|
Post by fretslider on May 7, 2013 16:50:02 GMT -5
Nah, a hood is what you put on your head in inclement weather! well, a bonnet is what we put on a baby girls head!!! You can always put the hood in the boot
|
|
|
Post by fretslider on May 7, 2013 16:51:38 GMT -5
I guess some people can't press a pedal and move a stick at the same time.... shutup!!!!! It's when I get to the top of a hill, have to stop, and then go again.......the damn car starts to roll backwards and I freak so that is why I hate a manual. I used to drive our 4 speed 1972 Ford Courier to the ocean up and down hills and was fine with the shifting and all.......it's only when stopping at an intersection on a hill I have trouble. It helps if you put the brake on while you get the biting point on the clutch.... maybe it's a man thing
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 21:06:07 GMT -5
well, a bonnet is what we put on a baby girls head!!! You can always put the hood in the boot otherwise known as "trunk"? boot is something I wear on my feet while I'm making a phone call from the "telephone booth" instead of a telephone box
|
|
|
Post by beth on May 8, 2013 0:47:01 GMT -5
How difficult a manual clutch is depends on how long you've been driving with one because after a time you don't need to think about it (duh) ... it's automatic reaction. Also, depends on the car. Some are much easier than others.
|
|
|
Post by fretslider on May 8, 2013 2:10:53 GMT -5
How difficult a manual clutch is depends on how long you've been driving with one because after a time you don't need to think about it (duh) ... it's automatic reaction. Also, depends on the car. Some are much easier than others. 1 - Get a decent car 2 - Learn to multitask
|
|
|
Post by fretslider on May 8, 2013 2:16:50 GMT -5
You can always put the hood in the boot otherwise known as "trunk"? boot is something I wear on my feet while I'm making a phone call from the "telephone booth" instead of a telephone box Right Cheffy! Have you ever considered what parts of a vehicle are called in other languages? Drive shaft in Italian translates as the motor tree - l'albero del motore. With perseverance the USA will overcome its inability to name the bonnet and boot correctly
|
|
Tempus Fugit
Global Facilitator
Contributing Member
Science - making religion look stupid since the 17th century.
Posts: 7,474
|
Post by Tempus Fugit on May 8, 2013 6:31:31 GMT -5
Nissans are very good cars, TF. I know. But all the ones I've seen in the US have Dodge engines in them - and, as I pointed out already and to be characteristically blunt, they're crap. For example, take the Nissan Stanza. The one I drove had a 3.2l Dodge engine in it. The European version was called the Sunny and typically came with a 1.6l engine that gives it the same performance as that equivalent-era Stanza. Go figure...!! When Nissan first broke the European market (as Datsun) they were actually very rubbish cars. Regular rot-boxes with reliability issues as a result. The problem was that they were built in Japan to Japanese spec. No-one thought to consider that, whilst Europe and Japan both have a temperate climate, Europe is much wetter and in the UK you are never more than seventy-four miles from the sea so there's a lot more salt around, too. The grade of steel that was good in Japan was not good in Europe and Datsun died on its arse in the mid-80s. The designers worked out their mistake, built Euro models for the European climate and started to open factories in Europe to cut shipping and manufacturing costs, branding themselves as Nissan to break the link with the awful reputation associated with their old name. And so cheap (because they were locally built), reliable (because they no longer rotted the second they left the factory) and efficient cars became widely available. Toyota came next along with Honda and Suzuki. Japanese car manufacturers dramatically reduced unemployment in the north when the Thatcher government did deals on corporate taxes to entice the factories to Tyneside rather than France or Germany.
|
|
Tempus Fugit
Global Facilitator
Contributing Member
Science - making religion look stupid since the 17th century.
Posts: 7,474
|
Post by Tempus Fugit on May 8, 2013 6:36:48 GMT -5
You can always put the hood in the boot otherwise known as "trunk"? boot is something I wear on my feet while I'm making a phone call from the "telephone booth" instead of a telephone box We don't really have many of those now that everyone has a mobile 'phone. A lot got ripped out to stop drug pushers arranging deals on lines that, whilst monitorable, couldn't be used to trace the pusher, too.
|
|
Tempus Fugit
Global Facilitator
Contributing Member
Science - making religion look stupid since the 17th century.
