bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 71
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Once driven, forever Smitten?bstardchild
@bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member 71
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Apr 19, 2006 11:08:25 GMT
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phew I am not alone!!!!!!!!
My Dad bought a Focus C Max - as a daily driver - why after years of having an estate to haul around his boating tat did he buy it I just do not know?
- It's not an MPV (5 Seats) - It's got a wibblepoo Boot (to make it bigger you have to remove the seats and he has a lousey back!!!) - It's horrid to drive and has the aerodymanics of a barn door so mpg is rubbish
Marketing have a lot to answer for in convincing the unwashed to make illogical purchases that do not suit their real needs!!!
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Apr 19, 2006 11:16:57 GMT
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Thats capitalism.
When I have kid(s) I'll just chuck a baby seat in the Celica and the job is done. Accidentally end up with 4 kids? Well, maybe I shouldn't sell the Oldsmobile then LOL.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Apr 19, 2006 11:25:32 GMT
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I actually find the Zafira ads with the 'young fogie' kids quite amusing The 405 is also not a bad drive - for a family saloon, nicely weighted steering, relatively lively chassis - a drive in an Mi16 version when I was about 19 probably did 'Take my breath away'
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Apr 19, 2006 12:47:39 GMT
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Those Vauxhall Zafira ads make me mad & inclined to start lobbing stuff at the telly. Obnoxious, prissy brats... 'barratt showhome' housing development, dull as dishwater MPV for the man with the broken soul... Sums up just about every cliche going, with not a hint of irony. Disgusting. Argh! it makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon. Stupid overweight children acting like adults, set in some soulless suburban DailyMailsville hell hole. *shudder* BTT, I kind of remember the Vauxhall ads, but only the slogan really. That Club ad rings a bell. And I remember the Peugeot 405 "Take my breath away" one. Was there an ad for the Mk2 Golf with the "Young at heart" song? Or was that a Mk3?
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Apr 19, 2006 13:00:48 GMT
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Was there an ad for the Mk2 Golf with the "Young at heart" song? Or was that a Mk3? Mk3 GTi I think! As for the Zafira ads....The first house I ever bought was in one of those horrible '90s suburban "toy-town" estates, in Bury St Edmunds, full of those MPV-driving finance-laden "Bev & Kev" type w@!*kers. Me and my Sierras just didn't fit in; But you could guarantee if a new advert came out advertising the latest MPV or small hatch, there'd be millions of them everywhere a few weeks later. (The one that springs to mind was Citroen's "VAT free" offer - Xsara Picassos and Saxo VTRs appeared by the hundred). These adverts just prove the mentality of the masses. Shocking.
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My fleet: Suzuki GSX-R600Y SRAD with bald, melted tyres A borrowed Mondeo
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Apr 19, 2006 13:07:55 GMT
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I think Citroens latest offer on the Pickarshole is free insurance and a free lobotomy
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Apr 19, 2006 13:24:06 GMT
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"Why it looks like an XR3".... but its in fact an Escort Eclipse Or words the the effect of
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Apr 19, 2006 13:34:40 GMT
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I quite like the renault dog advert, fave at the mo is the honda civic ad! Zafira ad is irritating tho so was the old wierdy beardy grif ryhs jones one! If i'm getting a mp 3v its getting prostreet treatment.
