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• 3 years with a Jazz CVT 29 Aug 2020 (Forum)
  with the expectations after reading the rubbish spouted by motoring magazines. Clearly a 102bhp automatic supermini is not going to be that fast under any circumstances, but in the context of what it is, i found the package hugely impressive. We came to the Jazz from a turbo diesel Hyundai i30 with a t
• Oil labelling explained 6 Nov 2010 (Forum)
  scepticism So, what does the above information mean and why is it important? THE BASICS All oils are intended for an application and in general are not interchangeable. You would not for example put an Automatic Transmission Oil or a Gear Oil in your engine! It is important to know what the oils intended
• If you don't want to get a ticket "just" 20 Nov 2001 (Forum)
  of a 30 limit, because 'the law says that lighting means a 30 limit'. While a 30 limit indicates hazards that should merit street lighting, it is no longer the case that street lighting automatically indicates a 30 limit, and the link should be severed. When 30 limits were introduced urban areas were
• Car accident insurance advice 29 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  . It is automatically assumed by many that in rear end shunts the shunter is guilty of careless driving . Not so if the one in front takes some unindicated and unpredicable action that leads to an accident then that is not careless driving by the back marker
• Forced out of car due to insurance blunder Vol 2. 15 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  when I told him that we (my wife and myself) were 99% sure that it had renewed itself automatically on direct debit why didn't he just go back to the database read-out and get the name of my previous insurer and phone them up? Easy, eh? Answer: because the database read-out doesn't include that detail
• Cyclist curfew 11 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  James...how about an alternative approach; any motor vehicle driving within a town/city centre is automatically slowed to a maximum 20mph. No idea how to do it, some kind of ECU-jamming perhaps.. but imagine the improvement in our environments. Safety, noise, emissions all improved
• 2004 Pontiac GTO - Motor Trend review 7 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  automatic is standard), the Vette V-8 kicks the GTO with inspiring swiftness. Even wearing its standard M+S tires, our test car scorched from [B]0 to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds and tripped the quarter-mile lights in 13.62 seconds at 104.78 mph--numbers that would leave a 1960s-vintage GTO seeing yellow[/B
• Warning for Rattle: how to do it, how not to do it 14 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  wanted $300, which sounded a lot. I drove it around. It was neither large nor "compact" but what was then known as "mid-size": about the same size as a contemporary Rolls-Royce. It had slippery bench seats, an oval steering wheel and automatic transmission controlled by large, stiff buttons protruding
• 16 important OIL questions answered! 8 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  mineral type synthetic. It is a sad fact that you get what you pay for, but even so, stick to the reputable UK/European brands, and remember that shipping an oil half way around the world doesn?t automatically make it better than one made in your home town. As for TV advertising?well, does anybody