brian laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:05 pm
Wondered if brian has announced his new car yet? Check out the p&j tomorrow......
German?
Yes or no answers until someone guesses correctly for a bit of fun.
Steve.
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Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:26 pm
Give us a clue please.
German?
Yes or no answers until someone guesses correctly for a bit of fun.
Steve.
German?
Yes or no answers until someone guesses correctly for a bit of fun.
Steve.
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:03 pm
Yes german
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:09 pm
V8 ?
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:34 pm
V8 no where near lol
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:45 pm
i3
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:48 pm
Correct gareth
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:07 pm
neilj37 wrote:Correct gareth
Whey!
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:18 pm
Gt3?
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:45 pm
i3 is cool btw, as is Renault Zoe 
Re: brain laings new car
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:20 pm
rossybee wrote:i3 is cool btw, as is Renault Zoe
..and even cooler is the i8 
And a wee aside re the mis-spelling of Brian's name on this thread. Reminds me of my b-in-law of the same name who actually has 'Brain' printed by mistake on his birth certificate.
Re: brian laings new car
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:04 pm
I’m surprised it took Neill so long. He’s been sending me a constant stream of photos of milk floats and Sinclair C5s all week.
I was looking for a replacement for the Mini and grudge paying for fuel to sit in traffic morning and night. I had considered converting an Elise to electric power but haven’t the spare time to take on a project at this point in time.
The i3 is designed from the ground up as an electric car with the aluminium chassis and carbon fibre body keeping the weight down. Similar design philosophy to Lotus with performance through lightweight and Lots of Technology Unusual Styling. The handling and roadholding on skinny tyres aren't quite in the same league ‘though.
To cut a long story short, the i3 seemed to fit the bill and has enough range for my daily commute if driven sensibly.
Eventually collected the i3 on Friday which is the first one north of the Forth, sounds like a well known Lotus salesman. Feels really quick, 0-60 in around 7s, and silent! Haven’t fathomed out all the gizmos yet but very intuitive to drive on only the accelerator pedal. Press down to go, hold steady to cruise and lift off to brake, which stops the car fairly quickly due to the regeneration mode.
The i8 should be a great car but at near £100k it’s in a different league and I’d rather have an Exige V6.
Saturday’s P&J’s has the details …
I was looking for a replacement for the Mini and grudge paying for fuel to sit in traffic morning and night. I had considered converting an Elise to electric power but haven’t the spare time to take on a project at this point in time.
The i3 is designed from the ground up as an electric car with the aluminium chassis and carbon fibre body keeping the weight down. Similar design philosophy to Lotus with performance through lightweight and Lots of Technology Unusual Styling. The handling and roadholding on skinny tyres aren't quite in the same league ‘though.
To cut a long story short, the i3 seemed to fit the bill and has enough range for my daily commute if driven sensibly.
Eventually collected the i3 on Friday which is the first one north of the Forth, sounds like a well known Lotus salesman. Feels really quick, 0-60 in around 7s, and silent! Haven’t fathomed out all the gizmos yet but very intuitive to drive on only the accelerator pedal. Press down to go, hold steady to cruise and lift off to brake, which stops the car fairly quickly due to the regeneration mode.
The i8 should be a great car but at near £100k it’s in a different league and I’d rather have an Exige V6.
Saturday’s P&J’s has the details …
Re: brian laings new car
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:56 pm
How do you do an emergency stop? Handbrake?brian wrote:Press down to go, hold steady to cruise and lift off to brake, which stops the car fairly quickly due to the regeneration mode.
Re: brian laings new car
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:09 pm
You have been doing too many autotests!GBOBM wrote:How do you do an emergency stop? Handbrake?brian wrote:Press down to go, hold steady to cruise and lift off to brake, which stops the car fairly quickly due to the regeneration mode.
Re: brian laings new car
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:46 pm
Looks like I need to stop parking in the Union Square shopping center 'electric' spaces.