sweetafton wrote:

Supercharged is the way forward my beautys.

Hear Hear (Petrol all the way if you truly into your cars)

I would recommend Supercharged of course. I have a MY2010 S/C A/B model and it is a very pleasant car to drive. The power is indescribable, I yet have to get used to it after having for 6 months, sometimes I pull out too hard and too fast!

As someone mentions above, it's very quiet - it is VERY VERY quiet indeed, until you press the gas pedal and the engine reaches 3000 RPMs! It is a 2600kg car that "officially" does 0-60 in 5.9 secs, but that is not true. If you know how to drive it you can do 5.6 - I have it recorded! But i drove it in rain, so it could have been even faster than that if conditions were dry. I know someone who did it in 5.1 secs.

It is 12mpg in the city, but you have to drive it quite carefully to get that figure. You get 24+ mpg on the motorway at 70mph. I visit a gas station 3 maybe 4 times a week and fill in £25 of high octane 97 (driving in London, very often during peak hour ). But then again, if you get Supercharged, petrol should NOT be of your concern! It is very very very silly to get S/C and constantly think about how much petrol you have wasted, omg how much it is going to cost me a month and therefore control the way you drive. If you have these kind of questions in your mind and you have to be careful with your budget, then do not get S/C you will not enjoy it is much; or buy it but for very low milage, weekends for instance. Vadim A.

Guys this is great thank you so much for all your advice - please keep it coming!
I drove a TDV8 today black with black all the toys and 22" stormers was so excited, put my foot down...... ......... oh dear I so wanted to like it please tell me that the remap makes it much quicker. Did I do something wrong? Dose the power need to be fed in slow?? I can feel a test drive in a s/c coming on!!
I need to send a couple of PM's this will only be my 4th post todate I need 5 posts to send PM's so please excuse the next pointless post! Cheers Laurence.

Keep the advice coming! Cheers Laurence.

the TDV8 was clearly broken, if when you floored it you couldn't help but remark " me".

Pics of mine are now on the FS post  "UNDERSTEER" ----is when you hit the fence with the front of the car.
"OVERSTEER" ------is when you hit the fence with the rear of the car.
"HORSEPOWER" ----is how fast you hit the fence.
"TORQUE" -----------is how far you take the fence with you.

Go and drive a S/C and see for yourself every one on here will be biased on what the own but look and the bhp and performance figures they speak for themselves and make your own mind up!

Properly mapped TDV8 slams you in the seat with its Torque limiters altered. 2014 5.0SC AB

Gone 5.0 SC

Tboner wrote:

Properly mapped TDV8 slams you in the seat with its Torque limiters altered.