Are you a badge snob?
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If you want more power have an Octavia RS - with a TT engine : 150 mph for < 12.5K.......
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Hope your insurance company knows about the mods, otherwise you're uninsured, mate!!
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Hope your insurance company knows about the mods, otherwise you're uninsured, mate!!
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Not being a badge snob (as I drive a Fiat Brava!) I still think snob badges are good purchases! Why?
Resale value. Daewoo's, Kia's and Skodas make fantastic purchases if you're buying new and not bothered about depreciation. However, BMW's Audi's etc will always hold up in the 2nd car market ... in some cases going for more than they are new!
So being a badge snob could also be an economic purchase. And I'd imagine I'd feel the nuts if I was driving a BMW, but I don't think I would in a Daewoo ... quitely content I got a good deal mine you but not bursting with pride at the golf course (so to speak as I don't play!)
K
Resale value. Daewoo's, Kia's and Skodas make fantastic purchases if you're buying new and not bothered about depreciation. However, BMW's Audi's etc will always hold up in the 2nd car market ... in some cases going for more than they are new!
So being a badge snob could also be an economic purchase. And I'd imagine I'd feel the nuts if I was driving a BMW, but I don't think I would in a Daewoo ... quitely content I got a good deal mine you but not bursting with pride at the golf course (so to speak as I don't play!)
K
I drive a Smart and am amazed by the number of people who insist of putting a Mercedes badge on them.
I know it shuts a lot of peeps up when they criticize and you point out that it is a merc but I bought a Smart, so why rebadge it and pretend!!
I know it shuts a lot of peeps up when they criticize and you point out that it is a merc but I bought a Smart, so why rebadge it and pretend!!
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Not just saying this cos I have one, but have you looked up Skoda residuals? THey're pretty strong.
Guy near me has identical car in identical colour and funnily enough, reg begins with same regional identifier (D), but his has VW badge on front.
How I laugh!!!!!
For people who don't know how the new reg system is geared:
A - Anglia (p/borough, norwich, ipswich)
B - Brum
C - Clywd (Cardiff/swansea/bangor)
D - Deeside (Chester/shrewsbury)
E - Essex (Chelmsford)
F - Forest & Fens (Nottingham /Lincoln)
G - Garden of England (Maidstone/Brighton)
H - Hants (Bournemouth/Portsmouth) [HW for IOW].
K - ??? (Luton/Northants) They didn't get round to naming this one Ooops!
L - London (Wimbledon/Stanmore/Sidcup)
M - Manchester/Merseyside
N - North (Newcastle/stockton)
O - Oxford
P - Preston (preston/carlisle)
R - Reading
S - Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness)
V - Vale (worcester)
W - West (Exeter/truro/bristol)
Y - Yorks (Leeds sheffield beverley)
Reg offices in brackets - denoted by second letter on plate
Numbers are first digit either 0 or 5: 0=march - august and 5=
sept - feb
second digit equals year
last three letters are random.
When we get to 2010, numbering changes from 0 and 5 to 1 and 6, and then in 2020 to 2 and 7 and so on until in 2049 the age identifiers will be 49 and 99.
And if there's anyone here who will be alive enough to care (i will be 83 in 2049), the DVLA will have to think again for 2050.........
Suggestions on a postcard to DVLA, please.
Maybe turn them around like they did the last format?
So instead of AB 04 YHG it would be YHG 04 AB??
EG:
AB04 YHG
registered in Anglia (A) at Peterbourough office (B)
04 denotes registered between march 04 and august 04.
YHG - random element.
PS There is a striking resemblance between a select few old style regs and the new ones.
Take E551 REW and ES 51 REW for example. That space isn't enough.....
Guy near me has identical car in identical colour and funnily enough, reg begins with same regional identifier (D), but his has VW badge on front.
How I laugh!!!!!
For people who don't know how the new reg system is geared:
A - Anglia (p/borough, norwich, ipswich)
B - Brum
C - Clywd (Cardiff/swansea/bangor)
D - Deeside (Chester/shrewsbury)
E - Essex (Chelmsford)
F - Forest & Fens (Nottingham /Lincoln)
G - Garden of England (Maidstone/Brighton)
H - Hants (Bournemouth/Portsmouth) [HW for IOW].
