Is it a BMW towing a caravan (saw one the other week)?
Or can you think of something worse ? ? ? ?
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A stretched limo hummer ...in Pink ...on the M25. Yeeeeeuk!
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The Yellow Bentley estate car I reported in "Unusual sightings" recently?
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X6 in any colour.
Bet they're nice to drive though......
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i'll second the X6
it just makes me think of Homer Simpson, and the car that he designed :-)
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Roger Taylor used to have a pink Range Rover, which really only a rock star could get away with
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Surely he was a tennis player??
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Oh and any of those tarted up 4x4 pick up trucks with daft names like Animal and so on. Various makes.
Mmmm classeee.......
;-)
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Porsche Cayenne with drug-dealer wheels comes close - what use is 4x4 with ultra-low profile tyres? You could barely mount a kerb...
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I saw a brand new Jaguar XJ towing a caravan the other day. Shameful, poor Jag.
what use is 4x4 with ultra-low profile tyres? You could barely mount a kerb...<<
Most likely for crawling along one rather than mounting one!
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re "tarted up 4x4 pick up trucks with daft names like Animal and so on"
depends, gary numan has a black mitsu pickup "Warrior" and one of his LP's was called that
he recons its not bad for 20 K car
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As indeed there can be scruffy mongrels who make great pets or moose ugly people who can be charming, some of the vehicles listed are probably very good.
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Why shouldn't a BMW tow a caravan or look ridiculous doing so? Most of them are only hacks, if well conceived and put together.
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Around here black Range Rover Sports with privacy glass and chrome finish wheels are popular. Very disappointing to see such a capable vehicle debased.
alfalfa
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That reminds me, I saw a Merc towing a trailer recently. The sort of thing you take to the tip. Amazing! I thought Merc drivers "got a little man in"! :-)
JH
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A Mercedes is only a Frankfurt taxi with UK hype. :-)
Edited by Old Navy on 31/07/2009 at 19:42
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In fairness my hapless relative with the passport problem I mentioned last week is at this very moment in France with his caravan and 5 series M sport doovry. Nothing very unusual about it really but a good excuse for a bit of leg pulling and snorting I suppose. Bring it on.
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Even an estimate - what was the overall financial cost of this oversight re passports? We all need to be warned and informed!
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Getting on for £600 I'm afraid. I'll update the main thread when they get back.
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Has to be the Peugeot 4007 - what a plug ugly front.
A caravan is good for today's overpowered cars - gives them some work to do ;-)
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Surely BMWs are eminently suited to pulling caravans?
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Indeed they are - better on wet grass, with a bit of weight on the hitch, than a FWD. Those stiff RFTs make a snake very unlikely as well.
If they catch on with the Caravan Club, will it put the "aspirational" BMW choosers off though?
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well , a BMW 5 series touring in silver, pulling an airstream would actually be rather classy.
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The Edsel, a bit like a modernist cathedral on wheels to look at, was a marketing gaffe too, coinciding as it did with the first wave of US conscience about petroleum supplies (or anyway prices) and the first wave of 'compact cars'. It had a remarkably low-powered six or seven litre engine and slushpump transmission, two-speed I shouldn't wonder. Yee-hah! Or rather, not.
And for pure comic idiocy by stylists, the doleful-catfish Ford Scorpio, a truly ugly and miserable looking beast. Not that I wouldn't take a nice 24v example into my home if the circumstance arose. I quite like pig-ugly cars, and I like what I hear about 24v Scorpios. .
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The lady who parks up at Shenfield Station to pick up her husband. She drives a lipstick pink Figaro with a white fluffy dash, seats, and door cappings and has pink fluffy dice hanging from rear view mirror. Gives Essex girls a bad name! But, kudos to her hubby who gets in the car without looking the least bit shamed!
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Ultimate motoring style gaffe?
a bm pulling a roma with the milkchurns on the step
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There's a blinged-up Kia Sedona around here. Low profile alloys, blacked-out everything, silly extra (whitish) lenses in all the lights, big exhaust & every bit of tack you could possibly find in Halfords stuck on somewhere etc.
I was nearly physically sick when I first saw it. A bit like a granny in suspenders & low-cut top making advances...(Mods - do delete the analogy if you think it might upset those of a nervous/sensitive disposition).
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I was nearly physically sick when I first saw it. A bit like a granny in suspenders & low-cut top making advances...
Whenever I see one of those hideous contraptions with the blacked-out windows I think its the undertakers coming to collect. I think I even prefer the Taliban Trucks doing the school run.
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Motoring gaffes don't come much worse than this, I'd have thought:
tinyurl.com/msy9vq As Sid James would have said, "Blimey!"
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I saw a very smart RangeRover last week pulling a decrepit caravan that really did look as if it had just come out of a hedge. The caravan was a sort of black/green mildewy/mossy colour. The RangeRover's number was marked on the caravan in black felt-tip.
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Perhaps the ultimate motoring gaffe was perpetrated by General Motors when they started putting Chevrolet badges on Daewoos. Pulled up alongside a Matiz at the lights the other day. "Nice Chevy, mate!" I remarked to the driver. Bet he thought the Camaro sounded better than his when I pulled away... ;-)
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Agree 100% with the Captain here. To rebadge Daewoo as Chevy in this country is just hideous. What next -- buy old Maestro bodies and rebrand them as Jaguar....
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> Agree 100% with the Captain here. To rebadge Daewoo as Chevy in this country is just hideous. What next -- buy old Maestro bodies and rebrand them as Jaguar....<
Why not, they called them Rovers until the general public and the financiers (but not the government...) saw through the whole shambolic charade and pulled the plug.
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>>I saw a very smart RangeRover last week pulling a decrepit caravan that really did look as if it had just come out of a hedge
A new Range Rover is a style gaffe even without a caravan. The old caravan if anything improves it. The ultimate gaffe would be to hitch up a brand new twin axle caravan with a satellite dish.
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well a BMW 5 series touring in silver pulling an airstream would actually be rather classy.
Actually, I did see (not all that long ago) a silver E61 M5 Touring towing an Airstream...
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