Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "furiousdriving" channel.

2:18 The indicators and wiper controls are on their CORRECT sides! Wipers left of steering column, indicators/lights on right of steering column, EXACTLY WHERE THEY SHOULD BE!
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At least Nissan had the good sense to go with the German-made Blaupunkt(English translation: Blue Point) radio/cassettestereo instead of crappy Philips stuff.
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Seeing how the turn indicator(4:02) arrows are over on the right-hand side of the panel instead of the left-turn arrow being on the left, above the clock and the right arrow above the fuel gauge shows poor design of the dash layout.
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@furiousdriving He can't be all that clever! Glad he never got to design any Aussie cars!
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if the turn indicator arrows are to be together, they should be positioned on the driver's console directly in line with the steering wheel column. Other wise, to separate them, place each turn arrow either side of another console item(like fuel gauge) or place them out to extreme left and right sides of the console for design balance.
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14:30 the Toyota Camry I had was a 1989 station wagon version, also badged as Holden Apollo. had auto gears AND Power Steering and was FAR SUPERIOR to this piece of French junk!
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Stalk controls - arse-about! Wiper controls should be on the LEFT of the steering column, Lights & Indicator should be on the RIGHT of steering column.
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@furiousdriving I've had about 5 cars in my time(from 2002 til now).I've only had the where-with-all to run a car since 2001 and got my licence at age 47 in 2002. In that time I drove a 1985 Ford Meteor(also badged as Mazda 323), a 1990 Daihatsu Applause, a 1989 Toyota Camry station wagon(also badged as Holden Apollo), a 1996 Ford EF Falcon Futura sedan and now a 2003 Ford BA Falcon Futura station wagon. All bar the meteor had Power Steering and ALL had their stem controls the correct way round, wipers on left, lights/indicators on right.
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Peugot - French...... Wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole! Give me a Ford Falcon, Holden Commodore or a Toyota Camry(provided they're older models that were Aussie-built) any day!
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Leyland should build just Right-Hand-Drive vehicles. If the Euros don't like them.... Stiff!
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@amnril I don't consider "light and nimble" as junk. The Morris 850, better known as the Mini-Minor is the epitome of "light and nimble" and a far superior product than that French crap.
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The Morris 850(Mini), in spite of its outward appearance, was quite roomy and 4 people could ride in comfort. The only model that failed was the Moke because the driver and passenger were hard up against each other shoulder-to-shoulder, and from what I could see, there was no rear seating and those boxy sides confining the space..... I rode in a Moke once. After that ride, any ideas I harboured about ever owning one if ever I got a licence were very quickly jettisoned, but a Mini-Minor or Mini Clubman, provided I could get one with auto gears, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!
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@amnril Damn Right! It WAS better by FAR. That Camry wagon took me on trips up the NSW country region of New England, it was a bloody good car! cheap to run, had auto gears with overdrive....purred like a kitten!
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@mattylamb9194 Station Wagon? Oh yes please! Plenty of room in the back for storage! No cramped boot space! And Auto gears.....? Mmmmmmmmm yeahhhhhhhh Wunderschoen! And let's not forget Power Steering!
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@mattylamb9194 Manual gears are 1920s technology! Even by the 1930s and 1940s Automatic gears were becoming commonplace. Ease of start, no stalling..... BLISS!
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@mattylamb9194 Give me auto over manual any day! Ease of starting with no stalling.... plus auto gears give the option of cruise control(best used in daylight hours)..... UTTER BLISS!
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Being a 1990-vintage, built in Europe, a bit cheap of them to put a cassette player in there when car CD players were fairly common by then. The maker would've been likely Philips, total crap! Should've been Technics or British PYE, or even EMI!
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@musmodtos The Euro car makers would've gone for CD in their mid-range models. In Australia, a basic Ford Falcon Futura of late-1990s vintage had cassette and radio but an equivalent vintage Fairlane would have a radio/CD player in place of the radio/cassette. A late 1990s Holden Commodore may have a radio/cassette stereo but a Holden Statesman DeVille would have the CD/radio. The Statesman DeVille was Holden's prestige model!
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@furiousdriving In Australia, the Clarion name was used by AWA(Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) making car radios and radio/cassette players for Aussie cars since the first time such options became available. AWA ALWAYS made TOP-QUALITY product, and would most certainly have been a superior product to that crappy little player in that crappy French "shopping cart".
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@mattylamb9194 The domestic CD player came on the market around 1983 and as technology developed rapidly, car CD players weren't all that far behind their domestic counterparts.
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@mattylamb9194 My drive? A 2001-to-2003 vintage Ford Falcon "Futura" BA-model Station Wagon, auto!
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@Gesternprinz: I don't think I'm missing out on anything! This French pile of crap hasn't got anything I'd want in a car.
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@mattylamb9194 You asked what car I drive. I told you! It's Australian-built. I wouldn't trust the French to even make a bicycle!
