Pulaski

While looking at some official and semi-official web sites in the past few days, I saw one that said 18 wheelers turning left at small urban roundabouts could/ should go the wrong way, so I'm inclined to cut them some slack when they're about 25' longer than a British artic. Certainly I do at pretty much any/every other sort of junction, leaving extra room, allowing them to take two lanes when turning right, giving them time and room to turn left (my right) across my path, etc..

"Not looking and just flooring it" might be how some would describe my technique, though of course I do look!

Bob

Thing is, this isn't a small urban roundabout, it's a pretty large one, they all are, with a couple lanes going in.

dakota44

Unfortunately a night shot so a bit dark, but a damn clean old Peugeot, with a nice dog in the back seat.

sir_eccles

If it's a basset hound I would say Columbo but then again you said it was clean.

dakota44

Oye, yes it does bring to mind Columbo. Never thought of that.

Nutek

I think he had the ragtop. Same condition as his coat.

Lion in Winter

Is that the old 404?

I had a bit of an adventure near Bordeaux in one of those, as a teenager.

dakota44

Didn't make a note of the model. Looks like it might be.

Pulaski

It's not a 404. I think it's a 403.

dakota44

You would be right. Just googled a pic of a 403.

Lion in Winter

Well the adventure did involve a lot of wine - we used the car to go and visit the caves of St. Emilion - so I can be forgiven inadequate car model recognition.

Jonion

No that I'd ever use them to try out new suspension settings or anything .. but I suppose you could .


I have been offically diagnosed as having man-flu.
Our race weekend was done in monsoon conditions.


Just one more thing.

Yes that is similar to Columbo's car. But as noted his was a ragtop 403.

Bob

Just saw a new Juke and it's possibly one of the ugliest new cars out there. It's as if the designer started the front bit and had a stroke before finishing the rear half and they just went with the squiggle.

Bink

Because I happened to be talking about this to a colleague today, bit of RS6 drifting round a roundabout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTejrd8uqzE

sir_eccles

I'll give it one thing, it doesn't look like every other car on the road.

This is something I have noticed recently. Pretty much all mid size sedans are virtually indistinguishable from one another. It feels like we have finally reached a point where we have found the optimum aero shape and it is just the grill on the front that sets them apart.