Yaris Hybrid In Cornwall

[korat102]

Well once you've learned to do hill-starts in a crappy gutless BSM Corsa that would stall if you sneezed too hard, you don't need no steeenkin' HSA (Plus another lovely thing about my Yaris is it can hold the whole car on most hills with nothing but the idle and careful clutch control )

hehe reminds me of my first ever drive in one of those early lean burn Ford Escorts. It was a 1.4 that felt weaker then my moped engine. Had to race it to avoid stalling on a hill start. Absolutely hopeless it was. I'd never been so glad to get back into an ancient Mini.

[2StrokeSteve]

Well my 1st car was a 1971 Hillman Imp, 875cc of pure aluminium OHV power! So hill starts are no longer a worry.... It did used to cut out on Tuckingmill Hill when the traffic lights were red, the fuel used to run back from the sender....

I’ve not really used the hill start assist.

Cheers, Steve

[PeteB]

Well my 1st car was a 1971 Hillman Imp, 875cc of pure aluminium OHV power! ...

Would have seemed like a sports car compared to the Fiat 126 I had in the 1970s - 600cc 2 cyl 24 hp engine - 0-60 in 1 minute unless there was a head wind, when it wouldn't do 60!

Slightly smaller than an original Mini, it averaged 42 mpg (had to drive it very hard to keep up with traffic - steep hills had me in 2nd gear at 12 mph!) trying hard could get low 60s mpg - what a world away the Hybrid is!

[Grumpy Cabbie]

Well my 1st car was a 1971 Hillman Imp, 875cc of pure aluminium OHV power! ...

Would have seemed like a sports car compared to the Fiat 126 I had in the 1970s - 600cc 2 cyl 24 hp engine - 0-60 in 1 minute unless there was a head wind, when it wouldn't do 60!

Slightly smaller than an original Mini, it averaged 42 mpg (had to drive it very hard to keep up with traffic - steep hills had me in 2nd gear at 12 mph!) trying hard could get low 60s mpg - what a world away the Hybrid is!

The young uns all wonder how we got by with a Sierra with a 1.3 engine or similar. How did you overtake in that etc. Simple, the smaller cars were just as underpowered and a 1.3 Sierra could just about overtake a Fiat 126. Happy days - hmmmm.

[johalareewi]

The young uns all wonder how we got by with a Sierra with a 1.3 engine or similar.

My mini had an allegro 1100 engine in it!

Trouble was, it had the original cooling system so on a hot day it was necessary to drive along with the windows open and the heaters on full blast, and hope you didn't get stuck in a traffic jam.

[Grumpy Cabbie]

lol I remember doing that a few times in various cars in my younger days. Modern cars just aren't as much fun! ha ha, yeah right. They start on a cold morning, they don't overheat in a traffic jam, you don't have a choke to pull out that they refuses to disengage.... etc etc.

And that's before we get onto them disintegrating into nothing within 7/8 years because of tin worm.

[korat102]

My first car was a little 1.3 litre Vauxhall Chevette, a nice metallic blue :)

Drove to college one cold morning, no problems except for a funny smell in the car. Only found out what it was when I got back home in the evening. I'd left the heated rear window (demister) on. The bulb in the plastic switch had melted the housing, creating the strange smell. It had also, luckily, resulted in the contacts parting. Otherwise, at best, the Battery would have been flat in no time. Great little car that was, albeit a bit sluggish.

[PeteB]

lol I remember doing that a few times in various cars in my younger days. Modern cars just aren't as much fun! ha ha, yeah right. They start on a cold morning, they don't overheat in a traffic jam, you don't have a choke to pull out that they refuses to disengage.... etc etc.

And that's before we get onto them disintegrating into nothing within 7/8 years because of tin worm.

not to mention constantly wiping the condensation off the inside of the windows on anything but a bone dry day, especially if passengers insisted on breathing! - or getting in the car wearing wet coats etc

and by that 7/8 years, one would probably have paid for numerous CV or Universal joints, exhausts, dampers etc etc