Car trends that you hope die
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rb5er said:
I was commenting on a poster that owns a 330d quoting one of my posts. Pretty much nothing at all to do with you but you seem to love to jump on it. Do you think your posts have any point to them at all???
I could also point lots of cars my car is slower than but nobody else is quoting how they wave as they zoom past some old Volvo. Also that would be just as pointless as all your posts.
I could also point lots of cars my car is slower than but nobody else is quoting how they wave as they zoom past some old Volvo. Also that would be just as pointless as all your posts.
rb5er said:
Not indicating, generally cutting people up and never letting anyone out of junctions even in traffic. Yes its just a generalization but seems to be very common.
I'd very much like to see you try and "zoom past" my "lowly" 330bhp Volvo S60R
Yes, I love people who generalise about others only to then get a bit sniffy about their own car. It's ironic, and you can't beat a little bit of that. It's not me quoting power figures from an old Volvo I'd very much like to see you try and "zoom past" my "lowly" 330bhp Volvo S60R
RumRunner said:
AUDI's why people think they have bought into a acceptable middle class motoring.
Basically in most cases the cars are overpriced and reliability after once out of warranty ...shocking.... cars for clones....and dull in most cases.Staggering in the fact that people will buy a beaten up high mileage example instead of low say 1 owner mint Ford for the same money...just be in lacking in imagination Audi club...dohh..which is less reliable and more costly to fix. Leaders start fashions then when people have similar move and start a new one....Sheep follow and that is why most Audi's are white with black hooves.
That's one opinion.Basically in most cases the cars are overpriced and reliability after once out of warranty ...shocking.... cars for clones....and dull in most cases.Staggering in the fact that people will buy a beaten up high mileage example instead of low say 1 owner mint Ford for the same money...just be in lacking in imagination Audi club...dohh..which is less reliable and more costly to fix. Leaders start fashions then when people have similar move and start a new one....Sheep follow and that is why most Audi's are white with black hooves.
You actually know or have had contact with these people who buy high mileage, beaten-up examples? Do you chide them for their lack of imagination whenever you see them?
You call them clones then offer a Ford as an alternative; hardly a scarce marque itself is it? Perhaps some people don't relish a mint condition, 1 owner Ford; I know I don't. I'd go so far to say the only Ford I would consider ever paying money for is an RS200 and that's not likely to happen.
I would agree that Audi's aren't the most exciting of cars but in quattro guise they offer something which most other manufacturers—Subaru being a notable exception—don't do. And even then Subaru are a different demographic.
For over £500 less than a secondhand 2013 1.2 Ford Ka...
(http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201604122902029/sort/default/postcode/le112sf/onesearchad/used/radius/1501/price-to/5500/price-from/4500/make/ford/advert-type/ymal/dealer-id/27936/usedcars?logcode=flp)
...I bought a 2002 Audi S8. 1 owner from from new, FSH, mint condition with less than 100,000 miles on the clock. 360bhp, 4wd, more space than I knew what to do with, discrete, comfortable and when I came to sell it 2 years later, I got 90% of my money back.
Before than I owned a 2002 A4 3.0 Quattro Sport which coincidentally my brother now owns, having bought it from the chap who bought it from me. It's in excellent condition, less than 100,000, FSH and at just £1600 delivers a driving experience you won't get in any similarly aged or similarly priced Ford.
My wife now drives an A4 3.2 Quattro S-Line Tiptronic. It may be dull in your opinion but that fact is precisely why my wife loves it. It's a very capable car that blends in so she can turn up to work at a school and not attract attention.
Thanks to Audi's becoming more ubiquitous, the older models are affordable to people like me who would rather buy something older/faster/better equipped/not very sensible over a brand new stop-start eco-box that woudn't stand out in a crowd of one.
RumRunner said:
The need to fit into a certain box you quote:-
" car that blends in so she can turn up to work at a school and not attract attention."
