Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 16]

[bolidemichael]

SlowV6 said:

My best mate has an 11 plate 5.0SC L322 with a fairly massive spec including heated and cooled seats all round etc etc. I have been driven in it, which makes me feel seasick, and have also driven it. It was fast in a straight line and certainly a mighty engine but otherwise just a high, wallowy, massive thing. To be honest I just don't get the RR love. I massively preferred his previous E60 545i, which he sold before any oil leaks started before you ask!

I would much prefer an XJ 5.0SC.

Funnily, I have experienced this in a friend's Quattroporte (the noughties one).

[nickod]

LetsTryAgain said:

r129sl said:

For a couple of weeks now I have been cringing rather shamefacedly because we tend to call our G-wagen a jeep. But what is the alternative? Call it a "SUV"? call it a "4x4"? call it "the G"? These are all worse, surely? I seem to recall that Car magazine, back in the day when it wasn't very colourful toilet paper, called the then-new Range Rover an upmarket jeep or some such.

G Wagon?

Yep that's what I call mine. All alternatives are worse.

[EarlOfHazard]

Sterillium said:

1988 Mercedes Benz 230e W124... £3495.

A sensible ad, and some lovely "evening sun" photographs lead me to think this would be a good 'un.











https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-Mercedes-Benz-230e...

Looks very nice, and has had lots of work done as well.

[Bonefish Blues]

Collection day today

[Zonergem]

Nearly once bitten already this week (by Nibbles)but not twice shy just yet. Standing next to a C140 was quite a taking experience so I've been looking at others.









https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/54784032...

Not obviously a lost cause.

[728 days later]

An actual roadworthy (more on that) and MOT’d TVR for under max budget here:


Going by the MOT history it’s currently leaking oil, has the obligatory rusty chassis and a damaged windscreen. Last years MOT must have been very painful for the owners wallet..
One upside though

[Macron]

Bonefish Blues said:

Collection day today

Oof, tease!

[Phil Dicky]

728 days later said:

An actual roadworthy (more on that) and MOT’d TVR for under max budget here:


Going by the MOT history it’s currently leaking oil, has the obligatory rusty chassis and a damaged windscreen. Last years MOT must have been very painful for the owners wallet..
One upside though

So chassis is a ticking £4k time bomb.
But it needs saving.

[Bonefish Blues]

Macron said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Collection day today

Oof, tease!

Fast-moving thread, sometimes things are missed

[tobinen]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/28165806...

C36 just under thread max

[Michaelbailey]

So glad to see other people get irritated at 4x4s universally being called jeeps. I saw an advert for a range rover which literally read "Range Rover Jeep" as the title. Made me cringe so hard i pulled a muscle.

[21st Century Man]

I feel the same about people referring to "Hoovering" when they haven't got a Hoover. There was a thread asking for new Hoover advice which ran to several pages, yet no one mentioned a single Hoover. I can understand it from the older generation when that was all there was, but for youngsters I find it baffling, as strange as saying "Dysoning".

[Sterillium]

Have we had this E500 yet? I'm not really a fan of light leather in a light coloured car, but I could be persuaded at £2995.
Is it me, or is there a slight hint of mismatched paint on the passenger door?



https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202...

[callahan]

tobinen said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/28165806...

C36 just under thread max

That seems quite cheap for a C36, even with the mileage.

The grille is wrong though and I'm not sure if I like it. Other than that, they are wonderful cars as long as they don't get too crusty....

[cornershop]

Pueblo 19e now Sold - anyone here?

https://www.outwoodcars.com/vehicle.asp?ID=2

[tobinen]

21st Century Man said:

I feel the same about people referring to "Hoovering" when they haven't got a Hoover. There was a thread asking for new Hoover advice which ran to several pages, yet no one mentioned a single Hoover. I can understand it from the older generation when that was all there was, but for youngsters I find it baffling, as strange as saying "Dysoning".

That's an 'eponym' I believe.

I call my Dyson a hoover. I know it's not made by Hoover but it's engrained (as a nipper I only remember us having upright Hoovers with the light on the front. Why one would want to vacuum in the dark always puzzled me).

Also

Tannoy for a PA system
Biro for a ball point pen
Some areas in Africa still call a truck a Bedford

Etc.

[nickod]

cornershop said:

Pueblo 19e now Sold - anyone here?

https://www.outwoodcars.com/vehicle.asp?ID=2

Wasn’t me although I was tempted. The manual box was the obstacle for me.

[sparks_190e]

My 190e is 30 years old today!

[tobinen]

[ShyTallKnight]

Michaelbailey said:

So glad to see other people get irritated at 4x4s universally being called jeeps. I saw an advert for a range rover which literally read "Range Rover Jeep" as the title. Made me cringe so hard i pulled a muscle.

I agree. I have an X5 and am on a couple of fb owners groups - cant believe the number of folk on there referring to them as Jeeps. Makes me incandescent with rage I tell thee..!!