Confirms my thoughts that the yeti really is hampered by weight and aerodynamics.

Boss Foxes isnt

I've failed you

Slow down. Won't someone please think of the children?

Confirms my thoughts that the yeti really is hampered by weight and aerodynamics.

 

Buy an Octavia then?  

You can use your 4x4 to extract him out of the ditch...........

Remap

Just checking the 0 to 60`s on parkers.

 

There does not seem to be a lot in it comparing 7.8 secs for the octavia vrs diesel hatchback versus 8.1 seconds for the yeti 4x4 170.

 

Perhaps Parkers has it wrong!

Just checking the 0 to 60`s on parkers.

 

There does not seem to be a lot in it comparing 7.8 secs for the octavia vrs diesel hatchback versus 8.1 seconds for the yeti 4x4 170.

 

Perhaps Parkers has it wrong!

 

Based upon the amount of smoke coming from the back of the VRS (07 plate Mk II) I suspect it may well have been tweaked a little. I suspect the reason the 0-60 times are quite similar is that the Yeti can get off the line faster with the 4x4. I'd be surprised if the 40-100 times would be so close

Buy an Octavia then?  

 

BTDTGTTS

 

I still reckon the Yeti is a lot more fun to drive than the Octavia :-)

Perhaps you need the 4x4 sticker on the back:

 

"You can go, but I can go anywhere!"

or

"Follow me if you dare"

Perhaps you need the 4x4 sticker on the back:

 

"You can go, but I can go anywhere!"

or

"Follow me if you dare"

 

After the effort I went to to remove the 4x4 stickers I'm not putting them back on again.

 

I might put the stickers on from the 2WD 110 though...

I blame the drivers ability

Just put your foot down and hoon it past him

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shock news story as faster car out accelerates slower car. :P   Hold the presses!  

Once it gets going the Octy will be quicker, but when I test drove the two back to back the Yeti was much better at getting out of junctions in the damp.

 

Unless you're going to spend a lot of time over the speed limit (in which case hand your licence back; you're not fit to have it) the Yeti has more useful performance.

Who cares, the Yeti will be far more fun!

And speed isn't everything...................................

I'm off to the corner Graham, SWMBO agree with the speed statement?  

You sure it wasn't a 1L festa?

Just put your foot down and hoon it past him

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I had a couple of easy opportunities to do so when he got held up by traffic but decided not to wind him up and risk an accident.

 

If he'd have hung back from the vehicles in front he'd have had a lot of safe overtaking opportunities, but sitting on the rear bumper of vans and lorries and popping out to see if anything's coming isn't the most effective way to make progress.

If both cars are relatively evenly matched the more determined driver will get past ...

 

Just wait for winter: you'll find that a Yeti is very good indeed at getting from A to B.  

I out-dragged a Countach once - in my Mum's Mk 1 Fiesta Popular (all of 950ccs IIRC - it was a loooong time ago).  To be fair, I don't think the Lambo driver even dreamed I was going to be daft enough to try anything like that.  It rumbled up alongside me again at the next red light, then when the green light came on…I have no idea where the Countach went.  It just wasn't there any more.

 

 

I don't think the other driver needed to be all that 'determined' either.  Sometimes it is the car!

 

(I like to think that the other driver found the episode as amusing as I did.)

I had a couple of easy opportunities to do so when he got held up by traffic but decided not to wind him up and risk an accident.

 

If he'd have hung back from the vehicles in front he'd have had a lot of safe overtaking opportunities, but sitting on the rear bumper of vans and lorries and popping out to see if anything's coming isn't the most effective way to make progress.

 

I see this quite often on my journey to work each day, lots of rural A road.

I'll sit quite far back behind a truck so I get good visibility down each side of it through the bends, so I can see far ahead and plan safe overtaking opportunities.

Then someone in a quicker car will close up behind, overtake me, and then....sit right up the arse of the truck in front. So close they can't see anything past without swerving right across the centre lines, so they stay sat there even where there are loads of safe overtaking opportunities.

It's then quite satisfying to safely overtake both, and watch said car remain stuck behind the truck, although it does sometimes lead to the other car thinking it's a game when all you're wanting to do is progress safely.

My huge executive luxo barge Audi can out accelerate both, assuming the Yeti and Octavia were both standard. I have full time 4x4 and no turbo anywhere to be seen.

Engine Size

3697 cc

Cylinders

8

0-60 mph

7.1 secs

Top Speed

155 mph (Electronically Limited)

Power Output

276 bhp

Valves

40

Torque

360 Nm 266 lb-ft

Feels really slow driving it though, as there is no shove from a turbo.

Straight lines are boring.

Twisties are more interesting and require more commitment from the driver, so the faster car often doesn't always win.

 

I expect the VRS driver was more commited because my remaped CR170 Yeti is noticably quicker on track than the Octy VRS with the same tune.

You make up so much ground in the corners.

 

Octy VRS is going to be quicker once rolling and not doing much cornering.

It's a better straight line car.  Ideal for A roads and motorways.