Random Rant and venting thread for general or specific rage

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

the German Audis get good reviews as well.

[Andy 60]

British cars used to be good. Until they stopped making them.

There are a few "British" car manufacturers, but they are mostly owned by foreign parent companies.

http://motortorque.askaprice.com/articles/...ar-industry.asp

There are a handful that make so few cars that nobody has even heard of the company.

If I had the money to buy any car I wanted, I would buy an Aston Martin. Mainly because they are British, so I don't really blame you for wanting to buy American.

But, as it is, I have ?70 to last til next month. Woooo!

[TheUnknown 39]

The only British cars I know of are Jaguar (Jag-war, not "Jag-u-wer"), Rolls, and Bentley but I may be wrong about even those.

[Bad furday 57]

Tata owns Jag-u-ar now(sold off by Ford) (points to Furrylicious Art Thread randomly) so the Indians and the British have formed some sort of symbiotic relationship...again?

I'm lusting after an Alfa Romeo 159. In Alfa Red. Natural leather seats.

For British cars, I'd like a Morgan. Not one of the new ones either, but one of the old three wheelers. Specifically a 1939 Supersports Aero.

I guess I'd better change continents then :p

[Princess 35]

It never rains, it always pours <--blog post

[Ender 8]

Yeah, I absolutely adore all the old British sports cars from the 60's. I guarantee you that you'll never buy a British Leyland car that doesn't have a problem with it, haha.

And yes, Furday, the 159 is an absolutely beautiful. I love the new 8C as well, but apparently it handles like crap.

[Bad furday 57]

Poor Prinny!

and yeah...whenever I look at the 159, I'm, as Clarkson says, "nursing a semi"

*lusts after the car moar*

It's one of those things....that belongs in the Museum of Modern Art!

[Andy 60]

you'll never buy a British Leyland car that doesn't have a problem with it

Probably because they haven't made any for over 20 years. :p

[Ender 8]

Even if it were brand new, it wouldn't work properly. :p

[Uncle Du 22]

German engineering all the way for this guy.

[Mara 29]

I loves my Pontiac.

[Andy 60]

Even if it were brand new, it wouldn't work properly.

Being as neither of us were buying cars when they were available brand new I'd say it's pretty irrelevant. :p

[Ender 8]

Not so much. I've still got the 1965 Morris Mini Cooper S that I bought off a guy for $4000 in my sophomore year. Leyland car, I've done so much work on that car it's not even funny.

[Andy 60]

What do you expect with a car that's over 40 years old? lol, plus if you have really had to spend a lot on it, then I'd say you probably paid to much for it in the first place.

Plus the Mark I Mini was BMC. not Leyland. ;)

[Uncle Du 22]

I'm not catching on to all this British lingo and talk of British cars. Aren't they really small? ;)

[Mara 29]

Well, Land Rovers are pretty big. :p

[Bad furday 57]

Technically, Land Rover isn't British anymore. Tata's acquired it.

So Ender...what colour is you Mini? I hear that if you say "British racing green with white stripes", you'll make B jealous. ;)

[Uncle Du 22]

I never really saw green as a "racing" color. ;)

[Andy 60]

No, our cars are normal sized. It's yours that are unnecessarily large 'gas'-guzzling behemoths. ;)

[Princess 35]

It can really stop snowing any time now. I'm rather sick of driving to work and not knowing where the lanes in the road are

[Uncle Du 22]

No, our cars are normal sized. It's yours that are unnecessarily large 'gas'-guzzling behemoths.

I own a VW Rabbit, it sips gas.

And it's German. Like my heritage. :p

[Andy 60]

What the hell is that? Apart from a car with a stupid name.

*looks it up*

OMG, it's just a VW Golf, lol. They aren't too bad.

[Uncle Du 22]

Ohhhh, knockin' my car eh!! *shakes fist*

That's alright, it was a Golf up until model year 2007 when I got mine. They changed the name back, cause back in the day it was a Rabbit in the U.S. My parents had one. :p

[Mara 29]

It can really stop snowing any time now. I'm rather sick of driving to work and not knowing where the lanes in the road are

Agreed.

Also sick of scraping an ice rink of my car.

[Andy 60]

I wish it would hurry up and snow. :p