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Old 7 Dec 2016, 17:40 (Ref:3694566)   #32
coppice
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coppice is going for a new lap record!coppice is going for a new lap record!coppice is going for a new lap record!coppice is going for a new lap record!coppice is going for a new lap record!coppice is going for a new lap record!
Yup- they are made out of plastic - which tends to last longer than the recycled baked bin tins most British Leyland cars employed.

More expensive to maintain ??? My late father's Triumph Vitesse (to name but one blast from the past )needed oil changes every 5k miles or less and near constant attention to plugs and points; it started rusting at 18months and synchro on second also knackered by then; overdrive worked intermittently. It was a sports saloon which had zero grip in the wet and not much more in the dry; the windows bowed out at 70 mph and the engine noise was pleasant but deafening .It struggled to seat 4 adults

My daily driver has a 3 cylinder 1 litre turbo and seats 4 big people ;it has 125bhp -25 % more than 2 litre Vitesse; it cruises in silence at 90mph and does 45mpg - not the 23 mpg of the Triumph. It needs a service every 12k miles ...

Good old days...forget it !
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