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Post by Humph on Sept 19, 2017 12:16:59 GMT
A friend of my son turned up at our house the other day in a Toyota IQ.
Never really 'noticed' them much before but the boys were checking it out and I got sort of interested. What a cool little car! It's sort of a techy design inside and up close it looks really good in a quirky way. Not sure I'd want to sit in the back of one, or indeed if I could, but the cabin up front is very neat.
I think I'm right in remembering that this was the model that you could, if deranged, buy with Aston Martin badges on at a silly premium?
I can sort of see why they chose it for that excercise. It's just so very different to the other little hatches in that market sector.
I'm a bit smitten with it, and sort of want one, despite having no possible use for one. A bit like I feel about Vespas and Pandas in truth.
It'll wear off no doubt.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 12:37:33 GMT
Wider than it is long. Well, it looks like that anyway.
Surely an Aygo is a better all rounder?
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Post by Humph on Sept 19, 2017 12:39:32 GMT
Probably is. But the IQ is way cooler.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 14:03:11 GMT
Ah. Coolness. I was forgetting about that. It's funny when you have such a blind spot about the practicality of an electric vehicle, that you're prepared to overlook the impracticality of an IQ because you think it's cool.
Not having a go, it's just different strokes, I suppose.
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Post by Humph on Sept 19, 2017 14:08:13 GMT
Wouldn't begin to excuse it in truth, but different things make different people smile. I'm naturally disposed to form over function I suppose. Bit of a magpie probably.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 17:39:13 GMT
They are cool and offered a Smart Mk1 type funky experience with far better reliability and smoothness.
There are a few around here but getting older and unlike Smart, they don't make them any more.
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Post by Humph on Sept 19, 2017 19:09:02 GMT
The boy was given it by his dad who'd had it as his city car. ( the dad, incidentally, is a certain famous rock musician! ) It's a cvt automatic, which seems odd for such a small car, and indeed for a 17 year old who passed on a manual, but he loves it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 19:55:29 GMT
It's Rick Witter out of Shed Seven, isn't it.
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Post by Humph on Sept 19, 2017 20:00:14 GMT
Er, no, as Brucie might have had it, "higher, higher"...
But I'll spare him, or more accurately, his son, any further comment.
😉
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Post by WDB on Sept 19, 2017 20:49:21 GMT
Er, no, as Brucie might have had it, "higher, higher" Level 42?
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Post by WDB on Sept 19, 2017 20:50:07 GMT
Haircut 100?
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 19, 2017 21:49:37 GMT
....Nirvana....?
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Post by Humph on Sept 20, 2017 6:53:56 GMT
The other small car, well, technically a van, I've taken a shine to, is often parked at the canal basin. It's an absolutely ancient 2CV van. It's has the same front as the car but with what appears to be a corrugated iron back section. In a fetching shade of beige. But I rather like it. That, and the modern Fiat 500 Abarth that's often there too.
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