Right....
Anal Bandit: Something is only chavved if it's been chavved up. Chav's buy shit, especially shit that looks pricey when it ain't.
That Mondy is totally standard, and doesn't look like it cost alot. Chav's like Beemers and Mercs, not Mondeos (usually, but I'm sure I can add the exception to the rule
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Cavsad: Doc feels this way because he had to work on one....a fairly shite one as well. I can forgive him for this.
You thnk Vauxhalls are epic. I have therefore discounted your opinion totally.
jizzcarthorseheavings: Well, they're not really called Fix Or Repair Daily....thats just what some people think, same as some people refer to Citroens as Shitroens and Fiats: Found In A Tip, or Fix It Again Tony etc etc
They all stem from an era way before I was born where any car made in the UK was, as a general rule, totally shite.
For the record I had a Ford recently, a little Fiesta Zetec S...not the newer boxy one, the nicer older one. One of my favourite cars that.
Thanks for the suggestion of a smaller car (smaller making complete sense, what with having more than one baby!) but as cool as the chavvit wasn't, I'd prefer a car that I could sit in the drivers seat without it breaking through the rotten floor. Ta anyway
Matt: I do like the ZT260, but I already have one under powered noisy old fashioned V8, I do't need anothe with a tacky paintjob
However I do like the ZT190 alot. It is more expensive to buy, more common and more pricey to insure than the ST200, and theres always the Rover reliability shadow hanging over it.
However, I do like the ZT, it's safer than a Mondeo and it is still crackin value. I prefer the ST200 to the ZT, but I'd have a ZT over any other Mondeo, inlcuding the much duller ST24.
And yes, alot of ZT's start the reg "BX." Nothing to do with that being a Birmingham prefix, and them not being able to shift the cars and just registering them willy-nilly to anyone in the area!
Jizzy: Again, not quite. I feel a Noble is probably closer the mark, or the TVR sat in my garage (which has a combo of Vauxhall, Ford, Citroen, Rover, Chrysler parts etc)
David: I generally agree, and the mk2 Cav was a better car than a Sierra. The more recent Fords were good in the mid 90's, with late 80's/early 90's being pap years.
Bandit again: Yes, Jap cars are probably the best in the world. But god are they boring!!
And working in the trade as I have, I've noticed that the cars with the badges that are supposedly bullet proof (eg VW, Audi, Merc etc) aren't, and that the supposedly awful ones (Citroen, Fiat, Saab) aren't.
To be fair with Ford, you just can't generalise. They've got too many plants across the globe, too many fingers in too many pies and too many variants to be able to generalise them.
For example, the Galaxy was a turd. The Mk4 Fiesta was a gem. Both made at the same time too, just in different factorys by different people managed by different suits.
Right, thats me done for the night. I'm gonna go shout at somebody
You cheeky ****!
