New* Car Day!

[garycox]

Up at 6:45am for today's mission, armed with period reading material, train ticket, sat nav, headache, sore throat, cough and sneeze.

 

This is gonna be a loooong day.

 

 

Currently on the train. Grim.

 

[Jim Bell]

It's a lovely day for it. Safe journey.

I bet it's French.

[BorniteIdentity]

Single ticket.

 

An ambitious start. Like it. Any clues?

[jonny69]

Buying in London Victoria? Must be expensive and exclusive, possible thoroughbred*. I'm impressed, man, you've gone up in the world.

 

*delete as appropriate

[jonny69]

*delete as appropriate

 

 

Buying in London Victoria? Must be expensive and exclusive, possible thoroughbred*. I'm impressed, man, you've gone up in the world.

 

Did it for you.

[JohnK]

 

I bet it's French.

Is he buying your very classy and stylish 106?

[Jim Bell]

I'm still not talking to you.

[RobT]

To add to the fun, it's raining heavily and windy up here this morning. Good luck Gary!

 

I get the feeling this is only the first leg of the journey though...

[jonny69]

I get the feeling this is only the first leg of the journey though...

 

Definitely not expensive, exclusive or thoroughbred then. Are we saying it's actually going to be cheap, miserable and bland?

[garycox]

Made it! (To London Victoria...)

 

Now for the second (and final) leg of the journey!

 

Unfortunately this leg is a 7 hour coach journey.

 

[purplebargeken]

Masochist

[HMC]

Hmmm 7 hours from London by coach, that's a fair sized chod catchment area, all the best with the collection!

 

Any more clues?

[garycox]

The News:

 

Advert break:

[Cavcraft]

7 hours on a coach from Victoria could be Edmonton or Brixton.

[garycox]

 

New car stats:

 

List price: £10,994

Top speed: 123mph

0-60: 8.7sec

MPG: 33.8

[jonny69]

Is it in one of the adverts, above?

[garycox]

No, but the manufacturer is...

[Captain Furious]

Maestro 2.0 EFi

[skattrd]

Bus heaading North/NorthEast ... JohnK and Mr_Shitpez spring to mind here, what are either selling?

 

Could it be JohnK and the BX GTi I wanted? if so can I have dibs after you please Mr Cox (assuming Barrett doesn't break it).

[Jim Bell]

Spoiler. It ain't me. Neither of mine are roadworthy.

[garycox]

That's annoying, I coulda/woulda/shoulda brought my MOTd Clio up and given you that to avoid pissing about with all this 'being on a bus' shite.

[Jim Bell]

Mild exaggerating. still driving the 106. Not far though. Thankfully.

[HMC]

Those performance stats suggest that bx gti, so I'm going for the johnK example. Hope you bring it to shitefest!

[jonny69]

I know what it is. I MUST NOT SPILL TEH BEANS.

[garycox]

Here is a (now evidently redundant) CLUE:

 

The vehicle I'm collecting is (a less fast version of) one featured in this month's* Car Giant Test. I WONDER WHAT IT COULD BE

 

 

Said vehicle came 3rd out of the 4.

[Jim Bell]

Nissan bluebird.

[tonedepear]

Are you just fetching Barrett ANOTHER BX?

[Cavcraft]

First one to mention the still hilarious* 20p/handbrake/Peugeot 405 interface is awarded a virtual e-boot to the bollocks.

[garycox]

OOH ME ARSE

 

Arrived in Middlesbrough after nearly 7.5hrs of sitting, now just waiting for my chauffeur...

[Ghosty]

Less powerful says not BX GTi, so I'm going to say that Bluebird from the eBay thread or wherever it was?

 

edit: there's been a 21 Turbo on eBay lately too...