Things You Didnt Know you Didnt Know

[Micrashed]

Until 12.46pm today I had no idea there was a BMW 4 series. 

 

Then I was sat behind one in a traffic jam whilst on my way to buy a flap wheel.

 

[STUNO]

I think it is a 3 series with a 1 series motor !

[Richard]

Skizzer has one I believe. I think it's a 3 Series with a hatch.

[Matt]

It's a replacement for the 3 Series Coupe, normal shaped 3 Series' will continue to be called the 3 Series and the 4 Coupe is the only 4 Series model.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Skizzer has one I believe. I think it's a 3 Series with a hatch.

Skizzer has one I believe. I think it's a 3 Series with a hatch.

No that's 3GT, a 4 is a 3 coupe. To confuse things more Mr Skiz has a 4 Series Gran Coupe, I believe, which is a 4 door in a Merc CLS style. Clear now?

[r.welfare]

Audi and BMW seem to belatedly be copying Mercedes, who seemed to be on a mission to create a model named using every letter of the alphabet and then some a few years back. To this day I don't think I've ever seen a GLK, for example - although I don't feel I have suffered as a result.

 

The only 'new' BMW I thoroughly approve of the looks of is the 6 Gran Coupe. I've always felt the 'new' Sixes look overwrought, but stretching the wheelbase has evened out the proportions nicely.

[Cavcraft]

Wait til you see the one that looks like a Renault Scenic.

[Leyland Lawrence]

Audi and BMW seem to belatedly be copying Mercedes, who seemed to be on a mission to create a model named using every letter of the alphabet and then some a few years back. To this day I don't think I've ever seen a GLK, for example - although I don't feel I have suffered as a result.

 

The only 'new' BMW I thoroughly approve of the looks of is the 6 Gran Coupe. I've always felt the 'new' Sixes look overwrought, but stretching the wheelbase has evened out the proportions nicely.

This gets me thinking. Why are some car model letters 'faster sounding' or 'posher sounding' than others?

 

A yes

B - G no

H Could be

i Definitely

J-K no

L was once perhaps

M Yes

N no

O no

P no but has potential

Q no but has potential. Kit car and write off connotations though.

R S and T Yes definitely

U no

VWX yes

Y probably not

Z yes

[Richard]

Have Mercedes made an SL520GT yet? That's the registration number of my wife's car and it would be very handy if we could sell the plate before the car expires.

[tooSavvy]

have done this before....

 

Nissan INTERSTAR SE van

 

letters removed, skilfully, to reveal....

 

IN ERS ARSE

 

Really laughed in the traffic queue behind [sic] that one 

 

TS

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Have Mercedes made an SL520GT yet? That's the registration number of my wife's car and it would be very handy if we could sell the plate before the car expires.

Many years ago I picked up a BMW 518 from an auction for my missus,we'd had it about a year when someone pointed out the reg number would suit a Porsche,it was A928 SGT. This was long before t'internet so I phoned a couple of places and they listed it for £1,500. When it sold I ended up with £800, which was a result.

Presumably ,now it would be worth about 80p as 928's aren't worth much more.

[garethj]

Z yes

 

Z is alright, but you've got to look towards the bike manufacturers for really sporting letters.  Z is good, ZZ is fantastic, but ZZR?  I've just crashed the yoghurt truck before evening turning the ignition key.

[Wilko220]

ZZ-TOP?

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rxa7RJhFnkU/T_8CuVDNjGI/AAAAAAAANvQ/FqzQzRNJGWA/s640/billy+gibons.jpg

[Rocket88]

Many years ago I picked up a BMW 518 from an auction for my missus,we'd had it about a year when someone pointed out the reg number would suit a Porsche,it was A928 SGT. This was long before t'internet so I phoned a couple of places and they listed it for £1,500. When it sold I ended up with £800, which was a result.

Presumably ,now it would be worth about 80p as 928's aren't worth much more.

 

You'd be surprised...............good ones heading towards £10k plus

[HH-R]

The "A" and number Aldi model names just make me think of office paper, which gets me about as excited as the cars.

[twosmoke300]

Ha.

The new Audi foolscap

[myglaren]

This gets me thinking. Why are some car model letters 'faster sounding' or 'posher sounding' than others?

 

A yes

B - G no

H Could be

i Definitely

J-K no

L was once perhaps

M Yes

N no

O no

P no but has potential

Q no but has potential. Kit car and write off connotations though.

