RE: OT: BMWs (was USB2 on Laptops?)

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Why is there always this debate about front or rear drive? Rear drive to
me, is entertaining but a pain in the ass when you can't be bothered
with it. To be fair though I haven't done much driving in a rear-drive
job so I'm not I'm not criticising the product in the least.

I jump into a car and just drive the sodding thing, the roads nor the
bloody speed cameras let you really rip it anymore so why worry about
it? I had an Alfa 145 Cloverleaf and a 146Ti both were brilliant cars
and I enjoyed them fantastically. I've driven, at length the GTV, Spider
and 156 and liked them all.

But here's my problem with performance cars...when the Fiat 20V Turbo
Coupe came along I got an extended test drive of it. Two minutes out of
the showroom and onto a dual carriageway, 130mph and I had to back off I
would have bought one but for a couple of niggles. It costs =A3220 a
corner for rubber, it cost ridiculous amounts to service, the service
intervals were short, the insurance company's employees would all have
gotten a trip to the Bahamas for my premium alone and, the most
important one, I would have been banged up for doing silly speeds after
three weeks:-)

As for the image presented by the car, well I don't really give a toss
anymore.

K.

(who finally has a clean licence after nearly 10 years of points)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 February 2002 09:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: BMWs (was USB2 on Laptops?)
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> > Alfa, fun and funky
> > BMW, cold and German
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> Sorry Ken...but you've just lost all that TiVo-Tastic respect I had
got
> for
> you now!
> Alfas - mostly 4 pot "girlie" front drive - given away their
racing
> heritage.
> BeeEmms - mostly Glorious straight sixes, PROPER REAR drive cars!
> Anyone who can call an M3, or even a 330i "cold" is clearly
NUTS!
These
> cars have souls.
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> M.
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