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Some cheap tyres are OK. I had Nexen N2000 Roadstones on my 1.2 and they were better than the T1Rs that replaced them. However there are also some really s**t budget tyres, for example Sunews. You won't know what you've got until you put them on though.
Dog box/crash box is just a normal gearbox but uses dogs to engage the gears for quick shifting rather than the normal synchros, they're still h-pattern boxes.
A sequential box shifts even quicker but you don't put the lever in a gear - you pull back to shift up, you push forward to shift down...
Personally I'll take a proper sequential over an average manual.
But then by my terms a proper sequential is this;
If it was as responsive as that, yes, I'd take it. But a transmission that fast won't be seen in a road car for a long time.
It's a Finepix S1600. It's done some sterling service in the past, with some really nice shots, but it's very limited in terms of what you can do with it. It doesn't even have manual focus!
First shot out of the new camera:
The biggest mistake they made IMO. New engine, same power. No incentive to actually want the new engine over the old NA screamer.
Big difference in torque though, which is good.
I'd have thought at pretty much the same time, no? Same as the 1080, I'd have thought they'll be given some pre release boards to base their designs on.
Looks like Alex from Car Throttle will be running a 182 or 172 next year. I'm not a huge fan of CT but no doubt people will be interested, so I'll try and stick all the videos for what will no doubt be a series, in here.
Announced in this video, which also happens to be a comparison between the...
Some of you may remember Clarkson putting his account number and sort code in his column in the Mail, claiming nobody could do anything with it.
Then his account was used to make a sizeable charitable donation. They could have kept the money for themselves but they didn't.