Where's Bev

[Jon C]

Kev looks OK, but what has happened to Bev? Has Kev replaced Bev because she was holding him back when it came to choosing cars? Was it Bevs' problems getting a Car Loan that convinced Kev to look for pastures new? Was poor Bev secretly knocking off rich Kev, so has been incorporated into poor Kevs' new patio whilst being replaced by new Bev from accounts, with poor poor Bevs' life insurance funding Kev and new Bevs' latest Volvo trade up?

Old Bev would never have used words like "Whizzier" either.....

We should be told.........

[simpo two]

They've all been sent to prison for defaulting on their massive loan repayments.

[Rude-boy]

No, they foreclosed on the security for the original loan and Bev is now the property of No Car Credit Inc. who have put her to work in their Amsterdam 'office' untill the loan is repaid. I understand that a few of our members have been planning a secret rescue mission for next weekend...

[mawds]

"Old Bev" was in "Look Around You".

[scared but happy]

mawds said:

"Old Bev" was in "Look Around You".

Who I found strangely sexy ().

[groucho]

I remember him in grange hill.

[mutt k]

"the role of Bev required "great comic timing and the ability to convey a complex range of emotions in a matter of seconds, purely through body language and facial expression"."

[JonRB]

mutt k said:

"the role of Bev required "great comic timing and the ability to convey a complex range of emotions in a matter of seconds, purely through body language and facial expression".

And also the ability to say "kev" and "bev" a lot.

[simpo two]

I'm pleased to say I hadn't even noticed. As soon as the ad comes on I turn over or do something else!

My vote for most irritating advert is the bumbling tt with Norwich Union who boasts about how many accidents he's had. Not a great ad for road safety is it, and I certainly don't want to be associated with him.

[lunarscope]

New Bev has a awfully wide beam on her.

[Vitesse39]

lunarscope said:

New Bev has a awfully wide beam on her.

What you mean she's 'Butt ugly'!

[greenlandy]

"Bevs dead baby"




or should that be Zed

[skinny]

scared but happy said:

mawds said: "Old Bev" was in "Look Around You". Who I found strangely sexy ().

bev is in a show called 'peep show'. probably not what you think it is tho...

[wanty1974]

scared but happy said:

mawds said: "Old Bev" was in "Look Around You". Who I found strangely sexy ().

She's Welsh don't you know. I believe she was also in Human Traffic. A film that actually showed Cardiff in a decent light, which was a feat in itself.

[cotty]

anonymous said:

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I remember the next line
"we used to have one of those when we were poor"

[Jon C]

Possible update, Apparently old Bev has run away with Trev. Trev is Kevs' younger brother, who everyone believed was gay. Trev has been living with Nev in a flat which used to belong to Kev and Bev, but Bev has been converting Trev behind Nevs' back.

[JonRB]

cotty said:

I remember the next line "we used to have one of those when we were poor"

Of course, we're still poor we just have a big loan now.

[dxg999]

I was ok with the premise (if not the increadibly twee implementation) of the last iteration of that ad. Couple driving a clapped-out 480 "see themselves" (that must have been the ad exec's pitch) in a MK1 S40. Fair enough. The current car was on it's last legs and you needed a new one. The loan was a secondary issue to that premise.

But - and this really irks me - is in the new version of this advert (with the silver S40 from the last ad and the new C70) - "Bev" is heard to say "we just fancied something a bit sprucer" (or words to those effects). So, getting a loan has gone from a necessity to a life style choice -- argh!!

Consumerism for consumerism's sake in it's very worst form, imho.

[DJFish]

It's right up there with:
"We re-jiggled all our loans into one easy payment, now we can afford a holiday"

No, if you have to get a loan, you can't afford it.

[Jon C]

dxg999 said:

I was ok with the premise (if not the increadibly twee implementation) of the last iteration of that ad. Couple driving a clapped-out 480 "see themselves" (that must have been the ad exec's pitch) in a MK1 S40. Fair enough. The current car was on it's last legs and you needed a new one. The loan was a secondary issue to that premise. But - and this really irks me - is in the new version of this advert (with the silver S40 from the last ad and the new C70) - "Bev" is heard to say "we just fancied something a bit sprucer" (or words to those effects). So, getting a loan has gone from a necessity to a life style choice -- argh!! Consumerism for consumerism's sake in it's very worst form, imho.

All joking aside, a particularly good point, very well made....