The Big 'Let's sell our cars and take buses/ebikes instead' thread (warning: probably very dull)
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Pross said:
Cardiff has gone the other way. The bus station used to be right outside Central station but was knocked down for a new office development where the BBC are now based and a big, open, boring concourse that is useful for arranging queues when there are big events but the rest of the time is just an ugly grey space.pblakeney said:Here's a novel solution for future planners. Put the bus station next to the train station. I am frequently amazed by the distance between.
I don’t think they have a centralised bus station now and instead have a few areas scattered around the city. It feels ridiculous to me. In the case of Severn Tunnel Junction there isn’t a bus station although I think some small buses may go down there. It’s a pretty random station in a small village that just happens to be where the lines split with the mainline to London through the tunnels and another heading up through Gloucester to Birmingham.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/completion-cardiff-bus-station-delayed-27364086
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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That's good news then, basically back in its original position eventually and should be a lot nicer albeit with far fewer bays. Hadn't realised that was what was going there.0
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Seems like a win. And £26m in a month for public transport funding too.
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briantrumpet said:
Seems like a win. And £26m in a month for public transport funding too.
Currently, 75% of the materials can be recycled, with the remaining 25% ending up in landfill. As the most recycled consumer product, end-of-life vehicles provide the steel industry with more than 14 million tons of steel per year.
I don't like the sound of that though. That's 80,000 cars scrapped too early when a natural transition is happening anyway. Isn't it better to fix and maintain rather than a conveyor belt of landfill?1 -
Don't buy a tesla then:focuszing723 said:
I don't like the sound of that though. That's 80,000 cars scrapped too early when a natural transition is happening anyway. Isn't it better to fix and maintain rather than a conveyor belt of landfill?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/hertz-pulls-back-on-ev-plans-citing-tesla-price-cuts-repair-costs.html0 -
$h1t I ain't doing very well this morning, I've p1$$ed on me own chips twice.
I might give it another crack this afternoon.2 -
Unless new recycling techniques come in then it will end up in landfill anyway and presumably the newer cars have more recyclable parts?focuszing723 said:briantrumpet said:Seems like a win. And £26m in a month for public transport funding too.
Currently, 75% of the materials can be recycled, with the remaining 25% ending up in landfill. As the most recycled consumer product, end-of-life vehicles provide the steel industry with more than 14 million tons of steel per year.
I don't like the sound of that though. That's 80,000 cars scrapped too early when a natural transition is happening anyway. Isn't it better to fix and maintain rather than a conveyor belt of landfill?0 -
I hear Volvo is launching a new model called the Woke that runs off your own f@rts.1
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Is it as big as a house as all their other cars?First.Aspect said:I hear Volvo is launching a new model called the Woke that runs off your own f@rts.
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Don't get me startedon car sizes. Was in a BMW dealership recently, and they had a few heritage cars there. Quite eye opening. Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. As it were.rick_chasey said:
Is it as big as a house as all their other cars?First.Aspect said:I hear Volvo is launching a new model called the Woke that runs off your own f@rts.
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So engaging 'Sport' mode involves having a curry the night before?First.Aspect said:I hear Volvo is launching a new model called the Woke that runs off your own f@rts.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
And yet the usable space on a modern Volvo estate (and probably all estate cars) seems far smaller than it was 20-30 years ago. I suspect a lot of the extra space is external for safety performance and modern aerodynamics and / or styling preferences round off corners that impact on the functional space.First.Aspect said:
Don't get me startedon car sizes. Was in a BMW dealership recently, and they had a few heritage cars there. Quite eye opening. Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. As it were.rick_chasey said:
Is it as big as a house as all their other cars?First.Aspect said:I hear Volvo is launching a new model called the Woke that runs off your own f@rts.
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No, that's more like premium unleaded.Stevo_666 said:
So engaging 'Sport' mode involves having a curry the night before?First.Aspect said:I hear Volvo is launching a new model called the Woke that runs off your own f@rts.
