3 most scary cars on the roads of Britain.....
3 Very Scary Things
- The sight of one of these in your mirror at coincidently the same time you were trying to discover the top speed of your car on the motorway for "research" purposes. That was a little scary.
- Then Lotus made this
The craziest car in British car history. Even now despite being based on a GM car they still change hands for 20-30 grand each, despite the fact they are 15 years old. You could buy a Ferrari Testarossa on Ebay for that money!
- But now there is a new king of the roads. A car so scary that it makes the Child Catcher from ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ look like Marry Poppins. This is Darth's new battle cruiser:
Be afraid, be very afraid. Forget the death star this is the ‘death car’. He has never driven an automatic before and says that the transition from Ford Fiesta 4 speed manual to Vauxhall Carlton has been "interesting" for him and plain horrific for other road users in Surrey.
So all this talk of new cars makes me think that maybe I need a new car. After all I have had the V6 for nearly half a year now and I fancy a change. I like the look of a BMW 735i V8 1998/9 ~100000 miles satnav, leather, TV, phone, all the toys etc ~£4000 on ebay. I'll look like a drug dealer, which can only help me in my quest to look "dangerous". If I can deal with the 23mpg fuel economy it could be a good car to run until I leave for Oz. Watch this space!
- The sight of one of these in your mirror at coincidently the same time you were trying to discover the top speed of your car on the motorway for "research" purposes. That was a little scary.
- Then Lotus made this
The craziest car in British car history. Even now despite being based on a GM car they still change hands for 20-30 grand each, despite the fact they are 15 years old. You could buy a Ferrari Testarossa on Ebay for that money!
- But now there is a new king of the roads. A car so scary that it makes the Child Catcher from ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ look like Marry Poppins. This is Darth's new battle cruiser:
Be afraid, be very afraid. Forget the death star this is the ‘death car’. He has never driven an automatic before and says that the transition from Ford Fiesta 4 speed manual to Vauxhall Carlton has been "interesting" for him and plain horrific for other road users in Surrey.
So all this talk of new cars makes me think that maybe I need a new car. After all I have had the V6 for nearly half a year now and I fancy a change. I like the look of a BMW 735i V8 1998/9 ~100000 miles satnav, leather, TV, phone, all the toys etc ~£4000 on ebay. I'll look like a drug dealer, which can only help me in my quest to look "dangerous". If I can deal with the 23mpg fuel economy it could be a good car to run until I leave for Oz. Watch this space!
posted by Nurton at 10:07 am
4 Comments:
735i.
I was going to yell "Check the insurance!" and suchlike. And then...
I looked.
£942 fully comprehensive, for me.
Can you try and find two rather than one? ;)
I'll just have to invest a weekend in removing every BMW badge I can find except the model designation, in a grotesque reversal of typical 116i/318i ownership...
That's a good quote, the cheapest I could find was for another £200. How much NCB do you have? (Ignoring the fact that you have written off a car while I have NOT!), I'm sure that I'd have to pay more than you!
Ah, you see, the trick with writing off cars is to write them off far enough in the past you don't have to confess it.
Or indeed, to write them off without a claim resulting and then carefully pick insurers that ask whether you've had "claims" rather than "accidents".
I now have four years NCB, by the way. I ought to protect it or something I guess.
Wow, four year!!!! I only have 1 (and that is on the Triumph!). But I'm pretty sure I have driven more miles that you (I spent my second year of uni communting between Exeter and Hemel Hempsted every weekend!) but will still get charged an arm and a leg more than you! Grrr!
Life is NOT fair!
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