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[HiTech]

Chinese cars are coming to Canada.

Your government will discover that the cars contain lead throughout the careless design and construction and end up recalling them for shipment back to Kung Fu land. When it comes to China, there's one thing you can win a sure bet on and that's their inability to produce a good diesel engine. China Diesel or similar crud is considered the bottom of the barrel in the motoring world... they are horrible. It's better to own a broken CAT or Cummins diesel then a working China Diesel one!

 

[audioguru]

Only a few German people in Canada drive a car with a stinking diesel engine.
School buses and trucks have diesel engines.

 

[crusty]

Wish they made more small engine diesels... bout the only small ones worth a crap are the old Mercedes.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Wish they made more small engine diesels... bout the only small ones worth a crap are the old Mercedes.

Peugeot/Citroen make lots of exceptionally good diesel engines, what you don't want is a Ford diesel!.

 

[audioguru]

I think I have smelled some Ford trucks with a loudly clattering diesel engine.
Peugeot, Citroen and Renault are not in Canada anymore.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I think I have smelled some Ford trucks with a loudly clattering diesel engine.
Peugeot, Citroen and Renault are not in Canada anymore.

So the French cars aren't in the partly French country?, what happened there then?.

Quite a few other manufacturers buy Peugeot diesel engines because they are so good.

 

[audioguru]

The tiny bumpers on the French cars didn't meet the crash test requirements of Canada.

 

[Thunderchild]

well at 43 mph its not going to be popular in europe, its not that cheap to run 50 mpg my 10 year old fiesta (recon engine) with a 1119 cc engine does that. and better on a run at 50-60 mph.

a car that small hardly needs power stearing lets be realistic gentlemen not snotty

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

well at 43 mph its not going to be popular in europe, its not that cheap to run 50 mpg my 10 year old fiesta (recon engine) with a 1119 cc engine does that. and better on a run at 50-60 mph.

It was speed, NOT consumption!

a car that small hardly needs power stearing lets be realistic gentlemen not snotty

Even Sooty vans have power steering now!

 

[Thunderchild]

sooty vans ?
my fiesta does not even need power steering its quit light unless you really want to use your little finger to do it escorts could do with it that buggy as your all calling it is probably very light steering

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

sooty vans ?

The small vans made by Suzuki, Honda etc. - the puppet show 'Sooty' used to use one, so they are commonly called 'Sooty vans' regardless of the make.

We have one at work for doing deliveries with - our first one was a Daihatsu and had a three cylinder engine about 700cc or so?. Our current one is a Suzuki, it's 1400cc, and has power steering and central locking.

My own car is a Fiat Punto, that has power steering, plus a 'girlie button' (it was called that on the TV adverts) - you press the button and it increases the gain on the power steering, useful for parking, but you can't drive with it switched on.

 

[JimB]

My own car is a Fiat Punto, that has power steering, plus a 'girlie button' (it was called that on the TV adverts) - you press the button and it increases the gain on the power steering, useful for parking, but you can't drive with it switched on.

Some years ago I had a Punto for a hire car, for a couple of days I thought "this car is awfull, it wanders all over the road".
Then I realised that it had a "girlie button".
Girlie mode was fine on twist little town roads, but use the other mode* for out of town.

* Here is a thought, what would you call the non-girlie mode?
Yorkie Mode ?

(non UK residents will not understand this!)

JimB

 

[audioguru]

A Yorkie is a little dog. A Yorkshire Terrier.
I haven't seen one driving a car.

An small American Chevrolet had a "girlie-vent" air vent under the steering wheel. Never mind.

 

[JimB]

In this context a Yorkie is a chocolate bar.
Look here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/groucho/1836450/
JimB

 

[audioguru]

Why can't a girl eat that chocolate bar? is it full of gravel or something hard?
Bitters?

 

[crusty]

power steering is for the weak.

 

[HiTech]

Only a few German people in Canada drive a car with a stinking diesel engine.
School buses and trucks have diesel engines.

Modern diesel motors in passenger vehicles are quite advanced. They have much lower noise due to common rail injection, emit less hydrocarbons and smell from employing catalytic converters, get much better fuel economy over their gasoline counterparts, start easily in cold weather without the constant need for a engine block warmer, and most motors "break-in" at 50,000mi and last well towards 400K-500Kmi.

 

[audioguru]

Only American diesel engines made in 2007 and newer must have a catalytic converter and a soot filter. I have never smelled nor seen one. All the ones I have smelled stink and I have seen black soot in the exhaust.

 

[JJGross]

Am I the only one that sees the parallel between this and the original German "People's Car"? Seating, horsepower, accelleration, top speed and more are all within about 15%. Even the manufacturing specs are nearly identical with the exception that strong plastic was far too expensive to even be considered when Ferdinand Porsche got the specs from his government in 1936. What's old is new again - 70 years later.

Cheers

 

[Thunderchild]

I learnt to drive with a Fiat punto (when I lived in Italy) god it was horendous the ******* instructor insisted on having the girlie thing on all the time I only had to think ok I'll need to turn right in 100 metres and I was already swerving its so light it is dangerous in my opinion talk about driving by telepathy