FAO Fox

peterattheboro · 2 Sep 2008 at 21:26

[TW]Fox;12419939 said:
For a while, yea. Then once you got used to it, your perception of normal performance adjusts and the 'omgwow' factor of it diminishes a tad as does your desire to spend every waking moment driving it.

So essentially if you want to enjoy it for as long as possible, it's a weekend car and you should drive something dull on the weekdays?

Also a problem with being young, and driving these types of cars early, means you need to upgrade to a better car to get the thrills again.. and then that will wear off and need a new car again.

At that rate you'd be looking at 911s by the time your 30-35. What do you upgrade to from that!

(had a few beers so i'm rabbitting!)

Ohh and I also seen a Passat CC the other day too and it looked bloody tremendous!

Princey · 2 Sep 2008 at 21:29

Yup like me, my everyday car is a 2008 Fiesta diesel and my soon to be weekend car is a 2004 3.0i Z4.

[TW]Fox · 2 Sep 2008 at 21:40

peterattheboro said:
Also a problem with being young, and driving these types of cars early, means you need to upgrade to a better car to get the thrills again..

Thats actually a huge problem. Every car I drive now I find the build quality crappy. I can pretty much upgrade to an M5, or perhaps an M5. Great. It doesn't give you a huge amount of options and rules out millions of great cars which I now simply wouldnt ever want to own - Impreza, Focus ST, etc etc

wez130 · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:17

i feel all left out, i never saw a Z4 today

saw a couple of M3's though, quite a few Audis, namely TT's, A4's and even another couple of A3 sportbacks (i love them) (funny how now i own one i see more of them than i ever did hehe).

Lopéz · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:18

[TW]Fox;12420271 said:
Thats actually a huge problem. Every car I drive now I find the build quality crappy. I can pretty much upgrade to an M5, or perhaps an M5. Great. It doesn't give you a huge amount of options and rules out millions of great cars which I now simply wouldnt ever want to own - Impreza, Focus ST, etc etc

As my mate said in 1997, having purchased a Sierra LX.

"Mate, I've got electric windows now..... I could never go back"

rG-tom · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:23

peterattheboro said:
At that rate you'd be looking at 911s by the time your 30-35. What do you upgrade to from that!

(had a few beers so i'm rabbitting!)

think how i feel, i'm only 20! At least Fox is 5 years older than me, what the bloody hell am I meant to do!

[TW]Fox · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:24

rG-tom said:
think how i feel, i'm only 20! At least Fox is 5 years older than me

Steady on! I'm 3.5 years older than you

And its ok, you've only got a 3 Series so the world of the 5 still awaits

rG-tom · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:25

[TW]Fox;12420609 said:
Steady on! I'm 3.5 years older than you

Well either way ive had 200bhp since i was 18

even this didnt feel like a massive upgrade performance wise.

EDIT: I'm not too bothered about more comfortable cars, this is more than good enough for that, i want quicker! so 5 series are useless bar the m5

6thElement · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:28

I'm going to have to go outside soon and look for a car. I'll start taking bets on what it might be

Joe T · 3 Sep 2008 at 08:46

6thElement said:
I'm going to have to go outside soon and look for a car. I'll start taking bets on what it might be

Mondeo tbh

Toker · 3 Sep 2008 at 09:55

I had a race with a 3.0 z4 last week, he must have been embarassed.

I was also sat behind a 520d estate this morning and saw a new m3 broken down at the side of the dual carriageway 2 weeks ago

Scuzi · 3 Sep 2008 at 10:40

Toker said:
I had a race with a 3.0 z4 last week, he must have been embarassed.

I was also sat behind a 520d estate this morning and saw a new m3 broken down at the side of the dual carriageway 2 weeks ago

Loads of cars embarass me. A Corsa embarassed me from the lights yesterday.

Toker · 3 Sep 2008 at 10:47

Scuzi said:
Loads of cars embarass me. A Corsa embarassed me from the lights yesterday.

that is rather unfortunate, did he have a better power to weight ratio?

Biohazard · 3 Sep 2008 at 10:48

lalalalalalalalalalalalala

Scuzi · 3 Sep 2008 at 10:57

Toker said:
that is rather unfortunate, did he have a better power to weight ratio?

He probably put his rear seats down flat.

I get various cars trying to race me all the time. IT was fun when I first got the car but it has become tiresome now. If they give me the signal or rev their engine, I will rev the engine a few times. When the lights go green, they burn off into the distance in a pile of tyresmoke and I leisurely accelerate to 30mph or whatever.

I find this much more entertaining than racing.

[TW]Fox · 3 Sep 2008 at 11:00

Toker said:
I had a race with a 3.0 z4 last week, he must have been embarassed.

He must have decided not to waste his time on a Polo more like

[TW]Fox · 3 Sep 2008 at 11:01

rG-tom said:
Well either way ive had 200bhp since i was 18 even this didnt feel like a massive upgrade performance wise.

It was more the overall package I was on about - I get into the Z4 even and some of the quality is a bit annoying.

Toker · 3 Sep 2008 at 11:03

[TW]Fox;12422651 said:
He must have decided not to waste his time on a Polo more like

well I'm afraid he was risking his license trying and failing, I was actually surprised but a look at the power to weight ratio of them made it obvious why, they are damn heavy

Toker · 3 Sep 2008 at 11:04

Scuzi said:
He probably put his rear seats down flat.

hahah I forgot about that, classic

Scuzi · 3 Sep 2008 at 11:04

[TW]Fox;12422658 said:
It was more the overall package I was on about - I get into the Z4 even and some of the quality is a bit annoying.

The interior build quality is quite a bit off the mark compared the other cars in the range. Probably a mixture of trying to keep the weight and cost down whilst being screwed together in America.