R S and T Yes definitely

U no

VWX yes

Y probably not

Z yes

Ã…?

 

Ä?

 

Ö?

[DVee8]

Did you know there is also a 2 series coupe?

 

This is a coupe 1 series.

[Micrashed]

No, I didnt know that either.

[Hendry]

Wait til you see the one that looks like a Renault Scenic.

Hideous looking thing, the only thing BMW can think to say about it in their marketing blurb is that its the first ever FWD BMW, I mean WOW! A fwd car, what next?

[320touring]

Hideous looking thing, the only thing BMW can think to say about it in their marketing blurb is that its the first ever FWD BMW, I mean WOW! A fwd car, what next?

Given that the RWD ones are set up to understeer, fook knows how that will drive..

[RoadworkUK]

I once saw a yellow Range Rover with white daisies painted on it, and the badging altered to RAGE OVER.

[M'coli]

I was aware of the 4-series, but the utter horror of them was only made clear to me on Thursday on the way back from Buxton in the motorhome.  In some town on the way to Sheffield, a luminescent white example on a 14 plate tried reversing out of a car park into the stream of traffic, driven by a bottle-blond orange woman with the same sort of person as a passenger...they did not appreciate that 3 tons of Italian 2-seater-with-British-coachbuilding with lights ablaze and horn on hadn't slowed to a stop and allowed them to complete the manoeuvre, but the amount abuse we received from the occupants at the next set of lights was astonishing.

[cort1977]

All these new BMWs just depress me.   I liked 3, 5 and 7 series with numbers usually matching displacement.   I once read that a BMW engineer described the range as 'same sausage, different sizes' which made sense, buy a BMW of any size and you knew what you were getting more or less.  The M models were excellent and it was clear what each car was offering.  

 

Now it's just depressing with X6M this and FWD 1 series that, all designed to appeal to the retarded orange badge snobs and increase sales at all costs.   Why is it that for 30 years BMW were happy turning out a range of good cars that was very successful and profitable but then about 15 years ago they decided to take over the world and fill every niche?  

[Matt]

 they decided to take over the world

 

They are Germans remember. Volkswagen have exactly the same attitude, the bossman has even said himself that they want to be the biggest car manufacturer in every country the world over.

[Skizzer]

 

Skizzer has one I believe. I think it's a 3 Series with a hatch.

No that's 3GT, a 4 is a 3 coupe. To confuse things more Mr Skiz has a 4 Series Gran Coupe, I believe, which is a 4 door in a Merc CLS style. Clear now?

 

You're both right, but it's even more confusing than that:  the 4 Granny Koop is a 5 door hatchback with frameless doors, like a 3GT.  It's lower than a 3 GT and a regular 3, but a tiny bit higher than a 2 door 4 (but the same length and width as a 2 door 4, I think).  

 

It's the 6 Granny Koop that's a 4 door like a Merc CLS, but obviously that's a variant of the 6, which is (as ever) the coupe version of the 7, which has 4 doors like the 4GC.  (I don't think there's a 7GT, yet.)

 

In the same way as the 2 door 3 series is now called a 4 series, the 2 door 1 series is now called a 2 series, by the way.  I don't know why the 2 door 7 series is called the 6 series rather than the 8 series: you'd think a 6 series would be a 2 door 5 series, but there isn't a 2 door 5 series, or indeed a 4 door 5 series coupe, which really would be like a Merc CLS.  Not yet, anyway.

 

Hope that helps.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Clear as mud,but I've always thought of the 6 Series as a 5 series coupe,same engines,including M5/6 etc. Also similar cabin layout with a console mounted gear switch rather than column .

An 8 series to compete with the CL and Conti GT must be an unfilled niche, that keeps BMW product planners awake at night. That and no X8 of course , all those people spending upwards of £100k on Range Rovers and soon Maserati and Bentley SUVs without the chance of buying a BMW, shocking.

[Taff]

have done this before....

 

Nissan INTERSTAR SE van

 

letters removed, skilfully, to reveal....

 

IN ERS ARSE

 

Really laughed in the traffic queue behind [sic] that one 

 

TS

 

In a similar vein, I once "secured" a letter L and messed with my mates Skoda, leaving him with a Labia. 

 

How the magistrate & I laughed

[twosmoke300]

^^^ dont forget the Citroen "Relax" vans . Esp in 1.9d form

[Justin Case]

I have seen more than one VW T4 'Trainspotter'