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Time to get on with some work ???
Hope its not my bank, you shortchanged us by three....
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I work in insurance, thats my commission!
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Time to get on with some work ???
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Motoring hero: Ellen McArthur!
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Agree with you on that mss1tw. Bit good at sailing though:
My choice:
Top TV Show: Dragons Den. Love TG but get rid of star in a car.
Best fantasy car: Bugatti Veyron
Most desirable car: BMW M5 E39
Motoring hero: Richard Burns
Most overrated car: Mondeo TDCi (totall agree!)
Biggest surprise: My Alfa being bought from an Auction and not breaking down once (touch wood...)
Top disappointment: People not supporting fuel strikes.
Biggest Con: Fuel Cost
Best New Gadget(to me anyway): My laptop. old technology changing my lifestyle. Will never go back to a desktop
Best Car Magazine: Evo, went away from it but getting better.
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Top TV Show: I don't watch much TV, so it's got to be TG
Best fantasy car: The Veyron
Most desirable car: Mon...ahem, Impreza for me.
Motoring hero: Richard Burns
Most overrated car: BMW Xx
Biggest surprise: The lovely £3000 redundancy payout that went towards the Pug. Either that or my other car failing to pass the one in front via osmosis. :o(
Top disappointment: The NERC bill and other anti green laning measures being passed. Not suprising though.
Biggest Con: Fuel Cost
Best New Gadget(to me anyway): Not sure.
Best Car Magazine: I don't buy one. Motoring realted, RiDE.
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Fuel strikes not very clever IMHO. Inconveniencing millions of motorists who are trying to earn a living is no way to get their support. My suggestion, some months ago, was that anybody with a grouch about the Government should go and picket the HQ of the Government Car Pool and inconvenience just the ministers etc who are annoying the protesters, and not annoy the rest of us who want a life and a living!
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My choices
Top (Motoring ish) TV Show: Top Gear
Best fantasy car: Bentley Continental
Motoring hero: Richard Burns
Most overrated car: Mondeo TDCi OK it's good but come on!!!!
Biggest surprise: Kids' 1987 VW Golf passing its MOT again
Biggest Con: Fuel Cost
Best New Gadget: Auto dimming rear view mirror (I'm easily pleased)
Best Car Magazine: Practical Classics
Most entertaining backroom contributions: Growler/Growlette
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The Mondeo does keep showing up in posts, doesn't it?
Can't keep a good car down, lol.
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The Mondeo does keep showing up in posts, doesn't it? Can't keep a good car down, lol.
The mondeo is a good car, so are most other cars in its class. The more cars I drive, the more I am convinced that, at least in the 2 litre diesel sector, there are few if any really bad cars.
But IMO, and cars are a very personal taste for most of us, it is nothing special.
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The mondeo is a good car, so are most other cars in its class. The more cars I drive, the more I am convinced that, at least in the 2 litre diesel sector, there are few if any really bad cars. But IMO, and cars are a very personal taste for most of us, it is nothing special.
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Which is my opinion of it also.
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Top TV Show: University Challenge
Best fantasy car/bike: Miura / RD500LC
Most desirable car/bike: 612 Scagletti / F1000.
Motoring/biking hero: M Schumacher / V Rossi
Most overrated car/bike: 407 / Hayabusa
Biggest surprise: Veyron / '06 R6
Biggest Con: Fuel cost
Best New Gadget: Rather short of new gadgets this year, over to you Santa.
Best car/bike Magazine: DT Saturday supplement / BIKE.
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Top TV Show: "This Week" with Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo, Diane Abbott.
Best fantasy car/bike: Citroen C6
Most desirable car/bike: Citroen Berlingo
Motoring/biking hero: anyone who can persuade manufacturers to stop making mass-market cars with a ride as harsh and jiggly as a skateboard
Most overrated car/bike: new Honda Civic -- it looks like a cheap ghetto blaster.
Biggest surprise: my Mum's 5yo VW Polo. Every time I drive it, I'm more impressed
Top disappointment: Vauxhall Vectra. A truly horrid machine, apparently designed to ride like a Kangaroo
Biggest Con: painted bumpers
Best New Gadget: laptop with built-in wifi. Brilliant!
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Most desirable car/bike: Citroen Berlingo
Really?!! Cor, i feel all greedy and materialistic now.... :-)
Best New Gadget: laptop with built-in wifi. Brilliant!