Posts: 7,474
|
Post by Tempus Fugit on May 8, 2013 6:43:15 GMT -5
I do wonder how the cargo area got called the boot in the first place. Still, as a rabid nationalist, I do insist on the preservation, pre-eminence and correct use of the mother tongue so boot it is! In 1994 France passed a law securing the predominance of French in France. For example, adverts cannot contain foreign words if a French equivalent is in the dictionary. Brand names that are foreign words are only permitted if there is an asterisk indicating a footnote that gives the French equivalent. And so it goes on - public information is only permitted in French, etc. Over here, by contrast, people advocate not insisting that pupils learn to spell or punctuate correctly and even use txt spk in exams (so, good grounding for writing that job application, then!) and instead of insisting immigrants learn English a fortune is spent on interpreters and printing public information and forms in just about every language and alphabet going. 'Cos it's racist to preserve your culture, innit... So, it's "boot" even if I don't really know why and can't be arsed to look it up!
|
|
Tempus Fugit
Global Facilitator
Contributing Member
Science - making religion look stupid since the 17th century.
Posts: 7,474
|
Post by Tempus Fugit on May 8, 2013 6:57:45 GMT -5
I love my Camry and it was assembled in Japan.....it has been a good car for me with very few repairs. Right now gas is about $3.79 regular unleaded......least it was two weeks ago lol £6.11 a gallon (granted, our gallons are slightly bigger than yours but nonetheless - sheesh!). One shouldn't complain, I suppose, as when I went away at the beginning of April it was £6.28 a gallon. We buy by the litre so that's £1.34/l and £1.38/l respectively. And to think it wasn't that long ago that we used to protest by blockading refineries if it went over £0.80/l!!!! People look back on the time when it was under a quid a litre with nostalgia these days.
|
|
Tempus Fugit
Global Facilitator
Contributing Member
Science - making religion look stupid since the 17th century.
Posts: 7,474
|
Post by Tempus Fugit on May 8, 2013 7:00:36 GMT -5
Preferences. What happened to standards? Well, in this country they were heavily dumbed down by a treasonous government.
|
|
|
Post by markindurham on May 8, 2013 7:13:40 GMT -5
Nissans are very good cars, TF. I know. But all the ones I've seen in the US have Dodge engines in them - and, as I pointed out already and to be characteristically blunt, they're crap. For example, take the Nissan Stanza. The one I drove had a 3.2l Dodge engine in it. The European version was called the Sunny and typically came with a 1.6l engine that gives it the same performance as that equivalent-era Stanza. Go figure...!! When Nissan first broke the European market (as Datsun) they were actually very rubbish cars. Regular rot-boxes with reliability issues as a result. The problem was that they were built in Japan to Japanese spec. No-one thought to consider that, whilst Europe and Japan both have a temperate climate, Europe is much wetter and in the UK you are never more than seventy-four miles from the sea so there's a lot more salt around, too. The grade of steel that was good in Japan was not good in Europe and Datsun died on its arse in the mid-80s. The designers worked out their mistake, built Euro models for the European climate and started to open factories in Europe to cut shipping and manufacturing costs, branding themselves as Nissan to break the link with the awful reputation associated with their old name. And so cheap (because they were locally built), reliable (because they no longer rotted the second they left the factory) and efficient cars became widely available. Toyota came next along with Honda and Suzuki. Japanese car manufacturers dramatically reduced unemployment in the north when the Thatcher government did deals on corporate taxes to entice the factories to Tyneside rather than France or Germany. Most of Japan is less than 74 miles from the sea, you know... but the Japs don't throw salt on their roads like we do, which was a big factor in Datsuns dropping to bits over here too. Also rust-proofing was to a lower standard, primarily because at 5 years old, Japan insists on cars being pretty much stripped to the last nut & bolt, which is why it's cheaper to the Japs to flog their car to their local friendly dealer, who then ships 'em off to the likes of Trinidad for resale... Ah yes, the evil Thatcher - she who hated the North-East so much that she sorted out Nissan going to Wearside, so that the wicked Labour voters of Mackem-land could have jobs... How very dare she And there would have been shipbuilding jobs in Sunderland too, except that Brussels said we couldn't give subsidies. So, we didn't, being good little serfs, whereas the likes of Germany continued subsidising their shipyards... some things just don't change, & the UK's adherence to the rantings of Brussels is one of them
|
|
Tempus Fugit
Global Facilitator
Contributing Member
Science - making religion look stupid since the 17th century.
