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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2017 13:41:14 GMT
I can see no good reason to drive around in an Overfinch or a Kahn modified Range Rover. It's like trying to shave with an axe.
Lambo's have always done it for me, and I see no difference between a Lambo or a Ferrari, although I think it would have to be special days, with bright sunshine and not just doing the shopping. There is a road near me with some large houses. One house looks a bit tired, but there sits a black 64-reg Aventador. Somehow, by not being a 'look at me' colour, it has sufficient class that you can get away with the school run.
Don't mind the bright colours, but I think I could only drive one with the wind in my wife's hair, on holiday and preferably in country that appreciates quality vehicles.
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Post by Humph on Jul 3, 2017 13:52:37 GMT
I knew a guy who had a new Lamborghini. Oddly enough, well, it seemed so to me anyway, he didn't use it much, because he didn't want to put too many miles on it and instead used a Golf most of the time. I sort of get it, but then again, I don't. Don't really see the point in buying your "dream car" and then not driving it much.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2017 14:03:01 GMT
Suppose it's the same syndrome as old dears buying expensive china crockery and sticking it in a display cabinet, unused. i.e. it's a status symbol more than anything.
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Post by WDB on Jul 3, 2017 14:38:19 GMT
Don't they just ! I saw a Mk2 Cortina close up yesterday. They seemed quite big cars when I was a child but this one looked really small. I'll add the Triumph 2500 that I parked next to in Portsmouth the other week. That seemed like a properly big car back in about 1980, when I last rode in one. Next to the Bus, it looked very small indeed. I also suspect that, despite its greater cubic capacity and its pretentions to being a 'sports saloon', it would now have great difficulty keeping pace with my airport taxi-edition E. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 3, 2017 14:47:26 GMT
It's a minor ambition of mine to have a declutter. My dad was really good at that and only ever had a few things at a time. His clothes and shoes etc were always top quality but whenever he bought anything new, he'd throw out the oldest version of that item he had. Resultantly, all his personal possessions fitted in a small single wardrobe and his bedside cabinet. Same with household goods etc. Whereas I'm more of a hoarder. There are boxes of stuff in the attic and in the garage which came from our last house when we moved here in 2002. Still unopened, and frankly we've no idea what's in them now. Some of it might be interesting I suppose, but I suspect very little of it would be worth keeping.
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Post by WDB on Jul 3, 2017 14:55:17 GMT
I learned something useful at our tip the other day. (There has been a bit of decluttering during my weeks off.) That was that all the unsortable waste, that can't be recycled into plastic granules, scrap copper or whatever, goes into a waste-to-energy plant and not - as I'd imagined, and as does happen with anything I merely bin at home - into landfill for ever. This offends me far less, and removes one excuse for hoarding: that the stuff ought to not to be cluttering the countryside just to keep it from cluttering my house.
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Post by commerdriver on Jul 3, 2017 15:38:17 GMT
Don't they just ! I saw a Mk2 Cortina close up yesterday. They seemed quite big cars when I was a child but this one looked really small. When my oldest was small, I ran a Cortina Mk5 estate which felt huge at the time, and replaced it wit a Mk1 Astra with felt smaller. 2 or 3 years ago he purchased a current Astra estate, which, when measured, proved to be bigger in every main dimension than my Cortina estate. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 3, 2017 15:51:35 GMT
That is interesting. Astras don't look all that big now do they? But Cortinas did. I don't know who to blame, but I suddenly want it to be someone's fault !
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Post by tyrednexited on Jul 3, 2017 16:05:49 GMT
I don't know who to blame, but I suddenly want it to be someone's fault ! 🤔 Ralph Nader is probably as good a target as any........ (except for, if you read certain tabloids, Jeremy Corbyn ;-) ) |
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Post by Humph on Jul 3, 2017 16:11:15 GMT
True enough !
I was idly looking at a Mk1 Vectra estate in a queue of traffic next to me the other day, only because its colour, a sort of burgundy metallic, reminded me of one a friend had a while back, when it occurred to me that the new Astra estate behind it looked at least the same size, if not maybe even a bit bigger.
Someone is messing with our minds.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 16:12:38 GMT
Gosh, don't they have iPhones in Germany? Blimey. I'd rather stick wasps up my bottom and needles in my eyes than go back to the dark side. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 16:18:36 GMT
Gosh, don't they have iPhones in Germany? Blimey. I'd rather stick wasps up my bottom and needles in my eyes than go back to the dark side. I'm sure I've seen at least one of those services advertised in Germany, so you'll be OK for that. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 16:28:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 16:42:24 GMT
 No thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 16:45:21 GMT
Getting back to the original subject at hand, a bloke at work, who has just had something like his 43rd child, has one of these: www.ford.co.uk/cars/tourneo-connectWould do the job andsumly fer 'Umph. |
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No thanks.