Car Advice - Mummy Cars!
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@ACT-Crusader Re Porsches not being your cup of milo. I totally understand, such things are very much a matter of personal taste.
Some people I do business with have good connections with the local Ferrari dealership and occasionally we get a bit of a jolly. Last year I got to have a blast on some local roads in four different cars. A Maserati Ghibli diesel (I kid you not), a Maserati Quattroporte, a Ferrari California and a 458 Italia. To be honest I was only taken with the Ghibli and the 458.
The Ghibli was a really easy car to drive, fast, comfortable and handled well and the engine sound was just great. When I asked how they got a diesel to sound so good they looked a bit sheepish and said something about a speaker system within the exhaust system
The Quattroporte was just a lump. The California was OK but TBH it offered nothing more than my 911 and did not have the same wow factor.
The 458 was a totally different kettle of fish and was just amazing. I had about 20 minutes driving in it and when I got out I was buzzing but it felt like I'd been driving for two hours. The sensations were just so immediate.
The 911 is a car you can easily pootle around town in, but then set in in sport mode and it becomes a beast. Put it in sport plus mode and it's like being back in the 458 but not quite the same level of performance. On a longish trip up to London (about 200 miles for me), I can AVERAGE over 70mph and still get 32 mpg from the 911. Not planet saving I know but not too shabby for the performance levels.
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@Catogrande I like hatchbacks with a bit of zip. I've had Polo and Golf GTi's, A3 2.0, 147 GTA.
A couple of months ago tested the A45 AMG, M135i and RS3. For overall performance as both a general use car and something to have a bit of fun with, the A45. But for pure grunt I found the RS3 more punchier than the A45. I was pleasantly surprised by the M which has a base price that is heaps cheaper than the other two, but BMW always has those expensive extras which other brands tend to include as standard. The M did seem a less heavier ride than the A45 even though it carries the 3.0 six against the 2.0 four.
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@Crucial some insurers still ask for evidence, but others operate on you being truthful about it, plus it's with your existing insurer it matters.
I had someone back into my parked car earlier in the year and drive off, $4 k damage...
The U.K. Car insurance market has long been a basket case, not sure if the last 3 or 4 years have changed, but prior to that it hadn't made any money for about 10 years! Great business to be in....
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Annddd there goes my thread about Mummy Cars!
Not that I'm complaining, sports cars are far more interesting.
Although I appreciate that the Boxster and Cayman are great cars in their own right, I am 100% in the Richard Hammond school of thought about them:
There’s only one reason you buy a boxster - one - and it’s because you can’t afford a 911. That’s it.
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959 would be my preferred choice, well, in its day anyway...the good thing about having a vehicle like that is there is no room for the kids.
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@MajorRage said in Car Advice - Mummy Cars!:
Although I appreciate that the Boxster and Cayman are great cars in their own right, I am 100% in the Richard Hammond school of thought about them:
There’s only one reason you buy a boxster - one - and it’s because you can’t afford a 911. That’s it.If you like driving the Cayman is pound for pound the best Porsche. Having said that, I still lust for a GT3 RS in ways I don't for a GT4.
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@ACT-Crusader BMW and extras - I know what you mean. I had to pay £90 extra for floor mats in my 911. How the fuckety-fuck are floor mats considered extras?
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@Crucial said in Car Advice - Mummy Cars!:
I don't get sports cars. Unless you have access to a race track they are the equivalent of waking up with a throbbing morning wood and no one to share it with except yourself.
So. Like most days then.
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There goes my sports car thread....
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@taniwharugby string them up by their scrotum. You don't fuck with a mans hilux.
I've got a four litre v6 hilux today as a courtesy car. I don't want to give it back.
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@jegga said in Car Advice - Mummy Cars!:
@taniwharugby string them up by their scrotum. You don't fuck with a mans hilux.
Nah don't string them up by the nuts.
Tie their nuts to the towbar and head off road.
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@MajorRage said in Car Advice - Mummy Cars!:
There is nothing in the world more manly than a Hilux.
/cough Unimog
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@taniwharugby And there I was recovering from finding out what a circle jerk literally was ... and you go and put up a story like that. Another panic attack - had to go and take the rotor out of my hilux (yes some classic vehicles still have a rotor). If it had an alarm I would go and set it.
I'm going for lie down. Today has just been too much.
@antipodean When it gets to 20 years old we will see.
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Oh, and scum who steal hiluxes don't have nuts, balls, or any other sort of genitalia. They don't even qualify as fluffybunnies.
I really am upset now. Swearing on the interthing and people comparing brand new Mercedes to hiluxes. The bloody world has gone mad.
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@antipodean cant see Crumpy driving that thing.