What Cheap Runabout Do You Use?
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Like 'kiko' I use a Smart FourTwo as a runabout. The Brabus version, which I am just about to get chipped(by Smarts-r-Us) to 101 bhp! Reasonably economical, easy to park, fun to drive - providing that you keep the front tyres pumped up high to reduce understeer.
It's certainly at the opposite end of the spectrum to an Aero 8...
It's certainly at the opposite end of the spectrum to an Aero 8...
Gulliver911 said:
As a city dweller, I use a Piaggio 125cc scooter, faster than anything in traffic, always
first at traffic lights, park exactly in front of where I am going, and don't give a rats
arse about it, it can get scratched, stolen, whatever I have no emotional involvment to it.
On top of that, I am anonymous with the helmet, OK I won't have it valet parked when I go to my favorite bar on a Friday after work, but appart from that, it is unbeatable as a roundabout....
Doesn't go quite so well on the lawn, though J-L.
loach said:
Gulliver911 said:
As a city dweller, I use a Piaggio 125cc scooter, faster than anything in traffic, always
first at traffic lights, park exactly in front of where I am going, and don't give a rats
arse about it, it can get scratched, stolen, whatever I have no emotional involvment to it.
On top of that, I am anonymous with the helmet, OK I won't have it valet parked when I go to my favorite bar on a Friday after work, but appart from that, it is unbeatable as a roundabout....
Doesn't go quite so well on the lawn, though J-L.
Never been the same since you tried it you rascal !
Gulliver911 said:
loach said:
Gulliver911 said:
As a city dweller, I use a Piaggio 125cc scooter, faster than anything in traffic, always
first at traffic lights, park exactly in front of where I am going, and don't give a rats
arse about it, it can get scratched, stolen, whatever I have no emotional involvment to it.
On top of that, I am anonymous with the helmet, OK I won't have it valet parked when I go to my favorite bar on a Friday after work, but appart from that, it is unbeatable as a roundabout....
Doesn't go quite so well on the lawn, though J-L.
Never been the same since you tried it you rascal !
Crap - are you serious? Did I kill it? It wasn't that bad a fall.....my scars disappeared after a few weeks with minimal rehabilitation, though I suspect the emotional scars will be there a while yet. I keep getting Vietnamesque PTSS flashbacks and cold sweats. Probably best not sneak up on me for a while - especially if I look like I'm in the midst of an episode, as it could be dangerous.
In answer to the OP, an E38 7-series V8. For a car with most of the trimmings that cost its first owner over £50k, £3k is definitely cheap and it is run about and about, given only just run in when bought at 90k miles. Stick the box in 'S' mode and you got an old barge that will catch many a slim young thing
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