Is Captain Slow correct?
>>28793798I own a diesel car. I love it personally but if you're looking for fun, a diesel is not where you're going to have the most of it (although they can still be fun if tuned). If you're looking for a torquey yet economical daily driver, a diesel's great. The motorway cruise really is unbeatable, and I get 1000km to a tank of fuel.
>>28793798https://youtu.be/rIvJ6XyFgM0?si=6O69y4WCBiVbF3z3No he’s a faggit
>>28793798Does it matter?
>>28793798Yes.
>>28793798There's a guy near me with a ratty Jetta TDI with a hood exit. idk about liberal but he seems pretty free spirited
I enjoy both gas and diesel engines as they both have their positive points.
>>28793798Someone get this nigga behind the wheel of my coworkers modded 2004 Silverado
>>28793811>t.
>>28793882>rolling coal tune>24x12 Chinese chrome wheels with Amazon forcecum low profile off-road tread tires (rears are bald from burnouts)>front wheel bearings growling>plastic rocker panel covers to hide the rust >torn driver's seat Snorefest
>>28793811>and I get 1000km to a tank of fuel.Peon mentality.If fuel mileage affects your quality of life then you've failed somewhere.
>>28793974Fuel mileage affects most people's quality of life in basically everywhere outside of the US. I'm really happy that you can benignly live your silver spoon life away but the vast majority of adults out there are living real lives where things like fuel economy do matter to their day to day.
>>28793888nice tripsalso fuck you im 30
>>28793798Yes.Diesels are not good for driving satisfaction. That's not to say they don't have other positive qualities and use cases, but they are objectively less satisfying to DRIVE when you're doing it for the sake of driving.
>>28793882spic
>dieselMiles per Gallon>petrolSmiles per Kilometer
>>28793798this nigga hating on sandwiches?
Diesel? Isn't that the shit tractors run on? Why would anyone buy a tractor car?
>>2879403230 going on 85.I bet you have strong opinions on railway locomotives. You strike me as the kind of chap that would prefer the Class A3 due to its traditional appearance despite the Class A4 being faster.
I just think diesel is neat
>>28794101Well, carbs are bad after all.
>>28793798He's right, but modern turbo petrols basically feel like diesels anyway. NA or supercharged for me.
>>28793798he obviously hasn't eaten a sammich
Diesel p2p beats petrol. Even a small low power diesel engine pulls harder than an equivalent petrol engine.I routinely destroy supposed "performance" cars who wanna race between the lights with my diesel.
>>28794260>Diesel p2p beats petrol. Even a small low power diesel engine pulls harder than an equivalent petrol engine.No it doesn't. A Golf GTI shits all over a GTD.There was a brief window in the late 2000s-early 10s where some diesels were more powerful than their equivalent petrol cars but that hasn't been the case for 10 years. A 340i will pull away from a 335d at almost any speed.
>>28793798>a sandwich is joylessI know James is autistic but he should at least know how to make a delicious sandwich at his age.
>>28793817I would love to see more sporty diesel engines in hot hatches or the like.
Yesterday cpt slow posted a video where he gets high on edibles with his daughter.Doing drugs with your kids with no shame? As based as it gets.
>>28793798>https://youtu.be/wQjbtRvD3cQ
>>28793798diesel is for trucks, which make terrible dailies, but sandwiches aren't boring THOUGH??
>>28794287>https://youtu.be/fZlmHPxzQZg>https://youtu.be/6jNndp_5m20>https://youtu.be/biRksy2GrxU
>>28794109nta but I'm also 30 and yes I do prefer the A3s.
>>28793798He sounds like someone who has never heard of Gale Banks.
>>28793798>idiotic boomer has never had a diesel truck 4wd tractor mower etc.absolute moron they are goat for construction heavy industries too and generators
>>28794692>for a carBegone ESL / FAS retard
The only based thing you can do in a diesel is use red diesel on public roads
>>28794752fuck off niggerfucks
>>28794771It's not my fault you're a no reading comprehension brainrotted moron.
>>28794550>t.
