Car thread

[Mich the Tester]

[bobspud]

Well you banned the other half of CUK's Top gear club so I assume you want a sensible debate before he comes back...

I like smart cars....

[Mich the Tester]

Well you banned the other half of CUK's Top gear club so I assume you want a sensible debate before he comes back...

I like smart cars....

Moi?

[bobspud]

Moi?

Not you personally and to be fair he seems to have well and truly deserved it this time and spontaneously disappeared into his own work hole

[sasguru]

Oh no .....

All I can say about cars is there is no decent, left-field car for people of class and style to distinguish themselves from the masses driving ubiqitous German cars on credit.

Come on Alfa, give us characterful, Ferrari-sounding options like you did in the past. WTF is that Giuletta blob about, FFS?
Chinese owners of Saab, let your Swedish engineers free like the Indians have at Land Rover/Jag and let's be having some interesting models.
Citroen, improve your build quality and look to your roots for design inspiration. FFS you built the DS once.

On the plus side some of the new models at Volvo look interesting and the design language coming out from mazda is an improvement on the usual jap blandness.

[bobspud]

Oh no .....

All I can say about cars is there is no decent, left-field car for people of class and style to distinguish themselves from the masses driving ubiqitous German cars on credit.

Thats interest free credit to you and backed by the full cost of the car in my bank account offsetting my mortgage instead

[sasguru]

Thats interest free credit to you and backed by the full cost of the car in my bank account offsetting my mortgage instead

You're still the indebted masses though.

[eek]

Thats interest free credit to you and backed by the full cost of the car in my bank account offsetting my mortgage instead

That's an awful lot of instant depreciation there pretending to be a interest free loan....

[sasguru]

That's an awful lot of instant depreciation there pretending to be a interest free loan....

Quite. Just don't get that kind of thinking.

[Mich the Tester]

Oh no .....

All I can say about cars is there is no decent, left-field car for people of class and style to distinguish themselves from the masses driving ubiqitous German cars on credit.

Come on Alfa, give us characterful, Ferrari-sounding options like you did in the past. WTF is that Giuletta blob about, FFS?
Chinese owners of Saab, let your Swedish engineers free like the Indians have at Land Rover/Jag and let's be having some interesting models.
Citroen, improve your build quality and look to your roots for design inspiration. FFS you built the DS once.

On the plus side some of the new models at Volvo look interesting and the design language coming out from mazda is an improvement on the usual jap blandness.

It'd be nice to see Lancia getting back to building stylish cars instead of rebadged Chrysler yankpoo. The Fulvia, the Flavia, or best of all, the Aurelia GT.