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Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Fucker can drag race too. Good thing you're an engineer. I can't do the maintenance and thus could not afford the cost to own.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Variable geometry turbos have a wide rpm range.
Porsches are easy to work on. It's a VW engine, the hood is huge so access is tremendous.
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Yup. Under mild acceleration it consistently upshifts to 1200 rpm; climb a hill and it keeps that speed easily. I set it on cruise climbing up to Deep Gap on US 421, about a 4 mile climb at 10% grade. At 60mph it downshifts to 6th gear and climbs easily at 2000rpm, at most losing 1 mph increment. My Jeep would do 3000 rpm and you'd have to dial in Sport Mode to prevent it from lagging to 5 under. When I had an Expedition it would need to do 4000rpm to maintain that speed and would not do so with cruise control.
I used to be a Ford fellow, yet the entirety of their (Use GBWhatsapp)stuff is fwd except if you're go to the campaign. Had one preceding the Jeep. Gas guzzler. I need littler, deft.
Well this is interesting. A friend of mine called me on Saturday to let me know that she is OK, but that she had been driving her Lexus SUV (the big one) on the interstate through Atlanta at 65mph and a BMW sideswiped her doing somewhere between 120-140, being pursued by the police. She ended up in the median facing the other way looking at the front of one of the police cars. The BMW ended up on a tree off the road. Both cars totaled. So now she is car-less. (Except for a classic that she owns, but that can't do for daily driving.)
Amazingly, the guy driving the BMW had insurance. He's going to need it.
So this morning I called the dealer where I bought my new Porsche to find out the whereabouts of my old Jeep. They still had it, and have now made a deal to sell it to my friend. She'll get about $15k for the Lexus and the Jeep will cost her about $13.5k.
Trusty ol' Jeepster stays in the family.
Amazingly, the guy driving the BMW had insurance. He's going to need it.
So this morning I called the dealer where I bought my new Porsche to find out the whereabouts of my old Jeep. They still had it, and have now made a deal to sell it to my friend. She'll get about $15k for the Lexus and the Jeep will cost her about $13.5k.
Trusty ol' Jeepster stays in the family.
Fentoine Lum
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Most autos have four wheels.
Fentoine Lum
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Great.
Not if you break down in the Bronx.........
I had one of these on the dash of my Jeep for almost 7 years. A simple pendant charm, I snipped off the chain loop and filed it down, then use a trimmed piece of double sided tape to stick it on. When I transferred all my gear into the Porsche I used a piece of dental floss to remove it, placed into an envelope and then immediately lost it. I searched for days, gave up and ordered an exact replacement.
Looks good on the console just ahead of the shifter.
Looks good on the console just ahead of the shifter.
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I just did my first oil change after 4000 miles. Instead of jacking up the car and removing a large aero plate, I purchased a fluid evacuator. These are kind of like a yard sprayer in reverse. You insert a tube like a catheter into the dipstick tube to get int the oil pan, pump ten times then watch while it draws out the fluid. My engine takes five quarts and the tool took out a little less than 4-1/2. I put 5 back in and the electronic level indicator says that it is right on. Apparently the engine burned a 1/2 quart during break in, which is expected.
The filter is easy to change as well. It's an element type and the cap to access it is right in front of the engine, right next to the dip stick tube.
The filter is easy to change as well. It's an element type and the cap to access it is right in front of the engine, right next to the dip stick tube.
Why not the BMW X-2, X-3 or X-5 series?
My wife has a 328xi and I don't like it. The throttle response is "notchy", and it's a difficult car to service. The leather, although high quality, is hard and uncomfortable on long trips. I don't like the quality of the interior trim.
After the initial turbo lag in the Porsche, throttle response is smooth. The hood encompasses the front sides so when open, access to nearly everything is easy. The seats are the most comfortable of any that I have driven. All the interior aluminum trim are made from solid pieces, cast (or maybe billet), machined and polished to a uniform luster.
Aside from the sports car handling, the thing I love the most about this car is the doppelkupplung, or double clutch, transmission. It is unlike any automatic transmission that I've ever had. In fact it has more in common with a manual transmission than a typical torque converter automatic.
The clutches are wet multi-disc like a motorcycle, and set in a coaxial configuration. The gearset is split onto two separate shafts, each driven by its own clutch, one carrying gears 1,3,5 and 7, and the other carrying 2,4,6 and reverse. As one clutch is engaged the other is either speeding up or slowing down for the next shift. A gear change is done by engaging one clutch as the other is disengaged, so there is no loss of power during acceleration and the change occurs near instantaneously.
For example, while at rest, both clutches are disengaged. Releasing the brake and pressing the throttle tells the computer to engage the "odd" clutch and away you go in 1st. Meanwhile the computer sets the "even" gearset at a lower RPM; a function of the ratio between 1st and 2nd. As the car gains speed the clutch drives are "flipped" and then 2nd gear takes over. And so on up to 7th gear.
Downshifts happen in reverse of this pattern. While in 7th the 6th gearset is set to spin faster to ready for a downshift.
Thus the feel and driveability of the transmission is nearly identical to a manual gearbox.
The trick is how the computer figures out, then implements, the driver's desire to accelerate or decelerate through the gears. It does this through accelerator and brake inputs and apparently a whole lot of magic, er, algorithms. The programs are simple for performance driving- the driver is either on the gas or on the brake. The "magic" is the programming to make this work dependably in everyday driving. This explains why Porsche started using doppelkupplung in the 1980s for race cars and is only recently using it for retail cars.
The clutches are wet multi-disc like a motorcycle, and set in a coaxial configuration. The gearset is split onto two separate shafts, each driven by its own clutch, one carrying gears 1,3,5 and 7, and the other carrying 2,4,6 and reverse. As one clutch is engaged the other is either speeding up or slowing down for the next shift. A gear change is done by engaging one clutch as the other is disengaged, so there is no loss of power during acceleration and the change occurs near instantaneously.
For example, while at rest, both clutches are disengaged. Releasing the brake and pressing the throttle tells the computer to engage the "odd" clutch and away you go in 1st. Meanwhile the computer sets the "even" gearset at a lower RPM; a function of the ratio between 1st and 2nd. As the car gains speed the clutch drives are "flipped" and then 2nd gear takes over. And so on up to 7th gear.
Downshifts happen in reverse of this pattern. While in 7th the 6th gearset is set to spin faster to ready for a downshift.
Thus the feel and driveability of the transmission is nearly identical to a manual gearbox.
The trick is how the computer figures out, then implements, the driver's desire to accelerate or decelerate through the gears. It does this through accelerator and brake inputs and apparently a whole lot of magic, er, algorithms. The programs are simple for performance driving- the driver is either on the gas or on the brake. The "magic" is the programming to make this work dependably in everyday driving. This explains why Porsche started using doppelkupplung in the 1980s for race cars and is only recently using it for retail cars.
Mason Michaels
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I got new used tires for my Gremlin
They are nice, as is the Audi Q5. No doubt Porsche makes some fine automobiles. A friend has a GT3 RS, it's quite a car...