Driving a better car than your boss
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Kind of related.
I was in my first job out of uni. It was a v small firm. My boss, who was also the MD, wasn't really into cars. I think he had a chrysler voyager as well as a minibus for his enormous family.
I got a loan and turned up one day in a 6 month old Clio 172. He wasn't amused. I don't think the business was doing brilliantly, and he'd be refusing payrises for other employees before i joined. Conversation along the lines of "i think you're rubbing my nose in it".
I pushed for a payrise after a year. Perfectly normal for a graduate after getting a bit of experience. It was granted.
The next month i got a bigger loan and bought a mk1 elise.
Same conversation as before, but slightly more heated!
I was in my first job out of uni. It was a v small firm. My boss, who was also the MD, wasn't really into cars. I think he had a chrysler voyager as well as a minibus for his enormous family.
I got a loan and turned up one day in a 6 month old Clio 172. He wasn't amused. I don't think the business was doing brilliantly, and he'd be refusing payrises for other employees before i joined. Conversation along the lines of "i think you're rubbing my nose in it".
I pushed for a payrise after a year. Perfectly normal for a graduate after getting a bit of experience. It was granted.
The next month i got a bigger loan and bought a mk1 elise.
Same conversation as before, but slightly more heated!
markcollings7890 said:
Utterpiffle said:
Well, one of the directors turned up in a brand new McLaren MP4-12C this morning. Looks nice in white.
So no, the boss definitely has a better car...
Pic plsSo no, the boss definitely has a better car...
Good plate too. NE is Neuss area code, the next town from here, GG is his initials and you can guess the rest...
Utterpiffle said:
markcollings7890 said:
Utterpiffle said:
Well, one of the directors turned up in a brand new McLaren MP4-12C this morning. Looks nice in white.
So no, the boss definitely has a better car...
Pic plsSo no, the boss definitely has a better car...
Good plate too. NE is Neuss area code, the next town from here, GG is his initials and you can guess the rest...
The CEO of our company (not a small company, he probably earns ten times what I do) drives an old, somewhat tatty Audi TT. OK so most of the general public would consider it a "better" car than my Mondeo, but I know which one I'd rather have.
My immediate boss has a Discovery 2. Not really better or worse, just rather different!
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of a sense of style or pride in our car park. The only other vaguely interesting car I can think of is an RX8 (he sometimes brings his wife's Quattroporte though... Phwoar), the rest are just bland rotboxes.
My immediate boss has a Discovery 2. Not really better or worse, just rather different!
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of a sense of style or pride in our car park. The only other vaguely interesting car I can think of is an RX8 (he sometimes brings his wife's Quattroporte though... Phwoar), the rest are just bland rotboxes.
I don't think it should really matter (but sadly it can do). My old boss used to drive a Prelude for years then bought an R8, he ran it for 6 months and hated looking like a tosser (his words) so went down his local Honda dealership and part exchanged his 'sports car' for a brand new Civic diesel.
He's now also got an 11 plate GTR which he loves as it's less flash.
At the end of the day it's your money, do what you want with it. Having a flash car isn't a true measure of wealth/status.
He's now also got an 11 plate GTR which he loves as it's less flash.
At the end of the day it's your money, do what you want with it. Having a flash car isn't a true measure of wealth/status.
I suspect that the CS is worth more than the equity partner’s cars but then one still has the A6 Avant he bought new in ’03 (top of the range before the RS6 with all the bells and whistles) and the other a Quashqui (sp?) He only buys new cars more often as he destroys them (without actually crashing) with infinite regularity (once saw him close the boot of a car and the rear wing came off in his hands!)
When I had the Boxster there were a few mutterings about Client perception but those went away quickly. I was worried about the first time I took the CS in (more colour than anything else) but the fact it is obviously not a new car and screams ‘enthusiast’ saves me from trouble. It’s even won a couple of clients after we got talking or they saw it in the car park we share with the local bank!
Once thing any Client of mine knows within a very short space of time is my love of cars and motorsport.
My 'other' boss has a number of very nice cars that I shall not list on here as they would not like me to do so but at the top is either the MP4/12 or the M1 and the bottom the Mk2 Golf convertible or the Austin 7 Chummy!
When I had the Boxster there were a few mutterings about Client perception but those went away quickly. I was worried about the first time I took the CS in (more colour than anything else) but the fact it is obviously not a new car and screams ‘enthusiast’ saves me from trouble. It’s even won a couple of clients after we got talking or they saw it in the car park we share with the local bank!
Once thing any Client of mine knows within a very short space of time is my love of cars and motorsport.
My 'other' boss has a number of very nice cars that I shall not list on here as they would not like me to do so but at the top is either the MP4/12 or the M1 and the bottom the Mk2 Golf convertible or the Austin 7 Chummy!
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