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« Reply #90 on: May 18, 2009, 07:08:45 pm » |
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One of my favourite cars was a Fiat Cinquecento Sporting.
I had a seicento sporting for a bit as a budget run around. Great fun little car. I loved just basically flooring it everywhere (and still being behind everyone)! Very flimsy by modern standards. Have you seen what happens if you crash one?.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcHSJzprHM |
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« Reply #91 on: May 18, 2009, 08:39:19 pm » |
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Hi Wades,
To think the Cinq was even less substantial. In spite of Fiat's claim of strengthened passenger cell.
Thankfully we survived to tell the tales!
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angelos
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« Reply #92 on: May 18, 2009, 09:12:41 pm » |
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How much rating we are talking about there? 1?
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Wades
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« Reply #93 on: May 18, 2009, 09:15:09 pm » |
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If I remember correctly they started out a 1 and then were reduced to a half! No match for the 2's 5 star rating!
Edit-Just checked and i remembered wrong. it started out a 2 star and was reduced to 1. Still pretty poor!
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« Reply #94 on: May 19, 2009, 12:18:53 pm » |
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Even a 3 star car doesn't offer good protection .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0kB2SqZqZ0 |
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« Reply #95 on: May 19, 2009, 01:13:07 pm » |
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Of course the biggest problem with these test is that how often are you planning on running into a concrete block at 40mph exactly!?!?!?
Handling, brakes and of course the driver will have just a big an affect on the outcome of an accident than just the physical strength of the car.
The other problem is a five star car of one class will be vasty different to a 5 star car (or less) of a bigger class of vehicle. In a head on bigger probably still means better.
Anyway to keep this on topic i'd just like to say that I think a head on crash at 40mph would be very bad for the fuel economy of Mazda2 TS2 1.3 petrol...
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« Reply #96 on: May 19, 2009, 02:42:39 pm » |
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looool!!! Off topic-ing keeps threads alive ;p You can always check the 5 star 500 Fiat crash against Q7 Audi!Quite interesting to see two exactly opposite classes be joined into one ;p  |
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« Reply #97 on: May 28, 2009, 10:34:30 pm » |
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Just worked out my MPG after my first fill up.... 173 miles covered; 134 of which I had 2 adult passengers with the air-con running constantly on mostly 40-50mph A-roads. 23 litres of unleaded to refill = 34.2mpg ( 23 litres = 5.0593 Imperial gallons) EDIT:Pah..... Was tired last night and couldn't add up. What I'm doing is recalling the journeys I made over a 2 day period, using google maps to find the distance, and then adding them up. So a quick recalc of miles gives 253, and 23 litres to refil = 50mpg Quite impressive given the load carried and use of air-con. |
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Fronts replaced at 19500 miles with Pirelli P6000's
Fronts replaced at 36200 miles with Hankook Ventus Prime K115's
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« Reply #98 on: June 01, 2009, 07:33:06 am » |
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Two more fuel consumptions - we've been travelling a fair bit lately as my mother-in-law hasn't been well.
Filled up Friday half way up the A41 on our way towards the Wirral (miles= 276 / litres = 27.8 ) = 45 mpg
Filled up yesterday on way back from a trip up to the Wirral again (miles = 280 / 27.4 litres) = 46.5 mpg
Pretty impressive considering we were using the air-con most of the time.
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« Reply #99 on: June 10, 2009, 09:09:00 pm » |
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Sorry to bore you all.... 336 miles covered, 32.7 litres (7.193 gallons) to fill up = 46.7 mpg. Seems fairly consistent.  |
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« Reply #100 on: June 10, 2009, 09:24:58 pm » |
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I'm getting 42/44 mpg from my Sport and will miss that sort of mileage from Monday next when I change to my 3 Sport |
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« Reply #101 on: June 24, 2009, 09:09:12 am » |
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My three last highway trips was with consumption: 264km for 5.88l/100km 453km for 6.57l/100km 561km for 5.89l/100km pretty nice consumption  |
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« Reply #102 on: June 24, 2009, 03:21:19 pm » |
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I'm getting 40.2 mpg measured and 39.6 mpg via the trip computer on my new 3 1.6 sport, (just for info)
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« Reply #103 on: June 24, 2009, 11:18:19 pm » |
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I'm getting 40.2 mpg measured and 39.6 mpg via the trip computer on my new 3 1.6 sport, (just for info)
How does that compare with your Mazda 2? |
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« Reply #104 on: June 25, 2009, 12:15:39 am » |
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Used to get 43 mpg from my 2 Mikew |
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