time to tart up the soggy old waterbed.

I'm a great advert for chemotherapy.

A couple of tidy looking ones on Autotrader for under that

But - you were skinnydoug well before you were ill...

To be fair to point five, though, buy lots of things old enough with air conditioning and that can very easily happen. Even to the fastest cross country missiles in the world, ever.

You mean the Ka had air-con. Or was it the Accord, or maybe the Saab.... hard to tell which car is the bestest in the whole world, ever these days, 'cos you've changed cars a few times in recent years.

Yup, it's up there as a must-have feature right alongside the soft-touch dash....

Peter

FFS, I thought it was accepted that on this newsgroup, whatever car a poster currently owns has the right to be the best car on the planet.

You of all people should be able to relate.

It isn't hard to keep up, but they all had a functional air conditioning compressor.

The bit where I was referring to the fastest cross country missiles in the world, ever, was taking the mickey out of your Primera and Passat pikey repmobiles. D'oh.

Heh. Hardly. I don't think that anything I've own is the best car on the planet, except the rally-winning Ka I suppose.

But, I did run one vehicle. One to commute. Same one for track days. Perfectly realistic.

Relate? SteveH? Nah.

Yes you did think that, that's how you/anyone justifies owning their choice of car, whether what makes it the best car is that it has beige paint, tinted windows, damped coin tray lid, soft touch dash, RWD V8, bukkake rear seats, 23" rims, shopping trolley chic, hairy chested 1970s madallion fun, no tax/MOT, returning 719.4MPG, tarts handbag tendencies or whatever. If it's not the best car you can buy for the money you have and what you want to do, why did you buy it, fool?

If you were in the position to though, would you genuinely not have more than 1 car? I know I would.

(c:

Hmm.

Yes, absolutely. But until I can afford that 911 I'm not going to compromise.

I did seriously entertain a Caterham as our one and only vehicle. Glad I didn't because we live in Pikesville heh.

Although plans are afoot to move somewhere less pikey with a garage...

Think of the tax and the fuel bills.... I mean, I have literally tens of pounds worth of fuel sat in a car that hasn't moved for a month.

Yes, but if you replace a =A360 suspension control arm 4 times in 100k=20 miles dependant on how you drive, then that is =A3240 in parts alone per=20 side. Or =A3480+fitting. I can get both supplied and fitted by an=20 independant for =A3350.

No more expensive when it needs doing, just a large hit in one go.

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I would just have the 911. A real one car that does everthing. Has to be an 80's idiot killer though.

Leave it two to three and you might even need to throw it away and get some fresh. Now that is depreciation.

No, whatever car *I* own at the moment is the best car on the planet.

Get it right wannabes.

Get a Clio V6 - just as likely to send you through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball if it's raining out :-p

Me too! 108kg down to 73 :-)

Could be worse, it could be in finland on the line that used to make=20 Tractors. Like the Boxster.

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We could start an exclusive weight loss clinic and offer a warrenty on the results.

"This time next year Dan - we'll be millionaires."