They aren't as bad as you might expect. The standard Recaro seats as well as the Shell Recaro sport seats are very comfortable and very supportive, especially if you have a bad back. I would say the RS suspension gives a much better ride than my wife's Ka.
My son writes for a motoring magazine and I have had a go, as a passenger, in the RS Fiesta, what a beast! Brakes are either on or off, nothing inbetween, very firm suspension, so we're looking at a Fiesta ST Line this weekend (only the 125 engine though, although they do have a 140, so maybe she'll have a go in that too, hopefully) which should be a tad softer and more of a town car.
That figure is for 2016 to pre April 2017 models. On April 1st 2017 VED changed for cars registered on or after that date which included the additional £345 a year for the first 5 years of any car with a list price exceeding £40k. My car was registered last September, first years registration VED was £800 and included in the initial on the road costs but my renewal and each year after is just £140.
RS Fiesta? There hasn't been one of those since the 90's. Did you mean Focus RS or the new Fiesta ST? The Focus RS Been no brakes do pull up quick the first few times you use them, but it doesn't take too long to get a feel for the pedal, so you don't apply too much pressure. The 1.0 Ecoboost engine has just been redeveloped although I am not sure if they are fitting it into all cars yet. The original engine has the exhaust and turbo at the front of the engine. The new version has the exhaust and turbo at the back of the engine. The new version has cylinder deactivation meaning between certain engine speeds and loads and the car is just cruising or crawling along, cylinder 1 can shutdown, reducing emissions and fuel consumption. It automatically reactivates when more power is required to accelerate. If it were me, I would wait for that engine if they aren't already fitting them.
I didn't realise they did 80+ ?
Just take the compliment Neil
There have been a lot more than two, but that's by-the-by.
If human error is still to blame what use is all this "Stuff" ?
TBH I've driven 2 ford focus's one ST and one Ghia, I found them both uncomfortable, and thats coming from someone that has had a myriad of Capri's and loved each one,
He was referring to the Prince and a hand made Jaguar. So it was a slightly different topic.
Which you brought up I believe.
No. I had nothing to do with that.
I don't know who here has moved their goalposts.
And I merely pointed out the expected cost of converting an existing E Type or having a new one built.
Sure. For a princely sum.
Except for the towns and cities near to the sourcing and manufacturing of battery materials.
By 'moving the goalposts' I'm referring to way the EV supporters pick what to compare to any given point and seem incapable of accepting a like for like comparison based on similarly priced/spec of vehicle.
That doesn't get round the fact that cities have air pollution problems, and that it is a goal to reduce it.
You can compare running cost of Tesla against any other 7 series/S class, but I don't think that's representative of people wanting to save a few bucks. Either way, running cost of Tesla is not much more than Leaf, what is 20% more of the really tiny fuel bill?
These autonomous stuff are currently only assistive, but people don't fully understand their limitations.
But you were comparing a Tesla likely to cost at least £80k with a £56k BMW M3, so not really comparative.
Autonomous driving will reduce the huge human error fatalities we have today. Even if you can't imagine it. You can't see round corners, or know the routes planned by other vehicles. That's what autonomous driving will do. It will also remove the massive gridlock and congestion problems created by manual drivers. Especially 1 person per car cases.
Each bus at rush hour is often nearly full, and is taking huge numbers of cars off the road. It's obvious to a lot of people that you should be thanking every bus you see. My bus takes me to the underground, that whisks me across town way faster than any car. Regardless of any macho engine. Then you get some t***, sitting all alone, in his little racing car, actually causing the traffic jams, yet somehow believing it is everybody else's fault. And spewing out noxious gasses at the same time. Then getting all surprised and more angry when the law ends up preventing little racer boy from driving in town, yet buses and autonomous cars are prioritised. This is what we've got ahead of us. The future has great improvements in store for us.
With years of driving experience you get a sixth sense of what other drivers are going to do. You assume automated systems won't fail, what do you think will happen in that situation.
Sixth sense? Do you really believe what you write? Face-palm. Do you also not realise that many here are not impressed when you say how experienced you are, or how many bhp your car has?
I don't really care if people are impressed or not, that isn't what the statements are about. But your driving inexperience sticks out like a sore thumb and it is obvious why'd you feel the need for automated cars to do the job for you.
You don't care? You have no clue about my driving experience. Speculating that I am "inexperienced" based on nothing can't work. And looks like smoke and mirrors again to distract from my last points.
But you need an automated car to anticipate what other road users are going to do. That tells me you are inexperienced and not taking in everything not just in your vicinity but further afield as well. The fact that you assume I am bragging about my driving and car, just goes to prove how clueless you are.
You said autonomous cars are best left assistive. So you don't realise will be happening. They will be able to see round corners. In the dark an in adverse weather. They will negotiate a route with other vehicles, so no-one needs to stop, give way or even slow down. They will remove traffic lights completely from streets, that manual drivers are prevented from gridlocking up. They will remove bad, arrogant, aggressive boy racers from putting other peoples lives in danger. They will be saving many, many lives.
I did take EVERYTHING into account when I bought my second hand Leaf, and it's still cheaper than fuel cost of my previous car.
Absolutely
Seriously? wtf?
See, now I agree with you here, (don't feint) Certainly in the large cities they should be developing an efficient and clean public transport the money would be
As I posted a little way back
I still can't get the image of one milk float towing another or said milk floats on the back of a pick up truck.
Years ago, I guess it still exists, there is (was) a stretch of the A4 near slough that had the lights set at 30mph, ie if you went through on a green light you could do the
For that to happen, all other cars would have to be banned from the road. That isn't going to happen for many many decades.
Banning manual cars will occur in the hotspots first. Such as parts of cities.
Yes. It could happen. But still the death toll would be significantly less than today. We will still be much better off.
No I didn't, You really don't know cars do you. The Fiesta ST is a small hot hatch, with 200PS about 197bhp. That car has only just recently been mentioned in the thread. There is no Ford car in the UK with 300bhp from the factory. However the Focus RS, a medium sized family hatchback has 350PS or 345bhp.