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FAO Mr Welfare RWD Rare Vauxhall/Opel frenzy!
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Posted 30 September 2007 - 03:15 PM
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Posted 08 October 2007 - 07:44 AM
And here it is! £150 worth of big jobbie -complete with disintergrating doors!

Actually -it doesnt seem to bad. When collected it was running like a crock of shit -but a bit of petrol and 3 buckets-full of water seemed to help!
30 mins -before it got dark -back at home seemed to confirm a solid honest car- bottoms of the doors need sorting, exhaust is on borrowed time and a rear damper has died. So -it'll be pugged up and off for MOT in a week or 2!!
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Posted 08 October 2007 - 10:33 AM
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Posted 08 October 2007 - 12:55 PM
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Posted 08 October 2007 - 03:11 PM
If you are desperate, I have 4 nice rotten doors on the Jag.Looks quite a nice old tank NB. I wouldnt mind having a go at those door bottoms. I've got the mig and the joggler thing for making a flush joint, I would buy a metal folder and a door skinning tool too and give it my best shot, never really tried to do a proper neat job of renewing rotten door bottoms.How did you get it back, did you trailer it? Is it an auto?
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Posted 08 October 2007 - 03:45 PM
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 07:18 AM
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 10:47 AM
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 11:28 AM
So basically all of those manufacturer's biggest cars were only comparable in size to a 5 Series? So the only competition out there for the 7 Series was from other premium brands (S Class, A8, LS430, XJ.....can't think of any others.).So a 407 is the same size as a 3 Series? The new Mondeo is the same size as a 3 Series? Because I'm sure I read somewhere they were aiming it at the 5 Series because there is no Scorpio or Scorpio sized car anymore. I'm assuming the Passat is also aimed at the 5 Series / A6 because the Phaeton must obviously be aimed at 7 Series / A8 customers? Although I've heard that the Passat is sister to the A4.....It's all very confusing. Take the 3 Series again......equivalent to an A4 would you say? Right ok then, but if the Passat is aimed at the 5 Series and the Phaeton the 7 Series, how can the Passat also be sister to the A4. I'd have said the Jetta was the same size as the 3 Series, which means it must also be the same size as the A4, therefore the Passat must be bigger & aimed at the 5 Series! What about the 1 Series......in the same mould as the A Class & A2 would you say? What then is equivalent to the A3 & the Golf?......the 3 Series? Can't be if the 3 Series is also equivalent to the A4 & the C Class which are both plainly bigger than the A3 & the Golf!It seems that if you were trying to decide on a new car & work out what competes with what, you'd have an awful job trying to decipher all the model ranges! It seems perhaps not all manufacturers have an answer for every model produced by the other manufacturers!so GM never did have a 'true' rival for the 7-series, mind you neither did Ford, Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Renault or any of the 'volume' manufacturers.

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Posted 09 October 2007 - 12:37 PM
Back in the 1980s, the Beemer 7 was retailing for about the same amount of dollar as the Range Rover and, dare I say it, that Ferrari engined Lancia Thema. Two excellent reasons not to buy BayerischenSo the only competition out there for the 7 Series was from other premium brands (S Class, A8, LS430, XJ.....can't think of any others.).
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 01:29 PM
Damn right. Put your car where the customers are - which may not be where your rivals are. That's why Mazda (and Rover) went niche market crazy in the early '90s.Keeping it simple, you are right that the A4 and Passat are related (and broadly similar), but they don't compete head-on - Audi can get away with higher pricing due to brand image and other intangible factors - which are mainly marketing guff anyway. But the platform is fundamentally identical. VAG (VW Audi Group) are the current kings of 'platform sharing' but, keeping it with a point of reference relative to you, FIAT did similar stuff in the 90s - the Tipo platform was used in the 145, 146, 155, Spider and GTV, Tempra, FIAT Coupe, Lancia Dedra and probably others I have forgotten about. Keeps costs low.In terms of whether a car competes 'on size', I wouldn't like to say what the parameters should be. I would expect these days for a Sierra-class car to be 15.5ft long and have a wheelbase around the 105" mark. Escort-class stuff might be around 13.5ft long and have a wheelbase around 100". The Americans - in a surprisingly sensible moment - use interior volume to class whether something is subcompact, compact, intermediate or full-size, as they call it.Problem is, stuff keeps growing - mainly for crash protection I guess. But a new Polo is bigger than a Mk1 (1974) Golf, and about 33% heavier. The 407 - ugly bugger that it is - is much bigger than my 405, but seems to have less rear legroom. Progress? My arse.I prescribe a nice cup of tea and a read-through of the data pages in What Car, so you can compare sizes (fnarr fnarr!). But I would say that while the A2, A-Class and 1-series may compare on price, they really aim at very, very different markets. If we're confused, imagine having to sell the thingsIt seems perhaps not all manufacturers have an answer for every model produced by the other manufacturers!

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Posted 09 October 2007 - 03:00 PM
I was under the impression that every manufacturer wants to have their own version of a car because of partly the fact that so many are willing to share bodies just so that they have their own representative in that segment covered (Galaxy/Alhambra/Sharan) but also because eventually every marque brings out, sometimes reluctantly, their own version of whatever's in fashion, even if it hasn't traditionally been their image. i.e. Mazda bringing out their own MPV without much effort & coming out much later than everybody elses', imaginatively called the er.......MPV! That is a real example of a company just filling a gap because it feels it should! Therefore it makes you feel that every company should have equivalent vehicles to each other, otherwise how can you relate them to the competition? By the same token SUVs....who'd have predicted a few years ago that virtually every manufacturer would offer one, especially Volvo & Porsche for god's sake!But the proof of what you say about companies looking at customer wants not what the opposition are doing is to be found in the Merc R Class. BMW were naturally planning their own version of the 'whatever-you-wanna-call-it-mobile' but they studied the Merc sales figures, decided it wasn't a winner & shelved their own plans. It seems somebody there must have some sense afterall!Damn right. Put your car where the customers are - which may not be where your rivals are. That's why Mazda (and Rover) went niche market crazy in the early '90s.It seems perhaps not all manufacturers have an answer for every model produced by the other manufacturers!

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