Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

is that a hearse?

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http://www.carsmoveus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_1833.jpg

http://cdn.speedhunters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/toy91.jpg

http://www.carsmoveus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/7092270147_fab9ff3c68_o.jpg

http://www.carsmoveus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5MYB6.jpg

Lol, what do you do when your Land Rover get's stuck?

Call your mate in his Toyota Land Cruiser

However real men who own Land Rovers

Would not have anyone for a friend who owns a Land Cruiser

So i went to see the G-Wagen.

The guy seemed ok, bit geeky and apparently works in aerospace and was nice enough but still have a lingering feeling summit aint right. Rust was more or less what I expected, engine/transmission sounded good but engine was hot when I turned up, which makes me wonder if he's been trying to cover up some gremlins. Pretty bog standard you leave the engine cold if you're showing it to someone, no?

Apart from that looks and feels like driving a fucking big tank. For the money and my needs i think i'm probably barking up the wrong tree... I was clevererer or less deluded I would buy a Subaru or... shudder a V.. V... V... Vulva. I mean Volvo.

shirly there's something sexier out there that ticks the right boxes? Cycled 80km in the rain yest to see some 2002's and again, for the money it really felt like riding around in a creaky go-kart, not much pleasure in the treasure there either. I is disappoint. might crawl off and buy a bottle of nice whiskey to drown my sorrows...

What did you want it to do again? Those two are different cars...

i wanted it to be pretty utilitarian/capable of handling swedish winters whilst also scratching what seems to be an impractical itch for vintage german engineering and aesthetics.... whilst also being cheap to run and maintain. i dun fuked up really.

sounds like you want a

ticking nuff boxes since whenever, the 900!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhdHxrKg9g

The 900 looks good too. Especially with the turbo badge on the grill

BMW E30 325ix?

Chav4? supposed to be cheap to maintain... Saab looks nice actually. Just seen a cheap Forester with only 87000 km on the clock for 3400eur. Is that because it'll be due a big service at the 100,000 mark?

i wanted it to be pretty utilitarian/capable of handling swedish winters whilst also scratching what seems to be an impractical itch for vintage german engineering and aesthetics.... whilst also being cheap to run and maintain. i dun fuked up really.

et voila!

jesus.

looks like chittychittybangbang's career went the same way as Whitney Houston's!

Citroen BX 4x4

get an audi allroad then...picky, picky, picky..

^ i'd rather use a scotch bonnet pepper as a suppository!

Neighbours just got a white aventador

i thought i had mentioned these but searching tells me otherwise

jaguar 'raf' eventer

ha. that'll be about 3mpg... a Prescott special.

you get more mpg with the silver ones

they are so chic

and chic trumps mpg. fact :-)

V12 is a fucking awesome engine, worship its smoothness and power.

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Hooge.

Nope they are tiny, often wonder what happened to change the range rover from the farm formans car to the car it is today.