Topic: fuel savings (Read 4076 times)

dreadnought110 · « **on:** June 18, 2008, 21:57:23 »

What are you doing?? I've stopped using the Land rover for going to work in and bought another motor any guesses??? it's completely different to the land rover Â£115 ish for road tax Â£130 insurance Â£28 to fill the tank does over 200 miles to the tank got five doors..

lee celtic · « **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2008, 21:58:51 »

Metro :->

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:00:28 »

Quote from: lee celtic on June 18, 2008, 21:58:51

Metro :->

Yeah right missus had one complete bag of naughty stuff hated it!!! :->

jjsaul · « **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:02:24 »

I'm about to do the same!!!

Looking for a cheap economical motor to run round in...

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:03:31 »

I'll give you a clue it's not a car!!! :) :)

lee celtic · « **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:07:16 »

some sort of tree hugger van 8-[

kizz81 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:07:49 »

erm, a milk van?

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:09:27 »

Quote from: lee celtic on June 18, 2008, 22:07:16

some sort of tree hugger van 8-[

A tree hugger van??? :) It's a van but built in 1988 same age as me land rover :lol: :lol:

lee celtic · « **Reply #8 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:16:07 »

Tree hugger vans,,,you know the ones that look like a pope mobile :lol: :lol:

With special peddles you can press down wearing crocks :->

and enough headroom to get the big hat and dreds into.

huge windows for the save the this and that stickers .

and loads of space in the back for recycleing and humus :->

can you guess I don't like them :lol: :lol: :lol:

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:18:52 »

Well i used to play in one of these as a kid and have always had a soft spot for them it was made in Luton... :)

ben_haynes · « **Reply #10 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:20:07 »

bedford rascal??? :lol: :lol:

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:22:02 »

Bingo!!!!

lee celtic · « **Reply #12 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:24:10 »

you could fit that in the back of the landy as a spare :lol: :lol: :lol:

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:28:12 »

I tell you what i thought i would get some real wazz taken out of me at work cause i'am 6'3" tall but loads of people in the mototrade has worked on fleet's of them and they all said they are good little motor's (just don't crash it!!) :lol: :lol: and it's great shopping in them never struggle for parking spaces must say prefer the Land rover big time though!! :lol:

Bush Tucker Man · « **Reply #14 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:32:58 »

Quote from: ben_haynes on June 18, 2008, 22:20:07

bedford rascal??? :lol: :lol:

I used to have one of them 'many moons' ago.

It was great for slinging the bikes in & acting as a changing room

Totally scary on the m-way, when National Express coaches come past, pushing you to the side with their displaced air.

Also... dead easy to spin!
I spun mine on a wet roundabout at about 10-15MPH. Mindst you the spilt diesel probably didn't help :twisted:

graham · « **Reply #15 on:** June 18, 2008, 22:46:25 »

Looks good just needs a lift and a V8 slotting in the back :dance:

Lee_D · « **Reply #16 on:** June 19, 2008, 01:43:54 »

:lol:

Always wanted one of them when I passed my test....

Too much misspent youth watching Sooty and Sweep :dance:

dreadnought110 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 19, 2008, 06:58:18 »

I now go the back way to work (not much national speed limits and no dual carrageway!!) Scary thing is i bought another for spares and am now looking at puttting that on the road also seen a daihatsu hi jet at the right price and bought that as well so currently have 5 vehicles in the house hold :shock: :shock:

Boggert · « **Reply #18 on:** June 19, 2008, 07:42:33 »

I got a 125 motorbike...

Â£70 for insurance
Â£15 to tax
120 mpg :shock: its costs Â£5.50 to fill the tank and lasts me well over 2 weeks!

Bush Tucker Man · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2008, 12:52:12 »

Quote from: Boggert on June 19, 2008, 07:42:33

I got a

....pair of legs & some bikes :lol:

It's roughly 5 miles by road, and about 4 & 1/2 'cross-country'; over the fields, through the woods & the River Calder banking.

