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De Tomaso have never been particularly original. Their most famous car is probably the Pantera, and that was a mash-up of design features cribbed from contemporary Ferraris, Lambos, and even Fords.
This P72 supercar is their first model since being bought by a Chinese company.
Sidenote: De Tomaso actually used to own Maserati. I think from the ’70s right up to nearly the millennium.
So when I turn the engine on in the Mazda, the fuel and temp gauge needles go from dead/limp to wherever they are, and when I kill the engine they go limp again. All good.
But recently, when I turn the engine on, the fuel gauge acts as normal but the temp gauge doesn't move, staying in the position it was when I got there, and only over the course of say, a few mins driving, it gradually moves up to the middle where its supposed to be.
Yeah, the temp gauge sounds fine from your description. The engine shouldn’t be hot before you even start it up. It warms up as you get going. Should reach normal temp once you’ve been driving or idling for five or 10 mins.
Aye I get that but before it instantly went to the middle of the gauge, the ideal position, the moment I turned the engine over. Now it just takes a while.
That's a show me tell me, aye. I just didn't know if there was a fill line and if so, where tf it was. Whole big bottle went in fine and is all nice and dandy. I'm just a bit of a pillock is all.
Gav, you can usually Google the owner’s manual for you exact model of car. Do that. It will tell you all the lights, symbols, maintenance levels, etc. You can usually download them. It’s worth doing.
I know, I thought of that after. I'm just an idiot. Today at a petrol station I cut off a guy by doing a last sec change of mind about what pump to go for, without even realising I'd done it until it was too late, then going ahead and popping the hood instead of the fuel cap whilst the guy watched. Again, it's been a long week. Brain farts all over the place today.
So Bugatti did a thing over the weekend. First road-legal production car to break the 300mph barrier.
It’s utterly mental, of course. But still one hell of an engineering achievement. I mean – do it because you can, despite there being no practical or rational application for what you’ve achieved.
304mph in a very heavy luxury armchair. Fucking hell.
That supercar blondie bird posted a video about a new car from an American company, ssc is it? Their new thing looks mental, it's aiming for 300+mph as well.
SSC previewed that car in 2011 and it still hasn’t materialised, so I’m taking their promises with a pinch of salt.
Obviously, now that Bugatti have done it others will follow. For sure. In marketing terms, it’s important for cars at that rarified level to have numbers they can use to drive sales. It’s like Top Trumps. It’s not the speed they will ever actually be driven at that matters, it’s just being able to verifiably say ‘we’re the fastest’.