If you Bought a New Car? What Would You Choose?

[Doctor Gollum]

Still strikes me as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

[STEMO]

A plug in hybrid is a total waste of piss and nowt more than a subversive way to get everyone to fit charging ports at home.

A conventional hybrid is practically a much better solution if only because it doesn't require an external power source in order to work.

A plug in hybrid is a conventional hybrid with the ability to charge from the mains and generally a larger battery, so actually far more useful

It would be even more useful if it had the ability to charge from either mains or engine.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I still have a Range Rover L322 itch, and I'd better scratch that itch soon before they get too old and knackered! 

And you, too

  Yes.

That's one of my justifications. Medicinal purposes.  A RR will be easier to get in and out of with my knackered hips, and when I eventually get round to getting them done it will be easier on them while they're still bedding in. 

Getting in and out of a car is quite difficult with knackered hips.   

This forum is like a chat in God's waiting room. Full of old people ready to drop off the perch.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I still have a Range Rover L322 itch, and I'd better scratch that itch soon before they get too old and knackered! 

And you, too

  Yes.

That's one of my justifications. Medicinal purposes.  A RR will be easier to get in and out of with my knackered hips, and when I eventually get round to getting them done it will be easier on them while they're still bedding in. 

Getting in and out of a car is quite difficult with knackered hips.   

This forum is like a chat in God's waiting room. Full of old people ready to drop off the perch.

We're so glad to have you leading the charge to the Pearly Gates M'Lud!                                                                                   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I still have a Range Rover L322 itch, and I'd better scratch that itch soon before they get too old and knackered! 

And you, too

  Yes.

That's one of my justifications. Medicinal purposes.  A RR will be easier to get in and out of with my knackered hips, and when I eventually get round to getting them done it will be easier on them while they're still bedding in. 

Getting in and out of a car is quite difficult with knackered hips.   

This forum is like a chat in God's waiting room. Full of old people ready to drop off the perch.

We're so glad to have you leading the charge to the Pearly Gates M'Lud!                                                                                  

You go first Tig, and in 50 or 60 years I'll come along.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I still have a Range Rover L322 itch, and I'd better scratch that itch soon before they get too old and knackered! 

And you, too

  Yes.

That's one of my justifications. Medicinal purposes.  A RR will be easier to get in and out of with my knackered hips, and when I eventually get round to getting them done it will be easier on them while they're still bedding in. 

Getting in and out of a car is quite difficult with knackered hips.   

This forum is like a chat in God's waiting room. Full of old people ready to drop off the perch.

We're so glad to have you leading the charge to the Pearly Gates M'Lud!                                                                                  

You go first Tig, and in 50 or 60 years I'll come along.

Oh your appointment with the Grim Reaper will be long before mine so you'll be dust when my time comes. 

Maybe the wind will blow your dust through the Pearly Gates after me.         

Unless the lift takes you downwards of course!                                                                 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I still have a Range Rover L322 itch, and I'd better scratch that itch soon before they get too old and knackered! 

And you, too

  Yes.

That's one of my justifications. Medicinal purposes.  A RR will be easier to get in and out of with my knackered hips, and when I eventually get round to getting them done it will be easier on them while they're still bedding in. 

Getting in and out of a car is quite difficult with knackered hips.   

This forum is like a chat in God's waiting room. Full of old people ready to drop off the perch.

We're so glad to have you leading the charge to the Pearly Gates M'Lud!                                                                                  

You go first Tig, and in 50 or 60 years I'll come along.

Oh your appointment with the Grim Reaper will be long before mine so you'll be dust when my time comes. 

Maybe the wind will blow your dust through the Pearly Gates after me.         

Unless the lift takes you downwards of course!                                                               

I do hope so. The only thing to do in heaven is to read the bible and look pious.

Below stairs the devil throws a great party, with plenty of raunchy devil girls, booze, and fine food.

[Rangie]

None of us can change our position in the queue, and then you wake up dead..😂 I wonder if you know when you are dead ?

[dave the builder]

None of us can change our position in the queue, and then you wake up dead..😂 I wonder if you know when you are dead ?

I imagine other people will know ,doesn't take the flies long 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I imagine, because obviously I can't know for certain, that being dead is much like before we are born, with no sense of anything whatsoever.

[Mr Skrunts]

It's rather scary.

Happened to me a few times in 2009 when I was rushed into hospital.

There one second and gone the next, was just like tuning the light off.

Dont know how I was revived but it was a weird and vague experiance coming round with all the people arround in a wierd sort of panick, I was just very confused and then realeaved after realing I was alive.

Still here to complain and cause havock

[STEMO]

It's rather scary.

Happened to me a few times in 2009 when I was rushed into hospital.

There one second and gone the next, was just like tuning the light off.

Dont know how I was revived but it was a weird and vague experiance coming round with all the people arround in a wierd sort of panick, I was just very confused and then realeaved after realing I was alive.

Still here to complain and cause havock

You died in 2009? That explains a lot 

[Mr Skrunts]

It's rather scary.

Happened to me a few times in 2009 when I was rushed into hospital.

There one second and gone the next, was just like tuning the light off.

Dont know how I was revived but it was a weird and vague experiance coming round with all the people arround in a wierd sort of panick, I was just very confused and then realeaved after realing I was alive.

Still here to complain and cause havock

You died in 2009? That explains a lot 

Go back to 1971 after an accident and in a coma for 2 weeks imagine wakeing up to find surgeons had opened up my head trying to find my brain and leaving me with a 12"scar across the side of my head from front to back.  That left a lot more to think about. 

[Marks DTM Calib]

A plug in hybrid is a total waste of piss and nowt more than a subversive way to get everyone to fit charging ports at home.

A conventional hybrid is practically a much better solution if only because it doesn't require an external power source in order to work.

A plug in hybrid is a conventional hybrid with the ability to charge from the mains and generally a larger battery, so actually far more useful

It would be even more useful if it had the ability to charge from either mains or engine.

It charges under braking, charging from the engine is less economical than using the engine to drive the wheels

And its surprising just how much charge you get from braking alone, as an example, on my commute I can see 9kWh of regenerated energy gained and that's a lot of motorway driving where its constant speed.

[STEMO]

Had a read about the new qashqai e-Power this morning, seems a bit of a con. Engine constantly charging a battery which powers a motor which drives the front wheels. The manufacturer blurb says 55mpg and 1000km from a 55 litre tank of petrol. The reviewer in this report got only 35mpg, admittedly with snow and ice on the roads. But my 1.6 diesel will get 1000km from a 55 litre tank so, at well over £30,000, you'd have to very concerned about what does/doesn't come out of the tail pipe :

https://www.wintonsworld.com/nissan-qashqai-e-power-190-tekna-hybrid-review/