Unfortunately it had all gone before my time. I grew up in Westhead backing on to the old line.

It had closed when I used to walk it. I worked for Fred Holland a bit on School lane. Is Thomas Holland still about?

​@@stephenholmes1036 As far as I'm aware he is. I recall seeing him driving about not too long ago, although that could have been more than a year ago. My dad frequents The Prince. I'll ask him.

Auto.

That's amazing. I'm genuinely jealous because it had all gone before my time (born in the 80s) but I've always been fascinated by the line behind our house. I used to walk along the trackbed as a child before it became completely overgrown. My dad remembers the line and went to Cross Hall School in Ormskirk.

I definitely think they have a bit more character than the Honda. This was good for about 40mph with my 16 stone on it. I'd love to try the Yamaha V90 2 stroke. I should have kept this.

Thanks. Sold it many years ago. I think this was around 2008.

@@mohameddattebayo7602 No. I bought an E39 540i touring, which I kept for a short time.

I haven't timed it. The car has good mechanical grip and the TC doesn't need to intervene much doing launches in the dry. Where the TC shows its weaknesses is when powering out of slow bends or roundabouts (particularly in the wet). The TC kicks in, cuts the power then seems to take a second or two to allow the power back in. It feels like the power is on or off, rather than being smoothly regulated. A smoother driving style avoids the TC taking over and is probably quicker.

I did this stretch because it is local to me and I have walked most of it. I'm not familiar with the stretch that you refer to but it's something I will consider.

In eco mode it's rear wheel drive only, but only because it's running on just the rear motor, so effectively half the power. You can't have it rwd and 400+bhp, unfortunately. Or fortunately?

rear motor is about 230hp. front motor is around 205hp so in ECO or in less then 20% charge it will only be running on rear motor. in eco i can get it to run about 14.2Kw/100km. not best but very good. and in Normal mode withcombined engine shut down its around 17kw/100Km, i hanv´t try in Sport mode for longer trips.

It really was. Pity the weather wasn't more photogenic.

No re-enactment for the anniversary, from what I've heard!

I've just got back from a 1400 mile round trip to do the NC500. During the trip I averaged 3.1 miles per kWH, which equates to about 190 miles, but that included some very hard driving on mountain roads and fast average speeds on open roads. However, at one point I was stuck in the middle of nowhere with low charge and miles from the nearest charge point. Over about 40 miles I was achieving 4.8 miles per kWh due to very careful driving in eco mode. That equates to about 296 miles range.

Haha! I was just getting used to riding it and forgot to pull the brake/clutch properly.

You can't fit as many women in the Porsche.

When you are in a Porsche all you need is one woman !!! And there is a removable roof on the 944 so doing it with her on top is NOT a problem Porsche thought of everything!! Porsche is by far a better car than Volvo I mean how many Volvo dealerships do you see compared to Porsche dealerships

I've never been very good at computer games.

​@@superbracey 実は私は今日あなたに返信をもらうまで、この映像をゲームとは思っていませんでした。実際の実物の本物のレース映像だと思っていました。映像はもちろん美しいですが、エンジンの音がリアルです。素晴らしいと思いました。返信ありがとう。

@@白面金毛九尾の狐 For a game that was released in 2017, it does indeed feel very realistic. The way the replay cameras use long zoom lenses is more realistic than many other games and the sounds of the cars and the way they are affected by the environment (echos, Doppler effect etc ) is spot on.

"yury v7 minha xj no limite" in search bar if u want to the best sounding bike

Cheers

Certainly does. In the rearmost coach your cup of lukewarm BR tea might have remained on the table during all that!

It was a Sunday morning.

Haha! Thanks!

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Rare treat to see one of these running. An exotic class for me in the old London Midland Region.

England

Haha, 4 cylinder turbo. Only made like 15hp more

Swede speed 4 life xd

Also it’s a fucking station wagon bro😭😂

It’s actually 23 horsepower more than the Porsche you cannot tell me that 23 horsepower doesn’t make a difference

Written by a millennial by chance?? Lets review once again, this an advert for a Volvo wagon VS and PORSCHE. Does it really matter whats under the hood of either car???

33.25mpg (UK), 27.68mpg (US), 8.5 l/100km.

1.4 tsi

@@azazzellol 😡😡

5.0 Supercharged

​@@superbracey I own a 2.2 jaguar xf. Is a sound like this possible?

@@fratbakr847 like 1.4 tsi possible)

How did you get on?

I bought a lovely example and ran it for 14 months before selling it on. You're right, the acceleration was awesome. I really do miss owning one, but it's an itch I've scratched now and I can't realistically justify the running costs unless I come into some money.

@@superbracey did you have any issues in your 14 months of ownership

Brian

Michael Fish said it would be blue skies.

@@superbracey Sod’s Law they did it today lol

I suppose it's still nearly 140bhp, even without a turbo, which isn't embarrassingly low. I'd love to try one of the big turbo OM606s.

Go for it!

Sadly they don’t do these anymore so they aren’t available anymore. Glad I got mine

You need deep pockets to keep one on the road. In 12 months of ownership I paid £1100 for tyres (you don't want to scrimp on cheap tyres with a 500+bhp saloon!), about £300 on a service and £3000 on replacing the timing chains and about £150 to replace a split coolant hose. I have my fun with it but I couldn't afford to keep one as a long-term proposition.

I'm in the north west. It does sound good, a nice tone without being too loud. It sounds good inside but even with the windows down you don't quite get to hear the exhaust note.

I've owned my since January. I'd been after one for years. It's got a Spires Stage 2 exhaust on it.

@superbracey same as me mate, awesome exhaust. Get some 20mm spacers on it all round aswell, really beefs the back end up

2014 XFR in Polaris white here as a daily 🙃 'tis my midlife crisis car until all the electric rubbish takes over. Also Spires stage 2 on mine but i'd really like an X pipe eventually to get that european raspy sound, well as much as is possible from a big cross-plane V8.

​@@RunninWithScissorsI wish I could afford to daily mine 😢. I have a 2002 Zafira diesel for a daily which makes me appreciate the Jag even more when I do use it. Mines currently in Tom Lenthall for a new timing chain and tensioner. 💷😏

@@bigmatt1994which spacers did you get if you don’t mind me asking? I’ve just bought a XFR100 and was thinking about doing the same. Any rubbing on the arches?

Having owned plenty of seriously powerful cars, I can honestly say I think I prefer to cruise around in a slow, characterful old diesel. I like the mechanical sounds and feeling.

Here's another one of mine. A lot of wind noise unfortunately kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZyaq354dteZf5Ysi=w9e4-AT8h8isGo3Y

What do you mean?

@@superbracey What is the song?

@@TaxingIsThieving All my own work mate. Just a free drum loop I sampled on Logic Pro

​@@superbracey Absolute tunes!

I'm afraid I don't know. I just added sounds from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.