Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[hairnet]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Do you think our current boat would do the job!

Edit - updated photo with less green for @wuvvum.

 

kin ell its prunella scales

 

[Six-cylinder]

6 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

How far into the site are you hoping to get them ?

Round the corner and turn right in the yard.

[EightMegs]

On 2/14/2022 at 11:14 PM, Crackers said:

Two barns and an Astravan, and you still want more storage?! 

What the hell have you been buying this time?

Future acquisitions are to be funded with the products of the shipping container meth lab.

[Crackers]

6 hours ago, EightMegs said:

Future acquisitions are to be funded with the products of the shipping container meth lab.

The Cylinders could set up a new business venture selling off bags of filler powder to one of Buckinghamshire's community pharmacists*.

[dollywobbler]

For storage, have you looked at truck bodies? The yard I use for storage (having run out of space in my unit...) has a mix of shipping containers and truck bodies, and they seem much of a muchness really. Truck bodies have the advantage that the entrance is low to the ground once you remove the truck bit. Visited some people yesterday who also love a truck body for storage.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154804078035?hash=item240b0ac5d3:g:tfUAAOSwlWZh6bJB

[Mrs6C]

1 hour ago, dollywobbler said:

For storage, have you looked at truck bodies?

Security is an issue with the lighter weight options. A shipping container is more awkward and noisy for ne'er do wells to access...

[Six-cylinder]

Today I handed in my Clio for a taste of the future.

[Saabnut]

Never mind, you will soon feel better.

[High Jetter]

KN? Is that made by the same people as KN95 masks?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

43 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Today I handed in my Clio for a taste of the future.

I can't work out if I vaguely like that or not. I'll give it to Kia and Hyundai though - they're pushing to the front of the queue with their ideas. I bet it's keeping the rest on their toes. 

[richardmorris]

You can call it Kianu.

[richardmorris]

I quite like it ( saw  another today too). How much?

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, Crackers said:

The Cylinders could set up a new business venture selling off bags of filler powder to one of Buckinghamshire's community pharmacists*.

the guy with the beard off robocop

six cyl

 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

tldr ow my eyes

 

 

 

 

ioniq 5 in not that green colour quick

but at least its not red or white (BARF)

[Snake Charmer]

I still read Kia as Killed In Action.

[Six-cylinder]

We have been out visiting friends tonight with the motivation of doing some miles in my first drive of an electric car. It feels quite nice, rides ok, goes well enough and I rather like the rear styling. The big drawback is the cost £49,120! I still have range anxiety, but maybe that is just me.   

Don't worry it goes back tomorrow and I get my Clio back.

[Zelandeth]

Oh that looks so much better than VWs offerings to my eye...like it or loathe it, it actually was designed by someone who has some sense of style rather than just making as boring as possible a white good.

Two of the favourite cars we had through here before Chris lost access to the demo fleet through a job change were both Kias, being a top end Optima (which knocked the A5 he had at the time into next week on every count) and a Stinger.  The only gripe we had with the Optima was that the engine was a bit agricultural compared to the rest of the car.  On the Stinger it was that the exhaust was a bit too quiet for a V6 sports car and that the interior really needed a little bit more colour.

I really likes the styling of the Stinger, it's brash, it's in your face, it's a muscle car.

I especially like the detail in it, like how the rear door closure forms the same line as the bootlid.

Yes, if I were buying one you can be bloody sure it would be that colour too.

I'd really have liked to take a look at that one you've got there if circumstances allowed it, sadly not to be this time.

[bobdisk]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

Don't worry it goes back tomorrow and I get my Clio back.

RELIEF🤗

[Eyersey1234]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

Don't worry it goes back tomorrow and I get my Clio back.

Thank god for that you had me worried then 🤣🤣

[wuvvum]

What is it with modern cars having strings of LED "ambient lighting" running here there and everywhere in the cabin?  Makes them look like a teenager's bedroom.

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

What is it with modern cars having strings of LED "ambient lighting" running here there and everywhere in the cabin?  Makes them look like a teenager's bedroom.

Not me I saved all my wheat bulbs for my model Railway. If only there had been LED bulbs readily available at the time.

[SRi05]

That's a nice looking car. 50k for a Kia though, Jesus. The future is pricey

[Snake Charmer]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

What is it with modern cars having strings of LED "ambient lighting" running here there and everywhere in the cabin?  Makes them look like a teenager's bedroom.

Reminds me of the Blue Oyster Bar in Police Academy. 

[Tommyboy12]

3 hours ago, SRi05 said:

That's a nice looking car. 50k for a Kia though, Jesus. The future is pricey

The future of cars in general is pricey. Realistically once you add a bit of kit a Fiesta is a 20 grand car nowadays.

[Six-cylinder]

I gave back the Kia EV6 GT-Line S today. It was a very interesting to experience it, as it was my first electric drive. I like the one pedal operation, the car was pleasant except for the price. 

Now the always question with electric cars, did I run out of electricity. No but it was a bit disappointing. Claimed range is 328 miles and salesman told me 300 miles, I started with 100% charge. I did 148 miles with 24% battery left and the predicted remaining range was 46 miles. That would give it a range of only 194 miles.

[Mrs6C]

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

with 24% battery left

Interesting. It was at 51% charge with a 99/100 mile range when we got home last night. Where did you go this morning, other than back to its base?

[hairnet]

hoon mode engaged

[Six-cylinder]

8 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Interesting. It was at 51% charge with a 99/100 mile range when we got home last night. Where did you go this morning, other than back to its base?

Up and down the A5D then round the villages surrounding MK.

3 minutes ago, hairnet said:

hoon mode engaged

Rush hour, lots of traffic legal speeds only.

[Zelandeth]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I gave back the Kia EV6 GT-Line S today. It was a very interesting to experience it, as it was my first electric drive. I like the one pedal operation, the car was pleasant except for the price. 

Now the always question with electric cars, did I run out of electricity. No but it was a bit disappointing. Claimed range is 328 miles and salesman told me 300 miles, I started with 100% charge. I did 148 miles with 24% battery left and the predicted remaining range was 46 miles. That would give it a range of only 194 miles.

It's a car I'll need to make a point of taking a closer look at myself I think.  I'm pretty certain that an EV is going to appear sometime in the next five years as the whole-family daily.  It's going to be a toss-up between a used Tesla or something like this.  I've zero interest whatsoever in the likes of the VW ID3, but I like this far more as it looks like they've tried to do something a bit different.

Even used a Model-S in the sort of spec I'll be after isn't going to be all that much cheaper (and you better believe I'll be picky about spec, even down to the interior colour), so broadening the potential pool is good.  The other maker I've got half an eye on is Polestar as I really like what of theirs I've seen so far.

Will be interesting when we get to actually seriously looking at that decision.

[beko1987]

Blimey Keith gets 200 miles out of their 'old' zoe driving like @hairnet 😂