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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: FroGTI on 07 August 2010, 18:46
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Spent last weekend in the Chelsea/Belgravia area of London with the wife.
Christ, there is some serious money there. Walking down one quiet street round the back of Harrods there was a Porsche 911, Maserati Gran Turismo, Ferrari 599 and an Aston Martin DB9 all parked next to each other!
Anyhow, as we were pootling along on foot, what should drive past but a f***ing Bugatti Veyron!! I had never seen one in person, even at motor shows, because there are always too many people crowded around the stand.
I just stopped and gawped as it disappeared.
The most amazing thing, however, was that nobody except me even noticed it.
How weathly does an area have to be for no one to notice when a £1m car drives past?! :shocked:
I get more headturns in our local town with my humble GTI than that guy did in his Veyron :grin:
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Froggy: I see these everyday in Knightsbridge and on Harley Street. Yes, there is an obscene amount of wealth around. :sick: There are a couple exotica on my street too. After sometime, you stop noticing and re-live in your GTi World knowing full well that on a long distance journey one will get to one's destination sooner as there would be no need to keep popping into petrol stations. How inconvenient these cars are? :rolleyes:
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The Veyron to insurer cost £58k small change really :shocked:
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There was an article in the Daily Express last week re the Saudi Royals, they come over here with their huge cars to escape their heat, stay here and pop in and out of Knightsbridge and then go back home on their huge private jets in time for Ramadan.
It made interesting reading, OMG they are seriously wealthy people.
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There was an article in the Daily Express last week re the Saudi Royals, they come over here with their huge cars to escape their heat, stay here and pop in and out of Knightsbridge and then go back home on their huge private jets in time for Ramadan.
It made interesting reading, OMG they are seriously wealthy people.
And seriously uncouth. :sick:
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There was an article in the Daily Express last week re the Saudi Royals, they come over here with their huge cars to escape their heat, stay here and pop in and out of Knightsbridge and then go back home on their huge private jets in time for Ramadan.
It made interesting reading, OMG they are seriously wealthy people.
And seriously uncouth. :sick:
Yeah I can believe that, too much money and little sense or respect for others.
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There was an article in the Daily Express last week re the Saudi Royals, they come over here with their huge cars to escape their heat, stay here and pop in and out of Knightsbridge and then go back home on their huge private jets in time for Ramadan.
It made interesting reading, OMG they are seriously wealthy people.
And seriously uncouth. :sick:
Yeah I can believe that, too much money and little sense or respect for others.
...and some of the women dress like whores under their black tents. And those who don't waddle at minus 100 mph down our footpaths causing mayhem. All-in-all a sight to dream of, not to tell! :sick:
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I have the trouble of when ever I park up outside work you always get some rubbish cars parking next to me :grin:
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk207/Stevep_010/6dde3598.jpg)
And five seconds after I took this pic (which was about ten cars down) from mine along drove another Veyron but with a full chrome wrap
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk207/Stevep_010/fb9ec9cf.jpg)
But all that money doesn't buy you the right to park anyway, just ask my new boss's, just spent 1.5 billon on buying the place and can't even get a parking space :laugh:
(http://autotraderblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/swns-harrods5-448300.jpg?w=448&h=300)
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Yes, the red Ferrari ... was there when I met up with you!
Harley Street is full of RR Phantoms .... I suppose sick Arabs need the extra comfort! :evil:
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It also looks like 9 out of 10 of you are unable to park properly :evil: :tongue: (jk) :wink:
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Your not the first one to point that out snoopy :grin:
However in my defense I would like to say I was at most 1 inch from the curb, so the width of the bays is the issue :nerd:
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I will have no problems parking from now on thanks to my new reversing camera supplied by SteveP.. :cool:
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I have the trouble of when ever I park up outside work you always get some rubbish cars parking next to me :grin:
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk207/Stevep_010/6dde3598.jpg)
And five seconds after I took this pic (which was about ten cars down) from mine along drove another Veyron but with a full chrome wrap
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk207/Stevep_010/fb9ec9cf.jpg)
But all that money doesn't buy you the right to park anyway, just ask my new boss's, just spent 1.5 billon on buying the place and can't even get a parking space :laugh:
(http://autotraderblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/swns-harrods5-448300.jpg?w=448&h=300)
Those horrid blue eyesores are what was in the article in the Express. Lousy w*****s come over here and park their c**p on our streets. Chop off their bloody heads :angry:
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I'd neuter the lot as painfully as possible. :evil:
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Jealousy is a cruel mistress! :laugh:
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Spent last weekend in the Chelsea/Belgravia area of London with the wife.
Christ, there is some serious money there. Walking down one quiet street round the back of Harrods there was a Porsche 911, Maserati Gran Turismo, Ferrari 599 and an Aston Martin DB9 all parked next to each other!
