What very fast and very slow cars have in common.
Discussion
You get used to them.
I've had the good fortune to have owned or run as company vehicles some fairly quick cars and some ridiculously fast (supercar fast) motorbikes. I've also had the misfortune to have had to make do with some dog slow cars and vans.
What they have in common is drive them long enough and fast stops feeling fast (in fact if you've been hooning about at 160-170mph for the while 120-130mph feels positively slow and once used to flat out in every gear on a 1000cc Superbike I started to feel I could do with something a bit quicker still) and slow stops feeling slow (my first company car was a normally aspirated Peugeot 306XND. I was running a Sierra 2.9i 4x4 Ghia Estate as my own car prior to this and initially felt I could jump out and run faster than my wee Pug. Once used to it 99mph and 0-60 in 14 odd seconds felt reasonably quick).
Summing it up when I have a rocketship it feels ordinary and everything else feels dog slow. And when I have something dog slow everything else feels like a rocketship.
I've had the good fortune to have owned or run as company vehicles some fairly quick cars and some ridiculously fast (supercar fast) motorbikes. I've also had the misfortune to have had to make do with some dog slow cars and vans.
What they have in common is drive them long enough and fast stops feeling fast (in fact if you've been hooning about at 160-170mph for the while 120-130mph feels positively slow and once used to flat out in every gear on a 1000cc Superbike I started to feel I could do with something a bit quicker still) and slow stops feeling slow (my first company car was a normally aspirated Peugeot 306XND. I was running a Sierra 2.9i 4x4 Ghia Estate as my own car prior to this and initially felt I could jump out and run faster than my wee Pug. Once used to it 99mph and 0-60 in 14 odd seconds felt reasonably quick).
Summing it up when I have a rocketship it feels ordinary and everything else feels dog slow. And when I have something dog slow everything else feels like a rocketship.
Edited by Tannedbaldhead on Sunday 9th November 16:35
You are right. I had a company car (47,000 miles p.a.) in the shape of a 2.8i Capri in 1983 and whilst it went in for service once I was lent an Escort Ghia 1.6. I drove this Escort to Manchester from north London and back in the day of loan and in the evening collected my Capri, which had begun to feel 'ordinary' anyway, only to find it astonishingly fast for a few miles before boredom set in again.
I think we might differ on the definition of "very slow cars".
Ignoring the half-term dribble posted, and just answering the question in the title, the big similarity is that the average "vehicle operator" will cause problems for other traffic in either, and that both need much more thought than the average car.
Ignoring the half-term dribble posted, and just answering the question in the title, the big similarity is that the average "vehicle operator" will cause problems for other traffic in either, and that both need much more thought than the average car.
MarkRSi said:
Think the answer is to have a slowish shed/commuter car, then something quicker for nice days/weekend use.
Disagree in some respects there. I used to run a slower daily and a 'fun' weekend car, and all I found was I was doing lots of driving in a boring slow car, and hankered for something with a bit of performance - so sold it soon after. I've realised my daily needs to be as fun (quick) as my weekend to have any chance of not hating it within a few months.
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