Daily Drivers

M6 convertible?

 

CLS 55 AMG !

 

a 575m is well within your budget and you should be able to find a 612 scag as well

 

No, but debuts in a couple of weeks time at the British Motor Show.

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?t=281701&f=72&h=0

 

997 C2S great for every day

 

What about the new Aston V8?

 

Don't you'll regret it - it's like a sexy woman who does know how to make love - ultimately unsatisfying

 

I had toyed with a Porsche Cayenne as a “sensible “car. I test drove a 3.6 litre V6. The handling isn’t bad for a 4X4, it never feels like it’s going to actually fall over. It is, however, the most gutless thing since Captain Birdseye first realised that fish fingers were the way to a young boy’s heart. It is dangerously and embarrassingly slow.

Disillusioned, I had a new idea: Buy a diesel and save the mileage on the other cars for sunny days. I’ve never owned a diesel; they have always been like tractors to me: Practical and ideal for the right environment, but generally a pain in the backside if you are stuck behind one. So it was with trepidation that I set off to investigate the world of diesel engined road vehicles.

It is a little incongruous to turn up at a car showroom in a Ferrari 550 and ask about the Volvo XC90 or BMW X5. To be fair the people at Volvo and BMW managed to save my embarrassment by totally ignoring me whilst I hovered about their showroom trying to look like I owned a caravan. What is it about car salesmen that make them so inert? It’s not like they have to work very hard all day, so they can’t be worn out.

I decided to try another tack – I’d phone and arrange a test drive. This actually worked a treat. Audi were prompt to reply, got a car to me to test and sent along a lovely young lady to sell it to me. Now this might be a good tactic in certain circumstances, but I got distracted from the issues I was meant to be thinking about. When she asked me what I thought of it, I was still marvelling that she could get her feet into such pointy shoes, so I was a bit vague.

As I’ve had three or four Audi Quattros in the past and they’re all very similar inside, I wasn’t under-going any kind of new car revelation. “It’s very similar to my old RS4” I muttered realising that the parallels between a 400 bhp V6 Twin Turbo and an oil burning stove on wheels might be lost on my new companion. So our test drive progressed. I discovered all sorts of useful things about my new friend, and very little about the Audi Avant 3.0 TDI Quattro. Arriving back at the garage she gave me my cup of tea and moved in for the kill. Our burgeoning emotional bond was broken when I finally had to admit that I was a company car buyer and we could never consummate our relationship. Strangely the fleet sales person had much more sensible shoes, a polyester suit and was, as far as I could tell, planning on being a man when he grew up.

So there it is. A month ago I was thinking about a Vanquish, today I'm awaiting delivery of a diesel estate strange times.

 

Although neither will fullfil the purpose mentioned in your first post to entertain clients and have the space to shift big things.

 

here's my beauty of a fest that i go to work in thought id pull it in workshop and check the oil
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Go for the Focus diesel what U servers do you have to carry around? as It'll have a bearing on what you can use everyday

 

Sniff, sniff...is that bacon I smell?

...popcorn anyone?

 

Impressive....any pics? ...preferably of them (whispering) "together".

 

Have you considered the daewoo matiz?

 

Fill in your profile and post some pics

 

Out of interest, could you let us know why you chose your user name which appears to be a combination of a car you have and one you don't. Perhaps 360 rather than 430 would have been more relevant.

 

good choice rob id have the CS stripe on though m8