?
I've always enjoyed driving a fast and fast-ish estates.
An old beater V70 2.4T that I had and was surprisingly brisk
until I got undertaken by a faster 5 series diesel on the A12 to Suffolk and I though bugger that, I'd better buy a faster estate. Fortunately, my son sat on a partially opened glass sunroof and it smashed (hewasokaythanksforasking). As I had a 100mile cycle in Brummieland coming up, I had to pick up another estate and I found an S211 E500 (pre facelift) on PH for sale, just down the road from me.
It has 3/8ths of the brute bhp of the Brabus 800 Rocket (envious, moi?), but boy does it cover ground with 'pace, grace and space' (sorry Jaaaaaag so pinching that for a teutonic car). I have covered on average 1,000 miles a month since September 2017, which is daily milling about and a number of Scottish and Continental long hall trips. In fact, it feels as though there's no way that I would tolerate driving such long distances anymore without air suspension and more power than most other cars around me.
Pont Aven, Plymouth
Linas de Broto, Spain
View from Mont Blanc
I'm amazed at the power and torque of some of the vehicles on here. I don't know how I would stop myself going into nuclear meltdown!
Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
Madrid to Barcelona (city centres included). I made it in time for my afternoon meeting.
An old beater V70 2.4T that I had and was surprisingly brisk
until I got undertaken by a faster 5 series diesel on the A12 to Suffolk and I though bugger that, I'd better buy a faster estate. Fortunately, my son sat on a partially opened glass sunroof and it smashed (hewasokaythanksforasking). As I had a 100mile cycle in Brummieland coming up, I had to pick up another estate and I found an S211 E500 (pre facelift) on PH for sale, just down the road from me.
It has 3/8ths of the brute bhp of the Brabus 800 Rocket (envious, moi?), but boy does it cover ground with 'pace, grace and space' (sorry Jaaaaaag so pinching that for a teutonic car). I have covered on average 1,000 miles a month since September 2017, which is daily milling about and a number of Scottish and Continental long hall trips. In fact, it feels as though there's no way that I would tolerate driving such long distances anymore without air suspension and more power than most other cars around me.
Pont Aven, Plymouth
Linas de Broto, Spain
View from Mont Blanc
I'm amazed at the power and torque of some of the vehicles on here. I don't know how I would stop myself going into nuclear meltdown!
Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
Madrid to Barcelona (city centres included). I made it in time for my afternoon meeting.
Edited by bolidemichael on Wednesday 21st August 10:05
bolidemichael said:
I'm amazed at the power and torque of some of the vehicles on here. I don't know how I would stop myself going into nuclear meltdown!
Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
I haven't driven any other fast estate other than my remapped C63 (522bhp, according to DMS's dyno), but it's really, really easy to drive slowly. It doesn't want to go faster at all, and while it hides the sensation of speed to some degree, I never find myself doing 40 when I should be doing 30, or something like that. Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
leglessAlex said:
bolidemichael said:
I'm amazed at the power and torque of some of the vehicles on here. I don't know how I would stop myself going into nuclear meltdown!
Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
I haven't driven any other fast estate other than my remapped C63 (522bhp, according to DMS's dyno), but it's really, really easy to drive slowly. It doesn't want to go faster at all, and while it hides the sensation of speed to some degree, I never find myself doing 40 when I should be doing 30, or something like that. Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
bolidemichael said:
leglessAlex said:
bolidemichael said:
I'm amazed at the power and torque of some of the vehicles on here. I don't know how I would stop myself going into nuclear meltdown!
Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
I haven't driven any other fast estate other than my remapped C63 (522bhp, according to DMS's dyno), but it's really, really easy to drive slowly. It doesn't want to go faster at all, and while it hides the sensation of speed to some degree, I never find myself doing 40 when I should be doing 30, or something like that. Fast estates must be wielded accordingly!
My C7 RS6 is actually a pretty relaxed car to do it in with the suspension and ‘box in comfort at a steady 70mph.
However - on ocassion when you are confronted by a wide empty road in front of you it does require a deal of restrains because the way it goes from 70-140mph with a flex of the right foot is borderline insane.
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