What a non-story... things must be quiet in Mail-land...
Though it looks better than a lot of those modified monstrosities in some of the mags like Max Power or whatever its called...
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>>What a non-story... things must be quiet in Mail-land...
but bettter surely than the xenophobic bile they usually print...(am I allowed to say that?)
WAG plus blokey didn't really look as if they were enjoying themselves, really.
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We're in a recession, someones spending money and that's a good thing. No doubt the couple will be ridiculed for this tasteless heap and will off load it and buy another, again a good thing in these money conscious times
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Said a well known footballer for Barchester United "I've decided to donate 250000 to the local Children's Hospice, because of the poor funding" sorry living in an alternative reality has its values !
Silly game, obscene amounts of money...
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Its a good lesson in how to wipe £100,000 of the value of a Bentley!
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But a Bentley Continental GTC starts around £136000. If you get it customised by Bentley's Mulliner facility then the price can go a lot higher.
But the figures in the Daily Mail article would not take the cost from £136 to £264k. So the car cannot have cost that much - or the footballer is even stupider than we think.
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Bit of a waste really. Silly looking motor.
I am disappointed though that the seats aren't pink as HJ promised they would be, but red and white.
Perhaps he was wearing the wrong glasses when he did the test drive.
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I wonder how much her insurance would be, she looks very young so I would imagine it would be a fair bit. On another forum i am a member of there is somebody that works for an insurance company and said that for 18 year olds £40,000 quotes for even a Focus ST are not rare.
Its all a bit show offy. I have a customer that is a millionaire and he drives a ten year old Volvo which has done 200k mind you that is why he is so rich!
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but red and white.
Fergie sneaked in whilst they weren't looking perhaps?!
It'll probably get vandalised when she takes it to Eastlands!!
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Taste.......funny thing innit?
A sure sign that someone had bought their council house was a Georgian street door with coach lamps either side, rampant lion gate posts, a curved wet bar in the lounge complete with a life sized wooden Charlie Chaplin holding a drinks tray.
A sure sign that someone had (perceived) class was genteel decay, i.e. moth eaten curtains, worn carpet, peeling paint and a battered old Volvo on the drive.
You can take Bradley out of the estate or Tarquin off his estate, but you cannot take the estate out of Brad or Tarquin.
People are a product of their upbringing. Whilst not my cup of tea they seem happy with it, bless them, who am I to sneer? (although I admit it is terribly hard not to, shame on me!)
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Actually, if you slightly changed the colour scheme. Replace the red with say a nice shade of dark blue, or black ( and removed the tacky logos from the seats) that would look rather nice.
To be honest, it was modified and bought for a girl. I think you have to have boobs to make a fair comment.
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" I think you have to have boobs to make a fair comment. "
I was going to say something but maybe not... :-)
JH
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I saw this car close up on Saturday, it was parked next to mine in Sainsbury's! Its even got white "JL" initialled in a black Bentley wings insignia and the reg is J355 LAW (Jess Law), Truly horrendous in the flesh and immediately attention gradding, but that's all that some of these wags want, attention!
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I wonder what that will be worth come trade in time !
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I think you haveto have boobs to make a fair comment.
SWMBO who is so equipped has commented, it would take some time to edit for posting, lets just say She is not impressed..;)
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Makes me think more and more about some sort of Maximum Wage..........
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I wonder what the actual driving skills of this young girl are.....I would hope she was not just let loose in this beast after passing her test...you can damage a lot of other folk at 150 mph plus..... A StreetKa pimped the same way would have looked rather jolly, and a lot safer !
Do manboobs qualify ?
Ted
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She'll just waft around in it, rather bumpily of course on those tyres, but it won't challenge her to keep the beast in check.
I imagine she is under very strict instructions not to let her brothers, cousins etc. have a little go. One can only hope so anyway.
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The article says:
"Then Ireland spent a further £2,000 on customised red leather seats.."
So he did that on the cheap. And you can see where the cheap mods start and the exquisite original craftsmanship ends. I've seen the men and women stitching the leather for Bentley interiors in the factory. The colours/hide doesn't even match on the additional red leather! It's a bit of red leather that goes across the headrest area.
Edited by rtj70 on 06/10/2009 at 01:01
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Just avoid Wilmslow and I am sure none of us will find out how good her driving skills are :)
I would like to see new drivers being band from this sort of car. It seems stupid you can pass your test in some easier to pass area then be let loose down Deansgate in a 600bhp car.
That said a 35bhp Morris Minor could be dangerious in the wrong hands too.
Part of me is jealous that I am not a young pretty girl who could marry some rich footballer but then part of me is glad I have experienced the things I have the cheap way.
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I like the "naught to sixty", who wrote that? :)
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The baseball hat he is wearing looks better than that car and the hat is rubbish! I see the photo is captioned "Going out for a spin" Probably quite likely - and they aren't wearing seat belts!
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I would like to see new drivers being band from this sort of car. It seems stupid you can pass your test in some easier to pass area then be let loose down Deansgate in a 600bhp car.
She had it for her 24th birthday, she could have been driving on the roads for 7 years and off road for 10 plus years before that. At 24 I'd racked up nearly 200K miles and I drove a transit van the same day I passed my test.
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Come off it, chaps, if it were trimmed in blue, rather than pink, you'd love it!
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I actually like the wheels....
I'll get me coat. ;-)
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I sometimes wonder what type of people we get on here. All this spite and vitreol (see I got it in) about a car and its buyer and its recipient.
Whilst its perfectly OK to comment about its looks, or even a perceived lack of taste (or god forbid - class) and state you are not keen, to complain and whine about the fact that someone can afford to pamper such poor taste is a very bad show indeed.
