Camp cars, your list.....

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Mon 25 Nov 2002 21:57
Camp cars, your list..... - Steve G
Top Gear had a pretty accurate list of camp cars but there were a few missing.
MGF,MX5,MR2 any convertible such as Astra/Escort/Golf (particularly in white).
What else should be on this list ?
Perhaps HJ could incude this list on the car-by-car breakdown ? Perhaps it would stop people making the same mistake as JC ;-)
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Tue 26 Nov 2002 14:17
Camp cars, your list..... - Mark (RLBS)
I removed the rubbish from this thread. Having done that, and having lost a couple of others which didn't deserve deletion (sorry, FiF), it seems there is only this one left. And that is only just about worth retention.

Please try and think before you post - children read this backroom, as well as people from different walks of life with different prejudices or lifestyles. We don't really need to upset any of them.
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Tue 26 Nov 2002 14:32
Camp cars, your list..... - Ian (Cape Town)
One of our more respected local writers wrote thus:
However, it was the "babeability" factor that was most fascinating. Admittedly, my popularity rating plummeted on the day I gave the Porsche Turbo back but I still managed to attract a fair amount of female interest with the SLK 200.
The BMW Z3 was a rather different story. The first glimpse most people had of the Z3 was as a product drop in the James Bond movie Goldeneye. Despite the fact that Q made some of his deadly modifications to it, Bond never actually drives the car in the movie and I now know why. When BMW started bringing Z3s out in pastel colours to match Estee Lauder eyeshadow ranges we should have got the message. Despite my best endeavours, which fell marginally short of begging, I could not entice one woman to come for a drive. I breathed into a wine glass for a quick halitosis test, checked my teeth for spinach flecks and even asked my best friend if there was something I should know. Then I came up with the brilliant strategy of asking the target market what the problem was. My all-female focus group didn't hesitate . . . "You can't pick up women in a Z3," they told me, "it's a gay man's car." Now, I realise that there may be a few male heterosexual Z3 owners out there (particularly those with naff 007 personal number plates) to whom this comes as a thunderbolt from heaven. So, just to be sure, I asked more girls what the Z3's image was and they all said the same thing - either a woman's car or a gay man's car. We must assume that this is part of a pink marketing drive on the part of BMW.
After that BMW would not lend him cars to road test ...

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Tue 26 Nov 2002 15:44
Camp cars, your list..... - Toad, of Toad Hall.
Your gamble that'd I'd get bored first paid off...

This time!!!!

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
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These are my own opinions, and not necessarily those of all Toads.
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