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@Banom7a I drove a Toyota Camry(1989 vintage) station wagon for a few years. The same model was also marketed here in Australia as the Holden Apollo. This, like each car I've owned, had wipers on the left of steering column, turn indicator & light switch on right of column, the CORRECT way round. This also was the case in a Daihatsu Applause(1990) and the three Fords(1985 Meteor, also marketed as Mazda 323), 1996 EF Falcon "Futura" sedan and 2003 BA Falcon "Futura" station wagon. All my cars were Automatic with floor-mounted gears. Even going back to cars with column-mounted gears, the gear lever would be on the left of column for RHD cars, auto or manual, and the turn indicator(without the other functions) on the right of column, back in the day when light switches and wiper controls were still dashboard-mounted switches. I do remember a big 1964 Rambler, owned by a friend's father, automatic with column shift, built for Australia's right-hand-drive standards but with gears and indicator set for the American system, arse-about! Gears on right, turn indicators on left! They forgot they were building for a RHD market.
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"cure in the oven"? Geez, I didn't even know it was sick! LOL
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UKW is German - UltraKiloWelle! And yes, it is FM, standard band, 88 to 108 Mhz
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To be brutally honest, you should pull this video down off YouTube, get hold of the car and go "back to the drawing board", as it were, and COMPLETELY re-shoot this video WITHOUT all the jumpy edits. Perhaps several of your sequences should be narrated post-edit where you talk about the car before driving.
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6:10 In Australia, seatbelts were mandatory in cars from the mid-1970s. Only the older pre-1970 models were exempt but the smart people had them retro-fitted to their Holdens going right back to the legendary 48-215 and FJ models as well as Fords of all vintages up to 1970, Morrises, Austins, you name them! Smart Aussies were getting seatbelts retro-fitted for their own safety!
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@furiousdriving That's where Australia was streets ahead of Britain in this regard. Cars were being fitted with seat-belts, front seats and back seats, from about 1968 or 1969 but hardly anyone wore them and people kept dying needlessly in road accidents. When wearing of seat-belts, and the fitting of them in cars became mandatory around 1974 or 1975, this drastically reduced the deaths on our roads. As far as I'm aware America's cars are fitted with seat-belts as standard but the wearing of these belts is still optional......Stupid America!
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@markpenrice6253 My 2003 Ford BA Falcon Futura station wagon, the stereo "carked" it late last year and the auto electricians I go to managed to get replacements(had to be the same type of unit for the same BA model as the stereo formed part of an overall dashboard unit, the LCD display showed not only radio and CD status but air-con, demister and other device settings as well). First replacement "hiccupped" on playing CDs(sticks at a point in the song: "dududududududu......" then might jump forward or back)..... second replacement did exactly the same..... so I gave up on the idea(for now) of getting the stereo "sorted". It wasn't the auto electricians' fault, it was the company supplying the product that didn't bother to test the players before dispatch. But I strongly suspect the stereo radio/CD unit to be Philips-built. I've NEVER trusted Philips after the TV set my parents bought in 1963, a Philips, was FOREVER playing up. I've grown to HATE the Philips brand and avoid like the plague anything that carries the brand(except for records, LPs, CDs and 45rpm singles, because Philips didn't make those).
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5:06 - Turn indicator arrows, positioned exactly as they should be, either side of the speedometer. This car's console puts that of the crappy Peogot to utter shame. The three-digit counter(with black numeral on white for tenths of a UK mile, is a resettable trip counter. Speedometer has UK imperial MPH around the outside and Euro Km/h on the inside if you're planning a trip over to Germany(Deutschland), Austria(Österreich), Switzerland(Die Schweitz), Italy or elsewhere, other than France, that is!
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@Wreck-Gar You would never get a Peugot 205 in Australia, our very high manufacturing standards of the day would bar entry into this market of such a poorly-designed-and-built car as this.
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@Wreck-Gar My Ford Falcon is a really nice drive! If driving to Newcastle, there's a section of Nelson Bay Road that goes through what's called "The Sandhills" it's part of a dual carriageway(two lanes per direction) that starts just off the roundabout at Gan Gan Road, Anna Bay and is an 80 Km/h zone until about 200 metres past the Marsh Road turnoff. At this point the speed limit is 100 Km/h. This is where I can turn on my Cruise Control, set it to the 100 Km/h setting and just hum along nicely at a set speed and take my foot off the accelerator for a short while. Peugot did have a presence in Australia but if that 205 model is here in whatever configuration at all, it's a private import because the model was not intended for the Australian market. My Camry did not have Cruise control but did have Overdrive, a button on the gear lever activated it and when activated, the tachometer dropped a few hundred revs per minute, the engine didn't have to work as hard, a saving of petrol.
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@amnril England has had cars as big as the falcon before and they seemed to have coped, even without power assisted steering, and that's something that's been a standard feature of Ford's Falcon and Fairlane range ever since at least 1990, if not earlier!
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@iboswell My last three cars were Falcon Futuras. EF Sedan, BA Station Wagon and I currently have a BF Station Wagon. Prior to the EF sedan I had a Toyota Camry Station Wagon and it's from that car that my preference for station wagons arose. All that extra space in the back, regardless of which make of car.
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What software are you using to produce this video? It's as jerky and jumpy as hell!
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@sarran1955 ????????
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The best you can do is to, while actually driving, and shooting the video of your driving, save your commentary to the editing stage. Record your narration after you've edited your clips together(oh, and learn to use transitions for smooth segues from one sequence to the next).
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