Car fuel efficiency

[ZK-Brock]

Thanks Alistair Buying a car is still at least a year off (gotta learn to drive mums car first)

[kiwiflyboy]

BTW kiwiflyboy, you've sorta out me off a BMW, sounds like a bit of a guzzler to me. Which is a pity, as some day I would have liked to own a BMW (once im old n grey)

1993, 325.... its not too bad, it is probably more my driving......

[ZK-Brock]

Yeah? well at the moment I'm too scared to move out of the second gear speed range, so I think my driving stle will save me a lot of fuel if I keep this up

[creator2003]

Have you thought about a scooter or a motorbike?
They're more efficiant, on a red light you can skip to the front of the queue, you'll never get caught in traffic jams again and a brand new one casts about $2000 (scotter)
or $???? (motorbike).
Although I read the Consumer magazine and the classification of scooters is weird.

motorbikes are made out to be a cheap way to get around (thats a legend these days)
bikes are very costly for parts /tires /reg/wof {more than a car thanks to ACC}
and the licencing for them is more than a car ,you have to prove first at a cost of over $150 that you can ride a bike /then you get a learners sit on that but you break the law going over 75km even on a motorway ,cant take your mates out till you have resricted /full/then pilin passenger ,then its buying the bike and keeping on the road without crashing into old ladys that pull out on you ,ive had over 20 crashes only 3 of them where my fault for going to fast by 10 or so km
im one of the lucky ones ,but not so lucky ive had to rebuild my bike oh 4 times ,new parts new paint,new plastic welding the list goes on
gas? well thats the cheap part

advice /toyota 1.3 or 1.6 litre or a lada{russian tank}good for learners if you can master one of those gear boxes your a pro

[Charl]

BTW kiwiflyboy, you've sorta out me off a BMW, sounds like a bit of a guzzler to me. Which is a pity, as some day I would have liked to own a BMW (once im old n grey)

You mean Porsche
Old+Grey = PORSCHE, often a model that was current when the O&G one was young B)

[ZK-Brock]

Hey Natas
Dad used to ride motorbikes but after several crashes, mum pursuaded him to give up. He warned me off motorbikes, and why would I really want one anyway? You can't carry half the stuff in a motorbike that you can in a car.

[creator2003]

yeah but you cant go zero to the speed limit in 1 second in a car on a legal road{f1 car}
my first gear on the bike goes to 100km then there are 5 more after that ,also when your on a bike you dont think of your mates and how much you can take on it it more like payload & fuel less is better ..
anyway your dad & mum are right about motorcycles ,and they always will be, bikes will always be dangerous because there are cars and ppls who dont know how to look out properly at intersections and there is paint and a drain cover on every apex ,not counting the oil that drips out of cars