Bye bye . . .

[Xenophon]

Well you jealous little f**kers!

[TimberWolf]

The latest 4x4 "muscle cars" are the automotive industry's' equivalent to the the porn industry's' over-inflated silicone boobs; the idea that everything is better when it's bigger. This obviously works in the design offices, but against the backdrop of reality, they just look like ridiculous caricatures.

They missed out on making 4x4's willy shaped. It would have been good marketing and aerodynamic too.

[DodgyAgent]

Well you jealous little f**kers!

Quite! people's antipathy towards expensive cars is driven 100% by envy
if I could afford one I would buy a Rolls and drive it through every council estate in Britain

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/dri...cle4484841.ece

some great snippets from Clarksons article yesterday:

On second homes:

Well, soon all the problems will be erased because a government think tank has looked carefully at the question of second homes and has announced that the rich bastards who have them should be forced to rent them out to underachieving, fat people.

On musicals:

Just the other day, I read a report that said musicals in London’s West End are bucking the trend with higher than ever audiences. This, you might think if you were a normal, well balanced soul, is a good thing. But sadly the red top reporter was not. He was just bothered that bigger audiences meant Andrew Lloyd Webber would have even more money. And that made him incandescent with fury.

Why? It’s not like Andrew Lloyd Webber spends his evenings being carried around council estates in Slough in a sedan chair, waving his jewels out of the window. He just gets on with his life in a way that has no effect whatsoever on the way you live yours or I live mine.

What makes me really laugh is when rich priviliged IT contractors of all people start making their envious rants. If you have a problem with emmissions then why not start with the chavs and the "pimp my ride brigade" who drive around in cars that are far greater health and global warming hazards than any X5 or Cayenne.

[DimPrawn]

Quite! people's antipathy towards expensive cars is driven 100% by envy
if I could afford one I would buy a Rolls and drive it through every council estate in Britain

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/dri...cle4484841.ece

some great snippets from Clarksons article yesterday:

On second homes:

Well, soon all the problems will be erased because a government think tank has looked carefully at the question of second homes and has announced that the rich bastards who have them should be forced to rent them out to underachieving, fat people.

On musicals:

Just the other day, I read a report that said musicals in London’s West End are bucking the trend with higher than ever audiences. This, you might think if you were a normal, well balanced soul, is a good thing. But sadly the red top reporter was not. He was just bothered that bigger audiences meant Andrew Lloyd Webber would have even more money. And that made him incandescent with fury.

Why? It’s not like Andrew Lloyd Webber spends his evenings being carried around council estates in Slough in a sedan chair, waving his jewels out of the window. He just gets on with his life in a way that has no effect whatsoever on the way you live yours or I live mine.

What makes me really laugh is when rich priviliged IT contractors of all people start making their envious rants. If you have a problem with emmissions then why not start with the chavs and the "pimp my ride brigade" who drive around in cars that are far greater health and global warming hazards than any X5 or Cayenne.

I had no problem with giant gas guzzling 4x4's until sasguru's flawless argument that they are destroying the world by keeping the climate the same, through what is now called 4x4 No Climate Change.

HTH

[snaw]

Quite! people's antipathy towards expensive cars is driven 100% by envy
if I could afford one I would buy a Rolls and drive it through every council estate in Britain

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/dri...cle4484841.ece

some great snippets from Clarksons article yesterday:

On second homes:

Well, soon all the problems will be erased because a government think tank has looked carefully at the question of second homes and has announced that the rich bastards who have them should be forced to rent them out to underachieving, fat people.

On musicals:

Just the other day, I read a report that said musicals in London’s West End are bucking the trend with higher than ever audiences. This, you might think if you were a normal, well balanced soul, is a good thing. But sadly the red top reporter was not. He was just bothered that bigger audiences meant Andrew Lloyd Webber would have even more money. And that made him incandescent with fury.

Why? It’s not like Andrew Lloyd Webber spends his evenings being carried around council estates in Slough in a sedan chair, waving his jewels out of the window. He just gets on with his life in a way that has no effect whatsoever on the way you live yours or I live mine.

What makes me really laugh is when rich priviliged IT contractors of all people start making their envious rants. If you have a problem with emmissions then why not start with the chavs and the "pimp my ride brigade" who drive around in cars that are far greater health and global warming hazards than any X5 or Cayenne.

Desperate times when you quote Clarkson to back up any argument DA.

[Shimano105]

Why do the tory boys always jump to the (illogical) assumption that if no one likes their latest crass, obnoxious, tasteless toy that they are really 'just jealous'?

I swear that even if I did consider one to be worth the outlay (I don't, even as a contractor) I wouldn't buy one because big, brash, un-subtle statements like that don't do it for me.

Less is more - 4x4s are just the 4 wheeled equivalents of Vista.

[Churchill]

Less is more - 4x4s are just the 4 wheeled equivalents of Vista.

4x4s are large comfortable vehicles - shirley?

I earned the money, I spend it how I please.

Now, f**k off!

Seriously

[Shimano105]

You did earn the money and you have the right to spend it how you wish.

I will now f**k off.

But your car is still tulipe

[Churchill]

You did earn the money and you have the right to spend it how you wish.

I will now f**k off.

But your car is still tulipe

Which car and in what way?

[Bear]

4x4's are work vehicles, the general public (school run Mums) should be banned from owning them anyway

What about those of us that shoot/fish?

It's not work and I am the general public.