Which cars are classy these days?

[NomduJour]

Trabi601 said:

Have to agree and will say that not a single one of the cars listed - the Up!, Superb, Yeti and even i3 are 'classy'.

Depends on how you interpret "classy" - there's a very fine line between something that looks expensive and desirable and something that is expensive but looks vulgar and flashy.

[fatjon]

Audi A8L, very understated.

[DoubleD]

The problem is its an Audi

[phib]

NomduJour said:

Depends on how you interpret "classy" - there's a very fine line between something that looks expensive and desirable and something that is expensive but looks vulgar and flashy.

I rest my case with a Galway green range rover with no privacy glass and normal wheels (my idea of classy) v anything with kahn or overfinch written on it.

One is for the people who own an estate and the other is for those who live on an estate

Phib

[NomduJour]

fatjon said:

Audi A8L, very understated.

A large German saloon could never be classy, people would think you were some sort of biznissman.

[helix402]

tomic said:

Cactus, Dacia and Yeti. The sort of wipe clean car that's only driven by women with massive forearms, doggers, people who make diesel from chip fat and serial killers. Not classy.

I like the description, massive wide or massive long forearms? Afraid you're wrong on the serial killers. Murderers drive Discos.

[tomic]

helix402 said:

I like the description, massive wide or massive long forearms? Afraid you're wrong on the serial killers. Murderers drive Discos.

Massive wide.

I know where you're coming from about the Disco, but I remember this quote from Top Gear.

http://www.quotes.net/show-quote/83529

Don't forget that the Dacia Duster is now arguably the most practical and functional of all Renault made cars.

[DonkeyApple]

And wonderfully unpretentious, which is why you're seeing more and more being driven by people who aren't beholden to affordability or image.

[Trabi601]

DonkeyApple said:

And wonderfully unpretentious, which is why you're seeing more and more being driven by people who aren't beholden to affordability or image.

I saw one stickered up as a Motability demo car today. Soon they'll be all over the Gurnos.

[J4CKO]

Was just walking the dog when some chaps when blasting by in a C63, it sounded good but looked "A little bit werr, a little bit worr, a little bit tasty", where C class AMG's like the C55/C36/C32 just looked pretty much like any other C Class with perhaps some subtle clues, ditto the bigger models, not saying they arent great but this white one was just to shouty in the looks, and noise department, AMG used to be a restrained looking, classy, top end performance Mercedes but they are a bit ott like some 90s London rude boy chariot, but a factory one.

[av185]

The mere fact that one time but now forgotton 'premium brand' Mercedes chose to use Tini Tempah as brand ambassador a number of years back speaks volumes.

Innit bruv.

[spreadsheet monkey]

av185 said:

The mere fact that one time but now forgotton 'premium brand' Mercedes chose to use Tini Tempah as brand ambassador a number of years back speaks volumes.

Innit bruv.

No big deal. Tinie's a successful artist, what's the problem?

Audi has Justin Timberlake as an ambassador.
Jaguar has recently signed up a member of Gorillaz, who only exists in cartoon form.
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2016/10/jaguar-...

[DonkeyApple]

spreadsheet monkey said:

av185 said:

The mere fact that one time but now forgotton 'premium brand' Mercedes chose to use Tini Tempah as brand ambassador a number of years back speaks volumes.

Innit bruv.

No big deal. Tinie's a successful artist, what's the problem?

Audi has Justin Timberlake as an ambassador.
Jaguar has recently signed up a member of Gorillaz, who only exists in cartoon form.
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2016/10/jaguar-...

There is no problem. The brands have chosen the correct people to project and promote their desired image to their desired customer demographic. But as someone has pointed out, there is no 'class' associated with these 'icons'.

[spreadsheet monkey]

DonkeyApple said:

spreadsheet monkey said:

av185 said:

The mere fact that one time but now forgotton 'premium brand' Mercedes chose to use Tini Tempah as brand ambassador a number of years back speaks volumes.

Innit bruv.

No big deal. Tinie's a successful artist, what's the problem?

Audi has Justin Timberlake as an ambassador.
Jaguar has recently signed up a member of Gorillaz, who only exists in cartoon form.
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2016/10/jaguar-...

There is no problem. The brands have chosen the correct people to project and promote their desired image to their desired customer demographic. But as someone has pointed out, there is no 'class' associated with these 'icons'.

And as you pointed out several pages ago, there are very few people in public life that have popular appeal and still project a "classy" image.

BMW has a fairly staid blend of golfers, rugby players, and media folk (including Murray Walker and Tiff Needell).
LR has a brand-appropriate mix of explorers and adventurers (including Bear Grylls) as its ambassadors.

Mentioning brand ambassadors was a worthwhile point - it shows who BMW/Merc/JLR is targeting. I just thought the "innit bruv" comment was a bit unnecessary.

[J4CKO]

I suppose it is whatever shifts volume, whoever has the cash gets marketed to but AMG have kind of lost that "Fast but dont want to shot about it" vibe, even the cooking ones look more aggressive than the older AMG's.

[NomduJour]

Cheap credit and new money in new markets - there are your problems.

[Fastchas]

I posted this in another thread but thought of this one too. It's not vulgar like a modern Porsche, just understated.

[LaDS3arri]

High end lexus shouts classy git to me.

[Baddie]

Agent XXX said:

jesus there are some f*****g shocking suggestions on here of what is 'classy'

A f*****g fat, lard ar** BMW? A gargantuan Bentley? A f*****g SKODA? A Golf?

You're all f******g off your f*****g rockers.

Just sitting back shooting down, or offering a positive contribution?

[berlintaxi]

Fastchas said:

I posted this in another thread but thought of this one too. It's not vulgar like a modern Porsche, just understated.

How is modern Porsche vulgar, most look virtually the same as they did 50 years ago.