>>28794685Yeah, also being a brit he should have knowledge of the OM606.Diesels never quite got a fair chance and until the emissions jew goes away, they never will.Honorable mention to that V12 diesel Audi ran at the 24 hours of LeMans that won because the maximum allowable fuel tank size was the same regardless of fuel, and then they beat everybody on fuel stops. And were still really competitive on the track. Fuck you FIM for nerfing diesels after that.
>>28794101he's british. what do you think he's been taught all his life what they are?
>>28793798James May is ALWAYS right
>>28794875i have an idea. anyone who has a problem with emissions has to spend x amount of time in a closed space with a running car. if you make it out after that time, you can completely rewrite the emissions rules for every country on the planet. otherwise, you can't.
>>28794922modern emissions rules*
I hated diesel truck engines before it was cool. Now it's a common sentiment and the used market is absolutely flooded with 100k miles diesel engines which we all know are just ticking time bombs.
>>28793798>May: a petrol engine is so clearly superior to a diesel for a car>for a car>everyone here bringing up trucks
>>28793798>Is Captain Slow correct?He is wrong about sandwiches.
>>28793798I hope the three top Gear guys pass away in amazing motoring accidents. Not because I'd want them to die, but because it'd be nice and poetic. Id also settle for Jeremy getting crushed by a tractor
>>28794953Yeah Americans are fucking dumb and can't read, what do you expect?
>>28795000 "car" is short for carriage and "truck" is short for carriage truck, which is what you call a horse carriage with a load bed instead of a passenger compartment. anything with at least 4 wheels is in fact a "car" regardless of its size or use.
>>28794922>>28794923Hi yes I have a problem with modern emissions rulesWhy are the regulators retarded?Can't use European standards in the US because "oh it puts out too much NOx" but if the car gets ten mpre miles per gallon then it puts out less emissions overall even if this one number you care about is larger than you'd likeHonestly they'd save billions of dollars across many nations if we could just agree that anything that meets a first world standard (US FMVSS, Euro NCAP, Japanese whatever system they use) is substantially similar enough to each other to be sold without changes other than LHD/RHD related ones.
>>28795341They don't want to save money. Saving money isn't the goal. Half of these emissions rules act as protectionism rackets. They want to make rules such that their local car companies do well in their market and other car companies have to struggle to get in.
>>28794101You know he probably just does White Guy sandwiches>two slices of the driest, coarsest, wheat bread imaginable because that's what he was fed as a kid and never put any more thought into it.>Two slices of processed turkey roll because more would be too extravagant>no condiments or cheese because it's not worth the effort
>>28793798>>28794101>>28794917>>28795450weird thing is he did a bunch of sandwich making videos on his foodtribe youtube channel. i thought he's a sandwich enthusiast.
>>28794540>doesn’t fill his glass>glass has a tall straight section for nosing the head>poured with no head>leaves the 12oz macrobrew bottle next to it so he can top off his underfilled underfoamed beer>has a secondary drink, in a travel mug, on the dining table>puts half his sandwich on one plate on top of his japshit peppers and one half on a hash brown>plates don’t match>requires five coasters>coasters don’t match>requires 2 keys>keys don’t match>eats sandwich with a fork>sets the fork on his plate because he knows the table is dirty (its his own table)ultimate dining machine, he is not
I really like my diesel, boys
>oh isnt that car pretty and elegant start up>KRR KRR KRR KRR
>>28795514i like it's shocked face
>>28795528Can't unsee... THANKS ANON
>>28795526It's a tractor engine. It doesn't belong in cars.
Just got myself a 2005 Skoda Octavia TDi. What am I letting myself in for, lads?
>>28796584It is so nice to drive. 21 years old and so smooth. Relaxed. It makes you a calmer and better driver. Hugely fuel efficient too.Will take a picture soon but it is dark out.
>>28795040Then what is this?
>>28795341Lemme fill you in real quick:Emissions and safety regs from the government side are a means of control and forcing the public to buy new thing to keep line going up. Emissions and safety regs from the automaker side are actually actively lobbied for by major players in the automotive industry because it makes it impossible to compete with them since they have the size and infrastructure already developed to send off 20 cars for crash testing and spend tens of thousands of man hours making them meet emissions specs. Emissions regs have little to do with what makes sense, what saves money, or what saves penguins and coral.
