Billy, great choice and i would have fitted the bill perfectly alas does not meet the age/miles/price criteria. If you find one that does my retirement will be short and my wife will be a widow as I will kill myslef..
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My first three ideas have been proved wrong above. 320 Touring?
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320 touring (and any 5 touring) would fit the bill except fail the price/age/miles criteria.
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Toyota Avensis. Petrol.
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So it's not a Mazda6 TS2 then ;-) I wasn't after the prize via email.
So what about a Saab 9-3.
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mazda 6 was favourite and nearly bought one but no you are wrong.
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oh dear hes bought a vauxhall :-(
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Passat Estate 1.9 PD?
I'm on 4 days per week and hope to wind down even more.
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Avensis? wrong - didnt want to look like a taxi driver from Woking.
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An impeccable middle-mileage Alfa JTD might ring AE's aesthetic bell. He's shrewd but with a sense of fun.
I thought a very nice older BMW 5 series might do it too. But what do I know? Won't be a Jag. There was a very svelte-looking Honda estate a few years back I seem to remember. One of those perhaps.
I hope congratulations are in order AE. I can't afford to retire myself.
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Maybe a Volvo V70 or similar?
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C5 Citroen perhaps. Quite likely, that.
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Mitsubishi Lancer.
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Damn that was quick Alonovich.
A Feb 2007 Mitsubish Lancer estate, still under manufacturers warranty, Under 20k miles, £5795.
whats your charity?
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Well blimey O'Reilly.
It's got to be Macmillan Cancer Support, please AE.
Hope you enjoy the car, I've considered one of those myself given their absolute bargain second hand prices.
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A Feb 2007 Mitsubish Lancer estate still under manufacturers warranty Under 20k miles £5795.
What colour? - So those in the borough can either hoot or avoid [:-0>
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Lud.
You dont retire and keep any pension and buy an Alfa. they are mutually incompaible. Gorgeoous as they are.
Gentlemen (and lady truckers) you are all missing the point.
This is a utility purchase. Expensive, pretty but fragile exotica is out of the window,
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Not an MG-ZT 2.5l then.
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Not an MG-ZT 2.5l then.
I passed one, an estate on the way to buy the car, and i did, for one mad moments, consider it.
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This is a utility purchase.
Hence the Avensis guess. I'm thinking that it's gots to be Japanese.
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Great minds think alike, so... Focus estate?
EDIT: oh well...
Edited by Focus {P} on 17/11/2009 at 16:30
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Subaru?
something or other
Legacy
that it
Oh ere I remember
I positively oogled an Alfa 8C? thinngy on Sat
A thinngy of stunning beauty in my non discriminiting eyes
sigh
I had a mid life crisis at 40 am I allowed another one? at 50
Edited by dieseldogg on 17/11/2009 at 16:28
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Focus C-max Zetec, bright blue, 2-litre
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Can we have a sweepstake on how many people will keep guessing the answer long after AE has already wheezed out what it was (see above)?
My vote is seven hundred and four.
Edited by Dipstick on 17/11/2009 at 16:32
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Ford Focus C-max, red ;-)
Well done AE. Was it from the dealer down at Ripley you can see from the A3?
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Ford Focus C-max red ;-) Well done AE. Was it from the dealer down at Ripley you can see from the A3?
That garage closed down.
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>> That garage closed down.
I drove past the site a week or two back. They had some nice classic cars in the showroom.
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Must be reopened then. Not a Mitsubishi dealer any more tho.
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Did I see sommat about Lancer above
Needless to say I missed reading it before posting "Subaru"
Edited by dieseldogg on 17/11/2009 at 16:31
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I really must learn to type faster
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Ok
the shortlist was
Mondeo hatch or estate. (met all requirements of brief)
Octavia estate (they are like chasing rainbows, phone up after them and they have disapeared.)
Mazada 6 hatch or estate (the estates were a bit old tired and leggy in that price range, was about to look at a nice metalic blue TS2 hatch when I bought the one I did)
I looked at a vectra 3.2 litre elite that met all requirements, except I HATE the interior of the Vectra and the insurancee company man died laughing when I mentioned 3.2 litres and a 9 points conviction on the license
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Gonna change your handle to "Lancelot" ?
;-)
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Jammy wotsit AE, life event was at the wrong time for me so I'm staying for at least a few more years.
My guess is you've gone down the practicality route and gone for a Golf Estate
good luck anyway
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oogled an Alfa 8C? thinngy on Sat
A thinngy of stunning beauty
They are pretty aren't they diesel... there's a black one that parks round the corner sometimes.
A bit over AE's budget though.
Impressed by the Lancer. Almost certainly a brilliant buy. I remember them and their forebears in Africa. Very quiet suspension, and strong.
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a new Jag? (the current one is it the x type (i dont now for sure))
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He bought the Lancer. And Alonovich wins.
I could make the thread read only but it might be amusing to see how the posts go for a bit.
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At what point during this thread are we going to get the "why did my post appear there" question??
Congrats AE on your retirement, can I strip your Altea of any parts before handing it back? Like the false boot floor????
Have you got decent wipers on it at £48 a set???
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At what point during this thread are we going to get the "why did my post appear there" question?? Congrats AE on your retirement can I strip your Altea of any parts before handing it back? Like the false boot floor????
