Posts by Mark Thomas
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never seeing a mention of the Americas Cup...
well at least you don't have to hear peter montgomery's inane commentary. he comes up with the daftest, most cringeworthy crap. i think TV1 just like to have him there for the sound bites
what sports are the indonesians into?
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bit negative today russell?
i quite like the america's cup. yeah, there's a lot of rich bastards, but its also a bunch of (mostly) kiwis who are competing at the cutting edge against the best that america and europe can throw at us. if you think about etnz as a business, they're doing pretty well in terms of management, design and sporting skills.
it'd be great if we win the cup back, if only to piss off all those euros moaning about NZ being so far away
wondering why nobody wanted to comment on my post ...
sometimes it seems to take a while for the "discuss" button to appear
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whatever happened to noelle? wikipedia says she went to newstalk zb. urgh!
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but the smallest-ever Minor engine (shared with the Austin A30)was rated at 803 cc
yeah... whoops. i wish i could remember where i heard that quote - maybe it was a different car. but my general drift is that cars today are so much heavier, so they need bigger engines, and so on. its a lot easier to make a car fuel efficient if it's light. that 803cc must be pretty frugal!
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Another great article david, cheers!
us humans only seem to move when we're pushed. if you look at the little motorbikes and cars that came out after WW2, they were quite a lot more frugal than today's cars (i think i read somewhere, that a 600cc morris minor was more efficient than a corolla or prius or something). its our wealth that makes us so wasteful of energy these days
plum - that's a bit cynical. the loremo is obviously at the far end of the efficiency spectrum, but it does show what can be achieved with relatively simple, existing technologies.
if they added an electric motor/battery system (ie. make it a hybrid) it could produce a lot more torque, making it useful for hills and towing. probably a pretty expensive/heavy option though.
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ohhh david farrar
apologies
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what's DPF? i googled it and i'm scared
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ooh, grant. that's harsh
by comparison to the preening self obsessed glam rockers of the 80s/early90s, nirvana etc oozed credibility.
or are you talking about the people who rushed out to buy plaid flannel shirts?
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00s = ugg boots, apparently
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oh silly me
00s = muffin tops