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Efbe
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35 months
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Prof Beard said: Professors (not just Cambridge ones  ) are a VERY diverse bunch, but tend to drive fairly inconspicuous vehicles. I've just popped out to look at the contents of our senior staff car park and saw: Peugeot Estate Seat Cupra BMW Z4 Chrysler Neon AR Giulietta Civic Type S LR Disco Golf Octavia VRS VW Tiguan Peugeot CC Fiesta Merc E Estate Focus Astra CC Toyota Auris Porsche 966 C4S No pattern emerging there... many of these in the list are not one car, but many. The point of this thread is to find a car that is classless, not a selection of 10 cars that all share the same name. A golf from the ear;y 90s may well be estate spec, and a 2012 golf may well be ok in buckingham palace, but neither will look right in the other's position. ergo a golf is not classless. same goes for many of these. and the question you should be asking is: would it get keyed on a council estate, would the queen mind it on her drive, and would it fit in at an asda or sainsburys carpark.
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dave stew
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NelsonR32
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40 months
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fozzymandeus
679 posts
15 months
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SIXT Rented Ford Transit.
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rehab71
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59 months
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Octavia Scout: 
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Prof Beard
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Efbe said: Prof Beard said: Professors (not just Cambridge ones ) are a VERY diverse bunch, but tend to drive fairly inconspicuous vehicles. I've just popped out to look at the contents of our senior staff car park and saw: Peugeot Estate Seat Cupra BMW Z4 Chrysler Neon AR Giulietta Civic Type S LR Disco Golf Octavia VRS VW Tiguan Peugeot CC Fiesta Merc E Estate Focus Astra CC Toyota Auris Porsche 966 C4S No pattern emerging there... many of these in the list are not one car, but many. The point of this thread is to find a car that is classless, not a selection of 10 cars that all share the same name. A golf from the ear;y 90s may well be estate spec, and a 2012 golf may well be ok in buckingham palace, but neither will look right in the other's position. ergo a golf is not classless. same goes for many of these. and the question you should be asking is: would it get keyed on a council estate, would the queen mind it on her drive, and would it fit in at an asda or sainsburys carpark. Sorry - I should have they were all recent models (except the Neon)
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Efbe
4,866 posts
35 months
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Prof Beard said: Sorry - I should have they were all recent models (except the Neon) fair enough. but I would bet almost all of these would get keyed pretty damn quickly in an estate around my way. they wouldn't fit in in the slightest.
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Zigster
264 posts
13 months
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Golf.
Lots of cars might fit at both ends of the class spectrum, but they leave a gaping hole in the middle. Anything except a Golf fits you into one or two (maybe three) classes but there's always a gap somewhere. Even the age of the Golf doesn't give it away: you might have bought an old one as a shed or you might have had it 20 years from new but it works fine so why would you replace it?
Actually, any Subaru except an Impreza probably works too.
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NadiR
594 posts
16 months
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I'm sorry, but most of the cars mentioned here are ridiculous. The Subaras, Volvos and Saab 900 have been the best cars mentioned yet. I also think that most Saabs would fit the bill. Something like a 2002 Saab 9-5 gets my vote.
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Prof Beard
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96 months
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NadiR said: I'm sorry, but most of the cars mentioned here are ridiculous. The Subaras, Volvos and Saab 900 have been the best cars mentioned yet. I also think that most Saabs would fit the bill. Something like a 2002 Saab 9-5 gets my vote. I'm inclined to agree
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NumberoftheBeast
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Robbo66
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102 months
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wormburner said: There are lots that are close, but the truly posh are the final filter. They don't always have lots of money, and they're almost always not flash.
The truly posh don't drive BMWs or Audis - too arriviste. Nor Jaguar - too downmarket for luxury, but not 'quiet' enough for daily bashing about. Nor Lexus - too 'accountant'.
Volvo (any estates but no saloons), Mercedes (only pre-98-ish, not ML, not AMG), Subaru (not Impreza), Land Rover, Range Rover (NOT sport), Land Cruiser, VW (only Golf or Polo).
And surprisingly, mk1 Ford Focus. No other Fords, but the Mk1 Focus seems to cross all sorts of barriers. Doesn't look the part at all outside The Dorchester, but loads of very posh people seem to have a Focus (Silver or light blue, 5 door, 1.6 or 1.8, Ghia) lying around for station duty, popping out for more clays, and lending to cousin Marcus when he's back from another season in Klosters. Spot on. Although the landed do seem to also have a liking for the Subaru forester...in green.
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New POD
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19 months
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aka_kerrly
4,808 posts
79 months
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Snowboy said: PaulMoor said: Golf. Thats it.
I don’t see it myself. I can’t imagine the queen driving round in a Golf. Maybe not the current queen but the future queen  I do think the golfs, defenders and transits are the contenders.
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craigb84
782 posts
21 months
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Split screen / bay windowed camper sprung to mind.
Or a Merc Vito in any guise dependant on who would need to use it. I've seen plumbers use them, I've seen football clubs use them, I've seen taxi companies use them. These things can do it all.
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D15CO D4VE
309 posts
20 months
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Thread should be called "Cars you don't personally like"
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Efbe
4,866 posts
35 months
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this is how well a golf fits in... 
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wormburner
6,397 posts
122 months
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Efbe said: this is how well a golf fits in... ^^^ as well as a Peugeot 206?
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Efbe
4,866 posts
35 months
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that picture changed I tells you. if was a golf in a rough estate burnt out. now its a peugeot in a firly nice grannyville .:/
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