I thought I'd revive this thread as I've now seen a few Cayennes mingling amongst innocent traffic.
To the motoring cognoscenti here I need only to state phrases like 'denigrated the blood-line', 'Mona Lisa in Nike' and 'Selling-your history'.
The only sane reaction is to boo, shake your fist and blow a raspberry at this monstrosity as it passes. Approach the owner and give your scandalised opinion.
Together we can defeat this beast. To sit back and do nothing is not an option. There must never be another. United we can ensure that Ferrari don't launch an MPV when they feel like making a few quid.
It's a burden I know. But we do it because we care.
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surely someone has seen that new fiat mpv?my lords i laughed my ruddy head off!or how aboutthat new roller?makes a long wheelbase transit look like a mini(not that boche rubbish)
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ah, at last we've reached the Doblo.
Inspired design when you think about it: take a Multipla down to the local playgroup, give 'em some bottle tops, egg boxes and milk crates and...er...that's it really.
Unbeatably ugly!
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I thought I'd revive this thread as I've now seen a few Cayennes mingling amongst innocent traffic. To the motoring cognoscenti here I need only to state phrases like 'denigrated the blood-line', 'Mona Lisa in Nike' and 'Selling-your history'. The only sane reaction is to boo, shake your fist and blow a raspberry at this monstrosity as it passes. Approach the owner and give your scandalised opinion. Together we can defeat this beast. To sit back and do nothing is not an option. There must never be another. United we can ensure that Ferrari don't launch an MPV when they feel like making a few quid. It's a burden I know. But we do it because we care.
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The problem is that I always stare in utter amazement at this ugly duckling. Problem because I don't want to give the impression to the driver that I think it is a nice "car".
Why did Porsche do it? Is it going to be tied up with VAG in the future (whether being taken over or not) or is this a one off experiment for the US market?
With regards to the BMW7, I have decided that this really isn't as bad as everyone says, although I would say that the boot is "odd". From pictures of the forthcoming 5 series, this might really steal the ugly crown and I won't be changing mine in a hurry.
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Having just got back from a drive down to Milan, I can confirm that the Cayenne is one of the ugliest beasts on the roads of europe. What I noticed is that every one I saw had a Swiss plate on it. Now I don't want to get into the racial stereotypes thing here, but when have the Swiss ever demonstrated taste of any kind, let alone good taste? (Think cuckoo clocks)....
I have to add that everything Lancia currently makes is uglier than a Cayenne. No wonder their sales are bombing in Italy!
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www.tinyurl.com/ipvr
Lancia Thesis (perhaps that\'s a phonetic spelling?)
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ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! .sorry cant stop laughing!they cannot be serious....can they...?perhaps they saw how many mug punters daewoo and hyundi(sorry about my spelling to much mirth!)are pulling in with vile grilles .i honestly havent larfed this much since the bugeyed scorpio came out!well really.....
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Oh yikes - is that real?? I laughed as well, truly comic, especially from the front
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Oh, it's real alright. The design team at Fiat Group start at Alfa, then get their fingers broken and start designing Fiats. Once they've done a year or two there they have their hands chopped off and have to design using paintbrushes wedged between their broken toes. End result? Lancias!
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How about the Austin Princess (wedge shaped heap of 70's naffness) and more recently the Ford Scorpio??
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The Princess wasn't too bad as a driver's motor really. I had two and the early (Morris) 1800 was better than the (BL)2000. The old man had a nice 2200 six auto too before his new wife talked him into an Escort!!! Torcars (I think it was) did a sensible hatchback conversion for the Princess but BL did the usual when they replaced it with the dreadful cackhanded Ambassador hatch. Sadly, in the great BL tradition, both my Princesses were rustbuckets - front arches vanished on the 1800 in first four years and the 2000 had a perforated front apron at less then two years old! Sold it for my first Honda and never looked back...
Believe it or not I saw a Princess with 'a vendre' (for sale) on it parked beside a road in south west France a couple of weeks ago. Start the queue here lads...
To get back to the thread - how about the Renault Vel Satis? When I was a youngster, motors with fronts like that used to go round on electric tracks at fairgrounds!
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Scorpio? Beautiful! (Alright, cheap as well. And I never look at the front of mine anyway)
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I nominate all 4wds, and their imitators, except Land Rovers of the utilitarian variety. All else in this category is poturing and vanity! Except, habitually muddy Range Rover/Landcruiser or other objects which can usefully be used off-road. Sorry, Mark. Fish out of water etc.
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Don't worry - mine is probably quite the muddiest Landcruiser you have ever seen.
M.
p.s. actually, I deeply *hope* its mud. The fields I was in today were cow fields.
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Don't worry - mine is probably quite the muddiest Landcruiser you have ever seen....
Why's that? Afraid of losing another aerial in the car wash maybe?
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Since you were the man originally talking about how to replace these aerials, I suspect that we talking glass houses and stones here.
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You never confirmed if it was the Landcruiser or the Vauxhall aerial that you snapped off. I knew how to change a Vauxhall one as mine got snapped off by a wayward branch sticking out into the road (aerial on nearside rear wing). Haven\'t used a car wash for over ten years - ever since the door mirror on my old mk2 Cav got eaten by one.
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DIdn't I ? Oh, well it was the Landcruiser.
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No can not agree about the Princess I thought it looked pretty good for its day quite radical for its time. Only problems were the fact it should have been a hatchback from the start and had 1970's BL build quality.
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