K - ??? (Luton/Northants) They didn't get round to naming this one Ooops!
L - London (Wimbledon/Stanmore/Sidcup)
M - Manchester/Merseyside
N - North (Newcastle/stockton)
O - Oxford
P - Preston (preston/carlisle)
R - Reading
S - Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness)
V - Vale (worcester)
W - West (Exeter/truro/bristol)
Y - Yorks (Leeds sheffield beverley)
Reg offices in brackets - denoted by second letter on plate
Numbers are first digit either 0 or 5: 0=march - august and 5=
sept - feb
second digit equals year
last three letters are random.
When we get to 2010, numbering changes from 0 and 5 to 1 and 6, and then in 2020 to 2 and 7 and so on until in 2049 the age identifiers will be 49 and 99.
And if there's anyone here who will be alive enough to care (i will be 83 in 2049), the DVLA will have to think again for 2050.........
Suggestions on a postcard to DVLA, please.
Maybe turn them around like they did the last format?
So instead of AB 04 YHG it would be YHG 04 AB??
EG:
AB04 YHG
registered in Anglia (A) at Peterbourough office (B)
04 denotes registered between march 04 and august 04.
YHG - random element.
PS There is a striking resemblance between a select few old style regs and the new ones.
Take E551 REW and ES 51 REW for example. That space isn't enough.....
Personally I think the Smart is "Proper Bo". I reckon they should knock the price down a bit mind, £6K is about what I would pay for one.
People may laugh at you, but you get your own back when you can park it sideways in a bay.
It is a bit sad to put a Merc badge on though! One thing I could never figure out is that you can actually buy Opel badging kits for Vauxhalls! I would have thought people would want to rebadge their Opel as a Vauxhall if anything, but I suppose some people will always want to be a bit different.
I know the Skoda Octavia is just a rebodied VW Golf, but I much prefer the looks of the Golf even without the badging issue. If they swapped the bodies, so the Octavia looked like the Golf and vice versa, then I would by the Skoda Golf before buying a VW Octavia (if you see what I mean).
People may laugh at you, but you get your own back when you can park it sideways in a bay.
It is a bit sad to put a Merc badge on though! One thing I could never figure out is that you can actually buy Opel badging kits for Vauxhalls! I would have thought people would want to rebadge their Opel as a Vauxhall if anything, but I suppose some people will always want to be a bit different.
I know the Skoda Octavia is just a rebodied VW Golf, but I much prefer the looks of the Golf even without the badging issue. If they swapped the bodies, so the Octavia looked like the Golf and vice versa, then I would by the Skoda Golf before buying a VW Octavia (if you see what I mean).
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Missed world cup final '66 then SS !
Watched it on TV in San Remo bar with one other Brit, guy from Leeds, and a crowd of German volk.
There was a Repco-Skoda special (F1 Brabham lump), on the UK circuits around the early 70's .... Went like manure !! ... in straight line !! great sounds too !
P
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Ah, a classic case of the transcription error: your writing from Ford should have read 125kW, not 152. Which you will see converts to 168bhp, or 170ps (metric horsepower). Still a hefty chunk of horses, but not 202!
The ST220 is quoted at 226ps, which makes it more powerful than the standard Sierra Cosworth and only 1bhp less than the escort cosworth. Not bad seeing as you are comparing a relatively highly boosted turbocharged engine with a naturally aspirated one!
we are so stupid in england we buy cars made all over the world yet we have so many made in england why is that does no one want to support the uk economy TAX any imported car to death then we might get the GREAT back into britain 
Because if we levy taxes on cars imported from abroad, you get what is called a trade war where they will then tax things they get from us.
For example. If we taxed every car coming in from France they would tax... what is it they buy from us again anyway?
Or if we taxed all the cars coming in from Spain they would tax us on all the fish we export there. Hang on, nope, they just fish our waters anyway.
We do have plenty of exports, fuel, chemicals, food (British beef is popular again I believe, they probably even eat it in France), also drinks and believe it or not, tobacco products. However, the vast majority of our GDP is now based on services: IT, banking, research. Not sure how that is taxed but I am pretty sure that various governments would find a way.
However, despite being a blatant Tory I believe re-nationalisation of a few industries would help... not sure if the motor industry would be one of them, but certainly give them some economic advantages.
