Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Macca]

Talking of reckless driving, Bodie's Ford Capri 3.0S is up for auction:

https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/a...5-b051011f8c3d

[walpurgis]

The V6 Capris are not on my 'want' list. Heavy engine up front and light back end add up to understeer or oversteer in all the wrong places. Even more iffy in the wet!

[struth]

young guy passed his test then about 30 mins later is nicked doing 120... whats wrong with these idiots

[Macca]

The V6 Capris are not on my 'want' list. Heavy engine up front and light back end add up to understeer or oversteer in all the wrong places. Even more iffy in the wet!

massive torque steer too. But this was Bodie's one. Expected to fetch £200K.

[AJSki2fly]

Tailgaters. Do you love or hate them

The type that try to bully you to go faster as they haven't got the balls to overtake. Yesterday an Ambulance pulled out in front of the car in front of me from the local small hospital on the way to the larger county hospital. The first roundabout about 8 miles away. Clearly working on someone as they were between 20 - 30mph in a 50. The guy in front and I were safely and patiently accepting the situation.

Mrs middle aged Fiat 500 was mostly in my rear view mirror or on the imaginary piece of elastic where they drop back and then can't help themselves and loom up again. Then tried the "pop the front R wheel over the white line" game.....no chance....2 way winding country road and knew that they were not intending to attempt to overtake.

What goes on in these peoples heads? I could not have gone any faster in any event. If the ambulance had not been there then she would have been up my arse in the slower (30mph) areas as having driven professionally in the main I adhere to the speed limits and yes that means doing 50 in a 50 or 60 in a 60 etc etc. Makes my piss boil.

Rob, get a Tesla, people hate following them especially if you put them onto cruise control (not auto-pilot). You just steer and the Tesla goes along at the speed of the car in front, and maintains a set safe braking distance, or at the road speed limit. As it adjusts for road inclines/declines and car in front and speed limit it uses regen braking as much as possible, the brake lights are regularly on and off, it airs on the side of caution, it will brake fully if the car slows in front, you never need to actually use the brake pedal unless you want to. So the following driver is not sure what to do, and so far I have not had one tail gator, not for very long anyway, maybe 200m max.

[Puffin]

200k with all the handling of a land yacht.....a fool and his money.....

I suppose if you are loaded then buying a car for £200k is expected of you or risk ridicule from your "friends" and colleagues. I have watched a few of The Supercar Showroom programmes where they sell supercars and the bait to reel them in is that they can drive any car as fast as they can in a straight line on a runway as the showroom is on the same site a small airport/landing strip

Ok, so it could give you an idea of what the car is like but are you going to do that on a motorway or A road.

Not really on point but there's a guy around here who drives a tweaked ford of some description and specialises in 2am blasts and constantly decelerating. They are called 'burble remaps' which will creates a 21 gun salute on the overrun in all driving conditions. However a lot of supercars can sound like that if they try.

[struth]

Rob, get a Tesla, people hate following them especially if you put them onto cruise control (not auto-pilot). You just steer and the Tesla goes along at the speed of the car in front, and maintains a set safe braking distance, or at the road speed limit. As it adjusts for road inclines/declines and car in front and speed limit it uses regen braking as much as possible, the brake lights are regularly on and off, it airs on the side of caution, it will brake fully if the car slows in front, you never need to actually use the brake pedal unless you want to. So the following driver is not sure what to do, and so far I have not had one tail gator, not for very long anyway, maybe 200m max.

my hyundai does this too. i use it all the time.

[Puffin]

Rob, get a Tesla, people hate following them especially if you put them onto cruise control (not auto-pilot). You just steer and the Tesla goes along at the speed of the car in front, and maintains a set safe braking distance, or at the road speed limit. As it adjusts for road inclines/declines and car in front and speed limit it uses regen braking as much as possible, the brake lights are regularly on and off, it airs on the side of caution, it will brake fully if the car slows in front, you never need to actually use the brake pedal unless you want to. So the following driver is not sure what to do, and so far I have not had one tail gator, not for very long anyway, maybe 200m max.

I am afraid a Tesla is way out of my price range...but constantly hitting the brake pedal....now there's an idea

[Pigmy Pony]

I'm going to be a smartarse here and suggest that torque steer only afflicts cars where the steering axle and the powered axle are the same. So front wheel drive only. The Capri was rear wheel drive. Of course I might be wrong, bikes were more my thing.

I used to have a Golf GTi that suffered with this when accelerating hard. Added to the fun

Capri prices have gone mental. And that one of Bodie's isn't even the 2.8 injection. Looks like a 2 litre S to me, same as my mates, and is the first car I ever drove. My mate must have been on drugs to let me do that.

Edit: just noticed the Bodiemobile is a 3 litre S. A bit pokier and desirable than the 2.

[AJSki2fly]

200k with all the handling of a land yacht.....a fool and his money.....

I suppose if you are loaded then buying a car for £200k is expected of you or risk ridicule from your "friends" and colleagues..

Where do you get 200k from a Tesla M3 is around £50k now and Model Y about 55k. By the way they handle pretty good for a family saloon, and are very safe, check out the world wide safety ratings for a Model 3.

I have owned a variety of well handling and not so well handling sports cars but no more sadly. A rebuilt and heavily modded Mini Cooper(1150cc rally tuned), Porsches(911sc 911c4, 924, 944), TVR(S3 and Griffith(also sprint raced)), Morgans(fast and fun but like steering a pram at high speed, interesting at times) Mazda MX5, Toyota MR2(I hill climbed and sprint raced it), a couple of famous red cars, a Testarossa is difficult to stop from high speed(interesting around Donnington), a 365 Spyder was the best handling, fastest and most fun. Not quite true the modified Toyota mk1 mr2 was lowered, heavily lightened, updated brakes, and tuned, it was like a go kart, and out cornered and out braked all the aforementioned.