Did you never get the false boot floor? thats very handy. I would have let you have the engine sound cover, but you bought the wrong engine.
Have you got decent wipers on it at £48 a set???
whos cost 48 quid a set? I never had mine changed, they are still as good as the day it arrived., I will miss the Altea in many ways, It was a good choice.
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Did you consider purchasing the Altea from the lease company - it's often an option or will it appear on the 'returns list' (hazarding a guess at your employer from the usage of the term 'life event') ?
Edited by idle_chatterer on 17/11/2009 at 22:16
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Ok here is the rationale behind the purchase.
I am retiring. Early. Whilst not being a pauper, money will be tight after paying off the fat mortage.
So I wanted a practical car, good for an ageing lab with a dicky leg to get in and out of. It needed to be reasonably young, not starship mileage, cheap to insure (the 9 points conviction lasts for 5 years to insurance companies).
The Lancer looks ok face and profile, has a plain bum tho. Its a very simple car, no fancy electronic gadgets, built in japan, and looking it over very well put together with what looks like durable materials.
It rides OK, it handles OK, Its not overly noisy, Its not overly thirsty for a petrol (I was *never* going to buy a second hand common rail diesel - new yes, misfueled no).
It does everything in an OK type of way. Its not a type of car you can love, or even get excited about driving. Its the type of car you put on the drive, use, without a second though except to stand in awe and wonder and say How can you get a car, that well made, that capable, that young for such a low price. And I know 10 years down the line It will owe me nothing
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Its not a type of car you can love, or even get excited about driving
Unless it's an FQ360 or FQ400. Then you can. Same basic car is the Evo X.
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1.6 or 2.0 ?
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Nickname - Mitsubishi Stallion ?
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When I grow up I want to be an Evo......
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When I grow up I want to be an Evo......
The good point is, the lancer inside is alomost exacly the same as the Evo. So is the front so you can get lots of boys toys for it
Stand by for drilled racing pedals, full race harness, aluminium carpet protectors, big eff off spot lights, fulll body kit ..........................
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Raull Estate...............
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2.0 Turbo in 400bhp tune I hope.... Lancer = Evo X doesn't it :-) So it's an FQ400.
Well probably not ;-)
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Its not an evo anything.
Its a 1.6 - the 2.0 drinks fuel apparently.
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Do Waitrose have ANY spaces for such a thing ?
Only kidding !
Bloke I know bought one new with his car allowance instead of taking a company car. He loves it. He does wear cardigans though.....
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Bloke I know bought one new with his car allowance instead of taking a company car. He loves it. He does wear cardigans though.....
Where does he shop, I might need some fashion advice.
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Its not an evo anything.
But the Evo X is a Lancer :-)
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An impeccable ..Alfa .
Will you stop doing that?
You have set off the oxymoron warning device again.
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That's a lot of car for the money, AE. Private, dealer, auction or what?
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dealer. Main agent that actualy sold the car new.
Edited by Altea Ego on 17/11/2009 at 17:46
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Retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be - 4 days in and I'm considering looking for a job. :-(
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you got no spine PU
you need to work at being lazy
Try wearing the springer out. That should cream cracker you.
Edited by Altea Ego on 17/11/2009 at 17:53
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>>Avensis? wrong - didnt want to look like a taxi driver from Woking<<
Im guessing you still wanted to look like a taxi driver though since you bought THE car that only taxi drivers seem to buy!
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really? they dont round here as there is no diesel option. Its all Avensi or grey import previas.
at least i know I can earn a crust in retirement then. That actually happened to me at Woking station with the Touran. I parked at the head of the taxi Queue to pick up my son from the station, and some total stranger hopped in and told me to take him home.
Edited by Altea Ego on 17/11/2009 at 18:17
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My first company car was a yellow Cavalier Mk1. I lived in Edinburgh at the time which attracts a lot of American tourists. I was quite often hailed or approached as a taxi. Never had the cheek to follow it through though. I often wonder if that car was some kind of initiative test or more probably the fleet managers revenge on the young whippersnapper who got a company car when he didn't...It was actually quite good.
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That's one of the hazards of driving around in an old but still superficially respectable black cab, something I have done a few times in the past. You have to keep the doors locked because would-be punters can be quite insistent and stroppy. They don't care that there's no light showing.
Oddly enough when I was driving a minicab it didn't look much like a taxi to most people, and it was illegal anyway to pick up punters at random like that. Some drivers did it a lot - they called it blagging - but in my experience it wasn't a very good idea.
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Good post, AE, as it wasn't an easy one to guess. Nightmare depreciation for the first owner, presumably. His loss is your gain.
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I was wondering what AE might have bought had he retired in the 1970s.
An Austin Maxi?
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...Oooo thats cruel...
Wasn't meant to be - the Maxi was unfairly maligned, in my view.
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I think you could compare the Lancer to the avenger estate, if we were in 1973 say.
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I think you could compare the Maxi to Susan Boyle......
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Or perhaps a Renault 12 estate, or a 16, if we assume the wide-lapelled and kipper tied 1970s AE was an early adopter of 'foreign' cars.
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He was, but he hated those strange french things they were not at all cool.
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I think you could compare the Lancer to the avenger estate if we were in 1973 say.
AE, A 2 year old avenger would have lasted about 2-3 more years maximum in the mid 70s, standard company car where you work in 1975-77, universally hated in the branch I joined in
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