Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:15:02 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: BMWs keep trying to smoke me!
in article MPG.18c0222c78706c5098a187nopsam.cis.dfn.de, MeatballTurbo at carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com wrote on 21/02/2003 11:47: > In article <BA7BAA08.3C28%pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk>, pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk > says... >> Whoa, your colleagues must've hated you when you had the Skoda :) >> > > They really hated it when I had both Skodas. Took the piss relentlessly. > > Constantley making Lada references forgetting what I drove. > They still joke about the Saab can't be upto much because of what it > cost, and me deciding to invest a couple of hundred into from the start > to get it back to right. > > They forget that my cars First £95, needed a couple of hundred. > Second £80 needed about £350 spending > third £325 probably will need about £350 ish by the time I'm finished. > > But First car only let me down once, when it's 13 year old battery let > me down one winters night. Quick push start and it got me home to change > the battery. > > Second car let me down once, would idle OK, but would rev until about 3k > revs, then was fine. > > Got part way home. Called AA, dirt in the carb. didn't have tools with > me, as I had only bought car week before. Put a new battery in as a > matter of course. Never failed me. > > I buy unpopular cheap cars, and get the best from them. Of course > sometimes they are unpopular and bloody quick. In this case, "niche" and bloody quick. I'm not downing Skodas, since the Eastern European car market thrived on the likes of Skoda for many years and it wasn't Skoda's fault that the Communist Bloc was there, but you've got a cheap (erm, cost effective), classy (arguably, but more than Skoda) and bloody fast car now. Paul (Getting political after a day drinking in Scarboro')
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