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When you think about it, the amount of money you piss away on car insurance you rarely (if ever) use is pretty depressing.
A lot of my premiums went down when I'd actually passed my test and put in my license number on the quote - so maybe the same will happen for you.
Her: "So, how are you finding it today?"
Me: "Much better, feeling a lot more comfortable with everything, and I haven't nearly killed us on a roundabout either. I'd call that a win."
Her: "Great - in that case, next week we'll look at booking your test. How does the end of April sound?"
Me: "Blurbleblurblearrrrrrrrrrgggghhhhh"
Also...ABS is really disconcerting when it kicks in (yeah, we did an emergency stop for the first time).
Actually, I had the opposite problem in my first lesson. I was wearing a pair of CAT boots (I'd just walked the dog), and I couldn't feel anything through the pedals, most notably resistance on the clutch and brakes, so I was really heavy-footed with it and kept stalling.
Also, I seem to have suddenly developed the boneheaded habit of using the clutch to control my speed on roundabouts. As if I didn't have enough to deal with on the damn things as it is :P
'Course, in my day we didn't have ABS. Emergency stops are much easier now. Which is a good thing.
Didn't do anything moronic today, apart from the one thing I "failed" my mock test on - ended up in the wrong lane approaching my exit on a roundabout; there was no-one else around, so I jumped lanes without even thinking. Not wise.
Starting to get frustrated with the instructor's car, though. It's a 1.2 Peugeot 208, and joining dual carriageways can be a proper nightmare because there's just no power there even when dropping it a gear. The car's Top Trumps stats say its 0-60 time is 14.0s, and I'd say that was bloody optimistic; 50-70 takes forever.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39587853
It does raise an interesting problem, though. My current plan is to get an MG ZR, probably the 1.8 version (it has ABS). 0-60 in those is about 8 seconds, so it's effectively got almost twice as much "go" as this thing. I wonder if it's going to be too much of a jump?
I'll be honest, that's how I feel most of the time...
Older turbos had lag - until the exhaust gases were going fast enough they didn't do much, then you hit the right point in the rev range and there's a sudden boost in power. Not so much now.
The engine is a bit of a sticking point in those old MGs - they have the K-series engine, which is prone to massive head gasket problems. There's apparently a Land Rover gasket upgrade which sorts it (mostly), but it's not cheap.
Worth it though. It's a brilliant car otherwise, and the engine is otherwise good have it done proper, not by a local mechanic.
They're nice looking and fairly spacious. My mate *loved* his.
To be honest, I'd not worry much about power. I never had problems with the puma - nippy can be useful for slip roads.
However, there are *very* few cars that accelerate too slowly to safely do slip roads. I drive a 1 litre aygo and its perfectly fine - you just need to know how to drive it properly. The reasons for more power is not so much acceleration as it is smoothness, quietness and ease of use.
I certainly don't need faster than the aygo, and that's 0-60 in probably 12 or 13 seconds its loud though, and I do need to leave it in third until I'm above 50mph to keep the acceleration going. It doesn't mind it, though.