Review posted on his Facebook page.
It's a bit out of the way for us (we live on Essex), so we stopped off at Derwentwater for a fifty minute round trip on the lake on the way home.
Sunday, 3 July 2016
I had more work done on my Toyota MR2 this weekend...
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What happened to the golf gti and the mx5?
I need to order a new car this month, 99% decided on a fiesta st. Test drove a focus st at the weekend but her indoors threw a wobbly and said it's too fast and I'm not allowed one. She's never been in a mountune 215 fiesta, which I've cleverly pitched as 'the sensible option'.
I believe the technical term is "pimping". In all our years of occasional agreement and occasional disagreement I have never thought of you as a pimp. But that's the problem with cars - they can make middle aged gentlemen do things they'd never thought of doing before.
SL, I bought the MX5 and sold the Golf. A couple of months later i realised that cheap Japanese roadsters are the best thing ever so bought myself an MR2 as well.
When you're test driving a car with the Mrs, why don't you just drive slowly? How's she to know what the top speed is?
TFB, no "pimping" is decorating the exterior of the car to show off.
What I did is called "replacing really uncomfortable seats with very comfy seats". Apart from that, I would always keep a car as original as possible.
Y'see, you can cure yourselves of all this if you actually go and race a car. My road car is slow and comfortable.
L, that's like curing mild alcoholism by switching to heroin!
I use my cars for popping to the shops and half hour jaunts in the countryside, there is no racing or even breaking the speed limit involved. I'm a northerner, and up there people obey speed limits, stop at zebra crossings etc, unlike people in the south east...
MW. Yes. Sort of.
I, too, am a Christian Motorist on the public highway. I learned to drive in London in the late 1960's when it was a nice place to drive in.
No decent race tracks up here. But the roads are a lot more interesting and a lot less congested than in Englandshire.
I commute 72 miles a day on single carriageway Aberdeenshire roads. A fiesta ST is ideal, plenty quick enough to overtake the lorries and tractors, heated windscreen for the 6 month winter, heated seats, sticks to the twisty greasy roads and narrow enough to pass by horsey folk in their pickups and 4x4s on the back lanes. Not to mention its dirt cheap and Ford do HP at 2.9% APR.
I reckon it might be a 'sweet spot' of small hot hatches too, no-one has managed to make a better one according to 100% of the reviewers. So I might well run it into the ground.
Slow cars are only any good for my commute if you don't mind sitting behind potato farmers, Tesco lorries and geriatrics doing 35mph. Life is too short.
SL, so are you going to buy a Fiesta ST? It wasn't clear from your first comment.
I'm still only 99% decided, I'm doing my best to talk myself into one so I don't end up leasing something expensive.
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