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Jun 27, 2017 18:28:00 GMT
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While we're on about names, the Ford Kuga - why use a stupid spelling of a name you've already used for a completely different model?
Oh and actually while I'm here - how about completely made up words for car names full stop. What's wrong with using names of exotic far off places like Cortina, Capri, Walsall etc or jazz mags like the Ford Escort, Fiesta, Readers Wives Bums Special?
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Jun 27, 2017 18:49:46 GMT
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While we're on about names, the Ford Kuga - why use a stupid spelling of a name you've already used for a completely different model? Oh and actually while I'm here - how about completely made up words for car names full stop. What's wrong with using names of exotic far off places like Cortina, Capri, Walsall etc or jazz mags like the Ford Escort, Fiesta, Readers Wives Bums Special? I'm looking forward to seeing the sales stats for the Ford Skegness GL.
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luckyseven
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Jun 28, 2017 10:05:04 GMT
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I just upset myself by writing on my Softop Sunday report thread about how Willys-Overland ended up churning out soft-roaders with "jerry can-shaped" rear lights. So, have a Jeep with a jerry can-shaped rear light
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Jun 28, 2017 12:16:41 GMT
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I've just seen something else that's been mildly annoying for a few years - those strange stuck on trims on the rear quarter panels of Honda Civics
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rude
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Jun 28, 2017 12:31:41 GMT
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The indicators on lorries annoy me, whats the point of them just about only flashing once before you have to mash the anchors at 70mph because it's pulled in front of you? They should at least flash about 10 times and give the lorry drivers some thinking time before switching lanes... the poor sods.
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1986 Haunted BMW E24 635CSi 1999 Povo spec BMW E36 1.8i Touring Work Hack 2001 Petrol annihilating Discovery V8 2000 Jaguar S Type 3.0 V6 ~NEW~
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Jun 28, 2017 13:35:30 GMT
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I've just seen something else that's been mildly annoying for a few years - those strange stuck on trims on the rear quarter panels of Honda Civics I think they're meant to be some sort of aero device (vortex generator?) to reduce drag around the back of the car.
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Jun 28, 2017 15:14:19 GMT
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While we're on about names, the Ford Kuga - why use a stupid spelling of a name you've already used for a completely different model? I don't think it's the same, but I hate how the newest Vauxhall Viva which is completely different and not-as-nice than the original from the 60s/70s.
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F503 FRM - MK2 Ford Fiesta - (Mo Filla, No Thrilla)
T527 LCJ - S2 Peugeot 106 - (Donor car for an AX GTI - scrapped) CA57 GWP - MK6 Fiesta Zetec S - (Daily derv go-kart)
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Jun 28, 2017 15:15:26 GMT
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People who put Porsche wheels and badges on vw's and then think it's a Porsche. Or an even worse one, there use to be a vw Passat (estate 😂) full of Bentley badges, tragic 😞.
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Last Edit: Jun 28, 2017 15:16:15 GMT by stefan1971
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Jun 28, 2017 15:27:22 GMT
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Sorry for this but it gets worse, showing off your Bentley fuel cap on your vw . Please stop this it's embarrassing (unless you're 9).
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rude
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Jun 28, 2017 16:21:16 GMT
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I've just seen something else that's been mildly annoying for a few years - those strange stuck on trims on the rear quarter panels of Honda Civics I think they're meant to be some sort of aero device (vortex generator?) to reduce drag around the back of the car. What sticky on things? I need to see them to see how it fares on my rage-o-meter...
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1986 Haunted BMW E24 635CSi 1999 Povo spec BMW E36 1.8i Touring Work Hack 2001 Petrol annihilating Discovery V8 2000 Jaguar S Type 3.0 V6 ~NEW~
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Jun 28, 2017 16:52:34 GMT
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There on the diesel model.
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Last Edit: Jun 28, 2017 16:53:14 GMT by stefan1971
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Jun 28, 2017 17:53:30 GMT
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There on the diesel model. That's them. They just look such an afterthought. Like the sort of thing that they've had to develop and stick on after launch when they realised if you go round a roundabout at more than 3.8mph the thing goes on its roof....
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sb
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Jun 28, 2017 18:04:03 GMT
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While we are talking new civics I hate the wrap around lights, front and back. I also especially hate the fact that the model above has two rear windows and the lights try to be a spoiler. The whole thing is plain awful.
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Jun 28, 2017 19:06:30 GMT
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Has anyone here actually driven one of those, because I'm thinking the rear vision must be useless. I mean the actual see-through area of the back window is tiny compared to the width of the car (a trait common to many moderns). Which is why they have to offer rear view cameras as extras. (£££)
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Last Edit: Jun 28, 2017 19:07:11 GMT by ratchart
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Jun 28, 2017 21:07:10 GMT
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People who put Porsche wheels and badges on vw's and then think it's a Porsche. Or an even worse one, there use to be a vw Passat (estate 😂) full of Bentley badges, tragic 😞. Or a Chrysler 300C with Bentley badges trying to make out its a Conti GT.
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Jun 28, 2017 21:56:26 GMT
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It checks out. I thought these were the 'Kuga' model but I suppose those are the next size up (Lifted-focus based ones). (Ooh look transparent PNG image) God I hope all these execrable 'Soft-roaders' fall out of fashion soon - bigger, yet smaller inside. Fake everything. Like a Casio Baby-G watch grew into a car. Just fugly. Absolutely. I can barely look at them. Everything about them is everything I hate about moderns. Actually, does this count as a little detail? The fact that to make it high up like a 4x4, rather than raise the suspension (well, they might have done a bit) they've added height around the middle of the car. As a result, it has to have that daft extra grille, and various other features to try and avoid vast expanses of barren bodywork. The resultant look is reminiscent of a baby waddling around with a full sagging nappy. And the back of it is no better!
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Jun 28, 2017 23:37:00 GMT
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And the back of it is no better! I'd bet you £5 that there isn't even a real wheel in there - probably a big can of puncture-repair goo, an electric pump and some bluetooth gizmo the marketing team thought would appeal to millennial buyers.
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79cord
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Under some circumstances Hazard lights.. Especially on Buses. Flash at same rate as indicators so if you can only see one side you stop & wait for them to pull out.. or probably don't.
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Last Edit: Jun 29, 2017 8:59:00 GMT by 79cord
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Has anyone here actually driven one of those, because I'm thinking the rear vision must be useless. I mean the actual see-through area of the back window is tiny compared to the width of the car (a trait common to many moderns). Which is why they have to offer rear view cameras as extras. (£££) I learnt and passed my test in the previous generation, the visibility was surprisingly not that bad. The area under the rear window might as well be a solid panel but you can see okay out the top one in the mirror
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Driving: Shitbox Honda S-MX
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vanpeebles
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This is probably something that bothers only me but the front indicator/sidelight units on a chrome bumper MGB are clearly the wrong way round. Imagine if you flipped them 180 degrees the flat part would be in line with the grille and the sidelights would be pointing forwards rather than out to the corners. I just imagine that a worker on the MG production line just put them on the wrong way round and (this being BMC in the 60s/70s) the supervisor didn't dare tell him off for fear of starting yet another strike! I'm sure read somewhere that there was next to zero strikes at MG. It was very much small production hand built sports car stuff. A completely different kettle of fish to the Leyland factories.
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