Another senseless tragedy

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Originally Posted by incisor

Especially ones with big motors from other brands squeezed into them [emoji3]

so need to ban the d2, d3, d4, rrs, rr.....

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Originally Posted by Eevo

so need to ban the d2, d3, d4, rrs, rr.....

Why include the D2? Both the Td5 and the V8 were Rover engines.

If you want to be pedantic, the V8 is a Pontiac engine. Only the TD5 is home grown out of the D2 engines. But only a very few manufacturers are capable of developing new motors today, and they need sales to other manufacturers to help pay for the development costs.

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Originally Posted by donh54

Why include the D2? Both the Td5 and the V8 were Rover engines.

v8 originally wasnt. came from GM/Buick

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Originally Posted by Eevo

v8 originally wasnt. came from GM/Buick

A long time ago. An original Buick V8 will not drop into even an early RR without much fabricating of parts. Very extensively re-developed by Rover, and had ceased being used in GM vehicles. All they bought was the design, not the actual engines (unlike the PSA motors in the D3/4)

Another senseless tragedy

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Originally Posted by Ean Austral

In the last 2 weeks I have driven about 6000kms on country highways , and it seems to me that we have, to quote a line from a favourite movie of mine " The world went and got itself in a darn hurry ". The main issue I seen , and I seen lots of it , was cars of all sorts , most either towing trailers with roof racks full as well , overtaking without even the slightest idea of what is / could be coming the other way. A lot of the time it wasn't till the cars pulled out they realised how long the roadtrain they were overtaking really was.

Twice I have cars get level with me only for them to have to brake and pull back in behind due to trucks coming the other way. I did notice when it was cars coming the other way they seemed more game to push the issue. Most of those kms driven was in a 3 trailer roadtrain , and people didn't even sit in behind to asses the conditions up ahead they just pulled out and went for it , corners, hills, double lines, it didn't matter.

So my point is , was it people who had holidays and were trying to get somewhere in a hurry and getting stuck behind a roadtrain might cut short their holiday by a few minutes/hours ? Or is this now the norm ??. When we go on holidays and we drive , we treat the drive as part of the holiday , or we transport the car to somewhere and fly in and collect it.

Also , and this may just be me - cars seem to do higher speeds a lot easier these days , hell I remember some of my first cars being 6 cylinder 3 on the tree jobs and to get it up to 100 you needed a cut lunch and water bags , now they seem to reach speeds a lot easier. I wonder if this contributes to those that are in-experienced drivers getting themselves into trouble. There is also a lot more caravans on the road these days it seems and this just adds to the problem of those people who are just in a rush.

I don't think on country roads its any 1 single thing , but impatience is most likely the main cause , but I believe in the city mobile phones certainly are a big cause as it seems everyone tries to run their business whilst driving. As was said , sit in a truck and see how many people are on their phones and its prolly 8 out of every 10 cars.

Just my 2c

Cheers Ean

Here’s another overtaking accident...

http://www.standard.net.au/story/516...y-crash/?cs=72

It happens far more often than you think. People are so impatient trying to be the one in front they’re putting their & others lives at risk. Here’s one dash cam video from not long ago.

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Dash Cam Owners Australia - What Truck drivers put up with daily - YouTube