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Apr 19, 2006 15:10:22 GMT
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If i'm getting a mp 3v its getting prostreet treatment. If I get one I'm getting psychiatric treatment ;D
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Apr 19, 2006 15:56:12 GMT
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Apr 19, 2006 18:06:46 GMT
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Oi! That's my line! ;D Although you got it covered in a sentence, as opposed to a several thousand word rant, so I'll let you off. ;D Seriously though, you're right in that sense. The popularity of the current plague of MPVs that aren't any more useful than estate cars and are soul destroyingly drab and awful to boot is not the result of them actually being sensible purchases, because for the most part they're just not necessary, being bought because the fashion is to replace the previous family car after three years, not because the family needs to buy a new car, and anyway as monumentally mundane as the previous generation of family hacks could be, the diesel Mondeo or Vectra estate generation, they weren't any less useable or sensible as a 5 seat, 5 door MPV, more practical in some cases, but the result of clever marketing. What I mean is, the cars may not have been any more practical than their predecessors, and they may be a totaly unneccesary purchase, but the marketing men tell the public that the new breed of little MPVs aren't just a soul destroying transportation device for people with 2.4 kids and a mortgage, but a revelation in modern transport, the only way for a dynamic, exciting young family to travel, that the silly little gimmicks (such as the new model Terrible Zafira of Doom, (although I do like the Zafira Bin Laden tag, I might have to use that in future if it's alright! ;D) with its little optional overhead storage compartment that those bloody annoying kids on the advert who have clearly issued forth from the loins of the devil ihimself can be seen cooing over during the commercial break, or the Renault Modus with its 'clever boot-chute') aren't actually a minor addition, but a major development that will change the way you travel for the better and make your life all that much better. By guilding the cage, tempting you to enter an inescapable trap of suburban normalness and pack away your personality in a box in the attic, to be dusted off and glanced at nostalgically once every few years when the loft gets cleaned out, then left again to slowly rot in the darkness, but at the same time promising that you'll become exciting, individual and dynamic in your car that's the same as everybody else's, parked on your driveway that's identical to the rest of the street when it's not taking your kids to rugby practice or cello lessons or whatever all the other parents take their kids to. And of course the experience of going to a dealer and selecting the car, the colour, the options etc they want, which will no doubt be the same choices as about twenty other people on the street, consumers can delude themselves that they're actually making choices about their next car, even though the choice was made by sleek marketing men and committees, who decided that their new car will be promoted by waving the above-carrots before the consumers, x number of whom will sell their souls to 'YES Car Credit' and the like to 'own' the new car, until the marketing men tell them they need to buy another car, that the one they have is obselete and unuseable, that they and their families will fail and be laughed and humiliated unless they have the latest car (cue adverts with characters like the "I'm not getting in that!" bint who doesn't like old VWs and makes her boyfriend put himself in slavery to a Direct Line to get himself a Golf convertible, or "Bev and Kev" who feel embarrassed that they have a Volvo 440 and not a new car.) I often think that in this more secularised society, although religion still can be used as an opiat of the masses (for example, all over Glasgow and Greenock, at any moment, gangs of bored, skint, potentially dangerous to the people in chrage if they saw what was really going on in the world catholics and protestants are spilling each others' blood to settle disputes they weren't involved in and lay claim to a country that isn't theirs, i.e. they fight over Northern Ireland despite the fact that most people in Ireland are done fighting and just want an end to the sectarian bullsh*t) religion has been overtaken by television, and consumerism in general, as the new social hallucenogenic. So long as the news is just something they put on while you're waiting for the results of 'Strictly Come Dancing', wars, revolutions, inequalities, fights for equality, acts of real heroism and acts of villiany are pushed aside from the public gaze to show what Prince Harry's been up to and which overpaid decedent celebrities are sleeping together, and so long as advertising convinces us that the way to happiness is to buy now and pay(through the nose) later, put other peoples' opinions before our own and do what everyone else wants, and so long as the only form of fulfillment we're ever taught about is having all your materialistic cravings suppressed by consuming till you've been consumed by the financial buzzards, advertisers will treat us like fools, because like fools we walk into the trap and leave them richer.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Apr 19, 2006 19:44:30 GMT
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I do remember the vauxhall ads (sorry for being late to the thread), and the golf "young at heart". what about the mk3 cav ad, that was being crash tested to "sledge hammer"? or the diabolicle "nicole/pa-pa" clio ads? best modern ad (IMO) is the fiesta on the pinball table set to the specials "blank expression".
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