The General Wibble Thread

Apologies for moving away from the car topic but I think I've just witnessed a 'top 3 ever' sunset. No photoshopping required! Photo taken in our back garden about 20 minutes ago.

What about a civic type R ? Lovely car and fast :)

Lovely photo BB - doesn't look natural though does it? It does look as though you've added purple to it ...

Iceman wrote:What about a civic?

scooby is a bit dull looking car. Not very curvy

Icy?
You like curvy cars?
Do you wear lipstick as well?
Or is that only when you are skiing? 8)

Total Wibble. A non-alpine water colour of our previous Guide Dog trainee, Mitchell:

Icy, back to the cars: I've had A3's and they're decent, but you get more car for the money with a VW golf or better still a Seat Leon. I had an FR which is the sporty one which was fab to drive. However, for someone doing a 90 mile trip to work wtf do you want a petrol engine for?

Also do look at an insignia, massive inside, and the 160bhp diesel is lively and superb on fuel.

Personally I like the Leon, it's got more attitude than the others in its class and driver really well.

I've got asn Insignia Elite Sport Tourer. Get about 35mpg, which I am not overly impressed with, compared to my previous Passat. The engine is lively though, but I am also disappointed by the number of times I have had to take it back for various things that have gone wrong. It's got all the gizmos you can think of, but what for I don't know - it only needs to get me from A to B at the end of the day.

We've got an Audi A3 2.0 tdi as a business contract hire car. Decent enough but very pricey with a list price of £25,000 if a non business purchase or lease. It;s absolutely impossible to get anywhere near the official fuel economy figures. We are achieving 53mpg combined against official figures of something like 66mpg and that's with easy A road driving. I really don't like the gearing on the car. It's set up with economy in mind and I'm constantly changing up and down gear unless cruising on a motorway. Wouldn't have another one for this reason alone - back to a 3 litre auto diesel for the next lease car!