Shall I buy this Rover?

Different people like different things. A golf is as black and plastic as a focus. The 200 is better than an escort or astra. German cars are dull. Jeremy clarkson whilst obviously trying to be controversial says hardly anything of merit. His taste in cars is dire.

Here.s another one ... Ferrari make nasty looking cars.

My friend has an alpina b3 convertible. He likes it. I really dont. Cramped and claustrophobic(which is impressive for a convertible.)

another one i really like the big citroens. They're individual and have character.

Are these views mainstream opinion? No... Are they valid? Yes...

Eccentric richard i think we just have different taste in cars!

Rich
 
another one i really like the big citroens. They're individual and have character.
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A man of taste - I drive a 2006 Citroen C5 but think the C6 is a little too way out
I'd love a DS23 or a CX Gti or a BX Gti 4x4

People will laugh at me for this but I couldn't give a t*ss
 
rockdemon said:
Different people like different things. A golf is as black and plastic as a focus. The 200 is better than an escort or astra. German cars are dull. Jeremy clarkson whilst obviously trying to be controversial says hardly anything of merit. His taste in cars is dire.

Here.s another one ... Ferrari make nasty looking cars.

My friend has an alpina b3 convertible. He likes it. I really dont. Cramped and claustrophobic(which is impressive for a convertible.)

another one i really like the big citroens. They're individual and have character.

Are these views mainstream opinion? No... Are they valid? Yes...

Eccentric richard i think we just have different taste in cars!

Rich
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The Golf uses better-quality plastics than the Focus... as for Fezzas, I couldn't agree more. The 599 is clumsy, the 612 is bloated, and the 458... well, I've seen prettier cancerous tumours.

As for the Alpina, I don't get your problem. I've been in an M3 convertible (same bodyshell) and found it extremely comfortable and perfectly spacious for a decent-sized chap like me. The rear seats were only for kids, though - the convertible's rear seats are pushed further forwards than those of the other three bodystyles of 3-series.

I do, however, share your love of big Citroens. So underrated. I can't agree that Clarkson's taste in cars is dire - apart from anything, he recognises that some Fezzas have been ugly, and he too loves big Citroens, loves cars with individuality.

Also, step into a modern BMW and actually get to know it before condemning all German cars as dull. Snarly straight-six engine (not an overly heavy, complex and unbalanced V6), nice, precise, short-throw six-speed manual gearbox from ZF, RWD (not front/wrong-wheel-drive), switch off the traction control and it'll pull the most beautiful powerslides. Wonderful cars, as long as they aren't on runflats (and, for the last few years, runflats have been standard kit for BMWs, albeit not Alpinas or Ms). Best four- and six-cylinder engines of any carmaker by a country mile.
 
DaveHerns said:
another one i really like the big citroens. They're individual and have character.
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A man of taste - I drive a 2006 Citroen C5 but think the C6 is a little too way out
I'd love a DS23 or a CX Gti or a BX Gti 4x4

People will laugh at me for this but I couldn't give a t*ss
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The C6 looks really great from the outside, pretty radical, but I think you'd find it disappointingly conventional inside. No column-change gearshift, no rotating-drum instruments, it's little more than a bigger, plusher Xantia.

Still, I have a big soft spot for it - and the current-generation AWD Honda Legend. I'm told it handles unbelievably well, and you can get one nearly new and loaded with kit for only 11k. I'd even be prepared to lay aside my hatred of V6s and sideways-mounted engines if I drove one and took to it as much as I'd suspect I would...

You know the BX was designed by Marcello Gandini, he of countless Lambos, Maseratis, Alfas, the original 5-series and so on?
 
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