Cars and their houses...

[Windymiller]

Probably just me, but there are some cars that just don't seem to suit the houses they're shout outside...

Big Pimpin' BM...



Big Pimpin' Q7...



And I'm not being a snob (may not be the actual owners homes and yes, if it's London they're worth about £1million). I had a new Cayman S parked outside my generic-semi for the last few weeks and thought it looked a touch 'unsuited' in my road of Rovers/Fords/Renaults...

[RobM77]

a) I guess some people's priorities in life differ

b) It depends when you got on the housing market. Nowadays, someone on £70k - £100k a year can only just about get a mortage on a one bed flat or a tiny terraced house in a London suburb, but they can easily afford a brand new 911. The people he'll be living with who got on the housing ladder in the 70s aor 80s will probably be on about £15k a year...

[bob1179]

I just cannot bring myself to like these things at all. No doubt they are great vehicles and fantastically capable, but I just think they are god awful.

Nice shuttered up windows in the background too.

[lambogenie]

Thats no deposit finance for you.

Seen quite a few F430 spiders and Gallardo type supercar metal parked up outside tatty watford/north london semis. Ludicrous that the house is probably worth 750 grand and looks like a leeds council house worth 20K.

But then i know quite a few folks in houses in places in Bucks where their houses are worth 2-3 million but they bought them in the 70's and drive crap rover 75's because they are in tehir 50s and on 30K a year.

[Windymiller]

RobM77 said:

a) I guess some people's priorities in life differ

b) It depends when you got on the housing market. Nowadays, someone on £70k - £100k a year can only just about get a mortage on a one bed flat or a tiny terraced house in a London suburb, but they can easily afford a brand new 911. The people he'll be living with who got on the housing ladder in the 70s aor 80s will probably be on about £15k a year...

c) the Cheshire ex-wife syndrome, where wifey took the house because of the kids, so cheating hubby has to park the Porker/X5/Merc outside the terrace he's just bought in Wilmslow/Hale/Prestbury/Alderley Edge/etc

Edited by Windymiller on Thursday 1st November 12:07

[loose cannon]

the first and last piccy looks like sloff / slough

[TigerK]

I've often thought this. I drive past a row of terrace houses in a rough part of town, one of which has a BMW M6 parked on the front

Either a true petrolhead, who has their priorities right , or someone with income which they can't declare, so bought the car for cash

[Plotloss]

loose cannon said:

the first and last piccy looks like sloff / slough

In the picture with the Cayman, can you tell me where in Slough looks that nice?

[RobM77]

Oh, and that Q7 is parked on a pavement?!

[sjwb]

Drug dealers?

[lambogenie]

TigerK said:

I've often thought this. I drive past a row of terrace houses in a rough part of town, one of which has a BMW M6 parked on the front

Either a true petrolhead, who has their priorities right , or someone with income which they can't declare, so bought the car for cash

Or a married man visiting his 19 year old student bit on the side?

[Windymiller]

I've just hit 30, and know of a few lads I went to school with who own tasty cars (M3's and X5's mainly) but still live with their parents...

[r5gttgaz]

Windymiller said:

I've just hit 30, and know of a few lads I went to school with who own tasty cars (M3's and X5's mainly) but still live with their parents...

I know loads of people like that.Very sad.

[RobM77]

r5gttgaz said:

Windymiller said:

I've just hit 30, and know of a few lads I went to school with who own tasty cars (M3's and X5's mainly) but still live with their parents...

I know loads of people like that.Very sad.

If you do the maths though it all works out. You need to be on a pretty enormous salary these days to get on the housing ladder. Buying an M3 is small fry compared with the deposit and salary that you require to get a place of your own.

[Windymiller]

What do they do with birds is what I always wonder? Take them back and ask them to come quietly or something so's not to disturb mummy and daddy?

[loose cannon]

plotless i said the first and last picture ie not the gayman

[Wigeon Incognito]

Just a couple of miles from my house is a council estate where some deluded soul (I can only assume a minor lottery winner) has bought two houses on the estate and converted them into one.

Normally parked outside are an SL55 AMG and an ML.

[Aerofoil]

All about priorities too. My car cost me less than the one I had at Uni. If you need a flash car to show you have "made it" then, you buy one, if you don't care about material wealth, and more about real wealth, you pay off all your finance, and live the easy life.

[Wigeon Incognito]

I rememembered another house not far from mine is a little semi, maybe 3 bedrooms, in an average 50s style estate but their daughter that I used to go to college with has a very wealthy boyfriend.

There's regularly a black Phantom or shocking green Murcielago taking up the entire driveway.

[RobM77]

Aerofoil said:

All about priorities too. My car cost me less than the one I had at Uni. If you need a flash car to show you have "made it" then, you buy one, if you don't care about material wealth, and more about real wealth, you pay off all your finance, and live the easy life.

Since when was owning a nice car anything to do with showing off your wealth?!