I guess the British pretty much have the same feeling about them. Yes, they do work very well, they are cheap to run and buy, and absolutely sufficient to get from A to B.
But there's more to cars, especially for petrolheads, they just are lacking. The VXR Astra and Vectra both have the same problem the engineers seemingly didn't care about: torque steer. So, they're out. I like the idea of the VX , but the Elise which runs on the same base looks so much better, that I'd buy it instead any day, on any occasion, even if I pay more.
I'd love to buy the Monaro though, rather yesterday than today. But it isn't offered here, so that's out as well. Whichever way you turn it, on the surface, Opels are nice cars. Still, they've got a lot to do to make me buy one, and it seems I'm not alone. I've considered buying pretty much anything before, but there's never been a single Opel I've ever wanted.
And I've never seen a single person advertising proudly that s he drives one. They are just missing something I can't really define down to a single sentence, but there is something. Regards the Interceptor. Not even a new Opel GT? Joined Jun 14, Messages Probably because they suck. And they are kind of heavy. I would still have a Miata personally.
Peter3hg Forum Addict. They have brought up their game recently but the fact is they are rep mobiles, just built for the masses. He likes the new Astra, Monaro and Zafira so I wouldn't say he generally dislikes them. It's a rash generalisation. What I think you'll find, is that he plays on their image as a rather bland and stodgy car maker. But whereas the sedge warbler will team up with its mates to create a huge, disjointed chorus, the reed warbler is softer and somehow more relaxed, more in keeping with its life on the river bank.
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They don't have to either, because there's a wide selection of exotic alternatives - from the mini people carrier to the Japanese coupe, to the off-roader, to the convertible, to whatever they damn well want.
Got a catholic attitude to birth control? That was no problem back in the sixties - you just hammered children into the back, and the front and the boot if necessary. And you kept on hammering until one of them suffocated. But it's so much easier today. If you have suffered in the past from over- productive wedding vegetables, you could have a Fiat Multipla or, if your eyes are still working, a Zafira.
Live in Manchester? Well you'll be needing a roof then, so consider the Hyundai V6. My Dad simply wouldn't have been able to do this, partly because his firm had an account with Ford, but mainly because there was no such thing as Hyundai back then. Korea was a war, not a country. But Vauxhall just doesn't seem to have realised this.
It seems to think that we're all living in a world where there's nothing to do in the evening but watch one of the two television stations. It doesn't realise that we now have a choice in everything we do; where we send our children to school, which bus company we want to use and when, exactly, we'd like a flight to New York. You can't even buy a cup of coffee these days without being grilled on exactly how you want it to be served, whether you want a tall, grande or gigantico and whether you should go to Starbucks, Nero or the other one who's name has gone from my mind.
The days of instant coffee, slopped in a cracked saucer and furnished with horrid HST milk have gone. But that's what Vauxhall seem to be offering with the new Vectra.
It is a car. And it will move you around when asked to do so. But it has no flair, no individuality, nothing that makes you go "hmmmm. I fancy a bit of that". If my company gave me one of these, I'd drive it at full speed into the boss one night.
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