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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazz View Post
    That system is annoying as hell when you're trying to quickly reverse into a carpark. Stop, slam it in reverse and before you can take off again the bloody car is off
    your not doing it right

    should be skid to a stop, while slamming it into reverse, wheel spin into park, skiddy as you stop into bumper

    most GOOD systems have a pressure/time sensor delay
    light/short pressure usually doesn't trigger the OFF

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    Quote Originally Posted by swbarnett View Post
    Ask the motorway commuters how they feel about the ever increasing number of cars trying to cram on to an already overloaded system.

    On those same congested motorways a bike is far better for the environment; the vast majority of those cars only carry one person while doing barely more than an idle for a large part of the journey. Meanwhile the bikes have an engine half the size that is actually moving. The shorter journey time alone makes the bike superior for the environment under these circumstances.
    Akl commuters haven't been provided for quite a while, the population/development has outstripped the planning of the 50-70's

    Even now with the motorway system being expanded, its obvious these increases are only short term

    Not just the motorway, there are great big areas that have only 50kph feeders

    There was a larger number of bikes on the motorway going past me while I was stopped on the mway carpark. most where doing 30 ish but a few 50+
    It was good to see more bikes on the mway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    Probably avg. Sedate at times, plants boot at times. Stick it in sport and you get both electric and petrol... eats boy racers off the line
    Be interesting to know what fuel a hybrid consumes when driven in full "Drive it like you stole it!" mode.
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    Quote Originally Posted by swbarnett View Post
    Be interesting to know what fuel a hybrid consumes when driven in full "Drive it like you stole it!" mode.
    All of it.

    There are so many tradeoffs that a fuel efficient vehicle is really only fuel efficient for the design use case (chilled as fuck driving). Tyres are a good example, pizza cutters are good for constant speed, but add braking/accel/corners into the mix and the hybrid taking twice as long to get somewhere while revving its tits off is always going to lose to the sports car carrying twice the corner speed.
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    It is more efficient to use an internal combustion engine to power a generator, and drive the wheels from an electric motor.

    This is the future for the moment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    All of it.

    There are so many tradeoffs that a fuel efficient vehicle is really only fuel efficient for the design use case (chilled as fuck driving). Tyres are a good example, pizza cutters are good for constant speed, but add braking/accel/corners into the mix and the hybrid taking twice as long to get somewhere while revving its tits off is always going to lose to the sports car carrying twice the corner speed.
    The other year in northern France had a Yaris hybrid rental: great in urban traffic and okay on the departmental routes but a bit of a nightmare on any of the old Routes Nationale - poor wee thing had to rev itself almost to death to keep up with traffic in the slow lane... Totally avoided the autoroutes...

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    Quote Originally Posted by swbarnett View Post
    Be interesting to know what fuel a hybrid consumes when driven in full "Drive it like you stole it!" mode.
    not possible. the sewing machine analogy is apt. lots of noise but doesn't actually go anywhere...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    All of it.

    There are so many tradeoffs that a fuel efficient vehicle is really only fuel efficient for the design use case (chilled as fuck driving). Tyres are a good example, pizza cutters are good for constant speed, but add braking/accel/corners into the mix and the hybrid taking twice as long to get somewhere while revving its tits off is always going to lose to the sports car carrying twice the corner speed.
    Unless you're my boss and upgrade the suspension and tyres (no, I didn't understand that part either). It corners like a rollerskate, but accelerating from an intersection... yeah... and flooring a hybrid doesn't make much sense...
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