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Jonny 5

Wow. Coming up to 15years in Feb!

Jonny 5

Just checking in

Jonny 5

If you ignore the 8kWh of energy it takes to petrol the gallon of fuel and use that to compare to you may be right.... It's not really relevant or fair to take fuel at source as the total emissions. Who cares about carbon dioxide anyway, air pollution NOx and particulates are the real pollutants. Ty...

Jonny 5

Incidentally, a company who I did some work with a few years ago (TNO, who used to do all the crash testing) actually did a paper at some point when they found out that a Prius is actually less environmentally friendly than a Hummer. It's obvious it's more efficient, but the batteries were so speci...

Jonny 5

Jonny 5

I see quite a few Prius's and a few Civic Hybrid's driving around the west midlands every day. Particulary in B'ham city centre though. What i've always noticed though is that the typical driver's dont seem to drive them any differently from petrol/Diesel car's especially in rush hour traffic etc. ...

Jonny 5

That would explain why users report an approximate range of 1.5 miles at 30mph driving on battery only D If the distance covered in the TG test is known that could be factored into the Prius's economy reading. I suspect it wouldn't tip things in its favour though. On track conditions it's probably ...

Jonny 5

stefaclese wrote:Sweet, aren't they also working on a 3 cylinder hybrid engine to give a Jag XJ 60mpg? I seem to recall reading about that a while ago.

Not at the present time no.

Jonny 5

same here. A prius needs to do 1.5million miles just to offset its the cost to the enviroment to build it Vs a proper car. And top gear put one round a track Vs an M3 and the M3 had the better economy. J But they didnt run the Prius with the extra battery charge it had got from that sort of driving...

Jonny 5

radddogg wrote:Jonny's VTEC coupe Rust In Pieces

How's your bionic back Jonny?

Good thanks. Although the cold doesnt help.

Just to be annoying I have a XKR Convertible from work all over the Christmas Holiday

What an engine

Jonny 5

was the discussion about its drive train? no. Were you making logger up that you once read about the X-type? Yes. Pointless when everything is different chassis, floorpan, subframes, body, all engines north-south. It was designed before 2008 and most of it S-Type. Sweet FA to do with Mondeo. Cheers

Jonny 5

munky wrote:the xf was designed before 2008. Its a f*cking mundaneo in drag.

The RWD mondeo?

Jonny 5

Take Mr.Browns comments to the lady from Lancashire as proof of that. But this is the rub, she WAS [/u] making bigoted remarks. It's all very well saying the Eastern Europeans are taking our jobs/houses etc - the fact is, they're taking jobs that the lazy fine china in this country won't do for the...

Jonny 5

They are uber.

Wait until you see the MY12 facelift

I have.

Then again the shorter baby Jag Coupe will have the same engine. with far less weight.

Jonny 5

Depends on the TV though, my monitor is actually really clear and looks great, my Toshiba TV is also very good as far as contrast goes... my Bravia however does fall behind a little. Only really notice when I have them all next to each other, or with the xbox as obviously game colours are more brig...

Jonny 5

LCD does win for the convenience of it all that's for sure. When I went away with work the other week I took my 22" monitor and xbox in my suitcase with all my clothes 8) You mean a flat 22" Tv is convenient? Regardless of its tech and not that 22" plasma is available anyway! Thanks ...

Jonny 5

munky wrote:
A lot of the 'LED' sets advertised now arent proper oled, they just use led backlighting.

Isnt it more like non? The only commercially available OLED is a 11" Sony.

Jonny 5

Punx0r wrote:aye. iirc the suspension on the mk2 400 was rover's doing

The damper rates and springs maybe. Not the floorpan or suspension.

I heard they did swap the upper wishbones from left to right though!

Jonny 5

The internet says it's possible to generate 3.4cc of hydrogen per watt per minute of electricity (on a small scale). Assuming you can pull 1000w from your alternator, you have 3.4 litres of hydrogen per minute.in about 5 minutes." This guy I saw showed making 0.5 litre a minute from 23A on a 1...

Jonny 5

It's just a terrible shame there's no way that will work ;) For the protest, who's it intended to cripple? if you're refering to the hydrogen conv not working?? it does, we had it running on the ti last year for a while, definately noticed a diff in fuel costs, and next to no fumes from the zorst, ...

Jonny 5

Gone quiet here...

Jonny 5

What year you looking at ?

The turbo is a peach, easy gets 35mpg on a run and engine is uber flexible.

Jonny 5

We got our money back from Northern Rock. And Tata/JLR...... What money did we give JLR? None, the money was even there from an EU fund but out government dwouldnt even act as guarantors. JLR have got out of the mess they were in from typical commercial loans that were far less onurous ones than Ma...

Jonny 5

Do Volvos not have brake disks or lower balljoints with arms?

Jonny 5

We got our money back from Northern Rock. And Tata/JLR...... What money did we give JLR? None, the money was even there from an EU fund but out government dwouldnt even act as guarantors. JLR have got out of the mess they were in from typical commercial loans that were far less onurous ones than Ma...

Jonny 5

My company made $915M profit last year. 1.5 weeks pay as a bonus.... wowsers. That said its banking and you need to best talents to generate the funding to eventually pay back the tax payer. Its counter productive to limit bonus's such that 'our' banks lose the real talent and become uncompetative a...

Jonny 5

shen wrote:
618ireland wrote:
Jonny 5 wrote:£10k S2000, £2k Rover turbo and you wanna buy a good M3 for £18k?

One of those you need £8k the other £16k.

I see what you mean
how much did you pay for the S2000 and how much did you pay for the R200?.

Thing is no stock Rover 200 would annoy an S2000 so your point is m00t.

Jonny 5

Fail

Jonny 5

£10k S2000, £2k Rover turbo and you wanna buy a good M3 for £18k?

One of those you need £8k the other £16k.

I didnt know stock 220's were faster than S2000's...?

Jonny 5

What happens when you go to sell the cars? Are both suddenly worth nothing? No didnt think so, ones an asset you can sell the other frankly is a liability that you will struggle to get decent money for. Never knew S2000s were depreciation free, feck I should buy one if that's the case.................

Jonny 5

Only thing about all this gearing lark is that it's been said that a car should be geared to the engine...I don't disagree with this but manufacturers don't always do this and not in a way which is purely for performance. I remember the fiesta turbo did about 55 in second which was oddly about the ...

Jonny 5

This is all intresting facts but at the end of the day the s2000 got beat. 230hp 1250kg expensive sports car got beat by a old designed rover 200 with a old sherper van engine :lol: Rover wins honda doesnt :lol: What happens when you go to sell the cars? Are both suddenly worth nothing? No didnt th...

Jonny 5

HANS device and harness, you're no where near an explosive airbag anyway.

Airbags sell cars anyway, thats the main reason they are fitted in such numbers now.

Imagine a normal racing incident that triggered an airbag to go off.... whoops.

Airbag = extra weight anyway.

Jonny 5

stefaclese wrote:And how much do they charge for a new distributor unit for a D16?

$175

Jonny 5

A nuclear fission power car would be awesome. Afterall, it's worked for decades for everything from portable radios to aircraft carriers and submarines. Crash safety might be an issue though. No chance, the primary cooling system is radioactive fluid full of Lithium 7. The condensor for the seconda...

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