Why are diesel drivers the ones TRYING to prove things!
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Mr2Mike said:
busta said:
This is most people first port of call when sizing someone up on here and having nothing listed attracts the FBI style investigations that gets all the old boys on here excited and saying things like 'pwned', 'fail' and 'thread of the year' as they high 5 each other, even though they are on some odd tangent. 
Max_Torque said:
i find it quite amusing that people have such a blinkered idea about diesels, most people after going in my car tend to exclaim "i thought you had got the diesel version!". A decent engine is a decent engine, irrespective if it's fuelled by gasoline, diesel or even cheese !!
Far too sensible old chap - for what its worth I agree But then I do drive a diesel so I probably have something to prove
It's no fun anymore. Before every other rep had a diesel with 250 lb-ft of torque upwards it was fun because in the real world and on real roads I think a good diesel is quicker than the same car with a petrol engine. Back in the day when more reps were using petrol, it was fun then. It's much too level a playing field now.
renorti said:
do Lamborghini make a diesel car?
what fuel do farmers use in their tractors?
there's your answers.
Lambo are made by VAG and they have looked at diesel, which has also been considered for the R8. I am sure i read somewhere that they held the R8 diesel because it was quicker than the V10 (but that could be my imagination)what fuel do farmers use in their tractors?
there's your answers.
Diesel cars have won Le Mans for the last few years, and their lap times are up there with petrol cars.
Hmm interesting thread....
Now i have a Clio Cup (Petrol) and access to my dads company 320D. Both illicit different responses from road users. However i must agree with the op on some minor points. Gone are the days when s
t eating middile management had BMWs (dads a director thus out of this pool but epic tax meant 320 not 330) They now have A3 1.9TDis. And they are a bit ghey in the way they drive them. As they always have been. And always will be.
thats fine, let them be. It doesnt matter. You have a nice Golf, as long as the tyres arent stretched, and a 350Z. They want to race you perhaps as they are jealous you have a slightly different car to the ones that occupy the business park. Or maybe they arent at all and you just have a chip on your shoulder. I dunno.
but to sum up absoloutely nothing, my clio gets to 80mph a fair bit faster then the BMW, but it sure as hell doesnt do 50mpg when its there. Horses for courses.
Also, Maxtourque, that Ibiza looks mental! More info please? Guessing its a spaceframe?
Now i have a Clio Cup (Petrol) and access to my dads company 320D. Both illicit different responses from road users. However i must agree with the op on some minor points. Gone are the days when s
t eating middile management had BMWs (dads a director thus out of this pool but epic tax meant 320 not 330) They now have A3 1.9TDis. And they are a bit ghey in the way they drive them. As they always have been. And always will be.thats fine, let them be. It doesnt matter. You have a nice Golf, as long as the tyres arent stretched, and a 350Z. They want to race you perhaps as they are jealous you have a slightly different car to the ones that occupy the business park. Or maybe they arent at all and you just have a chip on your shoulder. I dunno.
but to sum up absoloutely nothing, my clio gets to 80mph a fair bit faster then the BMW, but it sure as hell doesnt do 50mpg when its there. Horses for courses.
Also, Maxtourque, that Ibiza looks mental! More info please? Guessing its a spaceframe?
Edited by snowen250 on Monday 13th December 21:07
robsti said:
renorti said:
do Lamborghini make a diesel car?
what fuel do farmers use in their tractors?
there's your answers.
Lamborgini used to make tractors! what fuel do farmers use in their tractors?
there's your answers.
http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/UNITEDKINGDOM/...
Though they're just rebadged Deutz-Fahr now.
I've just gotten used to this, It does usually tend to be VAG TDIs...and the odd Vectra. Beemers too but not as much as VAG. I'm all for pushing on and making progress but it does seem a lot of them have this 'out of my fking way' attitude, like they've something to prove. I just tend to try and move out of the way and let them get on with it.
king way' attitude, like they've something to prove. I just tend to try and move out of the way and let them get on with it.I'll add now before someone takes offence... I'm not saying every VAG driver is like this.. but they do seem to be the most frequent that I've noticed. It only bothers me when they do it so agressively that it's dangerous to other road users. Otherwise it's just a bloke/bird trying to be somewhere.
To the op
Now please don't take this the wrong way ( my second car at 18 was a GTi Re2100) but if you are in your golf most people would think oh blimey there is an old golf its going to be slow, I will just get past it, at which point you speed up then slow down and they still want to get past.
If it was me and I was in my oil burner ( my motorway car) and it was the Nissan, I would think oh goodness this guy is going to be much slower as he has to drop it down two gears and build up the revs as all I have to do is use the right pedal, at which point you speed up and slow down and are still in my way.
I would suggest just moving over and not getting stressed with it, a 350 or an old golf ( even a 400hp one) are not the fastest thing on the planet.
Phib
Now please don't take this the wrong way ( my second car at 18 was a GTi Re2100) but if you are in your golf most people would think oh blimey there is an old golf its going to be slow, I will just get past it, at which point you speed up then slow down and they still want to get past.
If it was me and I was in my oil burner ( my motorway car) and it was the Nissan, I would think oh goodness this guy is going to be much slower as he has to drop it down two gears and build up the revs as all I have to do is use the right pedal, at which point you speed up and slow down and are still in my way.
I would suggest just moving over and not getting stressed with it, a 350 or an old golf ( even a 400hp one) are not the fastest thing on the planet.
Phib
Yazza54 said:
I'll add now before someone takes offence... I'm not saying every VAG driver is like this.. but they do seem to be the most frequent that I've noticed. It only bothers me when they do it so agressively that it's dangerous to other road users. Otherwise it's just a bloke/bird trying to be somewhere.
Its probably VAG because as a group they sell more diesel cars in the uk than anyone else.It is nothing to do with the VAG driver stereotype, its unlikelely that the driver of a basic Skoda TDi is going to be the same personality as the driver of an A8 lwb TDi who probably wouldnt be the same as the driver of a Q7 tdi.
VAG driver stereotyping is dumb.
I drive a VAG diesel, a TVR Tuscan and a Subaru Outback - I must be bipolar!
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