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Post by Humph on Mar 15, 2017 10:00:48 GMT
Never really took to the old Micra. Not that I suppose it was a bad car, just never caught my eye. But the new one looks good. I think it shares a bit of DNA with the current Clio? My wife got a brochure through the post from Nissan promoting it. I think they'll do well with it.
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Post by Avant on Mar 16, 2017 23:41:39 GMT
It looks good from the outside, but it doesn't look as if you can see much if you're on the inside trying to reverse.
I suppose that because the last model looked so frumpy, the stylist was given his head with the new one. The VAG brands seem to be best at managing to design cars that you can see out of without looking un-cool.
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Post by Humph on Mar 17, 2017 8:02:50 GMT
True enough. You know the small car I sometimes irrationally think I shouldn't like, but secretly do ( probably my age/generation) is the Skoda Fabia. A friend has one, I think it's a vaguely warm model, but it has red bodywork, a black roof and black alloys. Looks great to me.
Another confession, the garage we bought my son's second hand Aygo from is actually a Skoda main dealer. In their showroom was a Superb estate in black. It was the 4x4 Sport model. Had a good old poke around it while they were seeing to the paperwork for the Toyota. Really very nice car. Would do pretty much everything mine does at much less cost and would cope better (probably?) with some of the rough tracks we negotiate at weekends with the bikes up top.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 17, 2017 9:32:40 GMT
Superb estate is the best kept secret on the market, I reckon. Just shows how many people are so blind that they can't see behind a badge.
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Post by WDB on Mar 17, 2017 12:17:43 GMT
Yes, I liked the old model enough to have bought one, but it was surprisingly expensive and hard to find one without a grotty all-black interior. So we bought a Mercedes instead - because it was cheaper. (And has a non-grotty black interior.)
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Post by Alanović on Mar 17, 2017 12:34:02 GMT
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Post by Humph on Mar 17, 2017 12:41:37 GMT
One of the advantages of a grotty black interior ( as I discovered yesterday ) is that if you get back into the car with a cardboard cup of Costas finest black americano, catch the bottom of it on the top of the steering wheel, spill it's white hot contents on your wrist, reflexively then throw it randomly towards the ceiling and in so doing transfer its contents in multiple directions including, but not exclusively, over yourself, that the grotty black interior can be restored to a semblance of its original state with judicious use of the kitchen towel you just happened to have in a door bin. Your clothes and hair however, are much less resistant to such a sudden and copious application of what seems to be really rather more than could possibly have been contained in such an apparently small vessel.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 17, 2017 12:44:11 GMT
Rather that than creosote.
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Post by Humph on Mar 17, 2017 12:54:47 GMT
Depends where you are on the life cycle of the event. Creosote would have longer term implications of course, but is generally not nearly as searingly hot as freshly brewed black coffee.
It was one of those moments when I surprised even myself by my ability to swear continuously without hesitation, deviation or repetition for some considerable time afterwards while simultaneously leaping out of the car clutching my groin in apparent homage to a Michael Jackson video.
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Post by Ted on Mar 17, 2017 14:26:17 GMT
A trick I learnt years ago when doing up and selling on Vivas and lickle Renaults with a mate was the use of Matt black cellulose aerosol on vacuumed black carpets to hide the bits the vac didn't get out.
I imagine it would work on any black trim. Oh, and it made the car smell like new inside for a while !
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Post by WDB on Mar 17, 2017 16:30:42 GMT
Coffee! This from the man who prisses himself inside-out at the thought of someone moving his passenger seat or leaving a a sweet wrapper in a door pocket?
I mean, glad you're (sort of) all right, but really! And an americano too, the very spawn of the corporate devil because it's cheaper to produce than a proper brewed long coffee. Decent coffee, drowned in water so hot that by the time it's cool enough to approach, never mind drink, all those delicate aromatic oils will have evaporated into thin air.
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Post by Avant on Mar 17, 2017 23:25:20 GMT
I would love to have been a fly on the wall to hear what a nice refined gent from Morningside says when he spills coffee over himself...... Someething like Bother, or (if it was very hot) Pish or Tush, perhaps.
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Post by Humph on Mar 18, 2017 8:35:16 GMT
I've lived away long enough to have a far more eclectic grasp of suitable colloquialisms appropriate to such events...🤐
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 18, 2017 9:42:19 GMT
I would love to have been a fly on the wall to hear what a nice refined gent from Morningside says when he spills coffee over himself...... I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the under-butler was told he had to do a full interior valet...........
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Post by Humph on Mar 18, 2017 10:27:26 GMT
Actually, it's going for a service next week and they do spruce it up inside and out when it's in. It's not too bad at all though. One of the advantages of a black interior I suppose. Just wiped clean.
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