In message , at 09:28:53 on Wed, 7 Oct
2015, Adrian remarked:
You have to be careful to not get stuck below the power band and try
to floor it there, else you basically go nowhere until the turbo
picks up.
That has caught me out a few times, and I would say could actually be
dangerous.

Is there a reason you can't think ahead and change down? Any "danger"
isn't from the turbo's effective range of operation, but from a driver
failing to read the road.

Yes of course, a good driver will do that, and I do, but it could catch
some people out. And you cannot always predict what will happen, on a
roundabout for example.

blink Did you really say that?

My daughter was telling me the other day how one of her friends was on a
driving lesson and as they approached a roundabout he said "turn right",
so she did - straight into the stream of traffic approaching clockwise.

Of course there are at least two roundabouts in the UK where that's
normal - the Swindon Magic Roundabout and its clone in Hemel Hempstead.
I think I saw that the one under the junction where the M40 becomes the
A40 just inside the M25 has been given the same treatment.
--
Roland Perry