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DRZ

DRZ

DRZ

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...ridiculous one-upmanship?

To set the scene, my street is not a particularly affluent one, although my area is "on the up" and I live in a pocket of niceness in an otherwise below-average town in an alright area...

Anyways... lately, because of this, people are getting nicer cars. Next door bought a new Corsa - next thing over the road had a brand new astra, then an S3 showed up down the road, so their next-doors went out and bought a 5 series.

Next door on the other side have a Mercedes and tonight I noticed that someone who generally has to get one over on the Jones' (so to speak) has bought a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit III!!!

Does this happen in your street or has mine just gone mad recently?
 
Happens here from time to time.

We got a MINI Cooper S when they first came out, next door (not knowing about cars) bought a MINI Cooper a month down the line. After a while of talking to us about the car, the difference became more apparent that the Cooper S was "higher" in the range. We bought a 2nd one to replace the first when it hit 3 years old, so next door bought a special edition Cooper S (I forget which exact model). They kept this and hardly ever drove it for nearly a year and a half, when they finally sold it to buy an astra, as (and I quote) "they only bought it because they liked the look of ours, but they didn't like how it was to drive".

:rolleyes:
 
I live in a nice area in the country and don't really notice this sort of thing going on. Maybe I don't pay enough attention.
 
Cant say its happened in my road but thats because were all good, honest, salt-of-the-earth working class heroes.

Not like you toffs.
 
I live in a fairly posh place and most of the people drive really crap cars. There's a Jag XJR, 2x Z4 Coupes and a BMW 330i Clubsport but apart from that there's nothing even remotely interesting. They're the sort of people that don't really care about image.
 
I'd hate to live in an area like that, really don't like the sort of people who try to out do each other. There are a few nice cars on the street and there are lots of average cars. The woman across the road got a brand new Astra on an 08 plate but she has been driving a run down people carrier for ages before that. Funny thing is it doesn't look any newer than my Focus now Ive waxed it :D.
 
I dont think they have done it just because their neighbour bought a new car - only people with extreme amounts of cash would do that

e.g. you would have to live in a neighbourhood where the cheapest house was around half a million

I dont think your average joe who lives in an okay area is suddenly gonna drop 20-50K on a car just because their neighbour did

what does get on my nerves is when neighbours stop you from doing something just because they dont like the fact you have more money than them

e.g. you wanna build an extension onto your house because you badly need the space, you have applied several times for planning permission which several other people in your street got without any problems but for some reason your application keeps on getting denied. Turns out that your neighbour has been complaining against it because it will affect the amount of sun their bush will get, when we all know the real reason
 
Have to say there is nothing special on my street just your run of the mill cars. I don't think anyone really gives a ****.
 
Scuzi said:
I live in a fairly posh place and most of the people drive really crap cars. There's a Jag XJR, 2x Z4 Coupes and a BMW 330i Clubsport but apart from that there's nothing even remotely interesting. They're the sort of people that don't really care about image.
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We've got our fair share of heaps - my E36, there is a fairly knackered Laguna, an absolutely hideous japanese ricermobile peoplecarrier coach thing and the usual dross like the odd Focus etc.

My point was not so much the cars themselves (not all of them are new or even less than 3 years old) but about the mentality :p
 
Not noticed it at all round here although there are far too many X5's. Next door had taste, once, but it's gone down hill - first he had an SL600, then a Conti GT then... oh, a Range Rover Sport. Wonderful.
 
don't think anyone else on my road cares remotely about cars - except for the 635csl opposit that gets driven round the block once or twice a month
 
DRZ said:
We've got our fair share of heaps - my E36, there is a fairly knackered Laguna, an absolutely hideous japanese ricermobile peoplecarrier coach thing and the usual dross like the odd Focus etc.

My point was not so much the cars themselves (not all of them are new or even less than 3 years old) but about the mentality :p
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Ahh right. Well I've only been here 7 months and in that time, I'm the only person out of a block of 30 to have got a new car.

Maybe I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses? ;)
 
Nope just a bunch of people minding their own business with ordinary cars. Few Golfs, 3 series, A4's, Civics, nothing too interesting. Only one petrolhead on the street, he runs an EP3 Civic-R daily, Accord-R for his Missus, Hayabusa for the weekends. His mates have some tasty cars too, for example a Jag S-Type R and an achingly awesome black on black Evo9, they are all bikers too but all the crotch rockets look the same to me.
 
DRZ said:
We've got our fair share of heaps - my E36, there is a fairly knackered Laguna, an absolutely hideous japanese ricermobile peoplecarrier coach thing and the usual dross like the odd Focus etc.
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You live next to Drexel???

;) :D

*n
 
Nope not round my way, boring boring cars. Just get the odd chav hooning it down my road at about 50 :mad: (It's a side road with cars parked either side :rolleyes: ) Including the same cretin in an MG ZR
 
penski said:
You live next to Drexel???

;) :D

*n
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Tea -----> paper on desk :( :D

Not much in my area except a gorgeous old skool punto with some very um..... interesting... mods. Ferrari 360 around here somewhere but not much else. At the parents house our neighbour has an awesome jag E-type convertible in A+ condition in bright red and our other neighbour has a nice CLS. But him and my father are classic car geeks, dad with the Stag in white and the neighbour with a TR something, 4, 5, 6, but very nice whatever number.


People down the parents area don't buy better cars to show off and the drives and front gardens are massive so they are mostly hidden away.
 
There's absolutely nothing even remotely interesting on my street, or adjacent streets that I've seen. Unless you count a 205 cabrio that's been hacked to pieces?
 
Actually a guy a few doors down from me has had a reasonably interesting car history, he had a Pontiac Trans Am at some point, then an E34 535i, which got written off by some scrote in an Ibiza obviously not looking where he was going :rolleyes: (that's why I hate parking out in the street anywhere)
 
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