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Seems like this conversation had a load of fun without me. I've seen the Koningsegg mentioned, very nice car indeed, turbo'd imprezas, still would get a whooping by my "matchbox-with-an-engine" so to speak. Those bloody MG ZRs are glorified versions of the OLD Rover 200, with a few fancy bits of fibre glass here and there to make it look prettier. Which is another thing which pisses me off about car manufacturers nowadays. Take the Volkswagon group of manufacturers, they released the Skoda Octavia, waited 6 months to see how popular it was, and as soon as they saw it was selling well, they took the badges of, changed them to Volkswagon Passat, added a few wood/leather bits to the interior, and bumped the price up 4-6 thousand pounds... cheeky buggers!!
The Koenigsegg is always going to suffer, because hardly anyone knows how to spell it.
Impreza's are very good performance saloons, but they're rally cars. If I'm not doing a rally, I'd like a bit of comfort. And I'm really not a fan of that blue-with-gold-wheels combination on the WRX STi.
Incidentally, I wouldn't knock parts sharing. The Octavia's more closely related to the Bora, which again is the little sister of the Passat. The VW Sharan, Seat Alhambra and some other car are all related to each other. But all it means is that prices come down. Sure, you don't get the love and attention of a hand-crafted car, but for everyday travel, who needs it? I'd rather have reliablity and easy-to-find parts. Personally, if I was buying a family saloon, I'd happily pay 4-6k just to not have a Skoda badge on my car.
Heheh exactly. Personally, when i get my life sorted, lots of things on at the moment, I will be purchasing a Ford Focus. Never been a HUGE fan of ford, but i like the new focus rs. either that or (wait for it... just preparing myself for humiliation) i want VW Golf
not as bad as wakey.
here they employ special wardens at KFC and the industrial park and the retail park to keep the bastards out, cause there are SO many.
why do they all hang out outside KFC? does having a boy racer mentality go hand in hand with a love of chicken?
Ah, but which Golf?
1.6 or anything TDI and the holiday spirit will evaporate. But Golf's a class cars, reliable as shit, strong, stocky, last forever, comfortable...Mum used to have one, and it did its job without an ounce of complaint.
Focus RS is getting a little bit long in the tooth. Between the RS, Golf R32 and the Civic Type R, the Civic would win at this stage. But only cos I have a thing for nice shiny things.
(Does anyone else feel that there are huge numbers of members that feel this thread is petty, geeky and boring?)
What do the wardens do? Stand by the Drive-thru and ask people if they are there for the driving or the chicken?
And KFC ties in with the Rude boy image, as does driving around in a sexed-up Nova. It's as if they are too cool for Burgers, and want to be more American or something *shrugs*
no, they just call the police if they see anyone pulling handbrake turns in the car park.
GTi's are the bomb. Though I prefer the Mk I and II GTis, I wouldn't say no to any of them.
Care to explain the anti-Honda stance?
1. Standard people who like their vehicles, keep them running nice, possibly add a nice bumper and skirt set, nothing silly
2. Your standard boy racer, huge woofer, for rattling the handle on his boot, and the rear shelf.
3. What we commonly refer to as "vradas" due to the way they pronounce the word "brother" as most of them have a very shit command of the english. Now this select group (a good couple of thousand of the 30,000 total population of gibraltar) all drive honda fucking civics, any model, any year, silly spoilers, the majority painted a completely different colour to the car (shocking pink body and lime green spoiler civic drove past me on the way to work this morning), huge sound systems running of one 250watt amp, which sound crap, a huge "can" as that is all it is, normally, they cut back the thin exhaust a few inches, and then stick this huge fucking can on the end, as you can imagine, drastically improving their vehicle! Grrrr i could go on, but you really wont get the idea unless you came to Gibraltar.
It just boggles me that the drivers actually think it makes them look cool. Geez, learn something, even if you had the world's fastest car, sticking a fuck off stereo in it and playing shit dance music reallyreally loud wont make it better.
Support group :yes:
Oh god. Im just so jealous of you and your family.
:rolleyes:
edited to add: why is it important to go faster than other people?
subaru impreza 2.0L TURBO -- unless its a wrx or wrx with the prodive kit its not really worth thinking about, if your gonna do it, do it properly
Astra GTE cabrolete 1.8 4inline 16V & 2.0L astra GTE 16V -- they are vauxhauls pal, you can't polish a turd thats got half of halfords glued or bolted on to it!!
Mg ZR 1.8 16V -- its a badged rover, and rovers havent been good since.. well yes
now i drive a modest fiat punto, i dont have anything flashier since a i cant afford it, and b i dont really need it, its a good nippy well handling small car
dream car would have to be a jaguar xk180, but it will never be made, but as clarkson said, jaguar have made a road going fighter plane, you havent heard a good car till youve heard this one as far as im concerned.
i would too. so what if your car does 180mph. you can only do the speed limit, like everyone else.
if i was gonna spend a lot of money on a car (which i probably wouldn't) i'd buy something comfy over something fast. or something like mr. kaff's dad has (citroen C5, i think) which has every clever little gadget in the world.
but atm, the only thing i look for in a car is intermittent wipers. my car doesn't have these and it drives me mental.
heh. get one with rain sensitive wipers. They kick ass. It's actually a lot more useful than you might imagine. You drive, you notice it spotting so you click the wipers, if the rain gets worse, the wipers speed up, if it stops, the wipers stop. Lovely.
The citroens do have lots of gadgets for their price, but I hear they are most unreliable, and the pedals in them are not level, which is just, well, stupid.
i wouldn't want an impreza unless i was going to start a rally team because basically thats all they're good for
and the audi a6 is a fucking beast of a car when it's standard setup but when it's a quattro, then its even better
Who gives a fuck what car you've got.
I was at some lights the other week when a kid who i used to got to school with pulled up along side me (he was a twat in school and looks like a twat now with his supped-up corsa)
He starts revving up his engine next to me. So I rev up old Beyonce(my affectionate name for my s-reg fiesta). Lights turn green and the prick stalls.....I laffed so much!!!:D Next set of lights...he runs a red light and nearly hits another car! He really showed me!:rolleyes:
*eyes light up*
i'd definitely splash out on a car with them.
my car has three wiper speeds - very fast, stupidly fast and stop.
you can't get a car that automatically does the lights for you and turns them off when you park, can you, cause i always leave my lights on
I think that the citreons have light sensitive lights that will come on automatically, but I could be wrong. I'm not sure about ones that turn off automatically. I don't think any do that because it could be dangerous.
my sisters car is silver and it isnt the WRX its a R(then a number not toatily sure)
anyway its apparently the fastes impreza you can buy on the market, the mods are wicked and its a lovely car, shes spent well over 7K on it without the cost of the car..but i guess when she has the money to spare it doesnt matter:)
but the ride is smoothed its been lowered and the interior is superb, its the apparently the best impreza on the market.
That'll be the Ford Galaxy then
Fancy a passenger ride in my car when I get it? I need a trophy to sit in the passenger seat.
I'm only kidding ladies I don't really mean it
Real wolf in sheeps clothing or 'street sleeper' as it's also known.
Yes they do exist & many new cars have them. They principal of how they work is similar to street lamps where they have a little sensor on the top of the lamp to detect whether it is dark yet. Obviously the sensors on a car are more sensitive like it may be daylight out side but the lights will come on dimly if you enter a tunnel & then when you exit they will automatically turn them selves off.
.:Crispy:.
Although since meeting me he's grown out of it a bit, Im a good influence