28-10-2019, 12:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 28-10-2019, 12:56 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
"Ten years ago we were browbeaten into driving diesel cars.."
Not me - happily I found them by accident. Decades ago I made the mistake of buying, very second-hand, a pathetic Mk.1 Diesel Golf. Fed up with the lack of go (though it handles superbly) I fitted a turbocharger kit, one of the first in the nascent "bolt-on-power" scene. Wow! What torque! What Go! - it was like driving a miniature V8. And so, ever since then, for me, it's been a car that can double at weekends earning pocket money pulling out tree stumps i.e. a turbo diesel. Astounding economy, too, as we all know, i.e. 800 miles on a single tank across Europe in a 2-litre estate. So, the famous quip of that great designer George Lanchester "All cars do 25 m.p.g." no longer applies (although my 7 does exactly that in town).
Not me - happily I found them by accident. Decades ago I made the mistake of buying, very second-hand, a pathetic Mk.1 Diesel Golf. Fed up with the lack of go (though it handles superbly) I fitted a turbocharger kit, one of the first in the nascent "bolt-on-power" scene. Wow! What torque! What Go! - it was like driving a miniature V8. And so, ever since then, for me, it's been a car that can double at weekends earning pocket money pulling out tree stumps i.e. a turbo diesel. Astounding economy, too, as we all know, i.e. 800 miles on a single tank across Europe in a 2-litre estate. So, the famous quip of that great designer George Lanchester "All cars do 25 m.p.g." no longer applies (although my 7 does exactly that in town).