Talking Car for Auction!!!

Yes, it is a talking car!

Probably well suitable for Devon Miles...

If that car could talk it would scream "Shoot me."

Fraser

Is that the right link...? Cos all i see it an MOTless Ambassador as well?

AFAICR, didn't the Ambassador rattle endlessly on about seatbelts not being worn and oil temperature and all that jazz?

Meant whatever it was that did, then.

I think it was actually the early Maestros that could talk:

Thought the only talking dash car Leyland made was the early MG Maestro?

When I was a kid, the guy across the road owned one.

I recall, looking after the house during some holiday and being on call for the shops, there was a break in at the Slough branch and I had to scrounge a lift to get there. Nice car, I said, and so forth, well you do when you're getting a favour, but after a few miles of "oil pressure low" and "passenger seat belt is not in use" or whatever it was coming up with, I decided that the car would never be for me.

Owner seemed equally embarrassed.

Maybe my memory is playing me false, certainly it might have been a different model of car.

Anyway, whatever the car was / is, I don't think it would say "shoot me", I think it would say "bumper is happy, friendly tea time and pass the Saki, only a fool would note check the oil levels after ten American year, " or the like. In a singsong voice. And then you'd shoot it. (Is this how language evolves?)

And some early Montegos.

Meant that then.

Funniest thing you can do is park up, leave the lights on, and walk away. It literally seems to power down the window and yell, "oi! you've left your lights on!"

:)