Posts: 7,474
|
Post by Tempus Fugit on May 8, 2013 7:30:03 GMT -5
How difficult a manual clutch is depends on how long you've been driving with one because after a time you don't need to think about it (duh) ... it's automatic reaction. Also, depends on the car. Some are much easier than others. The older the car, the looser the clutch. New cars can be a bit stiff - but, then again, if you've bought a shiny new motor you'd want everything to be properly tight and fresh-feeling!
|
|
Tempus Fugit
Global Facilitator
Contributing Member
Science - making religion look stupid since the 17th century.
Posts: 7,474
|
Post by Tempus Fugit on May 8, 2013 9:09:56 GMT -5
I know. But all the ones I've seen in the US have Dodge engines in them - and, as I pointed out already and to be characteristically blunt, they're crap. For example, take the Nissan Stanza. The one I drove had a 3.2l Dodge engine in it. The European version was called the Sunny and typically came with a 1.6l engine that gives it the same performance as that equivalent-era Stanza. Go figure...!! When Nissan first broke the European market (as Datsun) they were actually very rubbish cars. Regular rot-boxes with reliability issues as a result. The problem was that they were built in Japan to Japanese spec. No-one thought to consider that, whilst Europe and Japan both have a temperate climate, Europe is much wetter and in the UK you are never more than seventy-four miles from the sea so there's a lot more salt around, too. The grade of steel that was good in Japan was not good in Europe and Datsun died on its arse in the mid-80s. The designers worked out their mistake, built Euro models for the European climate and started to open factories in Europe to cut shipping and manufacturing costs, branding themselves as Nissan to break the link with the awful reputation associated with their old name. And so cheap (because they were locally built), reliable (because they no longer rotted the second they left the factory) and efficient cars became widely available. Toyota came next along with Honda and Suzuki. Japanese car manufacturers dramatically reduced unemployment in the north when the Thatcher government did deals on corporate taxes to entice the factories to Tyneside rather than France or Germany. Most of Japan is less than 74 miles from the sea, you know... but the Japs don't throw salt on their roads like we do, which was a big factor in Datsuns dropping to bits over here too. Also rust-proofing was to a lower standard, primarily because at 5 years old, Japan insists on cars being pretty much stripped to the last nut & bolt, which is why it's cheaper to the Japs to flog their car to their local friendly dealer, who then ships 'em off to the likes of Trinidad for resale... Ah yes, the evil Thatcher - she who hated the North-East so much that she sorted out Nissan going to Wearside, so that the wicked Labour voters of Mackem-land could have jobs... How very dare she And there would have been shipbuilding jobs in Sunderland too, except that Brussels said we couldn't give subsidies. So, we didn't, being good little serfs, whereas the likes of Germany continued subsidising their shipyards... some things just don't change, & the UK's adherence to the rantings of Brussels is one of them But they also have a drier climate. Well, that's what the Nissan bod said when my engineering course went on a field trip to their research centre up the motorway (although the Vauxhall one was literally around the corner).
|
|
|
Post by markindurham on May 8, 2013 10:15:48 GMT -5
Most of Japan is less than 74 miles from the sea, you know... but the Japs don't throw salt on their roads like we do, which was a big factor in Datsuns dropping to bits over here too. Also rust-proofing was to a lower standard, primarily because at 5 years old, Japan insists on cars being pretty much stripped to the last nut & bolt, which is why it's cheaper to the Japs to flog their car to their local friendly dealer, who then ships 'em off to the likes of Trinidad for resale... Ah yes, the evil Thatcher - she who hated the North-East so much that she sorted out Nissan going to Wearside, so that the wicked Labour voters of Mackem-land could have jobs... How very dare she And there would have been shipbuilding jobs in Sunderland too, except that Brussels said we couldn't give subsidies. So, we didn't, being good little serfs, whereas the likes of Germany continued subsidising their shipyards... some things just don't change, & the UK's adherence to the rantings of Brussels is one of them But they also have a drier climate. Well, that's what the Nissan bod said when my engineering course went on a field trip to their research centre up the motorway (although the Vauxhall one was literally around the corner). Yes, there isn't the salty air to the same extent that we have - as their prevailing winds tend to come off the land, not have 3000 miles across the Atlantic to absorb salt from the sea...
|
|