Stupid things non petrolheads say....

[Cliftonite]

DickyC said:

MartG said:

Someone used a Mini instead of a DeLorean ?

The Mini Time Traveller De Luxe.

Which brought with it the yellow lines, modern road sign and Vauxhall Victor!

[JagXJR]

Artistic Licence?

[marshalla]

JagXJR said:

Artistic Licence?

Revoked

[conkerman]

4/10

Should have been DISMISSED!

[DickyC]

Blimey! It's worse than I thought. The FC Victor didn't come out until 1964.

My dad's first company car was a Victor 101. It had three gears, built-in obsolescence and weighed the same as six photons. He took us to Spain in it for a camping holiday. The journey was Hell. My mum kept passing out with the heat. In the back we became welded to the white hot plastic seats.

Dad taught us to drive in it at Blashbushe Aerodrome which was a bit on the derelict side then. As soon as we could reach the pedals we could have a go. FLN 618C. I was 12.

Happy days.

[anonymous-user]

I just asked a colleague what car she has at the moment.
Her reply made me lol.

"I have a Golf"
me "What mark?"
"It is a 1.2 Polo Golf"

I cracked up.

[MikeO996]

On Chris Evans this morning some guy had written in bemoaning the fact that his partner was pressuring him to get rid of his "Audi Turbo" for a more family friendly car. Been puzzling all day what an Audi Turbo would be - TT diesel?

[pinchmeimdreamin]

MikeO996 said:

On Chris Evans this morning some guy had written in bemoaning the fact that his partner was pressuring him to get rid of his "Audi Turbo" for a more family friendly car. Been puzzling all day what an Audi Turbo would be - TT diesel?

Quattro ?

[MikeO996]

But you'd call it a quattro. No petrol head would call it a turbo, and no non-petrol head would own one.

[irocfan]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

MikeO996 said:

On Chris Evans this morning some guy had written in bemoaning the fact that his partner was pressuring him to get rid of his "Audi Turbo" for a more family friendly car. Been puzzling all day what an Audi Turbo would be - TT diesel?

Quattro ?

perhaps he's of an age where when one said Audi Turbo everyone knew it meant...

[pinchmeimdreamin]

irocfan said:

pinchmeimdreamin said:

MikeO996 said:

On Chris Evans this morning some guy had written in bemoaning the fact that his partner was pressuring him to get rid of his "Audi Turbo" for a more family friendly car. Been puzzling all day what an Audi Turbo would be - TT diesel?

Quattro ?

perhaps he's of an age where when one said Audi Turbo everyone knew it meant...

First Car I thought of

[MikeO996]

Still think he'd call that a quattro, or even a quattro turbo, I'm still betting on a TT diesel..

[MikeO996]

irocfan said:

perhaps he's of an age where when one said Audi Turbo everyone knew it ]

Unlikely if he's got small kids

[Benbay001]

MikeO996 said:

Still think he'd call that a quattro, or even a quattro turbo, I'm still betting on a TT diesel..

It would have to be something thats unsightly or bad on fuel for his mrs to want him to get rid.
29mpg or lower me thinks.

[MikeO996]

Benbay001 said:

It would have to be something thats unsightly or bad on fuel for his mrs to want him to get rid.
29mpg or lower me thinks.

Or only two seats.

[Blown2CV]

MikeO996 said:

irocfan said:

perhaps he's of an age where when one said Audi Turbo everyone knew it ]

Unlikely if he's got small kids

A4 1.9TDi SE in white.

[Moonhawk]

Whenever I give my dad a lift - he always says: "You are going to get done for speeding".

My reply: "yep - I might, if I was actually speeding - look at the speedo".

He doesn't seem to understand that slightly enthusiastic acceleration /= speeding.

[itannum990]

Gave a lift to a drunk bloke friend of my wife. Saw the headlights pop up and said 'oh pop up lights, just like a porsche'
Didn't quite know how to respond. Seeing as we were in my 944..

[ORD]

itannum990 said:

Gave a lift to a drunk bloke friend of my wife. Saw the headlights pop up and said 'oh pop up lights, just like a porsche'
Didn't quite know how to respond. Seeing as we were in my 944..

Like anyone driving a 944, you should have just smiled and continued to win at life.

[sparkyhx]

MartG said:

Not so much a 'what they said' but a 'what they did' - found this on Facebook....

Prestige Motor Services - "We recently had an Audi TT 3.2 V6 because of an engine issue...The guys opened it up and this is what we found. This is the worst engine we have ever seen. Judging by the service manual it looks to have been 83,296 miles since the last service."







A testament to Audi engineering that the thing was running at all !

Holy crap!

The owner should be castrated for doing that to a poor defenceless car.