Audi....

[Mr Lobster]

Does anybody remember the "From A to B" fly on the wall series in 1992-ish? One of the episodes was about reps.There was a Cavalier driver explaining the hierarchy. He wouldn't move over if the Cav behind had grey bumpers but he'd definitely move if it had foglights and there were several trim levels in between. He wasn't joking.There was another rep who was literally in tears as he talked about the day he got his new company car. Everybody was smirking as he came into work. There was a Rover key on his desk and he went out expecting to find a Rover 200 but it was a Maestro Clubman Diesel. "I feel like the company's shat on me" he said.

I was just trying to remember what that series was called before I read your post!Was superb, a window into the tiny, sad lives of spec obsessed reps.

[AnthonyG]

In a variation on the theme started by Baz, I have noticed that the Golf Mk4 now seems to have become the young mad driver car of choice, in the same way the Corsa was in recent years. This is not to say I have seen particularly chavved up ones (in rural Wales the body kits would all get ripped off anyway) just noticed a lot of aggressive driving by young men and women in Golf Mk4s, always the earliest ones - S,T,V reg etc. Obviously these are now plentiful for less than a grand. How long before the Audi A3 and BMW E46 3 series follow?

[r.welfare]

Christ man, I remember when the E46 3-series had just come out (over 10 years ago now), I'd just started work and was auditing a BMW dealership and the salesman was trying to flog me a 328i on the showroom floor for 35 grand , about 3 times what I was earning annually at the time!I've seen early Mk4 Golfs advertised at the side of the road (in Bradford) for about £1600, non-aircon jobs though. I assume an E46 starts at around £2k - which is the cheapest I've seen A3s for locally, although no doubt they are cheaper at the bombsite auctions these days.Anyway, some spiky-haired nob in a 52-plate Corsa tried to run me off the road earlier...

[garycox]

Surely even now you'd be lucky to get a half decent mk4 Golf for a grand...

[Guest]

I have some of the Jonathon meads programmes on video, how you get it on a PC is something else mind

I can transfer them, I have a VHS \ DV unit with a firewire connection :)Weird thing was, I drove papa Watanabe's Bummer 2.5 Touring and it HATED being driven slowly. Only seemed happy in the outside lane of the M56 doing 90.Get much hatred in the Amazon also.Well, I will with 40 mighty horses under my right foot. It should have 68 (OMG) but the rings are on the shagged side of knackered.Perhaps I will do more than put new rings on. The B18A does have very low compression pistons, dontchaknow.

[Chris_W_Q4]

How about the Mitsubishi L200 "Warrior"?Vulgar in yer-face styling causing arrogant self confidence which is totally out of sync with the shit handling, braking and performance.I see them being driven like a nob all the time and it annoys the hell out of me. What a tit-mobile!!

[M'coli]

How about the Mitsubishi L200 "Warrior"?Vulgar in yer-face styling causing arrogant self confidence which is totally out of sync with the shit handling, braking and performance.I see them being driven like a nob all the time and it annoys the hell out of me. What a tit-mobile!!

Best comment I've heard about them was on the Car Mechanics Forum:the L200 allegedly "crack cylinder heads for fun"

[Mat.T]

A friend of mine collected a motorbike last week i offered to drive him there and follow him back, its was a 700cc suzuki so not a slug, but my mate dicided sensilbly to take it easy on the way home keeping to 50 in the national speed limit bits. Audi A6 estate driver took great offence at this first by tailgating me in my mazda then over took and started tailgating my mate on the bike! At one point he was about a metre from his back wheel. (and we all know what happens when a car hits a bike!) All i could do was flash my lights to try get get him to back off, which he didnt we eventually turned off the main road and got out of audi mans way. Mate on the bike said he could here the audis gearchanges he was so close!If its modern silver turbo diesel then there is a pretty good chance is will be right up you arse!

[chaseracer]

Which was that Audi advert where the car rushed towards you on spider's legs, with its huge aggressive grille menacing "in your face" almost out of the TV screen?

RS6 Best bit was right at the end... half a second or so of V10 under load...

[pogweasel]

How about the Mitsubishi L200 "Warrior"?Vulgar in yer-face styling causing arrogant self confidence which is totally out of sync with the shit handling, braking and performance.I see them being driven like a nob all the time and it annoys the hell out of me. What a tit-mobile!!

Best comment I've heard about them was on the Car Mechanics Forum:the L200 allegedly "crack cylinder heads for fun"

Living in a 'builders town' (i.e. where every twunthole lager-swilling meathead in the pub on a saturday is a self-employed builder with a tanning/nail salon for the wife) I despise the L200/ That said, those arrogant, thick cunts are all going bankrupt in the cruch, which amuses me. Well at least it will until I finish up in the insolvency courts too.....

[Pillock]

Living in a 'builders town' (i.e. where every twunthole lager-swilling meathead in the pub on a saturday is a self-employed builder with a tanning/nail salon for the wife) I despise the L200/ That said, those arrogant, thick cunts are all going bankrupt in the cruch, which amuses me. Well at least it will until I finish up in the insolvency courts too.....

I hate the L200s purely for the fact that the guy renovating the house over the road insists on parking outside my house, even though if he bothers to drive another 200 yards to his access road he can loop back and park the fucking thing on his back garden. Nob. He'll even park slap bang in the middle of a 20 foot long gap just so it's aligned centrally to his house.But yeah, the early Mk4 Golfs are under a grand, and are now wannabe-drug-dealer fodder. "100bhp TDI Mk4 Golf - £895Red nail varnish to colour the DI on the badge - £2.50Crappy gansta window tints - £60Realising it's the lowest bhp per pound of any car, ever - priceless"

[Richard]

That episode of From A to B is on BBC4 this Wednesday at the stupid time of 23:50. I'll be watching it on iPlayer.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hvb9g/upcoming

[254575]

WTF its not on iplayer... ive watched all the others on there....what is the meaning of this!!!!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j4d3l

[AXrescuer]

I watched it and it was pretty enjoyable. I loved the sales rep who said he and his wife were in tears after his employer took away his Cavalier and gave him a Maestro Diesel Clubman! He wondered what he had done wrong!

[martc]

Being an avid biker in the 80's/90's, the car to watch out for was a Volvo - any Volvo. They were drivern by myopic pinheads who were taken in by the safety propaganda surrounding Volvos and consequently drove like idiots safe in the knowledge that they wouldn't get hurt - and bugger the rest of you.As for the Rep programme - remember the discussion about the type of coat hanger to display in the rear window, as a sort of badge of honour? I seem to recall one rep going to great lengths to acquire a Harrods one! Knobs.

[Richard]

WTF its not on iplayer... ive watched all the others on there....what is the meaning of this!!!!http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j4d3l

I know, I am fucking fuming. I have emailed them my displeasure. They should have something on iPlayer or not, instead of fucking around with half measures. Wankers.

[254575]

WTF its not on iplayer... ive watched all the others on there....what is the meaning of this!!!!http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j4d3l

I know, I am fucking fuming. I have emailed them my displeasure. They should have something on iPlayer or not, instead of fucking around with half measures. Wankers.

i've just checked, its available to download on thebox.bz