The totally off-topic thread

[JohnM]

Another converted Subaru lover - after Mazda and 2 Honda's.

Hope it's a fast type like mine, QF WP . Can't imagine you in anything sedate :mrgreen:.

 

[QF WP]

Hope it's a fast type like mine, QF WP . Can't imagine you in anything sedate :mrgreen:.

I have two young children, so merely a Forester X for me

 

[erkpod]

I have two young children, so merely a Forester X for me

Nothing wrong with a Forester X!

 

[Flashback]

I shall be getting a new car in the new year with my new job..... I have access to a certain range of cars (based on your role) so now need to have a think about image vs practicality..... I'm also sticking with something small (so something the size of a Audi A3 TDI sport / BMW 118d / Mazda 3 Sport type vehicle) due to the UK being the UK (small roads, not much room to park, etc etc!!). Anyone care to weigh in?

 

[The Rok]

I shall be getting a new car in the new year with my new job..... I have access to a certain range of cars (based on your role) so now need to have a think about image vs practicality..... I'm also sticking with something small (so something the size of a Audi A3 TDI sport / BMW 118d / Mazda 3 Sport type vehicle) due to the UK being the UK (small roads, not much room to park, etc etc!!). Anyone care to weigh in?

A3 Sportback with a S-Line Pack and Audi MMI... Drives well, ample torque. A miser on fuel. And looks the part.

Or if an option, scrap the diesel and get a Golf R.. ,

 

[Flashback]

A3 Sportback with a S-Line Pack and Audi MMI... Drives well, ample torque. A miser on fuel. And looks the part.

Or if an option, scrap the diesel and get a Golf R.. ,

Have driven the Golf before, was a bit meh over it. Wife doesn't like it.. so I think that rules it out automatically

 

[blackcat20]

I shall be getting a new car in the new year with my new job..... I have access to a certain range of cars (based on your role) so now need to have a think about image vs practicality..... I'm also sticking with something small (so something the size of a Audi A3 TDI sport / BMW 118d / Mazda 3 Sport type vehicle) due to the UK being the UK (small roads, not much room to park, etc etc!!). Anyone care to weigh in?

Love my Mazda 3 (sp23).

 

[The Rok]

Have driven the Golf before, was a bit meh over it. Wife doesn't like it.. so I think that rules it out automatically

Did you drive the Golf R or GTI?

 

[Flashback]

Did you drive the Golf R or GTI?

It wasn't the drive feel that was an issue, more so the internal comfort as a passenger for her. It was a GTI.

 

[rogerkambah]

I shall be getting a new car in the new year with my new job..... I have access to a certain range of cars (based on your role) so now need to have a think about image vs practicality..... I'm also sticking with something small (so something the size of a Audi A3 TDI sport / BMW 118d / Mazda 3 Sport type vehicle) due to the UK being the UK (small roads, not much room to park, etc etc!!). Anyone care to weigh in?

What a gift! Don't get a hairdresser car. Get a WRX or STI. Best shopping trolley out, although I cry when I see the used Porsche prices in the UK.I'm looking for a Boxster in Aus to go with the shopping trolley, but even a 4-5 yo is so expensive.

 

[rogerkambah]

Just home from a nice long lunch at Pitchfork,Peregian.
Wonder if anything important has happened.

Is Peregian Park Homestead still operating as a restaurant?

 

[amaroo]

Just home from a nice long lunch at Pitchfork,Peregian.

Was it as good as last time ?

Can I sniff another AFF/SC do?

 

[Flashback]

What a gift! Don't get a hairdresser car. Get a WRX or STI. Best shopping trolley out, although I cry when I see the used Porsche prices in the UK.I'm looking for a Boxster in Aus to go with the shopping trolley, but even a 4-5 yo is so expensive.

Trying to stay away from even a medium sized car (which I consider the WRX or STI to be), so that rules that one out! If you saw my street.. you'd understand

 

[drron]

Can I sniff another AFF/SC do?

I don't know but we will be in LOTFAP together next month.Probably not in the same city though.

 

[rogerkambah]

Trying to stay away from even a medium sized car (which I consider the WRX or STI to be), so that rules that one out! If you saw my street.. you'd understand

Ok, didn't realise you wouldn't have a 4 car garage, and have to park in the street

 

[Buzzard]

Hope it's a fast type like mine, QF WP . Can't imagine you in anything sedate :mrgreen:.

A fast type ? Oh to be young again. If only I could have my Mazda RX2 bridge port again, one of several rotaries I have owned, with modified caster and camber wheel alignment for handling/steering, Koni suspension, 48ida weber, 4 piston Volvo front breaks so it stopped as quickly as it went....

Fast forward 20-30 years and here I am driving a diesel Prado that wouldn't blow the skin off a custard

 

[Flashback]

due to the UK being the UK (small roads, not much room to park, etc etc!!)

Ok, didn't realise you wouldn't have a 4 car garage, and have to park in the street

See above!

 

[amaroo]

I don't know but we will be in LOTFAP together next month.Probably not in the same city though.

You never know......hmm, where could we eat:idea:

Quite a few AFF's are heading that way.....would be kinda cool!

 

[Princess Fiona]

You never know......hmm, where could we eat:idea:

Quite a few AFF's are heading that way.....would be kinda cool!

I'm totally up for that as long as it isn't In-N-Out Burger as I don't do burgers
I think ddron, Mrs drron and I may be in MIA/MCO at the same time :?:

 

[drron]

This morning for the first time in 20 years we saw swans from our garden-

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One definitely black,the other more grey,probably a juvenile-

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Now I admit to being a bit worried.What was to come.A black swan event?
But no.first a lovely lunch.Then arriving home to a very good EDR offer-$69 for 12 whites with a 1000 bonus points plus a $20 off my next purchase.
But there is more.When I disembarked from our last cruise I was at my heaviest-108.5kg.So I gave myself a target of being 95kg by the new year.Well today I hit the mark nearly 6 weeks early.
So now I think a black swan is a very good omen!