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And it was driving through my home town too 
almost spoilt my only chance to drive the S during daylight. 
Jealous, haven't got the imagination to drive something out of the ordinary so think you must be rich/snob/flash/poseur.
As a closet Psychologist
you are exposing a basic male feeling of inadequacy in the face of percieved superior opposition which can only be countered by attack. Sit back relax and realise you've already won that little battle!
Funny, this morning followed a porker who after a couple of little spurts of acceleration showed mutual respect. Replaced by Vectra estate who must have burst a vessel trying to loose me until he went haring into a 30 limit at about 70 - he's welcome to it! This sunday he'll be browsing the fake plastic fireplaces at B&Q while I consume the local backroads
As a closet Psychologist
you are exposing a basic male feeling of inadequacy in the face of percieved superior opposition which can only be countered by attack. Sit back relax and realise you've already won that little battle! Funny, this morning followed a porker who after a couple of little spurts of acceleration showed mutual respect. Replaced by Vectra estate who must have burst a vessel trying to loose me until he went haring into a 30 limit at about 70 - he's welcome to it! This sunday he'll be browsing the fake plastic fireplaces at B&Q while I consume the local backroads
COuld be the flash, posing bas***d thing. A BMW Z3 went past the other day. Bit of a cold day but nice for a roof down blast.
My dad goes:
"Look at that guy, posing! What sort of fool would have the roof down?"
I kinda went a bit red and mumbled about going to put the roof back on my car.
I have tried to explain about it, it's not posing but an experience, but the uninitiated do think it is posing.
My dad goes:
"Look at that guy, posing! What sort of fool would have the roof down?"
I kinda went a bit red and mumbled about going to put the roof back on my car.
I have tried to explain about it, it's not posing but an experience, but the uninitiated do think it is posing.
WildfireS3 said:I always get annoyed when a Z3/Boxster/SLK/206CC etc. goes by without the roof down.
COuld be the flash, posing bas***d thing. A BMW Z3 went past the other day. Bit of a cold day but nice for a roof down blast.
They spend so much time going on about their roofs, comparing up-to-down times (as the weight of the roof mechanism makes the 0-60 so bad) you'd think they would use the damn things if it was dry.
Whereas we TVR owners almost always have them off, despite the faffing we have with roof panels..
s1.5f said:
Jealous, haven't got the imagination to drive something out of the ordinary so think you must be rich/snob/flash/poseur.
How true. Post-Uni, I pootled round in a Fiesta, then a Puma... sold them, bought a dead Escort to get me too and from work, and an S for the weekends. Spend no mor ein total than I did on the Puma though... yet I still get the "poser" type comments from people at work..
... must be due to my modelling in Sprint..
Podie said:One of the call centre managers at my old clients with a permanent orange tan and talons for fingernails drove an Escort cabriolet, followed by a Golf cabby after the Escort was stolen.
yet I still get the "poser" type comments from people at work..
People called her a poser (and lots more) behind her back...
Probably the rag-top rather than the TVR, as at the end of the day you don't "need" a soft-top..
I never get obscenities in Brighton. there are plenty of Tuscans and yellow ferraris to yell at. Plus it's a bit of a mecca for 'daft' mod cars so no-one notices a triumph spitfire with a comedy engine in it.
As for having the roof down, I do it cos it makes the whole experience more engaging. basicallly it's extra adrenalin. BUt, having had plenty of hoons in my old man's Z3 (2.8 respec'), I reckon it is a pose in other cars cos you're so protected with heated seats, wind deflectors, working heaters... It is not very cool to have frostbite and sandi toksvig shoulders! But it adds 50bhp to my car and takes several shades of pigment out of my hair every time I go out for a winter blast.
As for having the roof down, I do it cos it makes the whole experience more engaging. basicallly it's extra adrenalin. BUt, having had plenty of hoons in my old man's Z3 (2.8 respec'), I reckon it is a pose in other cars cos you're so protected with heated seats, wind deflectors, working heaters... It is not very cool to have frostbite and sandi toksvig shoulders! But it adds 50bhp to my car and takes several shades of pigment out of my hair every time I go out for a winter blast.
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