driving along in Edinburgh last night(before the snow)and theres 2 lanes of traffic approaching a lights controlled roundabout with the right lane queing to turn right,custard is going straight so has a clear lane ,just before the roundabout is a junction on the left with a box junction and as i approach a car (huge volvo) pulls out in front of me and blocks the road!on the brakes and as im decelerating from 40(in a 40 zone) another big volvo cuts through the box junction and after seeing my cinq(its only broom yellow with the headlights on)brakes and i end up sandwiched between 2 volvos centimetres of each side of me, couldnt even get the bloody doors open.if i was going a bit faster i would have got totally sandwiched a abig volvo versus a cinq drivers door aint something i wanna try.just had to share:I

Custard boy the man who loves the man from Creative

lucky 1 m8

you say huge volvo?

just out of interest, anyone seen a small volvo... ever?

[xx(]

Did you give the driver a nice smile[?]

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yes supported by guideing hand signals not shown in the general highway code

Custard boy the man who loves the man from Creative

you mean the 'watch out for that falling piano' hand signal?

signified by making a fist, then straighting only the middle finger and pointing it upwards towards the falling piano

[:0] donz is that what that means

Custard boy the man who loves the man from Creative

Incidentally, i have seen a small Volvo!

That small 3 door hatch they made

Another day...another problem...

Lucky escape. That would have killed the Cinq for sure. [:0]

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My dad had one of thosle little Volvo's. It had a variomatic gearbox, basically two cones and a big elastic band, wierd.

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I hate volvos with a passion.

I once searched t'internet and found websites dedicated to destroying volvos! lol

Smurfhead

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Originally posted by polecat
My dad had one of thosle little Volvo's. It had a variomatic gearbox, basically two cones and a big elastic band, wierd.

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you know i thought of a gearbox that was completely dynamic when i was still at school, then the teacher told me it had already been done

That's a killer for creativity!

Yeah,
But it proves it was a good idea.

Small Volvo: That'd be the 480 - that oddly-stylish little Volvo coupe from the early 90's with pop-up headlights.
As for the variomatic gearbox, it's pretty similar to FIAT's CVT jobby...what I can't work our is why every manufacturer makes their CVT's select from 5 or 6 preset ratios - surely this defeats the object of a constantly-variable ratio? [xx(]

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I used to have a 1973, M reg, Daff 33. Yellow, of course. I think it was the first car with CVT.
It was more like a hairdrier with infinite probability drive. Those of you that know The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy will know what I mean.

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