Totally agree with that!
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This is a slight deviation off the topic, but if I had to list one of the top posts on this site from this year it would be the '200k in a year' by that taxi bloke...wonder how his project is going?
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This is a slight deviation off the topic, but if I had to list one of the top posts on this site from this year it would be the '200k in a year' by that taxi bloke...wonder how his project is going?
Agreed - I found that really interesting too...
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Top disappointment: Vauxhall Vectra. A truly horrid machine, apparently designed to ride like a Kangaroo
Did you fit into skippy's pouch to compare then?
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of people who know absolutely nothing about cars but still think they're motoring experts.
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>> Top disappointment: Vauxhall Vectra. A truly horrid machine, apparently >> designed to ride like a Kangaroo Did you fit into skippy's pouch to compare then? It never ceases to amaze me the amount of people who know absolutely nothing about cars but still think they're motoring experts.
It doesn't take much technical knowledge to realise that the ride in one type of car is harsh and uncomfortable, but that another model is much smoother.
It never ceases to amaze me that the amount of people who think that because they reckon they know something about the technicalities that means that nobody else is entitled to comment on their experience of the product :P
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Nowheels,
for your information, I have a Vectra and it does not ride like a kangaroo. That said, I've not tried riding skippy or one of his friends to find out, as I'm not into kinky perversions of that nature. I do however know that the ride quality of my Vectra is not bouncy in the slightest but is one of the most comfortable cars I've ever owned.
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for your information, I have a Vectra and it does not ride like a kangaroo. That said, I've not tried riding skippy or one of his friends to find out, as I'm not into kinky perversions of that nature. I do however know that the ride quality of my Vectra is not bouncy in the slightest but is one of the most comfortable cars I've ever owned.
Caveman, I guess we'll have to differ on that! It may that the Vectra I have been riding in was a duff one, but I honestly found it very unsettled. Looking around, I don't seem to be alone in that view: www.carkeys.co.uk/road_test/vauxhall/7467.asp
Glad you are pleased with yours, though!
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"Most desirable car/bike: Citroen Berlingo"
NW,
I love you - happy Christmas and may all your dreams come true!!
Phil
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Ok, I am sorry, actually I am pleased you have deleted it.
Biggest disapointment car/bike: Ferrari F1 team / Sete Gibernau.
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Biggest surprise - my Dad bought a new Kia Rio Diesel and just how good it is, especially for under 9 grand
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Top TV Show: The Last Tommy.(Reality check against the trivialities we moan about)
Best fantasy car: Aston DB9 - oh yes indeed
Most desirable car: BMW M5.
Motoring hero: The British Motorist.
Most overrated car: BMW 1 Series.
Biggest surprise: Keeping my current car as long as I did (thank you BMW)
Top disappointment: Finding that a TomTom 700 is as good as something twice the price.
Biggest Con: Factory fit GPS - See above.
Best New Gadget(to me anyway):Blackberry - sad but true.
Best Car Magazine:CAR (Just got better again)
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Top TV Show: Hardly ever watch TV now - even TG but by default, Top Gear
Best fantasy car: Bugatti Veyron
Most desirable car: BMW M5 - what can I say - Pugugly clearly has taste
Motoring hero: Don't really have one to be honest - Dad probably
Most overrated car: Range Rover
Biggest surprise: Ice plus roundabout plus Vauxhall Omega MV6
Top disappointment: The new Focus/seeing the fuel warning light far too often
Biggest Con: Road Tax
Best New Gadget(to me anyway): Gotta be the PSP
Best Car Magazine: Never buy them. (I had a really cool answer for this but I haven't worked up the courage to post it.)
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Best fantasy car: Bugatti Veyron
Most desirable car: C6 (ducks)
Motoring hero: Gotta mention RB, but should be Rossi (old nige turned up good on TG though)
Most overrated car: 3 series
Biggest surprise: Return of Mike Brewer
Top disappointment: Jensen not winning a GP
Biggest Con: Government using roads as a cash cow without re-investing or making anything to do with them any better at all
Best New Gadget(to me anyway): PSP but my iPaq 6515 comes close
Best Car Magazine: Clarkson on Sunday, just behind motoring in the Telegraph on Saturday..... ;-)
--Lee .. sorry, the card says Moops.
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