Thursday 21st February 2002

Bored, bored, bored...

Where are the daring designers of the 21st century? Ted's a little upset...

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[apache]

Tamora not enough for you then Ted...if you like 50's saloons, how about Fords 49, must admit there is a dearth of ott new stuff around, mind you who needs em if we're going to be driving around in nose to tail 45mph convoys

[bling]

Nicely rounded up TED....

Driving a car now involves just about sitting in...
They manufacters might as well tailor build cars for the customers with an in built nav memory for the drivers regular daily run...

You know, all the driver does is sit in the (car if thats what its still called), and say sainsbury's please... And off the car goes...


The future looks dull mate....

Wheres my V8 (hah)

[GregE240]

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Bored, bored, bored. I feel a schoolboy again.


Ted, you might get into trouble for comments like this, you know. But hey, whatever floats your boat.

Did you go to public school, by any chance ?

[Guy Humpage]

quote:pretend that I'm in the Sweeney.

"Put your trousers on, you're nicked!"

[PetrolTed]

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Bored, bored, bored. I feel a schoolboy again.

Where does it say that then?

[tjones5420]

The 2 geezers in the Sweeney never drove anywhere. They were always tanked on whiskey !

Now, the Professionals... That was some serious Capri slinging perm wearing sumbitches....

[GregE240]

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Bored, bored, bored. I feel a schoolboy again.

Where does it say that then?

Awww, you just changed it !! I managed to copy & paste that pertinent part from the e mail digest.

[dans]

I'm not a new-age, generation X+1, affluent sub-urban professional who spends the weekends polishing my windsurfer and breast feeding the neighbours' kids. I'm a bloke. I'm a bloke who likes beer and avoiding exercise. I need a car with an engine large enough to offend people, small enough so that I don't have to haul anyone's kids around and stylish enough to make me think I'm a sex god (as long as I don't get out of the car).

Nope, you are a TVR driver Ted

[Farmer]

OOOOh get her

I've just ordered a 307 D-turbo with
auto wipers
auto headlights
Auto Hazard flashers
Auto brake assist
Etc
ETC

can't be arsed with all that but to get the best engine, and decent seats, big alloys etc

You have to have all the glitzy bits as well

but to get all the bits you want on a Focus you have to suffer Bloody Plstic wood on the dash now that is a bridge tooooo far

[grahambell]

Just have to point out here that the FBS Census is daring stylistically - which is what FBS deliberately went for - and look at the slagging that got.

[MattC]

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Auto Hazard flashers
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can't be arsed with all that but to get the best engine, and decent seats, big alloys etc

You have to have all the glitzy bits as well

Eh? How do they work?!?

(And I agree with you about having gadgets foisted on you. Why don't manufacturers make these an option package? And wasn't it Peugeot that made the Rallyes - decent engines/suspension/seats, no gadgets, no excess weight?)

[mcecm]

Brake hard hazards come on i think. Some sort of device to warn following motorists.

[CarZee]

quote:Brake hard hazards come on i think. Some sort of device to warn following motorists.

Brake lights don't do the trick then ?? Hmm..

[mcecm]

apparently not

[berkey]

I reckon MG are fulfilling just the role Ted's on about. They certainly got some pretty silly wings...

[robert farago]

Spot on. The Ford GT40 is the only truly mad machine around at the moment (excluding all TVRs). There's a whole lot of bland design competing to see if it can keep us awake long enough to sign a cheque.

But don't give up hope! Aren't we [still] due for some sort of monster Focus? New NSX? RUF mid-engined thingie? Baby Lambo? Ascari KZ1?

And then there's the entire Max Power market segment. Surely the success of T-FAT-F (The Fast And...) will tempt some mainstream manufacturer to pre-build an absurdly over-powered, lowered, be-winged shit box for the increasingly affluent young uns. Volkswagen? Er, maybe not.

[mcecm]

Do companies not realise that if they build 300bhp snot green warmed up family wagons that sad fuggers will buy them? And im not talking MG here.

[pjg]

The GT40 isn't that "mad"... it's just a rehash of an old design! Come on, we want something new, bold and daring - so much for progress!

What next in the Ford "Living Legends" series? The Capri, the Anglia...? God, we'll be renaming the Focus as the Escort at this rate.

I agree with Ted - it's all dull-as-dishwater euro-box cr@p out there..

... surely TVR can't be the only people with any originality - I mean look at the door opening mechanisms... fantastic (the styling and grunt goes without saying).

[JSG]

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The GT40 isn't that "mad"... it's just a rehash of an old design! Come on, we want something new, bold and daring - so much for progress!

What next in the Ford "Living Legends" series? The Capri, the Anglia...? God, we'll be renaming the Focus as the Escort at this rate.

I agree with Ted - it's all dull-as-dishwater euro-box cr@p out there..

... surely TVR can't be the only people with any originality - I mean look at the door opening mechanisms... fantastic (the styling and grunt goes without saying).

The Capri's next, saw it the other day.

[PetrolTed]

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The Capri's next, saw it the other day.

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That Bertone coupe is nothing daring at all and it's just some unimaginative scumbag journo claiming it's the 21st century Capri. It looks nothing like the Capri and shares no common ancestry and has no spirit even like the Capri.

The first incarnation of the Capri was something very new for the European market. The Bertone job just looks like another Audi TT/350Z/bla bla clone. It's precisely the point I was trying to make in my outpouring of automotive grief...