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It's important to be fully protected if you have an accident while trying to operate the vehicle's touch screen.Pross said:
And yet the usable space on a modern Volvo estate (and probably all estate cars) seems far smaller than it was 20-30 years ago. I suspect a lot of the extra space is external for safety performance and modern aerodynamics and / or styling preferences round off corners that impact on the functional space.First.Aspect said:
Don't get me startedon car sizes. Was in a BMW dealership recently, and they had a few heritage cars there. Quite eye opening. Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. As it were.rick_chasey said:
Is it as big as a house as all their other cars?First.Aspect said:I hear Volvo is launching a new model called the Woke that runs off your own f@rts.
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Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?0
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Yup. Mine has adaptive suspension. Sport mode unleashes more horses, changes how it changes gear and changes the weighting on the steering.kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
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If it's there, why not? Good fun. There's also race mode but that turns the traction control off so is more for track days.kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Why buy that level of car if you're never going to use it?kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
Save money and buy a lower spec in that case.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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E5 possibly, but unlikely. The premium stuff that allegedly reduces wear and improves efficiency is snake oil.rick_chasey said:still maintain in my car I get better value for money using the premium unleaded.
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My 1.2l peugeot has a sports mode.pblakeney said:
Why buy that level of car if you're never going to use it?kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
Save money and buy a lower spec in that case.0 -
If that makes it better why isn't that just normal mode?First.Aspect said:
Yup. Mine has adaptive suspension. Sport mode unleashes more horses, changes how it changes gear and changes the weighting on the steering.kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
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I swear I get through much less of it. Genuinely.First.Aspect said:
E5 possibly, but unlikely. The premium stuff that allegedly reduces wear and improves efficiency is snake oil.rick_chasey said:still maintain in my car I get better value for money using the premium unleaded.
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Because fuel economy goes from bad to really bad and you would lose an inch in height due to spinal compression.kingstongraham said:
If that makes it better why isn't that just normal mode?First.Aspect said:
Yup. Mine has adaptive suspension. Sport mode unleashes more horses, changes how it changes gear and changes the weighting on the steering.kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
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Mines right on the line. I think it's 1-2 mpg worse (towns, motorway) which is about 5%.rick_chasey said:
I swear I get through much less of it. Genuinely.First.Aspect said:
E5 possibly, but unlikely. The premium stuff that allegedly reduces wear and improves efficiency is snake oil.rick_chasey said:still maintain in my car I get better value for money using the premium unleaded.
Genuinely don't know if using ethanol is better or worse because I don't know if the ethanol is obtained from what used to be food crops or rainforest.0 -
Not so much better as different, depending how you want to drive. As FA said.kingstongraham said:
If that makes it better why isn't that just normal mode?First.Aspect said:
Yup. Mine has adaptive suspension. Sport mode unleashes more horses, changes how it changes gear and changes the weighting on the steering.kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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Well that sounds suboptimal, so why would you use it? Does it make a nicer brrm brrm noise?First.Aspect said:
Because fuel economy goes from bad to really bad and you would lose an inch in height due to spinal compression.kingstongraham said:
If that makes it better why isn't that just normal mode?First.Aspect said:
Yup. Mine has adaptive suspension. Sport mode unleashes more horses, changes how it changes gear and changes the weighting on the steering.kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
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Have the forum tidiness police been in touch?TheBigBean said:0 -
It does actually, yes. There's a valve in the exhaust that opens.kingstongraham said:
Well that sounds suboptimal, so why would you use it? Does it make a nicer brrm brrm noise?First.Aspect said:
Because fuel economy goes from bad to really bad and you would lose an inch in height due to spinal compression.kingstongraham said:
If that makes it better why isn't that just normal mode?First.Aspect said:
Yup. Mine has adaptive suspension. Sport mode unleashes more horses, changes how it changes gear and changes the weighting on the steering.kingstongraham said:Nobody actually "engages sports mode" do they?
I bought it because it was the same price as a slower one. In hindsight the number of times I can exploit the difference is low, and the number of times I can do so legally or safely is lower still.
But while I have it it is fun. You know, fun? For you the equivalent would be putting raisins on your All Bran or something like that I think.
Next car we get will be small and electric, if such a thing exists.0
