Motorway car choice

[Tasslehoff]

Please don't.

Sorry, what was I thinking. I will PM to you instead?

[Euler]

This is the New Labour legacy - Bob infested austerity Britain. Highly trained IT specialists posting pictures of their "new" £3K Mondeo.

Who says living standards are falling?

"Highly trained IT specialists" aren't the ones suffering in austerity Britain.
It's the ones who once picked up C++ and assume that 2 billion Chinese and Indians can't do the same who deserve their fate.
It's all about barriers to entry, old chap.

[vetran]

If you are going the low cost Mondeo route (about £3K), look for the 2.2 TDCi (ideally Ghia X spec with leather) which is the most modern and powerful diesel in the MKII Mondeo (produced up to 2007).

1.8 petrol is fine for town but definitely lacks on the motorway or towing.

[DimPrawn]

"Highly trained IT specialists" aren't the ones suffering in austerity Britain.
It's the ones who once picked up C++ and assume that 2 billion Chinese and Indians can't do the same who deserve their fate.
It's all about barriers to entry, old chap.

What about Excel spreadsheet Monkeys with delusional befief they are data scientists living in leafy surrey earning £2K a day at home, what of they?

[unixman]

Hey OP just make sure it has

built in satnav
air con
nice music system, the kind that lets you put your music on a USB stick and plug it in.

[Euler]

What about Excel spreadsheet Monkeys with delusional befief they are data scientists living in leafy surrey earning £2K a day at home, what of they?

As it goes I never use Excel.
But do you know what a Turing machine is?
Essentially any programming language can do what another can, theoretically.
So it's not the tech you use, but what you do with it.
Your failure to grasp this essential point suggests you don't have the brains to be a top-level IT contrcator.
After all the proof is in the pudding: if you're struggling you must be doing something wrong.

HTH, BIKIW.

[FatLazyContractor]

Hey OP just make sure it has

built in satnav
air con
nice music system, the kind that lets you put your music on a USB stick and plug it in.

It has moved on love. It's called Bluetooth these days!

[unixman]

It has moved on love. It's called Bluetooth these days!

Nay, nay and thrice Nay FLC. Bluetoothing your i<whatever> is for kids and non-techies. Just copy your music onto a USB stick and have done with it. Perhaps users of i<whatever> aren't allowed to copy their music.

[darmstadt]

It has moved on love. It's called Bluetooth these days!

My car entertainment system has a built in 20gb hard drive so everything just sits on there. I can also Facebook, e-mail and Twitter from it, if I so wished

[FatLazyContractor]

My car entertainment system has a built in 20gb hard drive so everything just sits on there. I can also Facebook, e-mail and Twitter from it, if I so wished

What if it breaks down and you are put in a hire car?