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How hard do you drive your car?
« on: 19 January 2010, 10:50:08 »
Being new to all this Omega stuff i was wondering. How hard do you drive your car? I find it really easy to just plod about in the omega but also find it very easy to give it a lot of stick! There seems to be no inbetween ;D
Do they like being driven hard? or is it best to plod around?


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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2010, 10:58:15 »
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Being new to all this Omega stuff i was wondering. How hard do you drive your car? I find it really easy to just plod about in the omega but also find it very easy to give it a lot of stick! There seems to be no inbetween ;D
Do they like being driven hard? or is it best to plod around?


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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #2 on: 19 January 2010, 11:39:32 »
I drive around nice & steady, keeping up with the flow. Not excelerating hard, just nice.
I do wind her up some times, just to give the cobwebs a blow out.

It doesn't do them good to thrash them, in the same token it doesn't do them good to drive like grandad.
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #3 on: 19 January 2010, 11:42:06 »
I would say I do 99% of plodding. That said it does put a big smile on my face when I find that quiet road  :y
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #4 on: 19 January 2010, 11:51:13 »
My Elite get driven quite slowly considering what it is capable of.  Have tried it in sports with TC to see how it performs.

When it is used I generally stick to the limits, dont use kickdown and have actually been sworn and flashed (with headlights) by the older generation for driving too slow, and even pulled by plod for driving at 30 in a 30 limit (Cheeky sod thought I was up to something (I cant work them out at times)  :-/

If I wanted to drive a car har these days I would buy a Manual MV6 or something spoty just to give it the beans when I was in the mood.
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #5 on: 19 January 2010, 12:10:35 »
The omega gets driven pretty calmly tbh... ust cruise it about, i think i barely go over 2500rpm unless im nipping through lights or gettin out the way of something :lol: I used to drive it harder, though since lowering it and still having bushes to replace etc i take it easy til i learn the car again... i will occassionally give someone a showing up comming off the lights etc, but generally it just gets cruised

Most of my other cars get driven the way they should though!... leon cupra R gets some stick as its always wants it, also have a wee polo runaround which handles great and so i use it that way... although, my '72 beetle has to choice but to cruise along, it doesnt go fast haha
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #6 on: 19 January 2010, 13:18:41 »
I tend to drive around like the Duke boys  :P

Probably because I live in the "crapy jap hatchback with noisey exhaust" capital of the world  ::)
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #7 on: 19 January 2010, 15:49:28 »
i drove mines like its been stolen when i first got it but you soon get fed up  passing  everything but a petrol station . So now i just leave my mad moments until you get some chav in there saxos trieing there luck :y
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #8 on: 19 January 2010, 16:15:51 »
Gets driven gently or hard, depending on my mood, but never thrashed until warm. Certainly don't spare the horses though ::) ::)
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #9 on: 19 January 2010, 16:30:42 »
When I was younger and petrol was a lot cheaper (it was about 50p a GALLON when I first hit the roads) I used to see it as some sort of duty to thrash any car (or bike) to within an inch of its life.Im older/wiser/calmer now and wouldnt bother a lot of the time even if I could afford an endless supply of petrol. Probably why I just bought a 1.8 Merc. ::)
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #10 on: 19 January 2010, 16:37:44 »
I find myself drive mine in a chillout mode as it's so comfy but when a upstart trys to come to close to me it's time to click Sport mode and kick it .. then it's byeee
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #11 on: 19 January 2010, 18:59:27 »
errr, uhm, I'd like to be able to say mine is driven like Miss Daisy....
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #12 on: 19 January 2010, 19:47:13 »
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errr, uhm, I'd like to be able to say mine is driven like Miss Daisy....

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

What... When someone else is driving ::) ::) ::)
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #13 on: 19 January 2010, 20:10:33 »
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errr, uhm, I'd like to be able to say mine is driven like Miss Daisy....

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

What... When someone else is driving ::) ::) ::)
I was in a hurry home from work tonight. TC was a busy little bee all the way home ::)
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Re: How hard do you drive your car?
« Reply #14 on: 19 January 2010, 20:13:12 »
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errr, uhm, I'd like to be able to say mine is driven like Miss Daisy....

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

What... When someone else is driving ::) ::) ::)
I was in a hurry home from work tonight. TC was a busy little bee all the way home ::)

I take it Mrs TB is out tonight... As Mario Kart is on the cards too

Must confess... I can get the TC working hard in the dry at certain points on my normal route home so with the damp roads we've got at the moment it does seem to be doing a fair bit of work :-[ ::) ;D
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