***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

toastedpickles

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

A look at the saab you say, local meet you say?
If it's saturday count me in

Slow down there lads :pac: I'd like to have it running first at least :pac:

Cantona's Collars

New 4 part series The Petrol Age started on Sky Atlantic now.

dgt

zerks wrote: »

New 4 part series The Petrol Age started on Sky Atlantic now.

Speaking of new series' on tv, Top Gear is back next Sunday :cool:

dgt

dgt wrote: »

Speaking of new series' on tv, Top Gear is back next Sunday :cool:

And speaking of Top Gear, the Bolivia special is on right now on BBC 2 due to the snooker finishing very early (thanks rocket Ronnie!!! )

Cleveland Hot Pocket

zerks wrote: »

New 4 part series The Petrol Age started on Sky Atlantic now.

It's a great series, saw it last time they ran it. Episode 2 and 3 were my favs.

Sobanek

Guys, if you were to choose between a 2001 Volvo S60 2.0T and a 2001 BMW 520i, which one would you pick and why?

colm_mcm

The volvo is more powerful but the bmw will be a better drive.
I'd probably have the volvo.

dgt

dgt wrote: »

Speaking of new series' on tv, Top Gear is back next Sunday :cool:

According to Sky, Dragon's Den is on at 9 next week and no sign of TG before or after.

toastedpickles

Sobanek wrote: »

Guys, if you were to choose between a 2001 Volvo S60 2.0T and a 2001 BMW 520i, which one would you pick and why?

Volvo, because it's not a bmw :pac:

Ah no to be honest mine would be down to safety, it's got a 4 star safety rating and you don't really see much of them plus if you get a decent one you can get alot of stuff with them, koppaberg on here had an s80 and that thing was loaded with features, I'd be with colm on this and go for the volvo too

dgt

Rwd is addictive :cool:

But 2.0T can be remapped further....

Depends on what you want from the car, fast or rwd couch?

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Sobanek wrote: »

Guys, if you were to choose between a 2001 Volvo S60 2.0T and a 2001 BMW 520i, which one would you pick and why?

BMW for the rear wheel drive
More fun, more of a driving experience.

Ded_Zebra

Sobanek wrote: »

Guys, if you were to choose between a 2001 Volvo S60 2.0T and a 2001 BMW 520i, which one would you pick and why?

Whichever one has cream leather!

With the same colour interior and exterior, similar milage and history I would probably go for the Volvo. If the BMW is better in one of those things I who'd go for it

Sobanek

Sobanek wrote: »

Guys, if you were to choose between a 2001 Volvo S60 2.0T and a 2001 BMW 520i, which one would you pick and why?

I would drive both of them and take my time weighing up the pros and cons of each in my head and then make a decision based on that.

You are buying the car and you will have to be in it all the time so it should be whichever one you feel happier about.

Sobanek

Just asking since maybe someone owned both.
Couch cruiser aka the S60 is the one I've driven so far - very comfortable and since it's wide, it's decent on the road too. The BMW will definitely feel much different, but tthe Volvo is better from a performance perspective.
My head is wrecked. Maybe I should just get a Micra and shut up

Kintarō Hattori

Sobanek wrote: »

Just asking since maybe someone owned both.
Couch cruiser aka the S60 is the one I've driven so far - very comfortable and since it's wide, it's decent on the road too. The BMW will definitely feel much different, but tthe Volvo is better from a performance perspective.
My head is wrecked. Maybe I should just get a Micra and shut up

Pfft lightweight! I spent over 12 months procrastinating as to which car we'd upgrade to from our K11.

Quazzie

I've only just realised that the Bugatti Veyron, was originally designed as a concept car for Seat in 2003.

Veyron

Seat Cupra GT concept.

Obviously not identical but I think it's fair to say there is a definite similarity there.

toastedpickles

Sobanek wrote: »

Just asking since maybe someone owned both.
Couch cruiser aka the S60 is the one I've driven so far - very comfortable and since it's wide, it's decent on the road too. The BMW will definitely feel much different, but tthe Volvo is better from a performance perspective.
My head is wrecked. Maybe I should just get a Micra and shut up

Ah no, are you set on those two or are you open to other cars of similar type?

toastedpickles

Quazzie wrote: »

I've only just realised that the Bugatti Veyron, was originally designed as a concept car for Seat in 2003.

