Autocar this week features a rarity for this magazine - a good article.
They looked for a car <500 quid that would top 150mph.
This week they found a 25 quid XJS and got 149 out of it.
Fantastic article. It reminded me of the epic motorcycle journeys & tests of the 30's and 50's where bikes we're tested at high speed over long distance and it wasn't a foregone conclusion that is was both safe and achievable.
The only way they could have improved the article would have been if the 149 had been clocked on a public single carriageway 'A' Road. ;-) As road tests of yesteryear were.
Still, you can't have everything! ;-)
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I can beat that. Ryanair London to Bologna. Only problem with the deal is you don't get to drive.
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<<< I can beat that. Ryanair London to Bologna. Only problem with the deal is you don't get to drive. >>>
You can if you are a Mental Islamicist.
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Carlton GSi 3000 has similar mph/£ figures. People almost give them away now.
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It was interesting also that the article mentioned that Ford are storing old shape brand new Fiestas at Bruntingthorpe. Should be some bargains offered to shift the old stock??
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Would you want to buy a car that was parked for months at the side of a racetrack? Stone chips from cars going past at 150mph would worry me.
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Bruntingthorpe is not really a race track as such but they do test cars there. If your into old aircraft its a real treasure trove of taxiing condition aircraft from the cold war era. Also they're restoring the last flyable Vulcan there. For more info look at this site:
www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/brunty/
Charles
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Very interesting, Charles. By coincidence, I stumbled across the following comparison between the Lightning and the American F-15 by a pilot who had flown both:
www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/memorie...l
Wonderful thing, the Web!
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