This is progress?

Be a sceptic no more. Had one in the fleet here, less than 12 months
old, and used to have smoke pouring out of it. Turned out to be injectors.

It DOES happen.

I think vehicles have come a long way in the last 40 years, but the rate
of 'improvement' has slowed down dramatically in the last 8-10 years.
In some cases, introduction of tighter emission controls etc has
probably lead to a slight reduction in performance overall.

I just traded an 88 Camira on a 2009 Imprezza. Both with 2 litre Fuel
Injection. Camira was quicker off the mark - felt much more responsive -
and had better economy and handled very nicely. Imprezza is a much more
comfortable car, handles better in marginal conditions, and has 'safety'
features that make it an attractive option for what we want it for (ABS,
traction control etc - better suited to the icy road expectations in Tas
as compared to Qld).

 

I'm still waiting for hybrid turbo-diesel cars to arrive before I
consider a hybrid.

We've just bought a VW with a 2 litre turbo diesel (and driven it from
Victoria to Adelaide this week)
and it averaged (whilst carrying 4 adults and luggage) better than 7
litres per 100 kms.

It will tow 2000kg (so I can drag the boat or the camper trailer) and
it uses half the fuel that my
Mitsubishi 380 uses.

Most hybrids (let alone plug in electrics) won't do that job.

Build me a hybrid with a turbo diesel that will tow 2000kg and cost
within say $5000 of the VW
we bought and I'll think about it (as long as it has a better fuel
consumption average than what we
get now which the upcoming Toyota Camry hybrid won't and nor will it
tow that much).


G-S

 

Sounds like a late 1940's/easrly 1950's the small window was late 50's
mine was a 58 , the bloke I sold it to installed a 427 cu chev in the
back seat area

 

Well *now* I feel better about only getting 6km/l (16.7 litres per
100km) from my Econovan on LPG!

(It weighs 1800kg when empty, and has a 2 litre engine. It can pull
the skin off a warm rice pudding, but a cold one would tax it.)


BTH

 

Well it /was/ advertised by Kon The Fruiterer at one stage ..

 

Looks like a good book!

 

becoz dummy, we are going nuclear!

 

You must live in the city

 

You forgot water

 

The author has a sense of humour e.g. P64:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c10/page_64.shtml

 

Shame it has nuttin to do wiv oz. fail

 

Plenty of references to oz sprinked throughout the text. For example:
P76 "Let’s check these numbers: www.dairyaustralia.com.au says that a
suckling cow of weight 450 kg needs 85 MJ/d, which is 24 kWh/d".
P78 "[what else can you do with the land except graze livestock?]
Similar arguments can be made in favour of carnivory for places such
as ... the grasslands of Australia"

Also, the physics arguments hold true in Australia, as well as in the
UK. For example:
P58 "Should I wait until the old bulb dies before replacing it?"
P71 “[myth] There is no point in my switching off lights, TVs, and
phone chargers during the winter. The ‘wasted’ energy they put out
heats my home, so it’s not wasted.”
And (somewhere) better to burn petrol in a car than in a power station
at the same efficiency - power is lost in transmission.

Agreed we do need an Australian version though. You were only being
asked to look at chapter 27 (not by me!).

 

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The comparing of energy values may excite u, but do little 4 me. The cow
one sounds like ur gonna go vegan and then tell me that the use of polymers
is cool coz it aint animals. Fail.

 

What you just wrote was a bit weird.
Judging by the time it was posted, I think you may have been drinking.
Are you trolling me...?

 

Trolling: The contemporary use of the term is alleged to have first
appeared on the internet in the late 1980s, but the earliest known
example is from 1991. It is thought to be a truncation of the phrase
trolling for suckers, itself derived from the fishing technique of
slowly dragging a bait through water, known as trolling. The word also
evokes the trolls portrayed in Scandinavian folklore and children's
tales as they are often obnoxious creatures bent on mischief and
wickedness. The verb "troll" originates from Old French "troller", a
hunting term. The noun "troll", however, is an unrelated Old Norse
word for a giant or demon.

Alfred E. Neuman said "What, me troll?"

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

Nah. All the talk of energy is lame. Looking at what a person needs to
exist and then using a cow as an exmaple. I dont see the rice fields and
the water needed to grow rice being calculated to jusify things.

 

bit longer and it would be a nice wiskhey.

that makes no sense, ur talking nonsense

 

segways are too powerfull to by pass registration laws of this
country, they are not adr compliant so cant be registered, thus, you
cant use them in this country!

 

..... Back in my youth a 2.4 litre Holden produced 75Kw and you
were happy if it got better than 20 mpg without air-con. ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What engine is that Theo? I would've thought a grey motor would've been
flat out making 75HP!! and only a 2.8L and larger red-motor made that sort
of power.
Are you talking about an Isuzu or Opel-engined Holden?

 

Technically even if they were less powerful (under 200w) they'd still be
illegal in NSW.

The prats in this govt specifically changed the laws a couple of years
ago to outlaw motorised skateboards that were previously legal (under
the 200w threshold) and caught everything else in the net

JL