In this case that's exactly what's required. A while ago I started a thread explaining that at the school she works in as a Deputy Head the caretaker (who is on the spectrum if you see what I mean) has put nails in the tyres of her previous car and on another occassion when she had a brand new, box fresh Polo as a loan car from the VW garage, he wrote something unintelligible on the windscreen, thinking she'd gone out and bought a brand new car. " car that blends in so she can turn up to work at a school and not attract attention."
It was in wood glue and we genuinely couldn't read what it said. After the first instances of sabotage, she contacted the police who installed a hidden camera overlooking the carpark. Only she, the head and the caretaker where made aware. The car-molesting stopped. A few months later when the camera was removed, it started again. He's got a problem with her being younger than him and in a position of authority and see's her car as a valid target for his frustration. Ignoring the fact that her previous car and the Audi are both 2007 models and cost a lot less than some of the newer but duller cars other members of staff drive; he can't see that fact.
Being not-quite-the-full-ticket, he's let slip to her that he's been up to something. Even the head, who has in the last couple of months bought a brand new Skoda-something estate was making sarky comments when she said she'd sold her Jetta and bought an Audi. Some people just can't see past the badge and refuse to see what it really is; in this case a 9 year old, 3rd hand car.
The A4 sits annonimously in the car park, costing a fraction of ost of the other cars in there but is the best equipped, best handling, faster and more capable car than anything else around it. It's either drive that or she takes our other car in – a 4.4 Range Rover VSE. The caretaker would probably have an annuerism.
RumRunner said:
Yet they all want to put there own stamp on the Kitchen !!!
I genuinely don't know what this means.RumRunner said:
So why blend in is good to be different or think outside the box. Good job people have in the past or we would all still be in mud huts....
See above as to why blending in is ideal in this instance. If my wife didn't have to contend with loony caretaker and snipey heads, I'd happily have an Integrale or Alfa Romeo SZ on the drive instead and one day I will. Is that outside the box enough?RumRunner said:
When I was lad my mates dad had Capri 2.0laser...my mate was seen to be cool as his old man had something a bit different amongst the cortinas and marinas and other wonders if the late 70 and 80's.
I'm happy for him.RumRunner said:
Classic example of friend who could only have the VW version of the Seat and Ford Galaxy to fit in and ended you paying to much for a car with high mileage and loads of issues where there were many better examples of the same thing for less or similar....brand marketing BS
Not an example of someone buying a beaten up high mileage Audi. An example of someone buying a particularly ropey example of a recognised ropey model range. Ford also implicated by association I would suggest.Graphics. A PH sticker is tacky enough IMO but I was amazed to see a local lad in a Mini, or something that looked like it once was a Mini, lowered, with stretched tyres on huge rims and the obligatory roof rack. That was fairly bad but there was a graphic on the front windscreen in the style of a mexican sweepy gang graphic. Not sure what it said but along the lines of lowboy badass etc etc.
Lester H said:
every mainstream car maker attempting to get into every possible niche, often involving crossovers and imitation macho designs. Anyone else out there agree that it would be better if car makers stuck to what they were good at/ liked for?
Is anyone going to buy a Urus if it goes on sale? Or a Bentayga? Even rich people wouldnt shell out 265k on that.Edited by Lester H on Saturday 11th June 21:01
Blanchimont said:
ajprice said:
Tailgater said:
jamoor said:
black on black on black on black on black cars.
I own one .. Without the black wheels.
Uh Oh.
Edited by Tailgater on Wednesday 17th August 10:37
Edited by Tailgater on Wednesday 17th August 10:37
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
Chas88 said:
Stick on screens like on the new Mercedes C Class or Audi A4, I can't stand them.
Indeed, anything touchscreen, which are becoming more and more prevalent. You're not allowed to use a phone whilst driving, rightly so as it's a distraction. God only knows how anyone can deem it safe for someone to be driving whilst tapping away on touchscreen menus whilst driving. The thought of someone sharing motorway space with me whilst tapping away at such a screen gives me the shivers! 
KarlMac said:
jamoor said:
black on black on black on black. Black paint, wheels, interior,
Literally everything in black. What is the attraction in this?
Mid ranking office juniors can pretend to be drug dealers in their 4 year old diesel s line. Literally everything in black. What is the attraction in this?
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