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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #135 on: 09 November 2018, 18:22:49 »

Where did I go wrong?When my son moved over to America-to Los Angeles for a brief period and then to where he is now just outside San Francisco-he bought a...………….FOCUS :-[ not only that but his wife also has one :-[ :-[ :-X
You let him move to the sandal wearing, salad munching capital of the world :D
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #136 on: 09 November 2018, 18:26:35 »

Where did I go wrong?When my son moved over to America-to Los Angeles for a brief period and then to where he is now just outside San Francisco-he bought a...………….FOCUS :-[ not only that but his wife also has one :-[ :-[ :-X
A very sensible decision, Baza, take no notice of the hooligans on here.
You can tell from the vehicles that a lot of Americans drive that they don,t give a toss about global warming, er sorry , climate change.  ;D
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #137 on: 09 November 2018, 19:35:02 »

Where did I go wrong?When my son moved over to America-to Los Angeles for a brief period and then to where he is now just outside San Francisco-he bought a...………….FOCUS :-[ not only that but his wife also has one :-[ :-[ :-X
A very sensible decision, Baza, take no notice of the hooligans on here.
You can tell from the vehicles that a lot of Americans drive that they don,t give a toss about global warming, er sorry , climate change.  ;D
Big, fat, noisy things. That's both Americans and their cars.
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #138 on: 09 November 2018, 20:10:20 »

Where did I go wrong?When my son moved over to America-to Los Angeles for a brief period and then to where he is now just outside San Francisco-he bought a...………….FOCUS :-[ not only that but his wife also has one :-[ :-[ :-X
A very sensible decision, Baza, take no notice of the hooligans on here.
You can tell from the vehicles that a lot of Americans drive that they don,t give a toss about global warming, er sorry , climate change.  ;D
Big, fat, noisy things. That's both Americans and their cars.
Our Catera owners across the pond will love that. :o
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #139 on: 09 November 2018, 20:16:24 »

Where did I go wrong?When my son moved over to America-to Los Angeles for a brief period and then to where he is now just outside San Francisco-he bought a...………….FOCUS :-[ not only that but his wife also has one :-[ :-[ :-X
A very sensible decision, Baza, take no notice of the hooligans on here.
You can tell from the vehicles that a lot of Americans drive that they don,t give a toss about global warming, er sorry , climate change.  ;D
Big, fat, noisy things. That's both Americans and their cars.
Our Catera owners across the pond will love that. :o
Oh dear, don't want to offend anybody.  ::)
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #140 on: 10 November 2018, 09:06:22 »

My (limited) experience of average cars in America, taking pickups out of the equation, is the vast majority are Euro/Jap shitboxes.
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #141 on: 10 November 2018, 09:32:08 »

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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #142 on: 10 November 2018, 11:06:10 »

My mother in law has a DTS which she lets me use whenever i visit.

4.6 V8.  Less than 300 ponies.  Crap handling.  Slightly smaller than a british house.

The aircon works though.
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #143 on: 10 November 2018, 11:25:43 »

My mother in law has a DTS which she lets me use whenever i visit.

4.6 V8.  Less than 300 ponies.  Crap handling.  Slightly smaller than a british house.

The aircon works though.
Wrong wheel drive too :o The last STS is more than capable with the 3.6 lump and very nice with the V8  ;)
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #144 on: 10 November 2018, 11:44:43 »

The version i drive is definitely RWD.
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #145 on: 10 November 2018, 16:04:45 »

The version i drive is definitely RWD.
Ah, ok, my mistake, I thought it was a reworking of the older STS ;)

RWD doesn't help the looks though :D
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #146 on: 10 November 2018, 17:12:07 »

The version i drive is definitely RWD.
Ah, ok, my mistake, I thought it was a reworking of the older STS ;)

RWD doesn't help the looks though :D

The crappy suspension makes booting it a squeeky bum moment.  You could live, you could be thrown in a hedge.  You just dont know ;D
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #147 on: 10 November 2018, 18:37:58 »

The stupid rear overhang won't help either... It's traditional Cadillac though, long floppy boat that will eat miles doing the double nickel ;)

Looking underneath one, the STS seemed to be a clear relative of the VE Commodore, which makes it most unCaddy like to drive 8)
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #148 on: 10 December 2018, 23:03:49 »

Well, it has taken firkin ages but i have finally confirmed delivery in mid january.

After messing around with finance at the stealers first i hadn't been trading long enough, so i had some draft accounts made.  Still no good so switched to Black Horse who were ok with the company trading time but somehow didn't recognise my bank as a real bank (It’s a new fintech thing, and very good).  So after pulling my hair out i went Arval instead and with some to-ing and frow-ing we have finally arrived at a deal.

Although now i have to for the roller shutter to be delivered and fitted so it won't be here in time for xmas.
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Re: Company car advice
« Reply #149 on: 11 December 2018, 04:54:24 »

Don't care what anyone says about American cars , I love them especially the Camaro & Mustang , had a Jeep Hemi for a short while & that was terrific can't beat a big V8.
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