Anyhow, as we were pootling along on foot, what should drive past but a f***ing Bugatti Veyron!! I had never seen one in person, even at motor shows, because there are always too many people crowded around the stand.
I just stopped and gawped at it as it disappeared.
The most amazing thing, however, that nobody except me even noticed it.
How weathly does an area have to be for no one to notice when a £1m car drives past?! :shocked:
I get more headturns in our local town with my humble GTI than that guy did in his Veyron :grin:
I work in the building industry, mainly in London..... when you work with people with this wealth, you find their some of the tightest and misserable people around. It would be nice to have plenty of money but I'm not sure obsene amounts makes you that happy.
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I work in the building industry, mainly in London..... when you work with people with this wealth, you find their some of the tightest and misserable people around. It would be nice to have plenty of money but I'm not sure obsene amounts makes you that happy.
Interesting. I did notice that 90% of vehicles were either Range Rovers/Ferraris, etc. or contractors' vans. My uncle pointed out a penthouse flat to us 500yds from Harrods which had just sold for £75m. WTF :shocked:
I can confirm that SteveP's photos are quite 'ordinary' for the area. It seemed to me that 90% of the UK's wealth was contained within a couple of square miles.
(http://www.garagetech.fr/gti/gti_ferr.jpg)
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^^^ :grin: :grin:
The GTI does look a bit out of place Mr. P
Maybe you need a chrome wrap :rolleyes: :smiley:
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Notice all the people are round the GTI looking at it not the other cars :evil:
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When I parked near there, my car got lots of admiring looks especially the Monza Shadows. It's a colour thing too I presume as red is such a vibrant colour and stands out so beautifully. VW were so right in selecting a red car for their brochure. So pleased. :smiley:
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Notice all the people are round the GTI looking at it not the other cars :evil:
Lol, I noticed that, too. I bet Steve had to wait for hours to get that shot :wink:
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Yeah, lived in London for a few years and can quite agree that at first it's jawdropping at the cars that drive around in some area.
I didn't bother with a nice motor when i lived there tho, as some of the drivers are shockingly bad :rolleyes:
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Yeah, lived in London for a few years and can quite agree that at first it's jawdropping at the cars that drive around in some area.
I didn't bother with a nice motor when i lived there tho, as some many of the drivers are shockingly bad including myself (I had a prang) :rolleyes:
Reactions in red ....
What really galls me is that they bump park, kerb their wheels and never consider that the parked cars in front or behind them might need to vacate their parking space and therefore would need some room to manoeuvre. :angry:
Rant over ... :grin:
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It also looks like 9 out of 10 of you are unable to park properly :evil: :tongue: (jk) :wink:
I wouldnt park near the curb either..
It uses special Michelin PAX run flat tyres, designed specifically to accommodate the Veyron's top speed, which reportedly cost $25,000 US per set.[5] The tyres can only be removed from the rims in France, a service which reportedly costs $70,000
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It also looks like 9 out of 10 of you are unable to park properly :evil: :tongue: (jk) :wink:
I wouldnt park near the curb either..
It uses special Michelin PAX run flat tyres, designed specifically to accommodate the Veyron's top speed, which reportedly cost $25,000 US per set.[5] The tyres can only be removed from the rims in France, a service which reportedly costs $70,000
What an excellent and expensive whore of a car. Everytime you get inside it, it costs a fortune. :grin:
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Check this article out then in the Daily mail today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301419/Invasion-Bling-ionaires.html
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Check this article out then in the Daily mail today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301419/Invasion-Bling-ionaires.html
Hehe, what a coincidence :smiley: I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels sick. After an hour or so walking round, I did find myself feeling nauseous, but I put it down to the lunch I'd had. I guess I was wrong :smiley:
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I came across the Veyron and the Panamera being driven (badly) down the A3 the other week. They turned off at the Oxshott exit, having sat in the outside lane all the way from the Hook underpass. :sad:
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SteveP that aint a bad little street for spotting cars. And I now know what you meant when you said "I work in a corner shop in Knightsbridge" ha ha!
Just to put my two cents in, I work for an investment bank near St Pauls in London. And normally parked just outside my window is a Lambo, and in our under ground car park, the head of the Global Markets traders parks his Lambo LP640, or his Bently continental GT. On contrast to that the CEO (this guys boss) parks her Fiat 500 (the Abarth version mind :wink: ) there too. Quite funny seeing that parked next to a massive Lambo. I have also seen a BMW M6 and a DB9 parked down there too, no idea whos they are though, must be some of the stupidly rich traders? Bastards ha ha!
Makes my MK5 seam cheap in comparison.