I know that some people slate Rover MG and their cars, generally they are people who drive rubbish cars anyway (and have probably never driven a Rover!). But, if we did what Slogger said, and heavily taxed foreign cars, then people would think "Hmmm, shall I pay £15K for a 1.2 litre base model Euro minibox, or £10K for a similarly equipped and far superior MG ZR?" Rover sales would increase, they would have more money to spend on R&D and then the quality and variety of the cars would come up again. Exports would increase, the world would be done a favour.
It is interesting for me: during my frequent jaunts across the channel when growing up, 95% of French people seemed to be driving Renaults, Citroens and Peugeots. I always thought they looked like funny cars. Like the suspension somehow didn't work right, and the wheels always pointed funny when they were manoeuvring (just look at a 2CV). But now when I go there, I don't notice a great majority of French cars. Maybe they are becoming less conservative, or perhaps it's cos now they don't need yellow headlights they can buy what they like.
For example. If we taxed every car coming in from France they would tax... what is it they buy from us again anyway?
Or if we taxed all the cars coming in from Spain they would tax us on all the fish we export there. Hang on, nope, they just fish our waters anyway.
We do have plenty of exports, fuel, chemicals, food (British beef is popular again I believe, they probably even eat it in France), also drinks and believe it or not, tobacco products. However, the vast majority of our GDP is now based on services: IT, banking, research. Not sure how that is taxed but I am pretty sure that various governments would find a way.
However, despite being a blatant Tory I believe re-nationalisation of a few industries would help... not sure if the motor industry would be one of them, but certainly give them some economic advantages.
I know that some people slate Rover MG and their cars, generally they are people who drive rubbish cars anyway (and have probably never driven a Rover!). But, if we did what Slogger said, and heavily taxed foreign cars, then people would think "Hmmm, shall I pay £15K for a 1.2 litre base model Euro minibox, or £10K for a similarly equipped and far superior MG ZR?" Rover sales would increase, they would have more money to spend on R&D and then the quality and variety of the cars would come up again. Exports would increase, the world would be done a favour.
It is interesting for me: during my frequent jaunts across the channel when growing up, 95% of French people seemed to be driving Renaults, Citroens and Peugeots. I always thought they looked like funny cars. Like the suspension somehow didn't work right, and the wheels always pointed funny when they were manoeuvring (just look at a 2CV). But now when I go there, I don't notice a great majority of French cars. Maybe they are becoming less conservative, or perhaps it's cos now they don't need yellow headlights they can buy what they like.
Kinda went off topic there.
Anyway, we could try to regain our share, but it would take time and/or innovation. Like if we pumped a lot of research into hydrogen fuel-cell cars, or advanced solar power that would even be effective in the north, during a particularly grey and cloudy month.
That way, we could be the market leaders when the hydrogen economy comes about.
In terms of current cars, it hasn't been a sudden thing. Car imports have increased and exports have decreased over a good number of years/decades. It would take at least a decade to rebuild our share of the world car market. Could be done, though. Again, it would need a lot of hard work on the part of everyone.
Anyway, we could try to regain our share, but it would take time and/or innovation. Like if we pumped a lot of research into hydrogen fuel-cell cars, or advanced solar power that would even be effective in the north, during a particularly grey and cloudy month.
That way, we could be the market leaders when the hydrogen economy comes about.
In terms of current cars, it hasn't been a sudden thing. Car imports have increased and exports have decreased over a good number of years/decades. It would take at least a decade to rebuild our share of the world car market. Could be done, though. Again, it would need a lot of hard work on the part of everyone.
Someone went into the back of my sister in a transit (even admitted it was his fault! )
Anyway, the courtesy car was a Daewoo Matiz (the tiny one made of tin foil). It was an absolute hoot to drive. Little 3-cylinder engine, revving away. Sounded like a racing car from the inside and you had the fun of driving fast whilst going about 30mph... it just seemed quicker!
)Anyway, the courtesy car was a Daewoo Matiz (the tiny one made of tin foil). It was an absolute hoot to drive. Little 3-cylinder engine, revving away. Sounded like a racing car from the inside and you had the fun of driving fast whilst going about 30mph... it just seemed quicker!