L14MNP
24-08-08, 10:37 AM
Anyone seen a British programme on Discovery Turbo called that before?
I caught a bit of it last night after the epic afternoon of fitting a decat to an MR2, never again! lol
They basically pitch two vehicles of the same description but built in different countries against each other and rate them on handling/agility etc
The one I watched was Police cars, with Britain represented by the Swedish 850 T5 estate and USA an LAPD Ford Crown Victoria lol
The Ford surprised me, it was very nimble given it's size and RWD helped no end. The Volvo spun out on the elk (sp?) test, ironic given it is a Swedish test. It also struggled on the slalom parts of the course. Especially reversing, again down to it being FWD.
The only thing the Crown Vic was atrocious at was breaking lol It doesn't have ABS and tbh it is dangerous!
It would have beaten the Volvo aroud the handling/agility course were it not for hitting a cone and incurring a 5 second penalty, and would have won overall if it could actually stop lol
Very surprising results imo. I would have expected it to run rings around the yank tank. What do you all reckon?
I caught a bit of it last night after the epic afternoon of fitting a decat to an MR2, never again! lol
They basically pitch two vehicles of the same description but built in different countries against each other and rate them on handling/agility etc
The one I watched was Police cars, with Britain represented by the Swedish 850 T5 estate and USA an LAPD Ford Crown Victoria lol
The Ford surprised me, it was very nimble given it's size and RWD helped no end. The Volvo spun out on the elk (sp?) test, ironic given it is a Swedish test. It also struggled on the slalom parts of the course. Especially reversing, again down to it being FWD.
The only thing the Crown Vic was atrocious at was breaking lol It doesn't have ABS and tbh it is dangerous!
It would have beaten the Volvo aroud the handling/agility course were it not for hitting a cone and incurring a 5 second penalty, and would have won overall if it could actually stop lol
Very surprising results imo. I would have expected it to run rings around the yank tank. What do you all reckon?