Buying a motorway cruiser

prelude91 · Post by **prelude91** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:44 pm

FWIW my 3g does 45 mpg on a run, cheap to buy as well

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:16 pm

I used to do Brighton to York and back at least every other weekend when laura was at uni. Initially I went by train and they were expensive, crowded, full of drokking weirdos, and running around with baggage was a ball ache. To put it into perspective I paid over £130 for my return ticket each time and often for a 2 hour leg of my journey I would have to sit on my case in the carriage connector because the train was overcrowded. Not fun on noisy mk3 rolling stock.

I started using my Accord instead, it cost almost the same (2 tanks of petrol), but I was in the privacy and comfort of my own car and it was marginally faster if the traffic wasn't awful.

I don't think I've used public transport since, apart from sometimes I skip the fare on the train from newhaven to seaford (3miles, if that) to save getting a taxi back from the pub

or occasionally going the opposite way when all my cars have broken and I have no other way of getting to work

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:01 pm

jjmartin349571 wrote:Not fun on noisy mk3 rolling stock.

oh god your a trainspotter

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:38 pm

prelude91 wrote:FWIW my 3g does 45 mpg on a run, cheap to buy as well

I need proof. That i impossible. I got best at 37mpg.

Post by **Doggo** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:54 pm

Well I'm still trying to figure out how I got 240 miles from my last tank (yes, it's properly tuned and serviced) and some of these buggers are getting 350 odd

prelude91 · Post by **prelude91** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:49 pm

Light on the throttle, dear boy, light on the throttle