Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 18]
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Derventio said:
This beauty is still slightly over budget but I wonder if the vendor reads these posts.They've lopped £4K off the asking price, since it was last mentioned.
In all seriousness, if that final £999 gets lopped of, I reckon I'd be mighty tempted to head down the A38 in the general direction of Brum. French chic from when they knew how to style a car, (admittedly, Peugeot seem to have got their mojo back, of late), Lashings of comfy leather with properly proportioned tyres and a lovely smooth V6 thrown in, to boot. I'll even forgive it for being plain silver. It also appears to have all the kit you could ever want in a car, too, including an actual sunroof!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103230...
In all seriousness, if that final £999 gets lopped of, I reckon I'd be mighty tempted to head down the A38 in the general direction of Brum. French chic from when they knew how to style a car, (admittedly, Peugeot seem to have got their mojo back, of late), Lashings of comfy leather with properly proportioned tyres and a lovely smooth V6 thrown in, to boot. I'll even forgive it for being plain silver. It also appears to have all the kit you could ever want in a car, too, including an actual sunroof!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103230...
Probably fitted when the car was new. Those P6000s just don't wear (or grip!)
g3org3y said:
Probably fitted when the car was new. Those P6000s just don't wear (or grip!)
https://www.mytyres.co.uk/product/1330600?Country=...
In 1996 I bought a new Alfa and the deal was if it came with P6000s on it they would swap the wheels and tyres with a similar car in the showroom which had Michelin Pilots on it. Even the salesman said he was embarrassed they fitted them.
Derventio said:
This beauty is still slightly over budget but I wonder if the vendor reads these posts.They've lopped £4K off the asking price, since it was last mentioned.
In all seriousness, if that final £999 gets lopped of, I reckon I'd be mighty tempted to head down the A38 in the general direction of Brum. French chic from when they knew how to style a car, (admittedly, Peugeot seem to have got their mojo back, of late), Lashings of comfy leather with properly proportioned tyres and a lovely smooth V6 thrown in, to boot. I'll even forgive it for being plain silver. It also appears to have all the kit you could ever want in a car, too, including an actual sunroof!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103230...
Was it really £10k? Crikey.In all seriousness, if that final £999 gets lopped of, I reckon I'd be mighty tempted to head down the A38 in the general direction of Brum. French chic from when they knew how to style a car, (admittedly, Peugeot seem to have got their mojo back, of late), Lashings of comfy leather with properly proportioned tyres and a lovely smooth V6 thrown in, to boot. I'll even forgive it for being plain silver. It also appears to have all the kit you could ever want in a car, too, including an actual sunroof!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103230...
I'm sure you could get it for 5. Make the call.
Emeye said:
g3org3y said:
BlackStang5point0 said:
LetsTryAgain said:
g3org3y said:
I 'sold' my E36 328i Touing on eBay last November.
Post the link to the 'Touing' please 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224455879255?hash=item3...
bolidemichael said:
RicksAlfas said:
d_a_n1979 said:
"Item location:Bradford, United Kingdom"
I think it was a test.Is this an example of the type of racism interpreted by a segment of contributors?
Apologies for stirring the pot but I don't like elephants in rooms and possibly erroneous observations. Additionally, the implication of censorship through fear of offence.
It's feck all to do with race; it's all to do with how many dodgy cars come out of said area; there are plenty of other areas like this that you need to pay heed to also
cmvtec said:
They're good looking, but I always think the wheelbase is a tiny bit too short and the overhangs are substantially too large. I suppose that's a result of bodging together a car on a hodge-podge of bits of shared, old platform.
100% would own. Maybe not in DC Red.
Allegedly part of the design brief was to have a boot large enough to fit two sets of golf clubs in which accounts for the rear overhang.. Cheap ones tend to have rotten floor pans unfortunately. 100% would own. Maybe not in DC Red.
RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
0a said:
I think they've aged pretty well, but they've always looked like the body is suspended over the wheels in an odd way, to me at least. 
And the overhangs are big. Probably similar to the XJS at the rear, but the XJS carries it better, due to the full-length creases at the wheelarch and waistline, and the horizontal rear bumper blade, which X100 doesn't have. The rear bumper split line ascending from so low down leaves a LOT of space above it, which looks heavy.
