^ Yeah I'm only playing. Only because I know VAG owners have no sense of fun. Amazing how this bit is being continually missed. heh
Oooh you can just smell the love in this room.
I don't get it. If someone is stupid enough to buy a VAG car, get high on all the classist snobbery that comes with it and is determined to prove in their own mind that they are kings of the road even at the possible expense of his entire family, why not just let the 'tard remove himself from the gene-pool? Defective genes are a major
problem for humanity. Here's a chance for loads to be wiped out in one go, except for the poor innocents he takes out in the process. Sometimes it doesn't even take a VAG car owner losing a "comparison" to enter I-will-not-be-beaten mode. I've seen any "top spec" VAG car owner bolt off at traffic lights from me just giving my car a rev of the engine, and maybe even just a look, usually when I'm going the other way or the start of a journey when the car is still cold. They're off. Off to prove their manly walletness. S0d any other person on the road.
Yet I'm the t0sser for goading his small mind? What stereo typical I'm-blameless snobbery! It's like me winding someone up who's got a gun and then they manage to shoot themselves with it. How's that my fault? How is that even a crime? Surely we should be celebrating a 'tard removing themselves from the gene-pool? But I guess this angle is not allowed when you suffer from a spot of VAG snobbery, huh?
And btw, I've never risked my life or others in the Fiat. Seen plenty of VAG owners risk theirs through all of their own work. What makes it laughable is how predictable it is.
And what is all the utter crap of some of you saying you never speed or have a play on the road? Like anyone is going to believe that? If you have the power you use it, so say otherwise is to deny you're human... Actually I suppose that's possible...
And thinking about it... I can't really remember ever seeing a LCR driver obeying road speed laws... hmmm... nope, well not unless he's just been Coop'd (that's an expression used a lot btw). It's a bit kinda statistically off the mark to suggest that you lot fairly represent the average LCR driver, or it's just porkies. To pull the "I'm a safe law abiding driver" card just because I've apparently admitted to numerous road crimes, is typically OTT. Taking a high stance without showing your hand. No-one believes you. It's that I'm-perfect snobbery rubbing off. Don't you see it? (rhetorical. Of course you don't. Too busy wrapped up in the power
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I have a friend that works for fiat and he said the fiat is a good car but build quality is really bad and the engines always mess up but he says thats good as it keeps him in a job as he does fiat and alfa
On a serious note, it sounds like you just made that up to me. Most Fiat mechanics say the Coupe is a crap car, even a rust bucket - which unlikely when you have a fully galvanised body... Sounds like they don't know what they're talking about? Yep, Fiat mechanics are generally monkeys. Anyone who wants decent treatment takes it to a specialist. So if he has seen poor examples it's mostly likely that he's seen examples from people who are also monkeys themselves and have no idea what it means to look after a car... It's really that simple.
Anyway, Is he talking Fiat generally or Fiat Coupe? The Coupe build quality is variable because they were hand built by Ferrari mechanics. We all know the Italians aren't the best in the world at consistency... (well except cheating at football) But the engine blocks are tried and tested and very rarely have problems, it's just the bits attached to them that tend to expire, though at least they give you a bit of advanced warning or are predictable. There's many Fiat Coupe's out there now that are going way past 150,000 miles on the original engines and modified too, trouble free.
It's the German reliablilty and build quality that is overrated, just like the other aspects of the cars. Wasn't it in the last JD Power survey that German manufacturers occupied the bottom 10 places? Yet they still sell to the drones based on public reputation - never the most accurate of things. I've seen new company cars breakdown less than 5 miles after they've been picked up and catastrophically at that. I remember new cars seizing because they forgot to put oil in the thing, but you could blame the duncey dronal owner for that. It's probably just a luck thing really though.