>>28796671reliant was the king of weird
>>28795341I was looking at a 370z for my next car and wondered if they had a GPF in the euro 6 models (tax is 3x more on the older models).It turns out they didn't because particulate emissions on old-fashioned port-injected engines are so low they can pass euro 6 regs without it.big nose clan at it again
>>28795502You don't know what you're talking about, do you?
>>28796671Unusual German-registered Robin Reliant. Could be driven on a motorcycle licence too. Is one og the 'A' catagories both motorcyclists and car drivers get. Fiberglass.
>>28794006fuel economy literally is meaningless. It's already priced into the value of the car. You can buy an old v8 gas guzzler and it'll be cheaper because of that. Until you start driving over ~200,000 miles that additional cost of fuel is generally offset by the cheaper price / higher depreciation vs newer engines. It's only an issue for people buying new cars, and people buying new cars are rich enough for it not to matter (or they're retards and deserve it).
>>28793798Seems right to me. Anytime people talk about their car being diesel, it's always about "i get great mpg on the highway!" or some other variation on fuel efficiency.
>>28796711Based E60, F10 and E39 (E46 maybe?) enjoyer.
>>28793798He's mostly correct but if I had a diesel like this in my car I would drive the shit out of it and be cumming the whole timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2zwd1iazvU
>>28794102Because gasoline is for poofs.
>30,000km service interval as opposed to 15,000km>1000km range as opposed to 600km>diesel heater>hvo100>tractor noisei like my diesel car
He’s right. It’s a money saving option that doesn’t really save you much money. They’re owned by the sort of people who like to think they have somehow beat the system by saving a bit per month on fuel costs, but actually have something that is more expensive to run and worse to drive in every way
I'm starting to think this eunuch never liked cars to begin with.
>>28794032>also fuck you im 30
>>28795467He and JC are strong examples of the type of critical journalist who have written so many opinions there's no consistency left remaining.
>>28797212Diesels were great when the fuel was cheaper, but then the fucking government mandated “ultra low sulphuric diesel fuel” and shitty DEF fluid, and now filling up a diesel is twice as expensive as filling up a gasoline tank of the same size.Fuck the EPA with a bottlebrush.
>>28796584if it is anything like the other 1.9 PD engines,400k mile+ engine with the head blowing at 250k miles.altought 2005 it should be dumb enough to not notice a blocked egr valve, so go ahead.You can flash it yourself to 170hp with an ali express usb adapter>>28797085yea V8 high displacements outside the US are soooo great>get raped in taxes>get raped in insurance>the joy of filling up every week>bUt aTlEsTiTwAsOnLy 2gRaNdMoReThAnThEv6
>>28797456jesus christ, diesel here is 1/4 cheaper per liter
>>28793817>make rules (at VAG's request) that specifically incentivise diesels are a marketing ploy>"z0MG guise a diesel won that means it's the super bestest evarrrr!!!!!???"
>>28794922Here's an idea too. Anyone who likes electric cars has to stand inside the firebox of a coal plant.
>>28793798Old diesel good new diesel bad.I'm not even doing some kind of old man impersonation. Diesel before Euro4 - will munch on everything. Old engine oil is good enough for it. They were not dynamic, they often didn't even have any kind of turbo or compressors or anything. You pushed the accelerator pedal and waited, and waited, and waited. But this fucking thing would last forever while being abused. Start from 3rd gear and just move, it doesn't give a fuck. Forget to change engine oil once or twice it doesn't give a fuck. Meanwhile modern diesel - a fart sets off DPF check, any fuel economy goes out of the window because of ad blue, don't even dare mixing anything into the fuel. Yes it has turbos and compressors and it'll be more dynamic but you can have them in gasoline engine too.
He is absolutely right. All diesel engine cars are the same and they feel terrible to drive and even worse to listen to.There's a reason why you were made fun of if you rolled up to a car meet with a diesel engine before the 2000s, they're boring engines for your grandpa's tractor and mom's grocery getter.
>>28798889Don't forget that Audi put €50M into the R10's development (in 2005 money btw) and their nearest competitor was some old French dude who was running one chassis surviving on sponsorship.
>>28797085big V8 is already more expensive than a 1.6 TDI, what the fuck are you on about
>>28797384well he doesn't he likes motorcycles he even did modeling for magazine in the 70's using a time machine ;^)
