Re: The Official Non Sequitur Thread, "And now for something COMPLETELY different..."

[HWKII]

If you're not too big of a guy, I'd say Fiat 500 Abarth

[clacksman]

I've got to keep to a pretty tight budget for now, and I'm looking for something European, manual gearbox, with a little bit more performance(or ability to bolt on some things) to keep me from getting too bored....

Narrowed it down quite a bit with that batch of criteria. No wonder you had the GTI in mind already. Audi A3 is same car just more expensive. Jetta GLI is same car with a trunk, and possibly cheaper.

I think you should try a Honda Fit first. Only about half the power of a GTI/GLI, but: several hundred pounds lighter, much cheaper to run, slower depreciation, and it's not made in Mexico.

[timneyb]

I've got to keep to a pretty tight budget for now, and I'm looking for something European, manual gearbox, with a little bit more performance(or ability to bolt on some things) to keep me from getting too bored....

Narrowed it down quite a bit with that batch of criteria. No wonder you had the GTI in mind already. Audi A3 is same car just more expensive. Jetta GLI is same car with a trunk, and possibly cheaper.

I think you should try a Honda Fit first. Only about half the power of a GTI/GLI, but: several hundred pounds lighter, much cheaper to run, slower depreciation, and it's not made in Mexico.

As someone that recently went Japanese (Impreza) after being VW (Jetta) for 3 years, based on all those pragmatic things that clacksman just said... but I miss my VW, and will be positively pissed if I discover somebody got 150,000 miles out of it after I gave it up. The little things in the European car I miss. They all sound too trivial to describe, but I scowl every time I come to a stop in the rain and my wipers don't switch into intermittent, or every time I realise I can't turn the car off before I raise all the windows.

[timneyb]

Rolex prototypes are hideous.

[Forgetful]

Rolex prototypes are hideous.

The older cars are not pretty, but the Corvette Prototype is pretty sweet.

[timneyb]

Rolex prototypes are hideous.

The older cars are not pretty, but the Corvette Prototype is pretty sweet.

Agreed. Looks like the R390 road car, if they had made more than 2.

The Ford though, looks like Towmater.

[clacksman]

Why, everytime I pull my rig back to vacuum and put it back according to the depressions in the carpet, is it no longer lined up at all?

[Forgetful]

INORITE?

[Wallhugger60]

INORITE?

That new laptop leave a indent in the carpet?

[Forgetful]

INORITE?

That new laptop leave a indent in the carpet?

No, my rig. The laptop's not here yet.

[SWERV_GRIFFIN]

INORITE?

That new laptop leave a indent in the carpet? your wallet:P

Fix'd. I'm just jealous, 'cause I want a new computer, but am too thrilled about being debt-free to buy what I really want.

[Forgetful]

lol, the wallet is undergoing an extensive weight reduction program thanks to that baby.

[Revengel]

Sad news for those who care...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/showbiz/gore-vidal-death/index.html?hpt=hp_c1



In related news, my first B-Spec driver G. Vidal will be retired this evening in respect.

[HWKII]

Sad news for those who care...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/showbiz/gore-vidal-death/index.html?hpt=hp_c1



In related news, my first B-Spec driver G. Vidal will be retired this evening in respect.

, classy move, retiring the Bob.

[clacksman]

Tom Hnatiw, marketing manager of the short-lived NATCC among other motorsports-related things, has also passed.