Running takes on average 30 - 31minutes 'cross-country', & about 20minutes taking it easy on the bike.

I've been tending to alternate the 2 activities

In the past 2 weeks (1st - 16th), the 110 covered 32miles!!!!

Sadly, since Monday, it's done 140miles!
SWMBO is working away, so I've been doing the 'school-run'
Plus, I went to Greetland (Halifax) in it yesterday to do the Cyclo-Cross

Anyway it's back to run today/ride tomorrow

I need the extra running, as it's my first 5-mile road-race on Saturday 8-[ 8-[ 8-[ 8-[

If the circuit is going to be the same as in previous years, I've already made the mistake of looking at the course record :doh:

KingWolf · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2008, 15:26:24 »

I car share with my mate from work so the Disco only really gets used every other week - unfortunately this still costs me around Â£60 per week when I do drive....!!!!

So I'm now on the look out for a cheap little run around. looking for a little 106 diesel or probably a Fiesta Zetec.

I worked out that depending what I spend on the car in the first place it will completely pay for itself within 12-16 months and I really can't see the fuel prices dropping anytime soon.

Mark.

V8MoneyPit · « **Reply #21 on:** June 19, 2008, 16:53:01 »

Bedford Rascal.... wasn't it one of those that the Hampster tried a Scandinavian flick in? And failed!

Tommo · « **Reply #22 on:** June 19, 2008, 17:04:19 »

RASCALS RULE!

if you own a rascal and can resist doing this then you are a man of iron...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4-7wXo_Ok

J B · « **Reply #23 on:** June 19, 2008, 18:38:27 »

i bought a fiat punto 55 for mr's to run aound in as ive got a company van during the week , and the disco is only used weekends
ebay special Â£271

Jake · « **Reply #24 on:** June 19, 2008, 19:16:35 »

I've been running around in this for the past couple of months

Its been saving me a fortune
45mpg and cheaper fuel than derv
It's using half the fuel of the Discovery
The only downside, its a 1.6 so no cheap tax but compared to the Tdi, its a rocket ship :twisted:
:D

marjan · « **Reply #25 on:** June 19, 2008, 19:35:55 »

Daily drive is now a diesel Focus which is doing 48-52 MPG and I also have the works van so the V6 Shogun only moves on a weekend :D

Mareng · « **Reply #26 on:** June 19, 2008, 20:14:29 »

I bought this for the time being, as the V8 Disco was costing a bit much on the run from Southampton to Manchester every week.

Soon as I am settled in Bolton in a few weeks I'll be on the hunt for a new Landy, preferably a TD5 90, but beggers cant be choosers eh..

carbore · « **Reply #27 on:** June 19, 2008, 21:19:50 »

OK,

Working form home every other week which is quite a lot of saving as I commute from Cornwall to Glos, then train to London weekly! BUt this is mainly becuase we have just had our first child.

Alos looking at removing the "beast rack" a big brownchurch safari rack, however I needed it for the first time in 3 monts to get some plasterboard so until our flats finished its best to keep it on.

Ironically I have a very economical car, my Elise does stupid miles per gallon even with the mods, I nearly fainted when it used almost HALF what I use in the freelander to get from stroud to camborne. The only problem is I dont want to leave it at the train station for 3 days and its on limited miles insurance.

PS I think rascals are cool, no one who drives one is uncertain of their manhood (unless its a florist van)

Boggert · « **Reply #28 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:19:30 »

So, the idea this wonderful goverment has of increasing road tax and fuel duty is to reduce the amount of traffic therefore reduce immissions is just increasing the amount of cars we own!

Not sure where the logic is in that! :?

mike142sl · « **Reply #29 on:** June 20, 2008, 12:08:27 »

That RASCAL is screaming out for a trick paint job with big gnarly teeth on the front.

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