I have a jag xk8 and I was sat at some lights with a ford transit beside me. When the lights went green we went for it but the tranny beat me to the next set!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!!!
Can you explain?
Do you have a fast motor that gets wooped at lights??
Hhhhhmmmmmm
2006-08-29 03:30:24 · 22 answers · asked by andy2kbaker 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
I have just been out and raced every bloody transit I could find... and done them all. I put my earlier non achivement down to not really being ready for it..... ahem...
2006-08-30 00:21:46 · update #1
HA HA , Well, done the van man!!!!!!!!! U must b a rubbish driver with an auto box
2006-08-29 03:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by bullatpool 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The XK8s a great looking car.
Your always going to get a slight delay from a standing start with an auto box.
Keep your foot on the brake and keep your revs up.
Then foot off brake and floor it when lights change.
That said you shouldn't have to do this against a tranny. All I can think is the Jags no lightweight and the tranny must have been empty.
2006-08-29 04:12:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dump the Jag and get a good car that beats everything from the lights changing. I drive a Skoda Fabia 1.4 Diesel Turbo and I have yet be be beaten.
2006-08-31 02:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by subbuteo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The transit is geared low, for carring weight, no load then it will shift like sh1t of a shovel. especilly if its a 2.5 turbo.
Low top speed but it will get there quickly
Remember the old Vauxhall astramax diesel vans, they could out accellerate a VW Golf GTi
2006-08-29 07:04:44 · answer #4 · answered by Rich S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a ford transit van that has been fitted with a 1990 F1 benneton engine. I have seen it racing around silverstone
I would suggest this F1 engined transit van is the one that beat you out of the lights ;-)
2006-08-31 22:05:07 · answer #5 · answered by bruce f 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't you know? White vans are the fastest things in the world!
Thrust SST was just a transit in a ball gown!
Concord was a transit with wings.........etc
all this and space for a chest of drawers in the back too!
2006-08-29 11:05:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, I have a Nissan 350Z and i got wooped by a banged up, rusty white Astra, crammed with pre pubescent boys, asking if i'd like to be shown a good time........!?
Very annoying!!
It only ever happens when you want to prove a point!!
But no big deal. x x x
You probably made that van drivers week, so feel good about yourself. x x x
2006-08-29 03:53:38 · answer #7 · answered by Little Miss B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL... How do you feel now!!!! You silly man, everyone knows that White Transits are the fastest things on the road, it doesn't matter how fast you are travelling on the motorway,there is always one right on your tail flashing you to get out of the way!
2006-08-29 03:38:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You some sort of nut ?? whilst all this road rage going on
what if you hit some unfortunate child, adult, or in my case
Grandparents....in their car, on a motorway.... I think
you should apologise for the upset you have caused in
posting this question to many like myself...
2006-08-30 06:05:44 · answer #9 · answered by landgirl60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Your Jag has automatic transmission, or
2. you haven't learned how to drive it properly.
Personally, I have an mg and can whop (as opposed to woop) virtually anything on 4 wheels that's street-legal based on my power-to-weight ratio, but prefer to laugh at the boy-racers who think they can "take" me and are looking in their rear-view mirrors to find out why I'm not right up their arses when they hit the kerb/artic/ditch.
Grow up, the road is for all of us to use SAFELY, jerk.
2006-08-29 03:42:14 · answer #10 · answered by gnyla 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gearbox and superior driving.
by the way, Jaguar hasnt been british for a very long time.
2006-09-01 20:36:01 · answer #11 · answered by neogriff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