It is, simply put, Jealousy - you cant indulge your wildest fantasy becuase you have insufficient resources. People get paid what thier market will stand.
And before you trot out the "poor overworked and underpaid nurses scandal" (Mrs Ego is a nurse), if push came to shove, and your taxes had to be raised to the level sufficient to pay what you think nurses should be paid, you would all soon squeek in protest.
In summary, the green hydra of Jealousy slithers and raises its fanged head from the Fakirs basket of outraged of Hendon.
Edited by Altea Ego on 06/10/2009 at 10:28
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Fair comment Altea. I just wonder how you'd sell something like that? Cheaply I suspect, because you'd have to turn it back into something a little less garish. Still, if he can afford it, he can do whatever he pleases. Good luck to him.
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Pah! No good for me. Doesn't have a tow bar.
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... If he can afford it...good luck to him...
Agreed, and I imagine he's not even the highest paid player at the club.
Just hope he's putting some money away, too.
It's a short career, which could end even sooner than he thinks.
Hard to imagine how any of these footballers could wind up skint, but I bet a few do.
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I sometimes wonder
Very well put AE.
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In summary, the green hydra of Jealousy slithers and raises its fanged head from the Fakirs basket of outraged of Hendon. >>
As someone who used to live in Hendon, I feel well qualified to comment.
I'd find it impossible to envy anyone ownership of that car: it looks as though it belongs in a circus.
But it's a part of the horrible football, X Factor culture we have in this country now whereby excess is celebrated. No wonder young kids haven't the vaguest idea of what matters and what doesn't.
And £264k is a drop in the ocean of the economic crisis we're in right now.
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The extremes of bad taste have to exist so as to enable good taste to be defined somewhere in the middle.
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Each to their own....a mate's swapped his XJR in for a twin turbo Bentley saloon, the Black model.
The XJR was quicker, in many ways just as accomplished and traded in for a fifth of the price of the Bentley... and my 10 yr old S Type has a better ride quality, due to the Bentley's low profile tyres. Nevertheless he loves it.
For the money he's spent i'd have an Aston...but there again, i'm not him, am I. Mind you, he's a brave man...he bought it without telling his missus.
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And £264k is a drop in the ocean of the economic crisis we're in right now.
Optimist you say..................................
Living near to the Bentley factory and seeing there dire sale results (redundancies, pay cuts and no wage increases this year) they'll be only too glad to accept any sale however tasteless.
"One WAG does not a summer make", but there's plenty of them and competition is fierce
;o)
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I'm not jealous. And if he'd bought a GTC in white with red/white leather and left it at that then it would be okay. It's the wheels and other changes that make it look so awful. I bet she'd have liked it in red/white and not that embarrasing car.
How they claim it is £264k still puzzles me. A GTC starts at £136k and he then modded it on the cheap.
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It's the wheels and other changes that make it look so awful.
Amazing fact - people have different tastes, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Fine, let anyone do whatever they want to do to their car, as Ireland has amply demonstrated.
Just spare a thought for those who might happen to see it in the flesh while innocently walking down the street!
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Just spare a thought for those who might happen to see it in the flesh while innocently walking down the street!
I like it - looks like harmless fun (accepting the provisos about driving it carefully of course). I think there are a lot worse things a young man can do than spend a lot of money on a unique present for his girlfriend :-)
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Seems he is no stranger to strange customisations!
www.flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/2561208844/
Maybe the WAG is a decoy???
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I'm jealous - not of his taste because I think it looks awful (nearly as bad as that sort of khaki colour that I saw a Bentley in the other day!) but because he is able to spend that much on his girlfriend! I would love to spend that much on SHMBO's (60th) birthday present but then he earns twice as much in a week as I have ever earned in a year! In proportion, if I spent a couple of thousand on my wife it would be the same - but then I had a 40 year career - he will have about 10 years if he is lucky.
Hope she is worth it - good luck to them! But hope that she doesn't do to the Bentley what that other footballer did to his Aston.
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>>A sure sign that someone had (perceived) class was genteel decay, i.e. moth eaten curtains, worn carpet, peeling paint and a battered old Volvo on the drive.
When did you come to my house, tack???
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www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/102605/Wag-is-a-dozy...r
Manchester City ace Stephen Ireland saw red when his girlfriend pranged a £264,000 motor just days after he bought it for her.
The 24-year-old beauty landed a £5,000 repair bill when she smashed the blinged-up alloy wheels into a kerb trying to park in upmarket Alderley Edge, Cheshire. The accident did not seem to faze the blonde beauty. Jess did not even look at the damage when she got out. But £70,000-a-week Irish midfielder Stephen, 23, was not happy after seeing how she had treated the birthday present he gave her just last week.
Jessica later had another nightmare when she landed a £60 fine for leaving the car over two bays on a shopping trip to nearby Wilmslow.
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Not 'arf as vulgar:
www.motoring.co.uk/car-news/brabus-e-class-coupe_1...7
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But a Bentley Continental GTC in white is not vulgar either.
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blonde beauty
as beautiful as the car
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Quite a funny HJ 'news' item - cars the England football team would buy, and why:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/item.htm?id=21503
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I wonder what Jessica's insurance premium is on this "Beauty". Her friend has very poor taste in matters of personal appearance - he has a huge pair of feathered angel's wings tattooed all over his back!
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It must be remembered that Premier League footballers are, for the most part, the sort of lads who would be driving Corsas and Saxos with bodykits and big tailpipes, were it not for the fact that they were stinking rich.
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