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Originally Posted by peterzs
On the same line, I cant get over the way cars seem to get bigger and bigger.
Ford Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo, you used to look at the car and know what it was and where it was in the line up. Now they all seem to have been on steroids. New Mondeos look like the size of the Granadas.
Same with the Vauxhall line up.
Maybe that's the problem, same engines trying to pull around bigger and wider models.
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Focus runs ok, 1.8 tdci, but mk1 had some 90 hp, then mk2 115 hp but feels so wobbly and terrible 'round corners and no faster than mk1. Again, the new model 1.8 derv will have 163 hp but 1570 kilos to cope with... 1,6 tdci 115 hp will need 10,9 0-60, and the same 30-70... Was reading a review of some astra estate recently, over 160 hp and 10-ish to 60. Fuel consumption not so well either, same as older dervs because of so much dead weight.
On the other hand, no play station generation would buy anything that looks like PS1, would they? Progress I like, the direction I don't...