How to make your car feel faster....

spirocheter · 08-08-2009, 04:52 PM

Buy a second car which is absurdly slow as a daily driver, then when you get back into your BM, feels like it's a rocket!

I've just bought a Subaru Forrester 2.0X 56 plate, 23K miles. Nice and clean but feels truly asthmatic. Other road users can smell your fear too and cocks in Audi's cut you up just for fun.

It's great to back to my real car which drinks from the filthy black cup. At least now it'll be properly detailed!

yoyeewee · 08-08-2009, 05:17 PM

Tell your fat girlfriend to get out of the car.

MalM3 · 08-08-2009, 05:18 PM

open your window ..

yoyeewee · 08-08-2009, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by yoyeewee

Tell your fat girlfriend to get out of the car.

Hehehe...j/k.

NFS · 08-09-2009, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by spirocheter

Buy a second car which is absurdly slow as a daily driver, then when you get back into your BM, feels like it's a rocket!

I've just bought a Subaru Forrester 2.0X 56 plate, 23K miles. Nice and clean but feels truly asthmatic. Other road users can smell your fear too and cocks in Audi's cut you up just for fun.

It's great to back to my real car which drinks from the filthy black cup. At least now it'll be properly detailed!

I agree (apart from the diesel bit

). I had to drive a bog standard fiesta for a couple of days last year and it was a revelation when I got back into my own car.

SiKkBaSs · 08-09-2009, 05:17 AM

I drive my sisters Renault Clio 1.2 16v. Love jumping back into my bimmer after.

SoYank · 08-09-2009, 06:07 AM

Put bigger wheels on the back than on the front. Not only will you feel you're going faster but you also get the feeling of going downhill all the time thus saving petrol.

MattOz · 08-09-2009, 09:36 AM

I've just spent the weekend driving a 1964 Alvis TE21 drophead and it was glorious

However, getting back in my M3, and it feels like a Saturn 5 rocket! Amazing how much "progress" has been made in the last 40 years.

Matt

M3-FAST · 08-09-2009, 01:04 PM

I am on hols in Devon at the moment, but could not fit all the baby stuff into the M, so we have driven down in her new shape C5 HDi. Great car, comfy, etc etc BUT I am so missing my M!!!

(the C5 has averaged 44.8mpg so far tho, the M3 would have struggled to do mid 20's lol)

dxb335d · 08-09-2009, 01:08 PM

Have Great Holiday Paul mate! How long you gone for? any interesting places you have been?

M3-FAST · 08-09-2009, 01:28 PM

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Have Great Holiday Paul mate! How long you gone for? any interesting places you have been?

....cheers Carlos. Only here for a week but had to bring the laptop/mobile broadband to keep in touch with work. Stopping in Dawlish but spent the day in Torquay today. Was lovely, very sunny and went to great place where they keep penguins etc, so the kids loved it

Off out for tea shortly and whip my 10yrs olds ass on the go-karts again

dxb335d · 08-09-2009, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by M3-FAST

....cheers Carlos. Only here for a week but had to bring the laptop/mobile broadband to keep in touch with work. Stopping in Dawlish but spent the day in Torquay today. Was lovely, very sunny and went to great place where they keep penguins etc, so the kids loved it

Off out for tea shortly and whip my 10yrs olds ass on the go-karts again

LOl, sounds like fun. I stayed in Torquay once years ago in the Imperial hotel. Had a massive room which was like a small house LOL!

spirocheter · 08-09-2009, 04:20 PM

Good thing about going on holiday in a different car is that kids can trash it and it doesn't break your heart (so much). Today went sailing in Abersoch and on return car full of bread, cheerios and sand.

Kids touching bodywork with suncream on is pretty terminal for the finish also!

Still return trip on some blinding drivers roads painful..... though I'd have been reined in by my wife anyway so that might have been even more punishing.

foxy-367 · 08-10-2009, 07:27 AM

Drive a 1.4 Megane 4 up with luggage up a hill!

Had one in Ibiza last year my god it made my mountain bike feel fast!

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