Comments by "" (@stevec6427) on "carwow" channel.

The Project 8 is a track car not a straight line racer.
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I have worked in chassis development as a design engineer. While there are eye watering sums of money spent on seemingly insignificant parts (£500k on a suspension bush set). The priorities are nearly always cost, ride quality, durability and handling in that order. I own a car that I developed the suspension bush set for and it now has poly bushes where it matters to offset some ride quality for handling.
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Buy old an unpopular models if you want real bargains. My Skoda Roomster is one of the best cars I've ever owned. I't pig ugly but absolutely superb in every way (sporting ability excepted) and it cost me £3500 for a six year old car with 30,000 miles on the clock. I'd even say that it's better built than my Jaguar which cost more than ten times more when new, it may not have the leather and wood and carbon but what is there is bomb proof.
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Quickest but not fastest by a long way. Even the 2003 Jaguar S Type R has a higher top speed with well under half the power. Even purely in terms of acceleration, it launches very fast but there are quite a number of cars which beat it accelerating from 30mph including the 2007 BMW M5. It has the imoressive 0-60 figure but that's it really. It just launches very, very fast and unless you like spending on tyres you'll rarely use that anyway.
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@alexb6018 uni teaches you the physics and maths and design process, it teaches nothing specific, that comes with experience. A uni education is extremely useful when combined with experience and the right person.
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@alexb6018 I did an apprenticeship and then a degree several years later. The university education certainly was useful, mostly for the mechanical principles and the skills it gave me to conduct good, reliable tests. I do think that the apprenticeship possibly taught me more general engineering skills but that was in the days of a five year apprenticeship backed up with an HNC, these days it's two years with an NVQ.
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I don't think the EV6 is attractive. I think it's a very good car but quite ugly
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@benjy6358 nope. Both maintained. They get oil pressure problems. An early death is common with the VR4 engine.
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27th place though. I still wouldn't have anything else though.
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Only in a straight line.
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@alexmarinescu2873 Big SUV's are not safer than small city cars. They often perform worse in crash tests and are much more prone to rolling, especially when swerving to avoid accidents. Look up any video with SUV's doing the moose test, they all end up on their roof.
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I had a Mitsubishi VR4. That needed no abuse to blow up two engines.
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@benjy6358 in 25 years of driving and car ownership it's the only car I've had serious mechanical problems with. I've even managed to run supercharged Jags for years with no problems.
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@benjy6358 if my maintenance is enough to keep three Jaguars reliable then I don't think that was the problem.
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I want to like it but I hate higher riding SUV style cars, I perfer to be at normal car height. I'd also rather a nice big boot that I could put a couple dogs in rather than that cut off sloping boot. I'd also prefer non electric boot closing. I guess I'd like this car if it was more like a traditional estate car
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Do you need posessions to be happy? I don't.
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It's a bit dull though. I tried an M5, XFR-S, E63 & RS6 and the RS6 was the least exciting to drive, the handling felt a bit lifeless and the engine didn't feel as exciting as the Jag or BMW. The E63 was a rocket powered sofa, the V10 M5 was a complete lunatic but horrible to drive normally. Out of the four I had to buy the XFR-S.
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Hasn't the Tesla vs supercar drag race thing been done to death now? Everyone has made one of these videos.
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Same happens with Jaguars and R badges. I have a real R series Jaguar and pulling up alongside a 4 cylinder diesel with R badges and bonnet vents is always fun. 550bhp vs 180bhp is never very close
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