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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 15:35:48 »A 2.3 Granada with a heady 114bhp used to be enough to get the job done on the quicker side of safely. Now it requires about 300bhp and commitment..
M40 - M25 has too many cameras for such shenanigans .
And this is the problem wherever you drive these days. When we travelled back from Wales recently, I commented to my Mrs that, apart from brisk overtakes, theres not much point in having a fast car these days. We were in her car, which is well capable of north of 150mph, but the traffic flow, average speed monitoring cameras and the sneaky camera vans etc made it a painfully long journey. The days of playing beat the sat nav ETA by half are a thing of the distant past now.