Car changes over the years

[Hairy]

14 hours ago, Underachiever said:

Hairy, actually they do.  In our portion of the estate (100 houses) we live in there is at least 10 new Raptor/Cruisers for the normal okes.  Then the outlier with 2x Lambo's, New Defender and Rangie, Lambo Urus, Cruiser and the overpriced Jeep bakkie. And the bottle blonde of course!!

Plenty of 911's and AMG Mercs.  Another Ferrari or 2.

Crazy stuff.

I should add, I have no cooking clue where the East Rand is 😂

[Hairy]

11 hours ago, SwissVan said:

No wonder you have a gazillion bikehub posts and are chairman of the bikehub premier club, using all that time us mortals spend driving to hubhub 🤟

15 meters… that’s 100 meters shorter than my walk to the garage before I start my 43.5 km drive to work… 5 x week. Trying to organize a hybrid home office situation, but the company is not keen #livinginthedarkagestheyare

Already on my second car since starting this job, but that’s another story  😳 

Dear Sir

Have you seen my post count for 2022-2023 .... you may be very suprised at how few there are.

2021-2022 was also a drastic reduction over the previous year

[Danger Dassie]

16 hours ago, Spinnekop said:

So who of all you guys commenting here have taken the bike to work and ditched the car today? 

I often commute, and for a lot of errands etc use the bike. 
When working ‘corporate’ I car pooled with three others, for the relative effort the benefits far exceeded any inconvenience. 
 

[DieselnDust]

1 hour ago, Hairy said:

A Ford Cortina is  not a Super Car

Well that depends where you from…..?

[The Ouzo]

1 minute ago, DieselnDust said:

Well that depends where you from…..?

the original Kalahari Ferrari

[Danger Dassie]

Okes. You don’t need a G Wagon…. https://www.facebook.com/reel/4490714944388266?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=E1j3LJ

[Shebeen]

12 hours ago, sirmoun10goat said:

Cars may be a depreciating asset, but also an asset that can be enjoyed, if you enjoy driving and road trips. I loved having a hot hatch with a B&O sound system and flappy paddle gear box. 

A house is an asset, but do you need a 5 bedroom house for you and the missus? That’s also a liability. Yes, the value of the property may go up, but you pay more taxes, water and electricity, more insurance, higher fees for the estate where your house is, more money on maintenance, more domestic workers to keep things in check…so your capital growth is offset by these expenses. And then these rooms are empty most of the time, so you derive no benefit from that.

So you need your Vida coffee everyday, or is a nespresso good enough? Water is cheap, maybe drink more water.

To each their own, live and let live

I think a better analogy is do you need a holiday house?

[SwissVan]

5 hours ago, Hairy said:

A Ford Cortina is  not a Super Car

Listen… it’s a Ford XR6, Brakpans favourite car

 

[The Ouzo]

Ford Cortinas are serious biznis

[RustyHWR]

Should have kept my Ford Granada 3.0 GL - 😄

[The Ouzo]

8 minutes ago, RustyHWR said:

Should have kept my Ford Granada 3.0 GL - 😄

[RustyHWR]

2 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:

Was the shape before the 1985 Granada. Was closer to 1978-ish.

[RustyHWR]

4 minutes ago, RustyHWR said:

Was the shape before the 1985 Granada. Was closer to 1978-ish.

[JJDT]

These guys with their Cortina's are smoking some good stuff...the person/s who buys it do have some better groceries that clouds their mind even more.

[Headshot]

The sheer size of most 4x4 vehicles is crazy. You'd think that a smaller lighter vehicle with no trailer/caravan would make more sense but no, these biscuits take the biggest vehicle, often with only one or two people on board and then add a massive off-road trailer loaded with everything from a small boat to a keg of beer and then wonder why they battle to get through some super gnarly terrain. Why do you need to live like you're at home when you out in the bush?

[Stretched@Birth]

22 hours ago, ChrisF said:

 

😉

Do e-bikes count....? 😉