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Please don't tar all journalists with the same brush; some of us know what we're talking about. :whistle:
I always make a bee-line for the engineers if they've been made available at a launch. Having to listen to the sanitised crap that oozes out of the mouths of most PR people makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.
On the subject of power/torque ratios, they're meaningless, in my opinion. Is it true to say the Jimny doesn't have much power? Yes, it is. Does it cause it a problem? Certainly not off-road, and I'd argue it's hardly a handicap on-road, either. It does have a problem with its emissions, though, but that's another topic.
Lambert wrote: Sorry peeps but I'm not sure if I recognise the description of the driving dynamics of Jimny being bandied about here. Zebedee is a completely stock Jimny vvt auto 1.3. He isn't quite as quick off the mark as Ermintrude but how could he be. What he is though is every bit as capable of making decent cross country progress as any other vehicle in general British driving conditions ie traffic. He is never at the front of a queue of cars unless he has just overtaken the slow one and is pulling away. He can easily hold a line on corners at the speed limit etc etc. Yes on a deserted A road there's enough cars that can go faster but in all honesty when was the last time that ever happened? And then there's Ermintrude. A few Gucci parts and... "See ya!" It's rare that a well driven Jimny is out of it's depth on any surface. Most drivers on the other hand.....?
Sorry not saying it can't do it, just by comparison to the majority of road cars manufactured today. Not intended as a Jimny bashing, after all I own one as my daily drive and love it. But the same can be said of my 2CV, it is every bit as capable of making decent cross country progress as any other vehicle in general British driving conditions ie traffic, but I am not going to say it's as easy to achieve this as it would be in my Jimny if you see what I mean.
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Lambert wrote: You could have a thousand torque per tonne but if you are also gearing for a hundred mph in first you're not going to accelerate too quickly.
I beg to differ. Many motorcycles have less torque/ton but do 100mph in first and are anything but slow.
When i first got the idea of understanding torque, i would think of my Makita drill. On notch 1 - It is slower but unstoppable. On its highest notch 8 - Its zippy fast .....but i can stop it with just 2 fingers.
You got me wondering about that motorbike example now - Scratch noggin!
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