Thinking of up grading to a BMW???

[jacko500]

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[mattjbatch]

To quote Jacko

quote: Has anyone else experienced this? There is a particuarly short bloke who lives near me and drives a BMW 850 (chest wig and medallion look). He has this annoying habit of tail gateing me and revving up at the lights. Obviously, I have taken the mature approach for weeks and ignored him. However, things came to a head recently when I could take this fools posing no longer. I gave him a swift re-education in physics i.e. 320BHP pushing a beautiful light machine is much faster than 320BHP pushing a 2 tonne dump truck! I believe he still has pieces of SO2 rubber stuck to his windscreen!!!

Has that answered your question

[Podie]

Hmm... if you think TVR's are expensive to repair, wait till something goes bang on the beemer... and an 8-series that can mean repairs that are half the value of the car...

[jacko500]

My apologies guys. I leave my PC unattended for 5 minutes and some dwarf in a gimp mask tries to make me look stupid! Dont worry I will deal with it! I know from my own experience that the term "trading up" means stopping out of a very dull mass produced German car and buying a hand made TVR with so much heart and soul that it hurts!

As for the gimp well if anyone knows an old man that stinks of piss, wears a flat cap, smokes a pipe and fancies an 850 and has a few luncheon vouchers spare please drop me a line and I'll pass it on to the gimp.

As for me, unfortunately me car is for sale but it is purely a financial decision. I will be back.

[kev s3]

used to have a beamer,and it came no where near to the tiv in respect of admiration from people and driving pleasure,and ive only got an s3given the chance ill be driving a tvr well into my 70's if the car and myself last that longfully intend to grow old disgracefully

[mattjbatch]

quote:
Did you have Quincy in the car when you were racing !

Ahh Quincy. The king of daytime TV...

[eharding]

I had a BMW as a company car - all I can say is....never again. The *only* car I've ever had that left me completely stranded (the dealer forgot to put the gear stick linkage back together after replacing the gaiter - then refused to fix it for 10 days)...and it spent more time at the garage for minor fixes than either of the Tivs ever have. Granted the replacement (Range Rover) isn't exactly averse to burning money, but at least the dealer is friendly. Based on overhearing the sales and service staff discussing other customers as I sat at the BMW dealership for a couple of hours while they MOT'd the car before I finally got rid of it, the only people who loathe BMW drivers more than the general public are....BMW dealers.

[am(3)azed]

Now lets get a few things straight here 840-850 are for the middle age OR those who want to impress 18 years old kids!!!! TVR's are FANTASTIC, no messing about trying to be anything but fast and fun. Sold mine 2 years ago because not giving it enough attention. Now got an e36 best all rounder on the road BUT lacks the emotion of a TVR....... All the M's are great cars all the 8's .... well..... past it.... and hence have retail vals of £5-8k if you can convince the kids to buy em!!!!!.

[chrisb8cpd]

JUst to chuck a spanner in the works, we have a Cerbie & a 330 Touring Beamer. My wife used to work for BMW for a few years, & if it were the case that they were all crap, do you think we'd own one?

Just a thought.

Chris D.