Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Ducati 750SS - Hongdou GY200
Alfa 75 TSpark - Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE

On Jul 21, 11:32*pm, (SteveH) wrote:
Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'www.italiancar.co.uk- Ducati 750SS - Hongdou GY200
Alfa 75 TSpark - Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE

Test it an decide. The auto LPT I drove was nice, but a bit wallowy
and the steering was silly light. But still a nice place to be when
driver and front passenger get to choose their own vent temperature.

Test it an decide. The auto LPT I drove was nice, but a bit wallowy
and the steering was silly light. But still a nice place to be when
driver and front passenger get to choose their own vent temperature.

All well and good, this modern fancy fandangled dual-zone malarkey. But the
air all mixes together in the end....

--
"For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

"SteveH" wrote in message
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Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

Do you like tyre smoke?

:-)

Mike P

Mike P wrote:
"SteveH" wrote in message
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Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

Do you like tyre smoke?

:-)

Irrelevant, we all like other people's tyre smoke, and that's all that
should matter.

--
Douglas

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
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Mike P wrote:
"SteveH" wrote in message
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Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

Do you like tyre smoke?

:-)

Irrelevant, we all like other people's tyre smoke, and that's all that
should matter.


Yebbut weren't Saabs **** last week...?

;-)

DanB wrote:

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
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Mike P wrote:
"SteveH" wrote in message
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Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

Do you like tyre smoke?

:-)

Irrelevant, we all like other people's tyre smoke, and that's all that
should matter.


Yebbut weren't Saabs **** last week...?

;-)

They're still **** - looked at the facelift 9-5 today and it was like
stepping back 20 years.

On the other hand, 260bhp is quite nice.
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Ducati 750SS - Hongdou GY200
Alfa 75 TSpark - Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE

"SteveH" wrote in message
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DanB wrote:

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
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Mike P wrote:
"SteveH" wrote in message
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Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by
my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

Do you like tyre smoke?

:-)

Irrelevant, we all like other people's tyre smoke, and that's all that
should matter.


Yebbut weren't Saabs **** last week...?

;-)

They're still **** - looked at the facelift 9-5 today and it was like
stepping back 20 years.

On the other hand, 260bhp is quite nice.


Hmm, I dunno, like I said on MSN t'other night, you've never said any Saab
has been anything but ****, and if you had that opinion after getting in a
nearly new one today, I can't see that 260bhp, stopping for fuel every 300
miles tops (at £80 a time) and getting new front tyres every 5k miles tops -
assuming you don't power understeer into ditch first - is going to make you
happy :-)

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65

DanB wrote:
"SteveH" wrote in message
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DanB wrote:

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
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Mike P wrote:
"SteveH" wrote in message
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Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK by
my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

Do you like tyre smoke?

:-)
Irrelevant, we all like other people's tyre smoke, and that's all that
should matter.

Yebbut weren't Saabs **** last week...?

;-)
They're still **** - looked at the facelift 9-5 today and it was like
stepping back 20 years.

On the other hand, 260bhp is quite nice.


Hmm, I dunno, like I said on MSN t'other night, you've never said any Saab
has been anything but ****, and if you had that opinion after getting in a
nearly new one today, I can't see that 260bhp, stopping for fuel every 300
miles tops (at £80 a time) and getting new front tyres every 5k miles tops -
assuming you don't power understeer into ditch first - is going to make you
happy :-)

They do have comfy seats though. And a button which turns all the dash
lights off except the speedo. And the ignition locks the transmission
in Park when you take the key out.

grin

--
Douglas

"DanB" wrote in message
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"SteveH" wrote in message
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DanB wrote:

"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
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Mike P wrote:
"SteveH" wrote in message
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Must resist.

£8k for an 05 plater with Sat Nav and all the toys.

Outrageous value for money - and they've already been passed as OK
by my
boss, as a colleague is ordering a brand new estate version.

Do you like tyre smoke?

:-)

Irrelevant, we all like other people's tyre smoke, and that's all that
should matter.


Yebbut weren't Saabs **** last week...?

;-)

They're still **** - looked at the facelift 9-5 today and it was like
stepping back 20 years.

On the other hand, 260bhp is quite nice.


Hmm, I dunno, like I said on MSN t'other night, you've never said any Saab
has been anything but ****, and if you had that opinion after getting in a
nearly new one today, I can't see that 260bhp, stopping for fuel every 300
miles tops (at £80 a time) and getting new front tyres every 5k miles
tops - assuming you don't power understeer into ditch first - is going to
make you happy :-)


Oh and you'd have a car, based on a Vectra, but where the Vectra version of
yours (the VXR) is far better to drive, and far more able to use the power.
Could you handle that embarassment ;-) ? I mean, I know you don't like the
VXR inside, but aside from Clarkson, who did that silly review, everyone
reckons that they're actually really rather excellent. Evo had one as a
long term tester, than even did track time. It never went wrong, and it
kept up with some very exotic machinary cross country.