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Could not agree more. Seems to me that many people treat posted limits as a suggestion that they are free to ignore should they so decide.
Mostly the choices to NOT adhere to the limits are because they are not looking or thinking ahead. I smile to myself every day I go through Mana southbound. The 50 limit extends to beyond the roundabout at Paramatta. Yet, most drivers go for broke as soon as they hit the bridge on the north side of the roundabout, they get to 65-75 only to have to stand on their brakes for the roundabout a few short metres later. No anticipation, no looking ahead.
Then we have the muppets going through the speed restriction for the new TG road at Tawa. Its an 80 southbound and 70 Northbound. There are people working there, right beside the road, vehicles entering and leaving the worksite from the motorway. I don't want to be the one that kills or injures a worker because I can't slow down for a couple of kms. Often its folks who travel at 90 on the rest of the motorway, don't slow for the restriction and dont speed up when they leave it and yes, they sit in the offside lane. No awareness of what is going on around them.
Need a few tickets issued there
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My instinct on anyone cruising in the outside lane, the overtaking lane as it is known in many countries, is if they are dumb enough to be sat out there obliviously they are equally dumb enough to move left without checking mirrors. Makes undertaking a very uncomfortable decision.
Making filter left a legal requirement and enforcing it might speed up Auckland traffic, a tad.
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A mate had a good idea for when he becomes Supreme Dictator, is to fit speed camera vans with RH side cameras and have them travel at the posted motorway speed limit in the left hand lane.
Any vehicle the van passes (being in the LH lane) gets issued a ticket for failing to keep left unless passing.
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I've seen leafs going slower (usually round 90) but not excessively slow or in the right lane usually (could be different by region). Holden drivers however should just be shot coming out the dealership; seems it doesn't matter what model they drive if it's got a Holden badge the driver is useless in one way or another.
As the saying goes "people who drive Holdens can't!"
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I'll come clean, I've not driven an i30..
Have as a hire car. Great fun. Fastest car... In the worrrlllddd...
I Own a tweaked March/Micra currently, fun car and hardly dull IMO. Handles like a go kart and doesn't punish me too much at the pump. Pisses off ute drivers though when I pass them
Rio I can't comment on but I would more call a car like a 6 cyl falcon, Holden, Toyota Camry, Hyandai Santafe as dull and uninspiring. The kind of car you buy because you need a car and have no real style to em. Just think there is so many more dull cars out there than the 3 you highlighted.
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And don't you knock the Kia Rio. I painted my van in a colour taken from the chart. I don't actually ever remember seeing one moving, but By Jingo I'll get very cross if anyone bismerchs the good name of whatever manufacturer chose this lovely shade of metallic orange. Guess they are made by Hyundai or someone. . .
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Looks like a decent hatch to me, so much bang for you buck with the Korean cars they're hard to look away from I must say. My wife really wants one of the new Hyandai Konas, not too bad a price too unless you want the EV one.
Anyone seen the latest Corolla? Looks racey asf though I suspect its writing checks it can't cash. Had a look but they only offer it in CVT so that rules it out for me, hate driving autos.
My wife has a 2016 Honda Jazz RS with CVT. I don't actually mind driving it as driving cars is purely functional for me. However, you can slip it in manual mode using paddles and it fair flies! Actually, I think it would out-perform my wife's old tweaked MX5 and the economy is pretty much the same as my GSX-S 1000.
We got a new vehicle at work and one of the drivers claimed the automatic transmission was slipping. I took it for a drive and thought it was gutless, so I took it to the dealer. The mechanic who looked at it couldn't offer much in the way of help until he suddenly brightened up and told me the man from Toyota NZ was visiting. The man from Toyota had a look and said it was CVT, you can tell by the fact that there is no filler cap on top of the gearbox.
I went back to work and read up CVT. The article said some people, when driving a CVT equipped car, felt as though the transmission was slipping, other people that the engine lacked power. That seemed about right.
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I've not driven a car with a CVT, sounds like it's just like riding my scooter though, effectively feeling like a single speed auto-thing..
I know it's a different type of transmission but it made me think of this.I'm aware it's probably exaggerating it like most things involving May, Hammond and/or Clarkson but it does make me chuckle.
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