Veyron

Seat Cupra GT concept.

Obviously not identical but I think it's fair to say there is a definite similarity there.

The shape of the body is fairly similar, if you had silhouettes of both and showed them to a few people they'd probably say they were both veyrons

Sobanek

toastedpickles wrote: »

Ah no, are you set on those two or are you open to other cars of similar type?

Looking for something decent on power and well equipped that won't make me bankrupt basically.

Supergurrier

Sobanek wrote: »

Guys, if you were to choose between a 2001 Volvo S60 2.0T and a 2001 BMW 520i, which one would you pick and why?

What does it matter what random people on the internet who have probably driven either think.

Test drive both and see which suits YOU

toastedpickles

Sobanek wrote: »

Looking for something decent on power and well equipped that won't make me bankrupt basically.

Unlike myself so :pac: Hmmm, a mercedes e200 perhaps? advantgard spec?

Sobanek

toastedpickles wrote: »

Unlike myself so :pac: Hmmm, a mercedes e200 perhaps? advantgard spec?

I'm 20, not 40 :P

And it's AVANTGARDE

toastedpickles

Sobanek wrote: »

I'm 20, not 40 :P

And it's AVANTGARDE

Touche :pac: what about an opc astra? seeing as you're from newbridge I presume you've seen the blue one going about?

Sobanek

toastedpickles wrote: »

Touche :pac: what about an opc astra? seeing as you're from newbridge I presume you've seen the blue one going about?

Astra OPC = High Performance Death Trap = No insurance.

Would love a GTI Golf though, but insurance is ridiculous on that. More expensive than for an E39 530i

Supergurrier

toastedpickles wrote: »

Touche :pac: what about an opc astra? seeing as you're from newbridge I presume you've seen the blue one going about?

Wouldn't be fun getting insured on one at 20

toastedpickles

Supergurrier wrote: »

Wouldn't be fun getting insured on one at 20

Seems like he's in a bit of a....pickle? :pac: I'd say do what SG said and test both of them and see what you think of them

Chris_Heilong

Well that was interesting, just back from a car meet/cruise, it seemed well organised being underground(so no problems with rain), they had a DJ and I think there were models also. Not really my scene unfortunately, being 34 myself and the average age being around 24 it was one of those times I felt really old:p. A problem I saw were people sticking to the groups they knew and not branching out. Lucky someone had an FTO so I talked about that. There were around 60 cars there Japanese/European and when they were moving on to the next spot I choose that as the time to bow out. I did hear police sirens in the distance as I left them.

Chris_Heilong

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Well that was interesting, just back from a car meet/cruise, it seemed well organised being underground(so no problems with rain), they had a DJ and I think there were models also. Not really my scene unfortunately, being 34 myself and the average age being around 24 it was one of those times I felt really old:p. A problem I saw were people sticking to the groups they knew and not branching out. Lucky someone had an FTO so I talked about that. There were around 60 cars there Japanese/European and when they were moving on to the next spot I choose that as the time to bow out. I did hear police sirens in the distance as I left them.

You sure you didn't stumble onto the set of Fast and Furious Tallaght Drift?? :pac:

Chris_Heilong

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

You sure you didn't stumble onto the set of Fast and Furious Tallaght Drift?? :pac:

lol:D, I was going to compare it to that but they weren't messing or "diffin" so I had to respect that. Dont know about what happened after I left but the organiser said they would like it to be a monthly event.

Ded_Zebra

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

lol:D, I was going to compare it to that but they weren't messing or "diffin" so I had to respect that. Dont know about what happened after I left but the organiser said they would like it to be a monthly event.

A quality i really appreciate at a meet. Nothing make me more uncomfortable than some tool of unknown ability throwing a car around a carpark full of people standing around. Recipe for 16 broken legs or someone being killed

I'm definitely going to go next month, that's a promise