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  • Coming down with a cold, cough and sore throat the day before I'm due to take 12 days leave :(



  • Coming down with a cold, cough and sore throat the day before I'm due to take 12 days leave :(



    Feel you pain mate, and I got a deadline for a job this Sunday
  • Talking to someone about electric cars of which there are quite a few down here.
    They should be banned apparently, because you can't hear them coming. Surprised at this reaction I remarked that beside the environmental issues, shouldn't you be looking before crossing the road.
    I suppose I'll have too with those dangerous things about, they are a menace! 
  • T_C_E said:
    Talking to someone about electric cars of which there are quite a few down here.
    They should be banned apparently, because you can't hear them coming. Surprised at this reaction I remarked that beside the environmental issues, shouldn't you be looking before crossing the road.
    I suppose I'll have too with those dangerous things about, they are a menace! 
    I have read that some manufacturers are fitting a noise to their cars so people can here them coming. Weird!
  • ross1 said:
    T_C_E said:
    Talking to someone about electric cars of which there are quite a few down here.
    They should be banned apparently, because you can't hear them coming. Surprised at this reaction I remarked that beside the environmental issues, shouldn't you be looking before crossing the road.
    I suppose I'll have too with those dangerous things about, they are a menace! 
    I have read that some manufacturers are fitting a noise to their cars so people can here them coming. Weird!
    On the face of it it sounds weird but it's almost certainly a good idea, plus manufacturers have been tinkering with noise for years. How many cars and motorbikes are given a more throaty noise to make them sound more powerful? And when the manufacturers don't do it, people pay for different exhaust kits to do it themselves. There was one manufacturer a few years ago (not sure who, but I believe it was one of the Germans) whose adverts made great play on the work they'd put in to make the sound of the door shutting sound just right. 
  • Stig said:
    ross1 said:
    T_C_E said:
    Talking to someone about electric cars of which there are quite a few down here.
    They should be banned apparently, because you can't hear them coming. Surprised at this reaction I remarked that beside the environmental issues, shouldn't you be looking before crossing the road.
    I suppose I'll have too with those dangerous things about, they are a menace! 
    I have read that some manufacturers are fitting a noise to their cars so people can here them coming. Weird!
    On the face of it it sounds weird but it's almost certainly a good idea, plus manufacturers have been tinkering with noise for years. How many cars and motorbikes are given a more throaty noise to make them sound more powerful? And when the manufacturers don't do it, people pay for different exhaust kits to do it themselves. There was one manufacturer a few years ago (not sure who, but I believe it was one of the Germans) whose adverts made great play on the work they'd put in to make the sound of the door shutting sound just right. 
    I remember that to be Honda. 

    Shame it didn’t show that when you slammed one door shut, the opposite one would fall off...
  • ross1 said:
    T_C_E said:
    Talking to someone about electric cars of which there are quite a few down here.
    They should be banned apparently, because you can't hear them coming. Surprised at this reaction I remarked that beside the environmental issues, shouldn't you be looking before crossing the road.
    I suppose I'll have too with those dangerous things about, they are a menace! 
    I have read that some manufacturers are fitting a noise to their cars so people can here them coming. Weird!
    The tyre noise is quite loud on cars that otherwise make little to no sound. It's a complete myth that they're silent.
  • no one is saying  they’re silent but I have often been surprised as a Prius has gone passed me as I am walking along. 
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  • edited October 2019
    MrOneLung said:
    no one is saying  they’re silent but I have often been surprised as a Prius has gone passed me as I am walking along. 
    I was crossing the road between 2 parked cars up town once, one being an Addison Lee Prius, and didn't realise it was actually reversing to pull out. I couldn't believe how quiet it was
  • I heard the Prius is no more fuel efficient than a similar diesel?  Is that true?
  • Wouldn't it be great if you could programme your own "noise" into the car. I would have mine set to Kathy Burke as Waynetta Slob in the game show "Call me Wanker". 

    Then everyone would know who was coming... (pun intended).  
  • I heard the Prius is no more fuel efficient than a similar diesel?  Is that true?
    I don’t think that is true.

    We’ve recently moved from a Mercedes CLA220d to a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, so I’m comparing a 2,2l diesel engine with a 2,5l petrol/electric hybrid.

    The average fuel consumption for the CLA was 5,7l/100km over the last 7000km and the RAV4 is currently showing 5,2l/100k. (5,7 = 49,56 mpg and 5,2= 54,32 mpg).

    Using a diesel over short distances is relatively fuel inefficient. Where the diesel is idling in traffic and stop/starting it is using fuel whereas the hybrid is running purely electric or not at all.

    We currently average about 60-70 km/day and only on about 60% of this distance is the petrol engine running. In the towns it is almost all electric unless I really kick the accelerator hard to speed up out of a junction or at the lights at which point the petrol engine kicks in and then goes off again when I take my foot  off the accelerator.

    We’re really happy with it and are looking to getting the consumption even lower.
  • Working late into the night all week, and going in on a Saturday with absolutely nothing extra at the end of it. 
  • I heard the Prius is no more fuel efficient than a similar diesel?  Is that true?
    I don’t think that is true.

    We’ve recently moved from a Mercedes CLA220d to a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, so I’m comparing a 2,2l diesel engine with a 2,5l petrol/electric hybrid.

    The average fuel consumption for the CLA was 5,7l/100km over the last 7000km and the RAV4 is currently showing 5,2l/100k. (5,7 = 49,56 mpg and 5,2= 54,32 mpg).

    Using a diesel over short distances is relatively fuel inefficient. Where the diesel is idling in traffic and stop/starting it is using fuel whereas the hybrid is running purely electric or not at all.

    We currently average about 60-70 km/day and only on about 60% of this distance is the petrol engine running. In the towns it is almost all electric unless I really kick the accelerator hard to speed up out of a junction or at the lights at which point the petrol engine kicks in and then goes off again when I take my foot  off the accelerator.

    We’re really happy with it and are looking to getting the consumption even lower.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04MXepYiBs
  • Why do the NZ rugby boys get to do their choreography before every game and no other team?

    Why cant England do a Morris dance before each game and the other team have to stand around watching?

  • MrWalker said:
    Why do the NZ rugby boys get to do their choreography before every game and no other team?

    Why cant England do a Morris dance before each game and the other team have to stand around watching?

    Yeah, that would put the fear of god into opponents 
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  • Should be national anthem or haka for NZ.

    That or all nations get to do a pre match dance... Japan's would be interesting.
  • Or teams could do what England did today and face it down in a V formation. Its daft and I've realised how silly it is the older I have got but people seem to like it. 




  • Think Samoa and Tonga do it too. Fuji?
  • Carter said:
    Or teams could do what England did today and face it down in a V formation. Its daft and I've realised how silly it is the older I have got but people seem to like it. 




    exactly the right way to face it down
  • when stuff has no price on in the supermarket

    You see something on the end of aisle which is specifically for special offers, you see something that tickles your fancy, you think úllo how much reduction, no f-cking price, ARGH!
  • Think Samoa and Tonga do it too. Fuji?
    Yeah that Lauryn Hill would get it.
  • Think Samoa and Tonga do it too. Fuji?
    They just show a film of it
    Brilliant!
  • when stuff has no price on in the supermarket

    You see something on the end of aisle which is specifically for special offers, you see something that tickles your fancy, you think úllo how much reduction, no f-cking price, ARGH!
    Just nick it
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