Diesel or Petrol?

[oracleslave]

Any particular reason?

I'm in the market for a reliable car with room for the kids and a high driving position, Rav4, Nissan X-Trail or Honda CRV are on the shortlist.

Any reason you need the high driving position and couldn't look at estates?

[sasguru]

So to summarise, the board is split into 2:

The girls
Dim, Miffy etc. Superficial, interested in interior decoration rather than engineering integrity, reliability, fitness for purpose and performance. Easily fooled by marketing and probably talk about types of leather, quality of plastics, and number of cup holders in the loo.

The real men
They know themselves. Practical, rugged types. Not given to artistic, effeminate tendencies. Secure in their masculinity and well endowed in both the physical and mental departments. Look at engineering integrity first and foremost and prefer a certain spartan approach to life.

HTH

[DimPrawn]

Any reason you need the high driving position and couldn't look at estates?

Cos everyone else is driving a 4x4 and he's fed up with looking at their back bumpers?

[DimPrawn]

So to summarise, the board is split into 2:

The girls
Dim, Miffy etc. Superficial, interested in interior decoration rather than engineering integrity, reliability, fitness for purpose and performance. Easily fooled by marketing and probably talk about types of leather, quality of plastics, and number of cup holders in the loo.

The real men
They know themselves. Practical, rugged types. Not given to artistic, effeminate tendencies. Secure in their masculinity and well endowed in both the physical and mental departments. Look at engineering integrity first and foremost and prefer a certain spartan approach to life.

HTH

Nice try sassy.

[Katie]

I just dislike them! They are ugly. Like a bean can on wheels. But then again that is IMO. And each to their own!

[sasguru]

Nice try sassy.

Well katie is on your side and you do sound a lot like her

[DimPrawn]

Well katie is on your side and you do sound a lot like her

Her bum looks bigger than mine.

[Katie]

So sassy, what cars would "real men" like? Are you a "real man" if so what do you drive?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Are you seriously saying the cloth seats, hard scratchy plastic interiors of Jap cars come anywhere close to a BMW or Merc?

Jap cars are super mega reliable, but stylish and luxurious they ain't.

The entire BMW 3 series range comes with cloth seats as standard - I looked it up in What Car last night.

As for the Mini being a BMW - most of the engineering design was done here in England, and until the recent facelift, the engine was a Chyrsler design made in Mexico..........

[DimPrawn]

FFS, can't we all just drive a grey diesel Passat and get along?