Anyway to answer the question I respect MY cars!
Yup, same here (and the bike, too). I show that respect by:
1) Keeping it reasonably clean (specifically keeping drainage channels etc unblocked)
2) Not skimping on servicing
3) Regular maintenance checks (tyres, fluids)
4) Exercising mechanical sympathy.
This is a concept that was introduced to me by my parents as "looking after your stuff". I understand it to be unfashionable in certain parts.
I couldn't care less what other people think about my car, or me. All I ask of others on the road is to behave sensibly and courteously towards me. This includes, certain people on the A24, not making the assumption that the directional indicator is a shield of steel that protects its user from all harm, and is therefore an acceptable substitute for proper rearward observation or plain common sense.
And I'm sorry, I am not going to behave deferentially towards anyone else just because their car is of some particular make or other. A brand new Maybach 62 is as subject to road traffic law as an elderly Fiesta.
/curmudgeon mode
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I`m more than happy to use a small van as my only transport
and never have managed to put form before function ;)
Mike, That car was a 300C. Not a friend, but a bloke i got talking to at the garage, he was picking up his wife`s Fiat. Said what do I have? I said the Punto van. He `puffed up` and said he had a 300C and it "got respect on the road".
After all those years in assessment, I had his personality down in a flash, from his presentation; all the way upwards from his shoes to his striving to maximise his height.
Judgemental? you could say that. but it works both ways and I`m entitled to a little relaxed amusement in retirement. ;)
regards
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Did I respect JC of Top Gear more when he was driving a Bugatti Veyron across France than when he was driving a Peel P.50 microcar around the corridors of Broadcasting house?
Guess!!!
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In fact the Bugatti Veyron and Peel P.50 share a trait, as both are ultimate cars. Nobody is likely to better either in terms of what they set out to be. In the Veyron's case, that is the ultimate high-performance car, in the P.50's case, the smallest and most basic 'car' ever seriously marketed.
SQ
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 03/11/2007 at 18:08
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I respect the R&D that goes into cars. I respect the people who toil for years to get the ergonomics of a car just so, etc.
But, how can one associate respect (insofar as: 'I'll respect you because you driver car 'x' and not car 'y''?) with a car when so often they're used as status symbols and by desperate social climbers as a mark of their 'success'?
I feel too often that we associate having a large or expensive car with a person who has 'made it' in life. Surely there's more to life than sitting behind the wheel of a good car? What about a guy or girl who hates their job, gets no satisfaction from it and is bored to distraction, yet still gets a 535d for a company car? Would we still say they've made it?
A very good BBC Northern Ireland programme profiling Sir Allen McClay (Chairman of Almac - they do research in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors - worth around £300 million and who has done wonders for the NI economy) who drives an eleven-year-old Renault. When asked why, he asked the question: what sort of businessman would I be if I went and paid for a brand new car - sure it would drop thousands in the first months of ownership?
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"still gets a 535d for a company car?"
Watch this space.
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>Mike, That car was a 300C. Not a friend, but a bloke i got talking to at the garage, he was picking up his wife`s Fiat. Said what do I have? I said the Punto van. He `puffed up` and said he had a 300C and it "got respect on the road".<
Wow, what a coincidence. You must have been lucky enough to meet the legendary MTC in the flesh.
Although I guess, from the number of 300Cs actually on the road, it wasn't that much of a coincidence...
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Can't understand how one might respect a car. Or an electric razor, or a stapler.
Can't understand how one might respect anyone more because of the sort of car he drives.
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You may respect me shortly.
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Christmas coming early, esteemed mod?
Respect for you is a given, anyway.
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Well, I'm "downshifitng" the Beemers going and I can't bring myself to say what I've bought - not quite instead....
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You haven't started your bangernomic career with a couple of clapped Simca 1100s have you PU?
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Not quite. ... -.- --- -.. .- !
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lud You've awoken a repressed(I can only assume)memory. I had forgotten simca's ever existed. The 1501 is without doubt the worst car I ever drove. The engine even continued on into a talbot? model I think ,equally dreadfull.RIP Simca
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I know, PU - you taken the sensible option and gone for a Fiat Punto (what's wrong with that? :)
Actually thinking of going for a 2001 330 ci SE for £7995. Am I mad?
AA
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There's a clue in my post. All be it cryptic. £50.00 to a charity of your choice if anyone apart from the Mods (who know) gets it.
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My father used to employ 'Old John' a lovely retired bloke who had worked for a competitor and got bored so Dad employed him to keep the site tidy, wash cars, mow lawns, occasionally do his old job if there was a shortage of drivers. He drove a Beetle that was in A1 cond and we all respected him.
I may have been an only child, but I knew that I had to address all my father's staff politely, otherwise they would not work for me when I 'took over'. Sadly the business was sold before I could take control, but I worked long and hard enough during the school holidays to know that the staff would have coped with me at the helm.
Respect for cars. I meet lots of people when I am out surveying and the ones who don't pay their bills are the ones with the flashiest cars. All leased IMHO, all fur coat and no knickers. I drive what I want to drive. I could afford much more, but choose not to, as I don't want to alienate various clients, who may think I am charging too much. A Subaru is perfect. I have a very luxurious car, with all the goodies and no-one knows what it is (except half the Back Room!). It means I don't get envious stares.
I love winding up 911 drivers, especially estate agents in Cheshire. 'I have the same as you!'. They look at me as if I am mad - 'Yes, I've a flat six, water cooled, tiptronic and 4wd' and its more reliable than yours!
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Hah! Through endeavour I've worked it out.
I've sent you an email.
But I won't squeal. It's too good a riddle.
Edited by GroovyMucker on 04/11/2007 at 21:16
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Choose your charity that man. Skoda Roomster Scout....yes indeed from a 40k saloon into a shopping trolley - its all part of a cunning plan !
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Endeavour - yes very good, well worked out - RESPECT !
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 04/11/2007 at 21:23
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How did you work it out? I'm very impressed, and also with PU for chooing a Skoda
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Endeavour and you shall find Espada
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Endeavour - Inspector Morse's first name....so?
Check out my post of 18:19 very carefully and it will become apparent
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 04/11/2007 at 21:32
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tinyurl.com/3x83sv - it's very kind of you, and £50 will go a long way out there ...
or the SBA, just in case ... !
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My cheque will be in the Post tomorrow.....they don't take paypal do they ?
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they don't take paypal do they ?
Sadly not.
I'll post it tomorrow recorded -i'll e-mail you the tracking number
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 04/11/2007 at 21:57
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I'll post it tomorrow recorded -i'll e-mail you the tracking number
I'll be gravely offended if you do. If I can't trust another BRoomer ...
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Sorry - looking at the wrong post and missed the Morse code! I'm such an idiot - but then if you read my other thread about being harrasedby two small boys, you;ll know why.
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How did you work it out?
Morse code innit?
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Wow what a coincidence. You must have been lucky enough to meet the legendary MTC in the flesh. Although I guess from the number of 300Cs actually on the road it wasn't that much of a coincidence...
I can't remember ever meeting someone in those circumstances and it doesn't sound like something that I'd do - but stranger things happen at sea :), :)
I did have an 'old boy' telling me that his father "had a couple of Bentleys like yours in his time, are they still as good ?" at the weekend - and he was such a nice chap that it didn't seem like good form to correct him.
MTC
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