I quite enjoy reading Stephen Bayley's articles on the last page of the Motoring section as he seems to know about style and how to use long words like zeitgeist and Schaferesque.
However, in this weeks article, he slams the new Golf GTI because "the hard ride..makes it difficult to drink coffee".
The problem is that Stephen and his wife have just finished test driving a Bentley Continental, no doubt living life to the max and drinking coffee whilst zooming along the autobahn at 150 mph without so much as a ripple. Unfortunately, the Bentley is back with its owners and they have come back down to earth with a VW Golf GTI road test.
Perhaps Stephen should clear his motoring palate by driving something truly appalling (you can send in your suggestions: the CityRover might do for starters) for a couple of weeks to get the Bentley out of his system before being handed the keys to another car that the man-in-the-street could possibly afford. Peter Dron could probably do with a similar treatment, having just tested a Ferrari F430 in Italy: how does anything else really compare with that?
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I find dealers can suffer the antithesis of this, I remeber a few years ago a technician taking my (then) V6 Vectra for a drive to diagnose a minor vibration, "couldn't find a thing gov", like silk after my Series 1 Land Rover".
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The Golf does look hideous though.
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I find Stephen Bayley's writing more tedious than Shakespeare. I like plain, simple English that I can digest without having to refer constantly to a thesaurus.
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I find Stephen Bayley's writing more tedious than Shakespeare. I like plain, simple English that I can digest without having to refer constantly to a thesaurus.
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Hear hear, I can't stand reading this man.
Bring back Mike Rutherford.>
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The Golf does look hideous though.
Nonsense!
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It's not great looking IMO - too much unpainted black plastic at the front, and bulbous at the back. It still looks lardy rather than lithe. As an everyday driver, it's one of the best cars you can buy at the price if you leave the options list alone.
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Couldn't agree more. Added to the growing list of cars where I'd rather have the previous model over the latest one.
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Adam
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I always look forward to reading Bayley's column, it is the most unintentionally hilarious read in the motoring press.
In his desperation to impress us mere mortals with his sophistication and erudition, Bayley luxuriates in narcissistic self-congratulation.....
and so on.
Pretentious bull of the highest order.
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Pretentious bull of the highest order.
Nice parody!
The sad bit is that it's not there just for his amusement: it's to flatter those readers who think that by reading something with all those long words, they must be clever. I wonder if he is laughing up his trunk when he writes his column?
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"Added to the growing list of cars where I'd rather have the previous model over the latest one."
-- must be a joke the previous one was a "tub of lard" on wheels - the golf GTI was only ever any good as the MK1 & MK2.
New one is way too expensive
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I always liked the Mark 4 but only found out recently that it was pretty poor in the handling stakes.
That being said, I'd still have it over the Mark 5. Granted I'd have a mark 2 in mint condition over any of them though!
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Adam
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wasn't Bayley involved in the Dome?
there's a common thread with that and the carp he serves up..
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(Dons judge's wig)
..and who is this Stephen Bayley?
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