Not wanting to buy a car that's already in the company car park

MarkDavis said:
There's quite a few cars that I like but I don't want to buy anything that someone else in the building has already got.
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I had exactly the same thought.

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Also, no one else has a Scorpio (most people aren't blind where I work).
 
Quite a few nice cars in my office car park - Nissan GT-R, Z4s, Elises, Porsches, but also a lot of your bog standard executive and run of the mill cars.
 
Ours is relatively small as its an underground jobby in the heart of the South Lanes in Brighton. Hence not much chance of having a similar car (not that anyone in my company would have one anyway being the bunch of nancy, nature loving hippies that they are).

Nice cars include a 350Z, Caterham Supersport, Porsche GT3 RS, Ferrari 599 GTB

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The nature loving hippies must really love the sound of that Evo and Z.

Reminds me of a work experience girl I had to deal with at a customer once. You know the sort save the planet type, dresses like a Wiccan*, so I turn up in my Legacy B4 RSK which happens to have a 3" turbo back de-cat exhaust and they send her out to open the gate to the car park to let me in.

Later during that day I happened to be working on a system behind her and within earshot as she is complaining about me to the manager about how I'm such a horrible person destroying the planet in that giant gas guzzler, the manager is giving it :rolleyes: so I decide to jump in and provide her with some facts

  • Yes it's a big car, all the kit I have just delivered wouldn't fit in a Smart, however I had that one specially imported from Japan, where they have much stricter emissions laws, because it's fitted with two exhaust energy recycling devices that the UK model does not have. It costs more to run but I think it is worth it.
  • The engine in that car is basically the same design as the one in the old VW Beetle, just a bit more modern.
  • The exhaust is noisy because I have removed some restrictions from it that actually lower the efficiency at the expense of making it quieter, I think living with the noise is worth it for the gains.

All of these are, of course, completely true and she ended up apologising, saying she didn't realise. The boss (who I happen to know is also a car nut) thought the entire exchange was hilarious.

*I have nothing against Wiccans, she just really did dress like a stereotypical one.
 
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I had a similar exchange with one of ours. Butted in and asked if I had a conscience about destroying the world we live in or some other over exaggerated claptrap.

I then pointed out that I barely drive my car and even then its mostly for fun and not only to get somewhere, therefore I get more from driving my car than he ever would.

Then called him a hypocrite for driving a Camper van with a 30 year old petrol engine that I doubt offers him any better economy, yet isn't anywhere nearly as quick or the fact I do less than 5000 miles a year.

Then told him that I trust he'd be pointing the same concerns at the CEO who was driving the GT3 RS.

On another occasion with a different one who was a female staff member, who was far ruder and I wasn't in the mood for it - I told her I wasn't happy that my car was "only" a band G for emissions, so I removed the cat and had it further tuned to make it even worse to annoy people like her.

I then told her I loved driving down country roads purely to watch the trees spontaneously die as I drove past them.

I don't think I ever spoke to her again.
 
The fun part is removing the cat actually reduces CO2 emissions, but instead it emits more smog-related emissions, so basically for a motorway or country lane car, a de-cat is better if you actually swallow all the environmental propaganda.

And propaganda was the entire point with my exchange. The person I was dealing with has clearly had all this crap drummed into her in school and hasn't actually thought about it and arrived at those conclusions independently. I hope that one day she realises what I was actually describing (twin turbos, a boxer engine and a de-cat) and realise how easily words can be twisted.

Probably just decide that only evil car owners do that though.
 
The only interesting cars I've seen here are several Nissan Figaros (I've seen a few pink ones and a green one - god knows why so many are here!) which I wouldn't want and a Focus RS Mk2 which is often parked waiting for someone, so I don't think he works here.
 
you know it actually saddens me slightly that me, a low-level grunt has probably one of the quickest and most interesting thing in our car park (except when some bird brings her old man's E46 M3 - though this has nankangs on it which makes me sadder still)

it's partly down to the co car scheme though, where even an IT director only rates a 520D
 
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