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Why? Because it's cool? My Tigra is like that too. It only heats up when I'm stuck in traffic. It's crazy in summer days, the temperature rises like hell. But it's the way they are.
The Opel Tigra...
- Thread starter Playguy
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Why? Because it's cool? My Tigra is like that too. It only heats up when I'm stuck in traffic. It's crazy in summer days, the temperature rises like hell. But it's the way they are.
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- GTP_Vince_Fiero
+1 for the Tigra
I started driving in an Opel Corsa 1.0 and it is a good platform for beginner drivers.
Also I had trouble with the looks when the Tigra came out, it just did not make sense to me.
I guess we are more used to small less practical cars now and I like them better now.
Less practical cars are nice when you are young and do not have a lot of other constraints that will get primary on the car choice later. Although, some learned to live with it and stick with their MX5 or Ariel Atom as a daily driver.
I started driving in an Opel Corsa 1.0 and it is a good platform for beginner drivers.
Also I had trouble with the looks when the Tigra came out, it just did not make sense to me.
I guess we are more used to small less practical cars now and I like them better now.
Less practical cars are nice when you are young and do not have a lot of other constraints that will get primary on the car choice later. Although, some learned to live with it and stick with their MX5 or Ariel Atom as a daily driver.
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- GTP_Famine
Physics - and gear ratios - say that 190km/h requires more than your car can give. But an indicated 190km/h doesn't require more than your car can give. Simplest explanation with all the given facts? Your speedometer is a little out, but no more so than almost any other car (my MX-3 indicates 80mph at 77mph; the ATR indicates 100mph at 93mph - it's normal).
220km/h, even indicated, requires far more than a 1.4 Tigra can give, so either the speedo is catastrophically out (probably due to non-standard wheels) or it has been modified. Or both.
Possibly. All cars in Europe are allowed to have a speedometer inaccuracy - an overread of up to 10%. I've no idea if a Corsa D can reach 125mph genuinely or if it's just speedo overread without running through the numbers which, at the moment, I can't be bothered with.
If you want to calibrate your speedometer, grab a GPS unit. Personally I don't really bother with the speedometer - I just look at the rev counter. Since I know the gearing, I know how fast I'm going in any gear accurately without having to worry about the speedometer.
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