Some prick in a Smart car would probably attempt to squeeze in next to me if I parked there long enough
Seen a car parked like that one day at a pub so myself and a friend I was meeting their parked our cars about 4" away from either side. When inside and got a drink and waited outside pissing ourselves laughing as the driver had to climb through the boot to get into his car
So cruel yet so funny! These things have to be done!
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What have I done to my mk7 today?
Today, after the anticlimax of the ClubSport pricing announced yesterday following the anticlimax of how ugly the thing is anyway, I took my R for a 4AM blast after a week of it just strutting to work and back at 30mph or less. Unfortunately that event also turned into an anticlimax as there were grazing deer sat by the side of the road for most of the journey so I thought I'd best be a bit sensible and keep the speed down.
So, what does one do in an R at 4AM when faced with a 40 mile cross country trip where the speed needs to be kept down? One decides that after 9 months now is the time to see what the ECO setting does.
And what are my findings you may ask? Not that anybody here really cares but my findings are that the ECO button makes the car crap to drive and the thing still didn't make 30mpg for the journey (computer figures, not measured).
Great. That was a waste of about six quid's worth of fuel and an hour of my life.
And on to more exciting things:
Yesterday, after a ridiculously busy week at work (and long days to boot) I took the works Caddy van out for an "essential" errand.
Safe to say I had more fun in that 76000 mile 14 plate base spec Caddy than I have had in my own car for ages. Power ain't everything guys.
Anybody want a quick scientific review of the Caddy van?
Well, after 76,000 miles it's still solid and rattle free, the power is smooth and the thing feels like it's carved from stone when on the road which ain't bad for a van. I do like that van.
However I like another works van even more, and that van is a 2011 Vauxhall Combo with just 30k on the clock. It's cheap, full of nasty plastics and has a weird and slightly jerky power delivery, but it handles like a demon and spins up its inside wheel when powering through sharp corners inducing a very childish driving style that makes it ten time as much fun as driving a Golf R at legal speeds. Oh, and being at work it also means I don't have someone sat next to me tutting and telling me to slow down. No, just me, a lump of cheap tin and the open road with the only passenger intervention being the driving style monitor beeping at me and glowing red all the time. Bliss!
It would be even more blissful if all the other road users would bugger off to let me have some solo fun and that bloody driving monitor would shut up...