Less is more?

[OldSkoolRS]

rotaryjam said:

After many years of motoring and owning some quick and interesting cars, I'm starting to feel like the slower, more boring cars are actually more enjoyable for the every day urban driver!?

Driving my wife's Fiat 500 and thrashing it to within an inch of its life and flinging it around corners at maximum velocity I find more enjoyable than cars rhat have 4x the power because you simply can't use any of it and if you did you'd either be in someone's front drive or way over the speed limit.

I appreciate if you are blessed with a range of country roads nearby then it may well be different.

Am I alone?

As I discovered while looking for a Ka it's the same car as a Fiat 500 underneath and I love it: Mine is quite old on an 09 plate though reasonable low 60k miles and although it was bought as a local use 'shopping trolley' I have enjoyed nipping about round town in it.

I know it's not the last word in handling prowess, but it feels fun and I enjoy the change from our more sedate main car a C Class auto. Being a 'shed' I don't pay out for expensive tyres (it's got a brand new set of some unknown cheap brand on the front the previous owner put on it just before sale due to the MOT advisory), so I don't tend to chuck it around 'on the limit' but I honestly do enjoy driving it locally.

[nickfrog]

Han Solo said:

Depends, cheap sheds / cars have their use, I hated throwing rubbish / skip run in my ML / FFRR as I ripped the headlining in the ML being careless.

Now I’ve got a £3k Discovery it doesn’t really matter.

Equally some cretin reversed into my Aston when I left it in town, not ideal, wouldn’t have mattered in the Discovery.

Multiple cars to suit the situation is the way forward, I wouldn’t want to do my 30k a year in a manual, petrol V8, but for an early morning blast I couldn’t think of anything worse than a 4 pot auto diesel.

Exactly we are about to re buy the kids car that we had sold to a member of the family. A last gen Yaris 1.0 with A/C. £3k. Looking forward to it as a winter hack on all season tyres along side other cars.

[Leon R]

Jaguar steve said:

Leon R said:

How can you claim to be 'under the radar' when you post pictures of a boat that you own on this website?

I didn't though.

What I posted was one close up photograph of a bottle of supermarket wine and some seafood on a table on my boat which was entirely in context of the thread I posted it on. For the avoidance of the slightest doubt on that and to assist you with winding your neck back in here it is again.



Apart from the pushpit and backstay there's actually nothing whatsoever to be to seen of the boat itself at all - which is exactly what I intended.

Imagine posting a photo of a boat that you own in a thread where you are also judging anyone that has a nice car as vain and narcissistic.......

[nickfrog]

Leon R said:

Imagine posting a photo of a boat that you own in a thread where you are also judging anyone that has a nice car as vain and narcissistic.......

I don't know much about boats but I think they are by and large bought to try and impress other people. Unless of course you're a fisherman but those plastic prawns don't look like they've just been caught.

[Jaguar steve]

anonymous said:

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Quite so.

But are neither of you no better than resorting to snide remarks whenever you encounter any opinion contrary to your own though? After all differing world views are the most valuable ones because rather than joining in with any mutually exclusive circle-jerk you might actually learn something from them.

If you can't deal with the different I fear for your collective blood pressures. But nonetheless...

[Hoofy]

fido said:

Hoofy said:

I do fancy another smaller hatchback, though. Maybe a MINI Cooper (non-S as they're cheaper).

Been looking at one of these to replace a thirstyV8, though I think the 'S' would be a bit more fun and easier to ween me off a larger engine. The boot on the convertible doesn't look to be much use so manual hatchback it is.

I would have the S if they were not pretty much double what they were about 2 years ago. At least a basic Cooper is still knocking about the £2k mark. Assuming you weren't referring to brand new MINIs.