Off Topic Fantasy Garage

CroydonCaptainJack · Jul 3, 2016

sb_73 said: ↑

I never get anywhere near the capability of these cars when I have a go. I know I am not good enough to floor it on anything other than a very long straight.

I had a close encounter with a Ferrari yesterday as one (red, soft top down, two hooray Henry types in the seats) came hurtling round a corner at me on a country lane. It wasn't a single track road, and I was well over on my side of it (even though I had the Golf in 'sport' mode and was enjoying myself) plenty of room to pass. But of course Ferraris are very wide cars and this bloke may not have had the experience to judge the gap. So he swerved left quite alarmingly and scraped his lovely paintwork along the bramble hedge bordering the road.

To my shame I couldn't resist a small smile to myself. Schadenfreude is truly the most universal and satisfying of human pleasures.
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It is. Delicious with a glass of Hock to wash it down as well.

qprbeth · Jul 4, 2016

I'm not very good at this.
Just got a new car......it is exactly the same as my last two cars...so my favourite car is ...my last three Ford Fiesta ST.
The new ST is the best of the lot......and mine is BLUE..

This is the pinnacle of car owning to me....I love my car

Didley Squat · Jul 4, 2016

qprbeth said: ↑

I'm not very good at this.
Just got a new car......it is exactly the same as my last two cars...so my favourite car is ...my last three Ford Fiesta ST.
The new ST is the best of the lot......and mine is BLUE..

This is the pinnacle of car owning to me....I love my car
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Congratulations, Beth........... I hope the dealer threw in a club scarf for you.

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kiwiqpr · Jul 4, 2016

Uber_Hoop said: ↑

I often look at Top Gear when they're driving these fast cars around the track and going "Wo-Ho-Ho-Ho!" at the acceleration and cornering and ****, and find myself thinking that must be quite fun. But then I immediately think what the hell use to me would one of those be. I can't take sacks of garden refuse down the tip in one. The dog wouldn't fit in the back. There's no room for Uber Minor, Uber Major and Little Miss Uber (OK, that's possibly an advantage) and it'd be crap over the myriad 'traffic calming' initiatives down our way. Oh, and I'd doubtless look a bit of a prick in one too. So the accountant in me rushes quickly to the fore and promptly tells me that something practical, like my A6 estate, is the best option.

So I'm not sure what I'd put in my fantasy garage, but I can tell you that my current garage is full to the rafters with: the running machine that Mrs Uber wanted for her fortieth five years ago, but has never used, four broken pallets that I was lumbered with after ordering pea shingle and bark mulch recently, three kids' bicycles that the little bastards never use because their mother drives them everywhere, a pile of cardboard boxes, each marked either Amazon or IKEA, that Mrs Uber conveniently forgot she'd dumped in there, bags full of empty Zinfandel bottles that Mrs Uber thinks float down to the bottle bank on their own, several bags full of general household refuse and unwanted toys that Mrs Uber also believe dispose of themselves, a lawn mower, a pasting table in the event we break 17 years of emulsion-festing and decide to wallpaper something, plus an assortment of storage boxes harbouring everything from old school books to Chinese immigrants.

I'd never get a car in there.
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I can feel a new thread coming up
What's in your garage
I might take a photo of the ultimate hoarders tv show that my wife has turned ours into

qprbeth · Jul 4, 2016

AussieQPR said: ↑

Congratulations, Beth........... I hope the dealer threw in a club scarf for you.

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Thats my car....beautiful isn't she

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