Rubbish cars you just bonded with
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Ok, in contrast to the cars you didn't click with, with stories of Porsche / Ferrari models traded quickly at huge losses, what rubbish cars have you bonded with?
For me it's my current automatic Mercedes 220 diesel estate. Bought as a stop gap.. but still here and fitting into my life rather wonderfully.
On no rationale level is it desirable to anyone. It's beige, its classic SE spec with small wheels and fake wood dash, it's got 225k miles on it. It's a model which is not new enough to be modern and not old enough to be retro, it's just aesthetically deeply unfashionable.
It sounds like a tractor, gathers pace in a leisurely manner at best and handles like a canal boat. And only just cracks 40mpg on a run.
But I've just bonded with it and find myself throwing decent money at it in order to get 'just another year out of it'. I've even started to think it looks quite handsome and admire its narrow width vs modern equivalents. And seeing as in my mind it's worthless, depreciation is nil.
I really should eBay it and get something fresher and nicer to drive. I even have some money sitting in the bank just waiting to be thrown at a replacement.
But... I just can't seem to do the deed.
We've bonded
For me it's my current automatic Mercedes 220 diesel estate. Bought as a stop gap.. but still here and fitting into my life rather wonderfully.
On no rationale level is it desirable to anyone. It's beige, its classic SE spec with small wheels and fake wood dash, it's got 225k miles on it. It's a model which is not new enough to be modern and not old enough to be retro, it's just aesthetically deeply unfashionable.
It sounds like a tractor, gathers pace in a leisurely manner at best and handles like a canal boat. And only just cracks 40mpg on a run.
But I've just bonded with it and find myself throwing decent money at it in order to get 'just another year out of it'. I've even started to think it looks quite handsome and admire its narrow width vs modern equivalents. And seeing as in my mind it's worthless, depreciation is nil.
I really should eBay it and get something fresher and nicer to drive. I even have some money sitting in the bank just waiting to be thrown at a replacement.
But... I just can't seem to do the deed.
We've bonded
Edited by Plate spinner on Sunday 4th June 19:20
Klippie said:
Oh I forgot about my 2002 1.0L K11 Micra...it stayed for two years amazing little thing it was just so reliable, handled like a horse and cart, central locking had a mind of its own, used to slow down when I switched on the air-con, I think a paper bag had a higher Euro NCAP rating...everyone should own a K11 at some point.
Lovely wee thing...I still miss it.
Yup, I remember having one for 2 weeks when my company e46 BMW was being crash repaired. Lovely wee thing...I still miss it.
I really liked it, such a willing little thing!
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