Do you care what the neighbour's think?

[craigjm]

ecsrobin said:

It wasn't an attempt at a joke was it?

Sounds like it to me

[V8RX7]

My neighbours can't see my drive and I can't see theirs.

However as I regularly seem to be pulling out of mine in my T4 when they are pulling out of theirs in their R8 I'm confident they think I'm a pauper.

Which I find amusing as they started out as horse dealing pikies !

[herewego]

They'd probably sell half as many cars as they do if they couldn't convince people that they would look better bigger smarter stronger sexier in a new bigger wider longer shinier faster model. It obviously works.

[Leithen]

What neighbours?



Off to search for binoculars





No.

[swisstoni]

Just a glimpse into a tiny mind.

[nickfrog]

Audemars said:

Its more of a reflection of your neighbour and the general population. Its why car leasing is rife. Unintelligent/poor people place too much emphasis on the car.

Exactly and you should stop worrying about cars - and stop pretending you have a property portfolio and a collection of supercars - you probably haven't got a pot to piss in but no one actually cares - you're just projecting your own (perceived) failure in life. There's more to life than money so you may have been very successful in other areas.

If I got this all wrong, I suspect it's custard time although you've already ignored past requests I believe.

As for lease, for the 236898th time : as it's heavily yield managed and therefore happens to occasionally be cheaper than cash, so why not (if you're intelligent) ?

Edited by nickfrog on Sunday 26th February 10:35

[Riley Blue]

What other people think doesn't register on my radar; I don't live the way I do for their approval.

[vikingaero]

Riley Blue said:

What other people think doesn't register on my radar; I don't live the way I do for their approval.

But for a lot of people it's acceptance and a uniform. The same type of leased car, the same clothing.

Pop to Bluewater at the weekend and it's a sea of orange women, iPhones, Superdry, Jack Wills, Hollister etc etc.

[Audemars]

nickfrog said:

Exactly and you should stop worrying about cars - and stop pretending you have a property portfolio and a collection of supercars - you probably haven't got a pot to piss in but no one actually cares - you're just projecting your own (perceived) failure in life. There's more to life than money so you may have been very successful in other areas.

If I got this all wrong, I suspect it's custard time although you've already ignored past requests I believe.

As for lease, for the 236898th time : as it's heavily yield managed and therefore happens to occasionally be cheaper than cash, so why not (if you're intelligent) ?

Edited by nickfrog on Sunday 26th February 10:35

It seems you care. You need to seek advice on jealousy and envy. You are probably the neighbour in question. Please stop following me. Ive already ignored the others.

Ignore my posts if you can't deal with the way your life has turned out.

Edited by Audemars on Sunday 26th February 11:01

[paul789]

He's probably packing a chipolata.

[Alias218]

Cars are a relatively cheap purchase. The fact that you are neighbours and therefore have similar houses suggests you have some sort of financial parity with one another.

I thing he just wanted to ingratiate himself a little.

[Loyly]

Your neighbour sounds like a knob.

I don't really care what my neighbours think of my cars but I'm blessed with good neigbours on my cul-de-sac. The neighbour to my inmediate left did laugh when I swapped my Audi A8 for a Peugeot 106 Rallye, saying he thought I was mad to swap a comfortable barge for a French pop can.

[Downward]

No due to house prices we live in a poorer part of town where a lot of people on my street are council. They are either single mums with many kids, carers, permanent sick or pensioners.

My next door neighbours have retired having worked all their lives but never bought their house.

On the other side they own their house, Even though they own another couple of houses they choose to live here. They say they are looking to rent it out but We will see.

[Blaster72]

Alias218 said:

Cars are a relatively cheap purchase.

They are?

[f1nn]

I suppose I'm conscious of it, without caring a great deal about it.

At the moment, I have a 10 year old BMW 335i, which although is in excellent condition and I keep it very clean, is a 10 year old car. I'm sure my neighbours would think it's a bit of a banger. But, I really like it so they can get fked.

Actually looking out of the window at the cars parked in my little culdesac, my neighbours have everything from an Audi S5, E46 M3' via a TT, a new Octavia VRS, some old 206/Focus things, next goor has a new Mini Convertible, and next door but one has an A3 Convertible and the coolest car out of everything....a bright yellow Panda 4x4!

I'm that taken with the Panda I'm currently looking at a Panda 100HP as a second car!

[Paracetamol]

One of my neighbours asked my wife to ask me to give her a trade price for her car! They think I am a used car dealer...how dirty did I feel.

[hairyben]

Audemars said:

Its more of a reflection of your neighbour and the general population. Its why car leasing is rife. Unintelligent/poor people place too much emphasis on the car.

Most people care about status too much, Outside of petrolheadland cars are pure status symbols to those that care about it, and even those who don't mostly understand they have status. It's weird and annoying when to you they are just great cars.

It's like, me+mrs hairy might be at an opera one day and on the floor for a thrash metal band another and we love both, but most people would make very different judgements on who we are and what we're about depending which they might be aware we're attending. We, however, don't give a st, its all music we love.

Its amusing how much "oh wow" our 12 year old leggy 330ci gets, often from those with more expensive motors.

[zarjaz1991]

I do not care what neighbours or anyone else thinks. I'm not interested in 'status'. Never have been.

[pork911]

Downward said:

No due to house prices we live in a poorer part of town where a lot of people on my street are council.

Wonderful mental gymnastics.

[Riley Blue]

vikingaero said:

Riley Blue said:

What other people think doesn't register on my radar; I don't live the way I do for their approval.

But for a lot of people it's acceptance and a uniform. The same type of leased car, the same clothing.

Pop to Bluewater at the weekend and it's a sea of orange women, iPhones, Superdry, Jack Wills, Hollister etc etc.

That's not a problem I have, never did. I don't have an ego, don't try to impress, drive what suits me, dress to be comfortable and don't recognise three of the four brand names you've mentioned. Neither will I (at the age of 67) become one of the beige generation and potter round garden centres. I've never owned a sports car so I think it's about time I did - MX5, Z4, TT, Boxster ...