Close Passes - thread on motoring forum

[Grandad]

If there was a Not Just a Minute prize for deviation this thread would be a winner

[Bonefishblues]

If there was a Not Just a Minute prize for deviation this thread would be a winner

This is not a bad thing

[mikeymo]

I think the keen drivers point is valid. I often notice when passed by columns of souped up hot Subarus and the like, all spoilers and extra wide zorsts, that they are some of the most likely to give a really wide pass.

I had a Subaru until very recently. It wasn't "souped up". It didn't need to be - 250 BHP, 3.0 litre flat 6 Boxer engine (like a Porsche). Floor that and it shifted, I can tell you. And smooth as silk, due the nature of 6 cylinder engines. I thought it would be expensive to insure. Not so. The broker told me that Subaru drivers actually have a low accident rate, generally. They are seen as a car for "serious" drivers, because they are so well engineered. So people buy them who take a pride in their driving. As opposed to the mob that think putting wide tyres on a Corsa and drilling holes in the exhaust somehow makes then Lewis Hamilton.

Point of order.

The H6 is a flat 6 Boxer. The Porsche 911 lineage has a flat 6, but isn't a Boxer

I'm sure you're right.

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_AU/2020/technology/porsche-boxer-engine-911-turbo-s-christophorus-394-20427.html#:~:text=The%20new%20Porsche%20911%20Turbo%20S%20rounds%20out%20the%20boxer%20engine%20family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_911

[Jdsk]

Which Porsche flat six are you saying isn't a boxer?

Thanks

Jonathan

[mikeymo]

If there was a Not Just a Minute prize for deviation this thread would be a winner

Don't blame me. Somebody mentioned Subarus in the context of close passing. I said I had one and that it seemed Subaru drivers were actually considered good drivers. Somebody took part of my post (a minor part) and alleged an inaccuracy. And off it went.

[mikeymo]

Which Porsche flat six are you saying isn't a boxer?

Thanks

Jonathan

Define "you".

[Jdsk]

You, mikeymo in "I'm sure you're right" above.

Jonathan

[mikeymo]

You, mikeymo in "I'm sure you're right" above.

Jonathan

I see, thanks. I agree, reading linked web pages is such a useful thing to do, isn't it? It really helps to clarify issues about which there is confusion.

[Bonefishblues]

You, mikeymo in "I'm sure you're right" above.

Jonathan

I see, thanks. I agree, reading linked web pages is such a useful thing to do, isn't it? It really helps to clarify issues about which there is confusion.

Reading the thread's good, too

[mikeymo]

You, mikeymo in "I'm sure you're right" above.

Jonathan

I see, thanks. I agree, reading linked web pages is such a useful thing to do, isn't it? It really helps to clarify issues about which there is confusion.

Reading the thread's good, too

I agree. But one has to be careful with contradiction, don't you think?

[Jdsk]

How about discussing boxers... I read what you said as asserting that there are flat sixes in production Porsche 911s that aren't boxers. Is that what you are saying?

Thanks

Jonathan

[mikeymo]

How about discussing boxers... I read what you said as asserting that there are flat sixes in production Porsche 911s that aren't boxers. Is that what you are saying?

Thanks

Jonathan

Who, and where?

[Bonefishblues]

I see, thanks. I agree, reading linked web pages is such a useful thing to do, isn't it? It really helps to clarify issues about which there is confusion.

Reading the thread's good, too

I agree. But one has to be careful with contradiction, don't you think?

One does, and when I realised I was wrong, I said so immediately.

Is there anything else you'd like me to add to that?

[Jdsk]

How about discussing boxers... I read what you said as asserting that there are flat sixes in production Porsche 911s that aren't boxers. Is that what you are saying?

Who, and where?

When you, mikeymo, said "I'm sure you're right" in response to "The Porsche 911 lineage has a flat 6, but isn't a Boxer" above.

Jonathan

[Bonefishblues]

How about discussing boxers... I read what you said as asserting that there are flat sixes in production Porsche 911s that aren't boxers. Is that what you are saying?

Who, and where?

When you, mikeymo, said "I'm sure you're right" in response to "The Porsche 911 lineage has a flat 6, but isn't a Boxer" above.

Jonathan

I'm assuming Mikeymo was wishing to be sarcastic to me, at least that's my reading of it.

Sometimes having the grace to accept you are wrong isn't matched by the grace of others in understanding that people make mistakes, I find.