As it stands - my daily commute is 80 miles each way. And most of that is on the M6 in England which is probably our 2nd worst road for congestion and accidents. A good run takes me about 95 minutes, but it’s not uncommon to be 2 hours. I’ve been doing that for 7 months now as I’m a contractor.

In some cases, you can go up to 8,000 to 10,000 miles between intervals (although personally I think that last one is a bit on the high side.)

In a word - almost.  It can do 33.5" (850mm officially on the UK website) so it’s pretty close.

That’s because they’re exactly where you would expect to find them on a car of that age :-P

Sorry Torch - as much as I love your articles I have to make a comment here.

I think if the customer wants it they can get it.

Agreed. What information are they basing this assumption on?

Volvo put this into production about 3 years ago on their D5 engine - called PowerPulse.

But it might not be because of that. They have stated that the UK plant & the Turkey plant is closing - the Turkey plant can’t be because of Brexit.

This used to be my summer weekends. I was heavily involved with being a Clerk of the Course for a well known vintage car club (until they treated my family appallingly so I switched my allegiance to the Bugatti Owners Club & MGCC) so spent every other weekend from April to October at events with these cars - love them!

That car was a land speed record holder and the owner (Mark Walker) is an excellent driver of old cars - he definitely doesn’t hang around!

Be very, very careful with this if you have a breather system that recirculates in to the intake system before the compressor wheel. We were investigating water injection at work and the additional water vapour coming through the breather system into the intake ate the compressor wheel.

I completely agree. For 99% of car usage bigger sidewalls deliver as much grip as anyone needs and better ride comfort.

This is one hell of a thread resurrection! I had completely forgotten about this.

Yes - but only to a certain extent.

They are gorgeous cars - it would certainly be one of my first “lottery win” purchases (in SS guise of course).

There was also a 2nd “tank” - the 57G. A bit later in time but certainly a successful car since it won the ‘36 French GP & the ‘37 Le Mans. And a bit prettier to boot (to my eyes anyway)

How do you work that one out?  Turbos have massive low-end torque - especially diesels.  They generally outperform supercharged engines by a massive margin at the bottom end.

Yeah - it definitely isn’t as good as the US system. Personally, I think we should have just taken the US 5-cycle methodology and not wasted our time coming up with the WLTP but there we go.

No - in Europe they don’t release as much data as they do in US so a lot of the individual data isn’t available.