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[TW]Fox said:
It's nice to have a car you can look after and care for. If you see a car as merely a tool well thats fair enough, but some of us don't :)
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100% agreed, I take pride in the appearance of my car :)
 
And if you need something to get you around and you don't have hardly any spare cash then it's perfect. If you're too vain to be able to use a car as a car then that's a shame for you really.
 
I used to have a pair of wharfedale bookshelf speakers in the boot of mine, hooked up to the head unit. The acoustics in that car are awesome, especially if you can stop the rattling.
 
I love that interior, its so 2Tone. You would just want to ride around with The Specials and Madness constantly playing.
 
monkeyspank said:
And if you need something to get you around and you don't have hardly any spare cash then it's perfect. If you're too vain to be able to use a car as a car then that's a shame for you really.
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Can't really add too much to that.
 
Mickey_D said:
Can't really add too much to that.
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I can - I would rather travel most places by train, and used to in the past, then drive there in a bucket of rust from decades gone by. It's more relaxing, its more comfortable, and its probably safer.
 
[TW]Fox said:
I can - I would rather travel most places by train, and used to in the past, then drive there in a bucket of rust from decades gone by. It's more relaxing, its more comfortable, and its probably safer.
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I would say a train is more uncomfortable than a car. You also have to stand around and wait for it, which it doesn't take you directly where you want to go.

I would much rather drive round in the car, you get your own music (where you can sing and not look a fool) and you don't have to share your transport with strangers.
 
saitrix said:
I would say a train is more uncomfortable than a car. You also have to stand around and wait for it, which it doesn't take you directly where you want to go.
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I wouldn't - not all cars. There are numerous cars to which I would prefer a train for long distance travel, and have taken one instead and felt better for it. Obviously not for local travel, but most long distance rail services (Obviously not all) are very comfortable - certainly more so than a past it Polo.
 
[TW]Fox said:
I can - I would rather travel most places by train, and used to in the past, then drive there in a bucket of rust from decades gone by. It's more relaxing, its more comfortable, and its probably safer.
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Hmmm, safe? Don't know...A Ford Focus hit us straight on at around 60mph. I'm here to tell the tale, it stood up quite well, a 1988 car to a 2000 car.

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[TW]Fox said:
I can - I would rather travel most places by train, and used to in the past, then drive there in a bucket of rust from decades gone by. It's more relaxing, its more comfortable, and its probably safer.
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Good that's more room on the roads then :p

A free car is a free car, as long as it doesn't cost more to put right then what you wanted to spend on one in the first place then you can put your cash towards the insurance, fuel, beer etc.
 
Free cars rock :)

I've probably enjoying getting my free MK3 Golf Diesel MOT worthy and treating the rust and tarting it up more than I do working on the VX. I still take pride in its appearance and have put the effort in.

I guess it's different when it's a second car though.
 
[TW]Fox said:
I really dont get this pleasure from driving a shed stuff, personally. I would find absolutely no pleasure at all from letting a trolley bang against my car, for example, and would not wish to suffer a banger of a Polo at any price - even if it was free.

It's nice to have a car you can look after and care for. If you see a car as merely a tool well thats fair enough, but some of us don't :)
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I guess you wont ever know the fun that can be had of flying around dirt roads and paddocks then with out worrying about paint chips or how much that tree is going to dent that car :p
 
I've owned both. I bought the 2001 Neon in early 2003. I treasured that car. It was good looking (for a Neon), it was reasonably fun to drive, and it was comfortable on long drives (ask my wife, she drove it for 1,800 miles in 4 days).

But living on a dirt road in an area that regularly salts the roads to the point that they turn white in the spring, it really wasn't worth the hassle of owning a car that I felt I HAD to wash it every day because it got a little dirty again. I also didn't like the panic mode I went into every time I parked it in a supermarket parking lot.

I can honestly say that I'd much prefer a 2001 Neon that's been through the ringer but is still mechanically sound. That way nobody is trying to break into it to steal the radio, I don't have to worry about dents and dings every time some little brat flings a door open when parked next to me, I don't have to worry if it gets a good layer of dust on it from all the farmer traffic on my road, etc.

If I'm ever going to own a "nice" car again, it will be a special occasion car that I only take out once in a while. Something like an XJ6 or its equivilant. I will never again pay more than $1,000 for a daily driver.
 
[TW]Fox said:
It's nice to have a car you can look after and care for.
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I agree yet everytime I find another door dent in the side od see where someone has scrapped a hand bag down the side walking between cars or see someones careless ness damage someone elses car I wish I had my old banger back.

Obviously if someone can spend proper money on a car and is into cars then they will want something better but for getting to work and back a car is much more suitable than public transport. In our curent office its impossible to get public transport here, in our last one it would have been a train and 2 busses. Also if you truely enjoy driving it is still possible to enjoy driving any car imo as you make the best of what you have.
 
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