I was thinking about this when I recently test drove a Tesla. The accelerator acts like a brake when you take your foot off, the de- acceleration is very harsh almost like applying the brake. Does this action engage the brake lights?
that is a very good point, and no, brake lights are not automatically applied despite very impressive regenerative braking. I have followed Teslas and been aware of this, enough to make sure you don't follow too closely, say, when thinking of overtaking. Tesla anoraks would be able to fill in more, but the dual motor types display the best regenerative braking, it used to be adjustable but I think they've started to remove this feature on some models.
People who build fancy extensions on their houses, have hgv’s turn up at their house every day for six months dropping off materials while completely tearing the arse out of the road surface for everyone else. Should be made to pay for the pothole repairs afterwards imo.
People who drive SUV’s can fuck off and pay a large vehicle tax too. And stay off the pavements you twats.
Invariably parked badly and almost always have a single occupant (usually elderly of middle aged lady). Go out into the country where a bigger 4x4 might be needed and you see very few of them. Farmers would laugh in your face if you suggested they buy one.
They’re just getting bigger and bigger and driven my more and more idiots who can’t even tell how wide their own car is when they drive them. Or they’re so worried about scratching their precious heap of metal they take illegal matters into their own hands (like mounting pavements as mentioned). And if you’re stuck behind one and you’re not in one yourself, you can’t see a single fucking thing around, over or through them. And they still veer round drain hole covers on the road the absolute fucking cretins.
Folks from the US incessantly whingeing about their new "tariffs" when the rest of the world have had import taxes forever...
I drive a 4x4 - a proper one that was designed to go off road because I need to do that every day for work, with up to 50 miles of road driving each way before and after - and I'm baffled as to what these huge fake off-roader SUV are actually for. You can't drive them on anything more challenging than completely level dry grass because they're utterly useless: poor ground clearance, massive weight, enormous 20 or21" wheel rims with low profile tyres and 4wd system that was only designed to maintain traction on wet tarmac. If they're just for towing caravans then as Clarkson said on Top Gear donkeys years ago, (quite apart from why tow a caravan in the first place) why not just buy the lighter, cheaper, more economical saloon car they all invariably based on? You don't need a two ton car with a four litre engine to tow a fibreglass box full of cushions for one week a year. Car manufacturers have gone so far down the SUV rabbit hole that if you need a proper 4x4 that will actually go off road you practically need a vintage vehicle. I've given up on pick-ups. I had a 2.2L Ford Ranger and it was a horrible thing. You can't park it anywhere because it's 5.5 metres long. It was massively heavy and thirsty (and unreliable) and would get hopelessly stuck in 3" of mud. The best off road cars are light with high ground clearance, a short wheel base and a wheel in each corner. Other than an old Suzuki Jimny, a Grand Vitara or a vintage LR Defender, no one makes such a thing any more. I ended up with a 13 year old LR Freelander 2. It'll leave any pick-up for dead in mud and ruts and although it's not exactly a city micro car, parked next to a Merc ML or a BMW X5 it looks about half the size. Landrover no longer make a genuine off-road vehicle. The new and heinously expensive Defenders are pure road cars. The undercarriage practically skims the tarmac on the road and like all the latest wet belt eco-drive LRs they're prone to catastrophic engine failure (£35 grand for a new engine and £25 grand to fit it). I can only assume that all these imitation off-roaders that are only fit for urban driving but far too big for it, are trading on the old Range Rover hey-look-at-me-I'm-rich prestige, because they're no use for anything else. And it you buy one you won't be rich for long.
If you were a young mum living in suburbia with a narcissistic desire to portray a sense of tailored, intellectual, and pretentious styling, whose daily chores include the school run for little darlings Rupert and Genevieve followed by coffee mornings with fellow Chelsea tractor drivers you wouldn’t be baffled at all. But I suspect your particular vehicle is a tad more muddy. Each to their own.
I am all for ‘each to their own’ up to the point it impinges on everyone else. These things have horrendous blind spots and often driven with the attitude that the occupants will survive no matter what so F anything else on the road. Invariably parked at schools in numbers so high it makes 80s platform games survivability look sensible. @Stupidomoto hit the nail on the head perfectly. Where I work we are struggling to replace our aged fleet of 110 LRs as nothing can take the beating/ terrain. But riding home I will have at least one of these behemoths try to pull out/ cut me up pretty much every time. There is an F you attitude that comes with them it seems. I also don’t understand why the one foot in the grave brigade love them. They are often seen reenacting dumped stolen cars in my local ASDA, only to have a walking skeleton drive off at no more than 5mph.And to add to all that, they aren’t that big inside. My old Volvo V70 had twice the boot space and more occupant space than any of these tanks. They are just fashion statements, and that has never appealed to me.
It's up to its headlamps in shit at the moment after getting beached to it's axels last week in a field that resembled the Somme. Got itself out though. But I did have to stop on the way home and wash the headlights with the water out of my lunch bag to see where I was going. I'll wash it in April. Maybe. Funny you mention the city yummy-mummy types. A lot of them move to the countryside where city trader hubbie Alexander buys them a horse to keep them occupied and their hands of the tradesmen. If you think Tabitha is bad when she parks her X7 on the pavement outside the Latte bar, you should see her trying to tow a horsebox down a single track road. And we won't talk about reversing the thing.
And funny how LR stuff is seen as ‘prestige’ as everyone I know thinks it stinks of chav, or if new stupid enough to be paying a fortune monthly for something that will be in the dealers being repaired half the time. Their build quality is appalling.
