Your First Car And A Review Of It ?

[Sidewinder]

2.3 & 2.8 were V6 variants from the Cologne Engine Plant. IIRC.

Not all variants made it to UK shores legitimately!

Both engines were offered in the Capri, along with the 1.3, & 1.6, crossflow, 1.6 & 2.0 OHC, & the 3.0l V6 kent, Dagenham I believe, an extension of the V4 engine that was common in Transit vans so, I suspect that this was the V4/V6, 500 cc per cylinder V engine from DEP.

BEP was CVH & onward, including Zeta, Zetec, and the Jaguar AJV8, and a few others.

Worked on many of the lines, I just can't remember the details...

 

[woldig]

Passed my test for a motor bike ona BSA 250 side valve witha hand change. The gear lever was on the side of the petrol tank. It was my brothers bike. That was in 1951. Can remember the registration number-END910 Had a BSA Star Twin when I was in the RAF..

Passed my test to drive a car in 1956 in Cardiff.

All the cars I drove until I retired were company cars. The first one was an Austin Mini in 1961. Turned it over at the end of the M45 on the way to our office in Birmingham.

Had an Austin 1100, Ford Anglia, Vauxhall Cavalier  Cireon  Xantia Deisel.. This car had no power. HGVs would pass me going up the hill on the M62. Ford Mondeo.

When I retired I bought a Mazda 626 and changed it for another one after a few years.

Did a part exchange a three years ago and now have a Mercedes B150. Hope this will last me

 

[apprentice87]

Hand change motorbikes!! Now that would be fun!!

john..

 

[OnOff]

Hand change motorbikes!! Now that would be fun!!

john..

Lad I knew back in the early 90's lost his left leg in a bike accident. Was soon back on a bike with hand change gears.

 

[steptoe]

Hand change motorbikes!! Now that would be fun!!

john..

Suicide shift!!!!! 

I tried to ride one a few years back, takes a lot of concentration and a brain re-program. :shakehead

Nearly killed meself,,,,, 

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Had an Austin 1100, Ford Anglia, Vauxhall Cavalier  Cireon  Xantia Deisel.. This car had no power. HGVs would pass me going up the hill on the M62. Ford Mondeo.

I was happy with my last van, a Nissan Cargo 2.3 diesel but had to get rid of it due to the LEZ. i now realise how shite it was, It was difficult to maintain 70 on a motorway, when it was just started up there was no power to reverse up hills, had to wait to warm up or give it loads of throttle. Mpg was really really poor. I bought it new and it only had 65k on the clock when scrapped.

 

[Evans Electric]

I was happy with my last van, a Nissan Cargo 2.3 diesel but had to get rid of it due to the LEZ. i now realise how shite it was, It was difficult to maintain 70 on a motorway, when it was just started up there was no power to reverse up hills, had to wait to warm up or give it loads of throttle. Mpg was really really poor. I bought it new and it only had 65k on the clock when scrapped.

Dare I ask what the hell... "the  LEZ"  is  Slipslap. ?

 

[Andy™]

basically, Borris demanding a few hundred £ per day for certain vehicles who dare to stray on the wrong side of the M25... oh, and you still have to pay congestion charge on top of that if you get even further into hell

 

[Blue Duck]

Low emission zone think it's £200 +CC hell indeed.

@ slipslap was it lacking a turbo? Step mum had an xtrail with similar issues. It was poopty IMO.

 

[Andy™]

it is hell indeed. especially if you cross midnight, then its 200 for each day, even if you arrive at 2345 and leave at 0015...

 

[Evans Electric]

Its worse than the tunnels

 

[Sharpend]

Can someone please explain what they do with this money? How do they think that by making people pay money it will lower the carbon emissions????

Ah maybe they're saving for a huge vacuum to put over the road?

 

[Andy™]

maybe they should hoover up all the politicians and throw them away

 

[Blue Duck]

Can someone please explain what they do with this money? How do they think that by making people pay money it will lower the carbon emissions????

Ah maybe they're saving for a huge vacuum to put over the road?

Bit like road tax then?

@Andy a giant blender would be better