So I’m sat in Sainsbury’s car park…

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Grimley said:
This. I drive an old banger, It's got its fair share of supermarket car park dents & scratches over the years. I used to car about my car's outer condition but not any more. If some other people don't care why should I? If I had a reason for concern it would be rust starting due to metal being exposed after a dent or a scratch.
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Because we shouldn't let others dictate our lives? If everyone did the same then the entire car park would be full of bangers. Can't stoop down to the lowest level.

Besides, even when I've owned 'bangers' I still did not want some **** to scratch it. The value of the car doesn't matter to me.
 
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sigma said:
Because we shouldn't let others dictate our lives? If everyone did the same then the entire car park would be full of bangers. Can't stoop down to the lowest level.

Besides, even when I've owned 'bangers' I still did not want some **** to scratch it. The value of the car doesn't matter to me.
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The thing is, I don't want a confrontation if I saw someone damage my car due to their careless driving. Some people are too aggressive or even violent if they are taking 'recreational medicines'. A car to me just isnt worth that kind of confrontation.
 
Grimley said:
The thing is, I don't want a confrontation if I saw someone damage my car due to their careless driving. Some people are too aggressive or even violent if they are taking 'recreational medicines'. A car to me just isnt worth that kind of confrontation.
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You could apply that logic to a car with nice paintwork equally as a banger. That's my point.
 
keef247 said:
THE definition of how to make a car look ****, zero imagination blob, not fit in any space, handle like a hippo on rollerskates, weigh tonnes, not gain any extra storage/comfort over an estate, a pain to park anywhere without relying on cameras... All you've gotta do to get a 10/10 worst car award is get the EV version and you win the **** of the decade award! 95% are driven by people on their own and serve no purpose, who can't drive, and most aren't awd and cant go off road, just a pretend 4x4/lifted up hatchback/saloon squashed into a ball with a vice look.
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You would love the view from our house :p
  • My drive : Kia Sportage and BMW iX
  • House opposite : BMW X6, Audi Q4 eTron and a Lexus RX450h
  • Next door : Range Rover

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sigma said:
Emotional baggage is not the same as wanting to look after your property or wanting others to live responsibly.
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You take a car on the roads and car parks and it's going to get dinged, by people, shoddy roads, weather, whatever. If you care about a car and want keep it pristine for whatever reason, keep in a garage, save getting upset.
 
SDK^ said:
You would love the view from our house :p
  • My drive : Kia Sportage and BMW iX
  • House opposite : BMW X6, Audi Q4 eTron and a Lexus RX450h
  • Next door : Range Rover

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Hell on earth that! :cry: Least you're a good sport though :)
Parking on the pavements like that, is a proper dick move though.
I do see a Range Rover though, least that's a real off roader, not that the owner will even dare to take it down a green lane though haha!

I'll stick to playing with the classics :)
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I love the rant, they are Schrodingers SUVs, simultaneously massive and yet no larger inside, opposite to the tardis I guess.

I know loads of people who have switched from hatches to SUVs. Generally an SUV is a hatch on steroids in effect. The benefits of a hatch are just the same, but the majority who specifically select them do so based on ease of use, someone mentioned ease of access. 100% when my grandad had s dodgy hip the only car he could get in and out of was the Cmax I happened to have briefly from work. Was a godsend. 5 series etc were a nightmare getting him out of. Just too low.
Fitting child seats and getting kids in and out of an SUV is multitudes easier than a "normal car"

There is also a visibility benefit of the SUVs, my other half moving from a X1 to a 330E hates the lack of visibility now.
I must admit I used to find the same when I would get out of her X1 and into my TT, you feel blind by comparison.

Really its just the same as its always been with cars . Some people don't like evolution, some just go with the evolution.

Estates never, like really never, were wanted by the majority of the population. They almost all looked ***** in comparison to saloons. Mainly because they were saloons that some designer had to try to make look good as an estate.
Estates have their point, remote service engineers, campers, allotmentiers, painter and decorators, outside that, not really. They don't offer really anything to the majority the majority of the time.
Vans are far more accessible, and pickups now far more common its probably why the majority of manufacturers gave up on estates as the sales volume dropped so low.

Anyway back on topic.
For many people cars are just a means of transport. They don't get snowfoam, filtered water, excessive servicing above what the manufacturer says you need, and all the other stuff that car enthusiasts do.

My solution is to make car parking spaces progressively wider as they get further from the store. So the further your willing to walk the more space you get.
I still remember a large Tesco I used to use, I parked at the diagonally furthest spot from the store. I parked in the middle of two spots. When i came out I had a car parked each side of me, alongside me!
There was probably 100 spots across two completely empty rows of spaces between me and the store when I went in, and when I came out..
I swear some people use another car as a lining up tool and not the painted lines.
 
mid_gen said:
Life's less stressful when you don't attach so much emotional baggage to a tool for transporting you around.
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True, but cars can be more than that, depending on your intent/interests.

I prefer a car I've restored/maintained, something old school with proper driving feedback/handling characteristics, that's an event to drive each time and has a soul to it, vs the lifeless numb electric steering/everything modern fridges. It makes it 1 of 1 then vs just off the shelf replaced/financed that anyone can buy/finance...

It makes it special to drive each time then, plus I like to drive for the sake of driving, not just as a necessity.

I'd much rather go out in an old ///M car/Ferrari/Porsche that's a visceral experience, than **** the same money up the wall in a loud pub full of people arguing about football. But that's just me.
 
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mid_gen said:
You take a car on the roads and car parks and it's going to get dinged, by people, shoddy roads, weather, whatever. If you care about a car and want keep it pristine for whatever reason, keep in a garage, save getting upset.
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Getting a stonechip is not the same as someone opening their door into yours.

I get it, you don't care about your car, perhaps this isn't the thread for you?
 
sigma said:
Getting a stonechip is not the same as someone opening their door into yours.

I get it, you don't care about your car, perhaps this isn't the thread for you?
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Both are unavoidable if you take your car out on public roads and park in car parks. Whether it's carelessness or bad luck....the only way to avoid it is to not put your car somewhere it can happen.
 
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