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Old February 15th 05, 01:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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13:42:23 on Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Adrian remarked:
Roland Perry ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

Yes, I'm trying to do that, although the smoke is making this more and
more difficult.


So stop waving it about.


I'm trying to disperse it.

However, the diesel Disco is much more common than the diesel versions
of the other vehicles mentioned.


4x4s of the Disco's size do tend to be diseasel, yes - because the petrol
versions are so damn thirsty (18mpg official for the Disco vs 27 for the TD
and 36 for the diesel S-class Jag)


So Parkers is wrong when it says the diesel disco is 25-34 (the previous
model being 30-40). This is the smoke of which we spake.

[Although from what I'm hearing, the new Disco seems to have somewhat
crossed the line from "family man's Land Rover" to "poor man's Range
Rover", to its detriment.]

However, I think you'll find that a good proportion of most "normal" cars
are diseasels now, too. 32.5% of all cars sold in the UK during 2004, and
40% of Mondeos.


That's good news then (apart from asthma suffers, apparently).
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Roland Perry