*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********

I didn't know that Thanksgiving ever had meaning here. :pac:

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Pfft. Look at ye with yer inerweb black friday shoppin. Its not the same unless you elbow a 90 year old great grand mother in the face trying to get the last Dolce Gusto coffee machine in the middle of Tesco that will be 50% cheaper again in January. Thanksgiving has clearly lost all meaning here :pac:

That reminds of when I was in Waterford to get some flooring in b&q or whichever one closed down a few years ago and I just needed a few extra boxes and it was a coincidence that it was the closing down clearing out sale. Christ I walked In and there was literally fights people buying so much unnecessary crap as it was cheap. I walked down an isle and there was a man on the phone to his wife and he genuinely said "Ye they have immersions here 60% off I think I'll pick up one our one is fine but you never know when you will need one" I mean a fcuking immersion they generally last 20-30 years not like they are replaced every year I got some laugh that day :pac:

It abit like in the boom you'd walk into woodies and there would always be a husband that clearly had an office job or whatever and the wife after nagging him for so long about putting up a few shelves and a counter top. So there he would be at the checkout with the bit of counter top and few shelves sub 50 quids worth but then he would also have hand tools, cordless drill, sds drill, extension lead, skill saw, jig saw, tool box etc etc about 400 quid worth of tools I've seen it so much far cheaper to get the professionals in.

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Speaking of laughs, last weekend a bouncer asks the fella in front of us to stand aside, says something like "stand out here buddy". The gombeen goes "get your hands off me, I'm not your buddy, mate". Mightn't seem funny now, but I p1ssed myself laughing, he didn't even cop the contradiction.

That reminds me of that "stop search seize" programme on sky one set in Ireland all they ever find is green diesel smokes, vrt evaders mostly in ****boxes and owl ones working the post giggling over sex toys it's cringe worthy at its best.

But there one fella in Dublin airport calls everyone buddy who got mad at someone for calling him mate I just wanted to box him

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Took advantage of this whole isis **** and ryanairs flight sale and have got return flights and a massive suite in one of the top hotels in brussels (300m from everything it seems) for less than 130 quid the week before christmas.

Looked at going a few weeks ago and it was working out a lot more expensive

All the belgian beer shall be drank

Make sure Autoworld is on the agenda, then go opposite to the military museum where you can sink a couple of Leffes in the shadow of a Hind gunship!

Both are by the Arc de Triomphe/Parc de Cinquentenaire.

5W30 wrote: »

Yep, my car is about 50 shades of silver right now and I probably won't bother washing it until the weather is good.

All it takes is to merge onto a motorway behind a truck and your car looks like ****e again...

Roads are laced with muck out here. Waiting for a heavy day of rain to wash it all away

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Autoworld certainly is. Not sure about the military war museum, I'm going to London four days before that and might be all military war mueumed out.

Lovely gastro bar called La Terrace just beside Autoworld. Also get a kebab from one of the shops near the Bourse.

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I've never seen a car for sale as long as this Mazda3 MPS :eek:

I'm not surprised it's still there but you'd imagine that after a certain length of time they would have though to export it to the UK. At least it would have had a better chance at selling there!

They've probably forgotten it exists. Kellys in Rathdrum sell absolutely ridiculous cars, head past the dealership it's all Porsches, Lambos, Ferraris and stuff even more exotic than that, all with 6 figure price tags.

be easy to forget about the VRT rebate on a 30k Mazda when you are trying to close on that quarter of a million quid F458 next to it.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ferrari-458-italia-carbon-seats/10600664

why that's even on donedeal is beyond me, but most of their "good" stock is along those lines.

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

They've probably forgotten it exists. Kellys in Rathdrum sell absolutely ridiculous cars, head past the dealership it's all Porsches, Lambos, Ferraris and stuff even more exotic than that, all with 6 figure price tags.

be easy to forget about the VRT rebate on a 30k Mazda when you are trying to close on that quarter of a million quid F458 next to it.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ferrari-458-italia-carbon-seats/10600664

why that's even on donedeal is beyond me, but most of their "good" stock is along those lines.

Shur the 458 and the MPS are almost the same car! Same colour and all!

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Shur the 458 and the MPS are almost the same car! Same colour and all!

if you squint really really hard :pac:

ofcork wrote: »

Id say the guys in the nct would be falling over themselves to test the ferrari!

i'd say they were all terrified of it. they mightn't have wanted to have made twats of themselves fumbling looking for the bonnet release handle or acting like they'd ever seen a carbon fiber chassis before.

Donnelly117 wrote: »

It seems expensive... Also they barely bothered taking photos of it, the average buyer probably looks at it and says 32k for a mazda is nuts!! I wish it looked as fast as it goes but maybe the sleeper look was what they were going for...

It's expensive because it's a 2007 model that never sold to anyone and has been going from garage to garage for the last number of years so it has been advertised as a 2007 all the way up to 2015 (and 2016 next year) due to the fact that it's still waiting for its first owner. I kind of feel sorry for it actually. It's like a puppy waiting desperately for a home!

They were indeed going for the sleeper look with it and the 6 MPS alike.

The fact that it keeps being advertised as a new car every year would make me think that it hasn't been registered yet. Warranty may only kick in once the car is actually sold.

Asmooh wrote: »

Almost one month left before I will be driving in Ireland for the first time ever

In a LHD MX5?

I thought you had driven in Ireland before though.