Adonis.:
Yeah, wouldn’t fancy the Porsche, my Vauxhall “family car” is quite handy at blowing them into the weeds. 
A.
Pah! Wait till you get a go in Ford’s “family car”!
‘Living The Dream’ will always be short lived. We’re all human, ambitious, and as truck drivers always want to be somewhere else. So as soon as we attain one goal we will be looking for the next one.
Don’t we drive because we’re curious to see what’s over the next horizon? So it is with work, jobs and all the rest of it.
Is it a Chinese proverb? ‘It’s better to travel hopefully, than it is to arrive’? Should be a truckers proverb, especially if you’re going to a RDC !
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AndrewG:
Zafira VXR or Astra VXR?
Vectra, only milk and juice come in 2 litres.
Pah, Fords… I can easily keep up with the Focus RS, not bad when mine cost a quarter of the price. Haven’t had a play with a new one mind 
A.
Adonis.:
AndrewG:
Zafira VXR or Astra VXR?
Vectra, only milk and juice come in 2 litres.
Pah, Fords… I can easily keep up with the Focus RS, not bad when mine cost a quarter of the price. Haven’t had a play with a new one mind
A.
Don’t bother annoying the new RS Focus or a Golf R. You will feel small
eagerbeaver:
Adonis.:
AndrewG:
Zafira VXR or Astra VXR?
Vectra, only milk and juice come in 2 litres.
Pah, Fords… I can easily keep up with the Focus RS, not bad when mine cost a quarter of the price. Haven’t had a play with a new one mind
A.
Don’t bother annoying the new RS Focus or a Golf R. You will feel small
I’ve already had to pretend to not have been trying when I thought I was having a go with a GTI, which turned out to be an R. 
It’s still a savage beast for a ton and half of family car.
A.
Adonis.:
eagerbeaver:
Adonis.:
AndrewG:
Zafira VXR or Astra VXR?
Vectra, only milk and juice come in 2 litres.
Pah, Fords… I can easily keep up with the Focus RS, not bad when mine cost a quarter of the price. Haven’t had a play with a new one mind
A.
Don’t bother annoying the new RS Focus or a Golf R. You will feel small
I’ve already had to pretend to not have been trying when I thought I was having a go with a GTI, which turned out to be an R.
It’s still a savage beast for a ton and half of family car.
A.
Just booked my 18 month old ST in for a remap, 250bhp was plenty of fun, dread to think what 300 will be like!
Just got to remember though…
‘You can go fast… We go everywhere…’
Lol. Ask the Maoster how a 300 bhp Golf R shifts with a rodent at the wheel
He is insisting on a taxi next time
the maoster:
eagerbeaver:
Lol. Ask the Maoster how a 300 bhp Golf R shifts with a rodent at the wheel
He is insisting on a taxi next time
I have no idea how it goes as I’d climbed into the backseat and buried my head under the carpet within 200 yards!
Actually it went like the proverbial ■■■ off a shovel (even if your navigational skills left a lot to be desired!) 5 times around the roundabout wasn’t it?
I’m one of the new breed of steering wheel attendants mate. Had to wait for a sat-nav signal
(Why do they always drop out just as you come to a roundabout?)
Yeah right! I think you were just trying to take me to Chester services to sample their famous coffee!
Captain Caveman 76:
Just booked my 18 month old ST in for a remap, 250bhp was plenty of fun, dread to think what 300 will be like!
My Vectra is just shy of 310bhp and a mental amount of torque, that’s with a really aggressive map, looking at a different map when I get the rest of the bits on it.
Remapping is the first thing I’d do with any new car I got, totally transforms them.
A.
Living the dream is being retired, with a reasonable pension, great marriage of 52 years, luxury caravan and a Range Rover classic to pull it!
Oh, and when not in the said caravan, living in the best little spot in Britain!
Is it one of the V6 ones Adonis? Go like the clappers they do. Do have some strange handling foibles though, they swap ends with no warning for fun.
If that hasn’t happened to you then you ain’t trying hard enough.
Its Friday 1830, I am home with the family till Monday at 0600. Family time is what I call living the dream. A truck is a tool , no more than a builders trowel. I cant understand bling.
the maoster:
Is it one of the V6 ones Adonis? Go like the clappers they do. Do have some strange handling foibles though, they swap ends with no warning for fun.
If that hasn’t happened to you then you ain’t trying hard enough.
Yes mate, 2.8 turbo’d V6. The idea that they have bad handling comes from the Top Gear episode where he booted the hole out it with the TC off and tried turning, of course a FWD car will understeer in those conditions! An LSD is on the list which is apparently completely car changing upgrade.
Mine is on Bilstein Shocks and dropped a bit, always got good rubber on it and it sticks like jobby, its a very planted car but will try to torque steer you across the road if you’re keen with the loud pedal.
It had budget ditchfinders on it when I bought it and that was a different story would spin in 4th and did understeer if you were going hard and the back end would occasionally decide on wanting to go walkabout All in all its a cracking car, minus the £500 a year tax and around 20mpg
A.
They are a cracking and often overlooked car mate. They had one at Croft as a course car during a different life when I was a trackday instructor, I used to drive it on track inspections after oil spills etc. Spent a lot of time backwards getting recovered from kitty litter!
That was probably just me being a crap driver though.
If living the dream is a Scania with frilly curtains and your BHP on the number plate then you should probably have a word with yourself
