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◊ 2011-07-19 00:27 |
The vehicle details for Y668 MRX are: Date of Liability 01 05 2012 Date of First Registration 14 05 2001 Year of Manufacture 2001 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 4172CC CO2 Emissions 338g/Km Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Licence Not Due Vehicle Colour SILVER Vehicle Type Approval M1 |
◊ 2011-07-19 11:50 |
Actually not a bad idea of the three, well in this case two. It´s only a bit slow, noisy and quite uncomfortable. |
◊ 2011-07-19 12:09 |
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◊ 2011-07-19 12:37 |
Already tried: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1376879 |
◊ 2011-07-19 14:51 |
Poor S8! How do they use such one of the best luxury sedan ever built for this stupid thing? ![]() ... I haven't seen the episode yet, did they destroy or ruin it? |
◊ 2011-07-19 15:00 |
The Audi will be fine. It probably won't be too difficult to put the wheels back on. It was a decent enough idea that might have had some value if they hadn't obviously botched the application for cheap laughs. Even by their standards it was obviously rigged (see the bit where Clarkson drove his train so fast down the wrong side of the tracks) and probably filmed on a disused stretch of railway. -- Last edit: 2011-07-19 15:00:47 |
◊ 2011-07-19 15:07 |
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/GAZ-13_Chaika_draisine.jpg |
◊ 2011-07-19 15:29 |
Or these well known cases:![]() /vehicle_2379-Mercedes-Benz-280-S-W108-1968.html ![]() /vehicle_2967-De-Lorean-DMC-12-1981.html -- Last edit: 2011-07-19 15:30:33 |
◊ 2011-07-19 15:39 |
It was filmed on the preserved Great Central Railway, between Leicester and Loughborough. It's the only heritage railway (in the UK, anyway) with double track. |
◊ 2011-07-19 22:29 |
No kidding, for the Volkswagen T1 there were conversion kits available, bck in the 50ies and 60ies ![]() http://www.eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de/klv/klv20/5026--0509-153.jpg In German there is even an own term for them, "Schienenbus": http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenbus See the links to the plenty of versions, also in other countries. -- Last edit: 2011-07-19 22:35:46 |
◊ 2011-07-20 12:02 |
@ingo: The old LR Defender was also available with special kits: Link to "www.auto-news.de" |
◊ 2011-07-20 12:32 |
Only LR, no Defender back then ![]() |
◊ 2011-07-20 12:35 |
Yes, indeed, sorry. |
◊ 2011-07-24 18:50 |
Using a car to pull a train instead of a locomotive? Uh, no ![]() |
◊ 2018-08-07 02:46 |
James May (over speaker): Ladies & Gentlemen, if you would like to brace yourselves, your incompetent steward will be coming through shortly, and pour tepid coffee in your crotch. Richard Hammond (over speaker): FOR GOD'S SAKE JAMES! STOP MAKING THE F****** ANNOUNCEMENTS! YOU DRIVE!, I STEWARD!. Richard Hammond (over speaker): LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! James May (over speaker): Penis! Penis! Penis! Penis! Penis! It's my Tannoy. -- Last edit: 2018-08-10 01:14:11 |
◊ 2020-04-21 06:28 |
Yes 2 carraiges got destroyed, Buffet Carraige by fire and Scum Class Carraige smashed by a train on the opposite track. |
◊ 2020-04-21 09:22 |
However good it may have been as a new vehicle, the cost of running a 4 litre German luxobarge in this country means that by the time it is a few years and a hundred or two thousand miles old it is virtually a piece of worthless junk. My Mercédès, now two years old, would have cost me over £3 per mile had I changed it on the quote offered to me against a new plug in hybrid, and as it has only a 2.2 litre engine it would have been of greater interest in the used market, diesel or not. Needless to say, I am not changing it yet! -- Last edit: 2020-04-21 09:26:05 |