I keep having perverse thoughts that.....

*slap*

Join me and Doki and stay with the Swedes!!!

Seriously though, theres gotta be a better car than that that you want. I mean a 900 Turbo to a

I've one or two Alfas in mind, or the generation 4 prelude.

No chance of a Civic, a VX or an Opel, don't really like the fords i can afford, and an MR2, Supra, or Celica that I would quite fancy are well pricey.

All very sound choices. Much better than a Smart! Better start doing some overtime!

Help??

Find a strong bloke (stronger than you that is) and tell him that his wife is even uglier than his mother.

After the beating up your thoughts and priorities will be straight again.

;)

Tom De Moor

- Q: What is twice as bad as a Smart? -

- A: 2 Smarts! -

Driving through Weston Super Mare on Wednesday morning, I saw one of those little Smart cars decked out in full police livery... could hardly believe my eyes!

Know what you mean. An ideal commute car for me. Gotta have some funky paint scheme though.

mate sod that, if you want a good quick cheap car grab a toyota starlet turbo,

1.3 or 1.4 can't remember turbo and very tunable i heard and are knocking about at £3k-4k

Saw one going down the A35 the other that was bright pink. Looked like something you'd buy for a Barbie doll. IIRC the sunstrip said 'Yes, it's pink'. The g/f loved it though.

Just looking at ebay for some bits i need and come across this. I think it may be to your tastes:

get a brabus coupe, I sat in one and liked it, I'm sure it could be tuned as well.

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Oh the bosses would love that. It's free, as much as I want.

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Oh that was the plan. Was thinking about spending upto £2k on a Prelude as it is smaller than the Saab, and better in fuel, over 30 to the gallon, but losing the turbo, then I thought, well, what about spending £3k and getting 60 to the gallon, and keeping the turbo. I do about 37 miles aday, 30 of which is motorway (M62 into and out of Manchester over the rollercoaster just before Warrington). So it is hardly a long run.

Oh it would have to be either black or white, and vinyled upto the gills.

'The car is immaculate apart fromt he rusty doors and arches'

Bwahaha.

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But they are stupidly stupid, you can't go wrong.

The builder who does all our contract buidling (is 6foot+, built like a brick shithouse, smokes rollies like me) and is a mate of the boss drives one. His is pretty plain, but it has the plate V 6UTE. That was the one that got me thinking. Also I wonder how much PC gear you could get in, I know of a guy with a popup 17" screen in the front of his Smart.

You lucky bugger!!

unfortunatley, unless you build the 6cylinder twin turbo engine, the Brabus version is tuned.

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What was it mate, i can't get the link to work, but my ISP is totally shagged ATM

You do a _total_ of 37 miles / day and you're thinking of splashing out £3k on a car to save on fuel economy?

Have you actually worked out how long it will take you to recover the £3k you've just spent on the car in lower petrol consumption?

Working on 12k miles / year, it's going to be 2 years before you're back in profit on the deal, that's _if_ the Saab only averages 30mpg, and _if_ the Smart manages 60mpg...... I'd say you're looking at closer to 3 years, as you'll have to absolutely cane the Smart to make any sort of reasonable progress - with the obvious effect on fuel consumption.

Volvo 480 Turbo.

Ewwww!

Go to the ebay.co.uk home page and put item 2483411000 in the search box.