Where that long trailing tail helps XJS to look fast, it looks a bit dumpy on X100.
They addressed it on the X150. The rear wheel sits further back in relation to the DLO, and the rear lamps extend along the side, and the bumper split is more conventional, all of which are occupying some of what would otherwise be an empty acre of panel, as it is on the X100.
SpeckledJim said:
I know what you mean. I find the appeal of a given X100 hinges massively on the wheel choice. The small wheels make it look like a matchbox 1:43 being presented at the end of your nose by a toddler
When I consider why it looks like that to me, I suppose it might be a combination of no lips or lines on or around the wheelarches and then almost all the bodywork vertically and horizontally rounds away from the arches in a convex arc (i.e. look at the sills, they fold away, whereas modem fashion is to give them some aggression). Perhaps it was harking back to the old E Type style of bodywork. SpeckledJim said:
I know what you mean. I find the appeal of a given X100 hinges massively on the wheel choice. The small wheels make it look like a matchbox 1:43 being presented at the end of your nose by a toddler.
And the overhangs are big. Probably similar to the XJS at the rear, but the XJS carries it better, due to the full-length creases at the wheelarch and waistline, and the horizontal rear bumper blade, which X100 doesn't have. The rear bumper split line ascending from so low down leaves a LOT of space above it, which looks heavy.
Where that long trailing tail helps XJS to look fast, it looks a bit dumpy on X100.
They addressed it on the X150. The rear wheel sits further back in relation to the DLO, and the rear lamps extend along the side, and the bumper split is more conventional, all of which are occupying some of what would otherwise be an empty acre of panel, as it is on the X100.
XJS for me please. Yes it looks slightly dated, but to my eyes is a really elegant piece of design.And the overhangs are big. Probably similar to the XJS at the rear, but the XJS carries it better, due to the full-length creases at the wheelarch and waistline, and the horizontal rear bumper blade, which X100 doesn't have. The rear bumper split line ascending from so low down leaves a LOT of space above it, which looks heavy.
Where that long trailing tail helps XJS to look fast, it looks a bit dumpy on X100.
They addressed it on the X150. The rear wheel sits further back in relation to the DLO, and the rear lamps extend along the side, and the bumper split is more conventional, all of which are occupying some of what would otherwise be an empty acre of panel, as it is on the X100.
LetsTryAgain said:
ian316 said:
The closest thing I've seen that could be seen as a racist comment is possibly JRG
In what way is JRG racist?plasticpig said:
cmvtec said:
They're good looking, but I always think the wheelbase is a tiny bit too short and the overhangs are substantially too large. I suppose that's a result of bodging together a car on a hodge-podge of bits of shared, old platform.
100% would own. Maybe not in DC Red.
Allegedly part of the design brief was to have a boot large enough to fit two sets of golf clubs in which accounts for the rear overhang.. Cheap ones tend to have rotten floor pans unfortunately. 100% would own. Maybe not in DC Red.
Personally i would overlook the slightly gawky styling as explained.
RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
SpeckledJim said:
I know what you mean. I find the appeal of a given X100 hinges massively on the wheel choice. The small wheels make it look like a matchbox 1:43 being presented at the end of your nose by a toddler
When I consider why it looks like that to me, I suppose it might be a combination of no lips or lines on or around the wheelarches and then almost all the bodywork vertically and horizontally rounds away from the arches in a convex arc (i.e. look at the sills, they fold away, whereas modem fashion is to give them some aggression). Perhaps it was harking back to the old E Type style of bodywork. Carefully photographed they can look good. Or they can look like you've dragged the car along a variety of high kerbs.
Rounded rockers like a lozenge, on the XJS and X100 are very old-fashioned now (but I like them).
ian316 said:
LetsTryAgain said:
ian316 said:
The closest thing I've seen that could be seen as a racist comment is possibly JRG
In what way is JRG racist?Now "BRG" - that's got to be OK as it covers England, Wales, Scotland and A few other bits - if it was ERG (English Racing Green) I think you could say it was racist
Happy to be corrected and remove "JRG" from my car dictionary
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