Obligatory New Car Thread

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So only had the focus diesel for 3 weeks and predictably hated it. Great on fuel but a complete boring hack.

So it went yesterday and was replaced with this:







It's an MGF Freestyle, so has trophy kit and wheels. Only done 42k and so far loving it. May need to get a hardtop for the winter but driving to work today it achieved a good 42mpg which was about on par with the focus so all good.

Rover haters please out the OMG HEADGASKET LOL FALL APART ROFL out
 
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what make of lipstick do you use? :p

In the weekdays I use asda's own brand to save on the pennies, on a friday night I splash out and go for max factor colour collections.

Come on, it's not that girly... I thought I was supposed to gain man points for having RWD :p
 
Mileage dictates how often someone has got in and out of the car, rubbing that area?

Come on, there is wear and there is wear. My 325i has nowhere near that wear (in fact none really noticeable at all) at over 150,000 miles despite doing mainly short journeys a few times daily over the 18 months.

I was just interested as to whether that level of wear is common on similarly aged and mileage MGFs as it looked excessive to me. Obviously mileage alone isn't a factor but I just wondered how it compared to others, were any that bad?
 
I'm sure your 325i has considerably better quality leather to the MG though.

The rest of the interior is immaculate apart from that, could have been a big bloke?
 
Is that the standard exhaust? Or the sports exhaust?

my dads had the latter and I must admit it did sound rather lovely
 
but I just wondered how it compared to others, were any that bad?

I guess it's the low seating position in the MG that exacerbates the wear to that point - from belt buckles, studs or whatever catching on the corner - whereas that's not as much of an issue in saloons.

As a comparison, though, the bolsters on my Corvette, which had done 170,000 and was 21 years old, were in almost unmarked condition - and that's saying something, as Americans can rarely do leather 'right'.

Alternatively, my other one had a similar spot of damage because obviously the previous owner always wore a belt or something (and a ring that marked the steerin wheel/gearknob). They were quite weighty as well, which made the problem worse.

Likewise, my E34 had done 180k and was 15, virtually no damage to the bolster. I got the impression it had just sat on the motorway for most of it's life. Guess the guy took relatively sensible care of the interior, wasn't fat and didn't wear loads of metal things :D
 
Makes sense Lashout, thinking about it the wear on my Z4 was more than I've noticed in other BMWs, although I wasn't sure whether that was due to the American factory or the way I got in/out.
 
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