What is the worst car mag currently on sale? - Page 2

**herb** · 11-07-2008, 11:18 PM

ok ive dug the mag out and i have misread it sorry

but its still a nice car so take a look yourselves and hopefully you can see how i misread it

***HDi fun*** · 12-07-2008, 08:24 AM

'What Diesel Car' is a pointless publication. Years ago it would perhaps have been more aptly titled 'Slow Car' and put alongside 'Fast Car' on the sheves.

**Prince** · 12-07-2008, 09:04 AM

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Has it reverted to how it was a few years back? When it started, it seemed that it was written by 14 year olds for 14 year olds. However a year or so back it became more of a car mag and less of a juvenile slut mag. Same with Fast Car.

It was better without the girls to be honest. Ok, yes they're hot and all, but I didn't buy it for it that...I want to read about cars! I always like reading questinos sent in by readers, but they scrapped that in favour of posting letters sent in that have nothing to do with cars! A car magazine should be all about cars, but Max Powers seems to be going more towards being like Nuts or Zoo. I started reading it to gain knowledge on something I have a great interest in, now the only feature worth reading in the past few months was one to do with styling your engine bay. Another point is that I don't want to see a smoothed over MK2 Golf with air bag suspension every time I read it. They are nice cars and all, but there are more cars out there than Golfs and BMWs!

**old-git** · 12-07-2008, 09:38 PM

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0-60 in three seconds is hard enough to achieve with big bikes.....But a vehicle that needs nitrous and 300psi of boost pressure to achieve its performance is slightly pointless for road use. You could get similar figures shoving it off the edge of a cliff

Right......
Acceleration off cliff would be 32ft/sec/sec. So, after 3 seconds the car will is travelling at 96feet/sec = 345,600 feet in an hour = 65.50mph. Good guess!!!

As a matter of interest, Beachy Head is around 535feet high. So it will take approx 5.5 secs to reach the beach with a terminal of 119mph

**old-git** · 12-07-2008, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by herb

ok ive dug the mag out and i have misread it sorry

but its still a nice car so take a look yourselves and hopefully you can see how i misread it

How could you possibly mis-read it? Not the sort of thing I would ever do

14.78sec quarter and 160bhp equates to approx a 6 sec 0-60mph time. Quite quick back in 1994.

***HDi fun*** · 12-07-2008, 10:17 PM

Acceleration off cliff would be 32ft/sec/sec. So, after 3 seconds the car will is travelling at 96feet/sec = 345,600 feet in an hour = 65.50mph. Good guess!!!

It was a qualified and quantified guess to be honest. Long time ago (not quoting George Harrison btw) when my arithmetic was up to speed along with physics and classical mechanics. Not fab, mind!

**steve09** · 12-07-2008, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by old-git

Right......
Acceleration off cliff would be 32ft/sec/sec. So, after 3 seconds the car will is travelling at 96feet/sec = 345,600 feet in an hour = 65.50mph. Good guess!!!

As a matter of interest, Beachy Head is around 535feet high. So it will take approx 5.5 secs to reach the beach with a terminal of 119mph

lol... sure you figured that out.

**pgarner** · 12-07-2008, 10:45 PM

bunch of smart asses

***HDi fun*** · 13-07-2008, 10:45 AM

Isn't it interesting that OG and I are still working in old money? None of this metric stuff!

**old-git** · 13-07-2008, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by steve09

lol... sure you figured that out.

Yup. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have something better to do

**old-git** · 13-07-2008, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by HDi fun

Isn't it interesting that OG and I are still working in old money? None of this metric stuff!

Well, we still use MPH and miles in this country - just - and I don't recall seeing anyone on here talking about KPH, so I guess we ar not alone. Even my 20 year old son prefers to work in MPH, miles, BHP and ft/lbs rather than KPH, kilometres, kW and Nm. And as for fuel economy, does anyone use 'so many litres per 100km'? I bet most of us are still using MPG, even those still in short trousers

***HDi fun*** · 13-07-2008, 08:54 PM

Well, we still use MPH and miles in this country - just - and I don't recall seeing anyone on here talking about KPH, so I guess we ar not alone. Even my 20 year old son prefers to work in MPH, miles, BHP and ft/lbs rather than KPH, kilometres, kW and Nm. And as for fuel economy, does anyone use 'so many litres per 100km'? I bet most of us are still using MPG, even those still in short trousers

We do indeed. The litres/100k thing is really confusing. I've tried switching the car to this mode and frankly, it's dangerous.

**pgarner** · 13-07-2008, 11:13 PM

nope i cant work in ltrs per 100 km (62 mile) it give a stupid answer something around 8lts per 100km i still perfer to work in MPG as we still use miles over here. but the question is for how long ? they EU wants us to gie up pounds and ounces, feet and inchers even our good old pint is under threat. how long before all this happens and we have to switch to full metric?

i still use a mix of the 2 which isnt the best way of doing things . ie i can work in mm and inches when needed

***waynne*** · 14-07-2008, 08:00 AM

You know where you are in "old money". I still buy fences and shed in feet!

I keep all my old mags. When the mags are 5 years old they are talking about cars I can start to afford so they become relevent to me.

My wife doesn't understand why I keep all these old mags even when I show here the pages of stats which are missing in the new models.

How many Car mags do you have in your collections? (I'm at 125 at the moment!)

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