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[Luke352]

Yeah Romain was always trying different brake combinations and mixes of suppliers because he struggled with braking.

[Luke352]

Just asked nopics this question. Her opinion was they should have just dropped the Holden name entirely and just called them what they were Opel/Vauxhall whatever they are. Could have kept Holden for...

[Luke352]

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But from articles I've read the prediction is electric vehicles are probably the way for city stuff. But with current and projected battery technology this won't be practical...

[Luke352]

I think they should have gone with a different name as well. The people who were the Commodore people weren't going to buy the new one which leaves the people (mainly the wives) who don't want to buy...

[Luke352]

Matt Farrah has been posting some photos on Insta from the R&T PCOTY testing. I'll stand by my earlier statement about it looking a bit odd, although the orangey red on it doesn't help. It just looks...

[Luke352]

I'm not sure where this comes from because people keep saying it.
But you can service a Lease car wherever you want, you can insure it with whoever you want, and at one point I had three different...

[Luke352]

I will add I'm not sure what people are on about with paying extra for fuel and other stuff because lease.

I have a fuel card and I get charged whatever the pump shows. Minus GST.
Same...

[Luke352]

I'll give my example.

Car purchased for $28000 with 5yr lease term.

Operating costs fixed we'll use the budget figures I set for the lease which work out to $6745 a year or $562...

[Luke352]

See comments above in red....

[Luke352]

But they ended up sticking with the upgrades....

[Luke352]

Yeah the emissions data from CER is fine. More it was the overall mix number of 0.9t that was off. That sheet you've linked you can see the two Loy Yang plants which are 2 of the 3 worst. They are...

[Luke352]

The GVG guide you guys are referencing is actually 4 years out of date. It is using emissions data for power generation from 2015. Which was prior to Hazelwood and I believe 1 or 2 other old and dirty...

[Luke352]

The Taycan was apparently a detuned version/lower power version of the production car and running stock summer tires. Can't compare the Tesla time at all....

[Luke352]

I hate to agree with perthy but even if you look at the pretty shitty fuel mix we have for our power generation in Australia the EV's still come out ahead. The studies i've looked at over the years show...

[Luke352]

This^^ Engine load is semi independent of RPM, but to do 120km/hr with such a minorish change is going to require similar hp which unless the efficiency curve of the engine changes much with the 150rpm...