[Fantasysci5]

That's just disgusting looking. Seriously; it looks like something someone threw up.

[tsa]

Indeed. And look how low it is. It may have hydrolic suspension, but if not you can't seriously drive that pile of puke!

[Squinky]

I dunno. I think pink Hummers are uglier.

[tsa]

Man.

Yesterday I thought I'd go looking at cars just for fun. I came home having bought this:



A Peugeot 207 Coupe Cabrio. I got a fantastic deal on my 8 year old Renault Clio (I traded it in), the car I bought was relatively cheap because I bought it at a BMW dealer instead of a Peugeot dealer, and I got an extended warranty on the car until june 2011. It wasn't even a question of 'I couldn't resist.'

Man.

I just bought a car!

I will get it hopefully on Friday.

[Jelena]

OMG tsa!
That is so cool! Please pick me up at the hotel and drive me to the AG get together in Amsterdam in your new car.

[tsa]

It's a second-hand car, but as you can see on the picture, it doesn't show that at all. It has done only 23000 km!
I wish it were Friday already.

[geggis]

Sweet! Convertible and it looks brand new too!

[Fantasysci5]

Nice ride, tsa!!!

[Sage]

Nice car, TSA! Here's hoping you have lots of "top-down" weather next year!

In unrelated news, my faithful station wagon has gone to the big parking lot in the sky (well, actually it went to a big salvage yard in Bayview, Alabama... where there is no bay and no view you'd want to see, but I digress). It was not running due to a slipped engine timing chain, and because of the near-constant rain in Alabama this year and my lack of a garage I hadn't had a decent day to repair it. When I got the notice that the parking lot here was to be repaved and all cars parked here had to be moved the day before I left for vacation, I had to make the tough decision to bid the Oldsmobile farewell. Considering I paid only $1 (that's one dollar) for it in January 1997 and it served me faithfully for 12 years after that, I can't say that I didn't get my money's worth out of it. Still, I do miss it and I've begun looking for another station wagon to fill it's absence in my vehicular stable, although no other car could truly replace it.

[tsa]

Poor station wagon. Maybe you can buy an Oldsmobile Station Cabrio now?

[Maquisard]

For a moment there, I read this as "The Tzar thread".

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Sage

In unrelated news, my faithful station wagon has gone to the big parking lot in the sky... I do miss it and I've begun looking for another station wagon to fill it's absence in my vehicular stable, although no other car could truly replace it.

I thought I didn't get attached to equipment like you describe, but I must say I have a weird feeling in my stomach about seeing my Clio go. I still enjoy driving it and don't regret having bought it one bit. Yesterday I removed all my stuff from it and vacuumed the inside, so it's ready to go now. I hope it gets a good new boss.

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Happy Friday to you TSA

[tsa]

Thanks Specks! I haven't seen you in a while. Where have you been? Everything OK?

[Maquisard]

Funny you should choose Friday THE 13TH! to get your new car!

[tsa]

All the other days are my bad days

[tsa]

Today me and my parents were going to have a spin in my new car. It was a lot of fun to see my parents try to fold themselves into it. The front seat had to be slid all the way to its foremost position to give my mother enough room in the back. But then my father had to put his knees on the dashboard, while my mother was still very uncomfortable in the back. So after ten minutes we decided to take my father's car instead
Anyway, here is a picture of me in my new car:

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Originally Posted by tsa

Thanks Specks! I haven't seen you in a while. Where have you been? Everything OK?

Thanks. Just life distracting me, as usual.

[Sage]

Originally Posted by tsa

Poor station wagon. Maybe you can buy an Oldsmobile Station Cabrio now?

Another station wagon, definitely.
Another Oldsmobile, maybe.
Another car with an Oldsmobile engine, oh heck no! There are a whole bunch of Oldsmobile engineers who had better hope that they never run into me in a dark alley anywhere. Should any of the aforementioned engineers be so unlucky as to actually encounter me in a dark alley some night, while the urge for me to beat them with whatever is handy like a pinata until candy falls out, I think a more fitting punishment would be for me to grab them by the scruff of the neck, drag them to the nearest V8-engined Oldsmobile, and force them to change all eight spark plugs (#s 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, & 8 are extremely hard to reach because they're blocked by various other poorly-placed underhood components) plus the distributor cap and rotor button (which are mounted very low on the rear of the engine DESPITE the fact that every V8-engined Oldsmobile ever built has had a rear-hinged hood!) over and over again until they have no skin whatsoever left on their knuckles or on the back of their hands and their back is a mass of cramps and their ribs are black and blue from having to lean over fenders and navigate around articulated hood hinges... all the while saying to them "Explain to me why it was a good idea to design this this way".

As you may have guessed, I've given this scenario more than a little bit of thought.

But I digress. While I'd LOVE to have one of these,


one of these


would probably be a more realistic alternative for everyday use.

[tsa]

Man, you worked on Oldsmobiles far more than was good for you .
We don't see Oldmobiles so often here in Europe because they are so extremely expensive to run. But my neighbour had a car like the one you show in the top picture, in the 1980s. That thing was so big it didn't even fit on his parking space in front of his house properly. And it used so much gas that he had to stop for fuel halfway on a 100 mile (actually 130 km) long trip. But that was probably because he had it converted to run on LPG. It was a cool car though.
The blue car looks a bit boring. Aren't there better looking practical cars on the market there? Something like this, for instance:

A 2009 Renault Laguna Wagon.