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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:04 
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Just taken ownership of an MPV. Life officially over.


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I'm moving to diesel estate in a few months....the rot has started


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 15:22 
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fergl100 wrote:
Just taken ownership of an MPV. Life officially over.

I got Clarksons "Heaven and Hell" on dvd for Christmas and talking of MPVs he said:
"When you buy an MPV your telling the world that I've performed my biological function and now I'm waiting to die"

I'm sure it's not that bad! :)


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Jeremy's right.
It does have a rather neat audio system though.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 19:32 
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fergl100 wrote:
Just taken ownership of an MPV. Life officially over.



My handy tips:

Make sure to look really smug or really cross, pull out on people, never let anyone out (except other MPV's) and black out all rear windows so we can't see your kids.

Really, we all want to look at your kids


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Capri2.8i wrote:
fergl100 wrote:
Just taken ownership of an MPV. Life officially over.

I got Clarksons "Heaven and Hell" on dvd for Christmas and talking of MPVs he said:
"When you buy an MPV your telling the world that I've performed my biological function and now I'm waiting to die"

I'm sure it's not that bad! :)


If you fold a row of seats down, it makes a really good hearse.
Of course it helps if the windows are blacked out so the mourners can mourn anonymously! :lol:

I had a Renault Espace, and I really enjoyed it. It's not WHAT you drive, but how and WHERE you drive it which makes the experience desireable!!

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 21:45 
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Really, we all want to look at your kids

:lol:

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One i want is the one where you take grand kids out in rear ,with missus in front and rear end goes off and gets Au Pair - ( silence whilst Mrs B thumps me)

Never mind the quality - feel the AuPair :lol:

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Have had a Zafira on hire, the girlfriend quite likes it - more roomy, so she can stretch out.

No kids..... yet :wink:

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I'm moving to diesel estate in a few months....the rot has started


You lucky b******, some of those can really shift, and they drive like saloons, not like a boat with a dodgy rudder.


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After driving some of the diesels I've had in particular the Octavia estate and the C4, I wouldn't go back to petrol.

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I'm well and truely a diesel convert. With the kind of mileage I do, getting an extra 10mpg makes quite a saving. That coupled with the fact that my 1800cc TD rover is actually faster than my 1800cc petrol Golf was, I'm not complaining!

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:flamethrow: No to diesel! :lol:


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