Tim Moores wrote:Trendy. I'm guessing we're talking about a Mini-sized midlife crisis here? :-)
That's what I told the salesperson: "I need something for my midlife crisis." (I neglected to mention I've been having a midlife crisis for the past 30 years.)
Jelle Klap wrote:Sweet! Is that a Cooper S? I got my new wheels last Friday, a 2012 Opel Astra GTC. Don't have any photos of it yet, though.
Yes, it's an S. (From the front, you can tell by the air scoop on the hood and the honeycomb grille instead of the chrome slats. From the rear, the centered dual exhausts.) Congrats on the Opel! What color is it?
Mike Simmons wrote:Nice, Marc. Congrats. But how will you transport your grill?
It doubles as a grill! The interior is already "charcoal," so all I need to do is open the sunroof and light it up.
marc weber wrote:
Yes, it's an S. (From the front, you can tell by the air scoop on the hood and the honeycomb grille instead of the chrome slats. From the rear, the centered dual exhausts.) Congrats on the Opel! What color is it?
Yeah, that's what I thought. That's a great car right there!
The color is what Opel calls Carbon Black, and what I call the-only-acceptable-color-for-any-car-ever
Hahaha, yeah I know what you mean.
I start out by diligently washing my car on every weekend, which quickly becomes every other weekend.
That in turn becomes once a month, and - well you get the point After a while the carwash really becomes the only viable option.
Jelle Klap wrote:... After a while the carwash really becomes the only viable option.
Well, the nice thing about the Mini is that my first 6 years of maintenance is covered, and they wash the car when I bring it in, so it won't be completely neglected.
Jelle Klap wrote:... After a while the carwash really becomes the only viable option.
Well, the nice thing about the Mini is that my first 6 years of maintenance is covered, and they wash the car when I bring it in, so it won't be completely neglected.
That's a great deal!
I'm not going to make 6 years in this one, because I'm on the road a lot - too much maybe.
It's a company car and it's got (I believe) around 120.000 kilometers on the contract, or a maximum of 4 years of use, which ever comes first.
In my case that'll likely be the former, because my former car (Seat Leon) had a diesel engine, with more kilometers on the contract, and I hit 176.000 kilometers in slightly over 3 years...
My brother also has a Mini. Nice car, but it's small.
I'm looking for a new car too: the new Mercedes A Class:
This model is brand new and totally different from the old A Class, the prices have been announced here in NL just last week. I'm not going to buy it very soon, but maybe in a few months.
Jesper de Jong wrote:My brother also has a Mini. Nice car, but it's small.
I'm looking for a new car too: the new Mercedes A Class:
This model is brand new and totally different from the old A Class, the prices have been announced here in NL just last week. I'm not going to buy it very soon, but maybe in a few months.
Wow! That looks nothing like the previous model!
Looks great!
Ugh,yesterday evening on my way home from work a road pebble hit my windshield, and cracked it.
Went to see if it could be mended this morning, but they said it couldn't be, and that the whole windhsield would have to be replaced.
I've had it for exactly 7 days
Jelle Klap wrote:Ugh,yesterday evening on my way home from work a road pebble hit my windshield, and cracked it.
Went to see if it could be mended this morning, but they said it couldn't be, and that the whole windhsield would have to be replaced.
I've had it for exactly 7 days
Wow, I imagine that's covered by insurance, albeit with an unpleasant deductible. Make sure it's good glass -- don't replace it with a cheap windshield!
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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I'm not qualified for that color.
