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Post by Humph on Sept 14, 2020 15:26:43 GMT
Tangentially ( moi? ) I think it was Citroen, but it might have been Renault, but anyway, one of them I'm pretty sure, offered little vans in red and white back in the dark ages, one branded Van Rouge and the other Van Blanc. Which I want to think amused me at the time. Or I may just have been dreaming.
Yes, Lamborghinis...carry on...
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Post by Alanović on Sept 15, 2020 7:46:07 GMT
It was Citroen vans, based on the Citroen Visa. There was, of course, a white one in the village where I holidayed this summer.
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Post by EspadaIII on Sept 15, 2020 10:01:57 GMT
I would love Lamborghini to produce a genuine GT cruiser along the lines of the Espada or Quattroporte. Otherwise I'll just have to buy a 1973 Espada; not that I can afford any of them.
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Post by Humph on Sept 15, 2020 10:17:26 GMT
I'm sort of with you, but every time I convince myself that I'd like something sporty again ( genuinely sporty as opposed to something that has "sport" written on it ) I then begin to reflect on the fact that I have no real need for such a thing. Different league of course, but my neighbour has a BMW Z4 convertible that I covet sometimes, but then again, if I had one, when would I use it? No use for it or similar now sadly.
Romantic dreams of Sunday drives to pleasant lunches, or trans-continental road trip holidays etc would in reality nowadays be on traffic and camera infested routes where a a lollopy big cruiser like I have already are just a better solution, and you can get stuff and people in them. ( oh and bikes on top of course )
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Post by Humph on Sept 15, 2020 10:27:04 GMT
Although if you twisted my arm and if you wanted to have a whip round...  |
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Post by WDB on Sept 15, 2020 11:47:20 GMT
...my neighbour has a BMW Z4 convertible that I covet sometimes, but then again, if I had one, when would I use it? Coincidentally, I had a similar thought yesterday as we drove home through the edge of the Cotswolds. A Z4 followed us some of the way before peeling off into a new-build development in Deddington. It was, inevitably, black with, equally inevitably a bald man of sixtyish at the wheel and his expensively-coiffed, big-sunglassed female companion in the passenger seat. Top down, of course — the car, not the passenger. Nice day and location for it, certainly, but I’m just not sure I want to be That Guy. And, if it turns out that I am, do I want to be quite so public about it — or to just waft along in discreet, air-conditioned seclusion? |
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Post by Humph on Sept 15, 2020 11:57:56 GMT
I know what you mean, and I fit that profile a bit too well, being 60ish and married to an unreconstructed Cheshire lass, in fact the only qualification I currently don't hold is the bald bit. But it's all just a bit too much of a cliché to countenance really.
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Post by Alanović on Sept 15, 2020 12:34:53 GMT
As ever, far too much effort being put in to worrying what other people may think. Want one? Get one.
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Post by Humph on Sept 15, 2020 12:39:38 GMT
Thing is Al, I don't want one, not much anyway. Can't think of enough occasions when I'd use it. Be nice as a holiday renter maybe.
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Post by WDB on Sept 15, 2020 13:22:08 GMT
Yes, I feel the same. I had a reasonably ‘sporty’ (I knew because it had ‘Sport’ written on it in several places) six-cylinder BMW. It was a nice thing to drive for an hour a day, but beyond that the hard edge to everything it did made it fatiguing. And now I have no regular journeys and the ones I have are either properly long or trivially short, and I’ve never been the type who takes a car out just for the sake of driving. So I don’t know what a sports car would be for.
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Post by Humph on Sept 15, 2020 14:22:09 GMT
Then again, the other day, I followed ( for a while anyway until the traffic cleared ) a Porsche 911 GT3. Orange with roll cages and so on. Made a lovely noise, ( y'see you can hear other cars when you have an open pyjamaramic roof) 😉 and thought, yeah...but, no but, yeah....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2020 15:52:06 GMT
If you travel roof down I thought the idea was to enjoy the scenery and take in the surroundings, not to arrive looking you've been dragged through a hedge backwards. I know there are cars available with all manner of deflectors and "air scarf" doesn't that take something away from the experience ?
Isn't a convertible a good argument for less is more ?
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Post by Humph on Sept 15, 2020 16:10:42 GMT
My Westfield was, for me anyway, about as much fun as I can ever remember having with my clothes on. Motorcycle levels of acceleration, limpet like handling, if you wanted, but you could also hang it's tail out anytime you wanted, in almost any gear, at almost any speed and of course, an epic sound track. But, it was of its time in my life, the thought of a car you have to get into as if it was a tight fitting sleeping bag, you don't sit in a Westfield, you wear it, with no heater, no aircon, no radio and where the crumple zones are your legs, no longer appeals. Well, I say that, I daren't have a drive of one again, because I think I know what would happen...
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Post by Avant on Sept 15, 2020 16:12:05 GMT
This one depends, Humph, on how 'unreconstructed' your Cheshire lass is. Does she need the space that her Qashqai gives her, or would she be equally happy in some form of convertible (car, of course....)? If she would, there are various options that don't have 'sporty' written all over them.
Oddly enough, SWMBO's A3 convertible is the Sport model: fortunately it doesn't say so anywhere, and we got it because we specifically didn't want the sports suspension that comes with the S-line model.
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Post by WDB on Sept 15, 2020 19:11:33 GMT
...how 'unreconstructed' your Cheshire lass is. Does she need the space that her Qashqai gives he...? Fat shaming? That would be a first here. 😯 |
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