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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

To answer the original question. They are all mad. Simple as that. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Surely your wallet is lodged behind the counter at the local Jag dealership
On the subject of moth I seem to get plagued with very small moths here just as I did last year.

You could buy an Audi, where they charge you for one of their staff to acquire all cash, cards and anything else that might be of value in your wallet. Including the wallet itself. This charge also include rubber gloves for when the bouncer ejects you from the showroom for looking poor....

I've often thought I'd like to win the lottery and wander into one of these showrooms in dirty jeans and a tee shirt. What fun.

I often look like this but minus the lottery win.

Some of the wealthiest people I know go round with holes in the arse of their trousers and drive an old Signum shitheap. 

[Nick W]

                  Last Zodiacs were the Mk4 3.0 litre v6 which were almost identical to the Ford executive 👍

Executive was just the top trim level.
Zodiacs suffered from the Essex V6, and poorly designed rear suspension and brakes.


It would have been a better car with a shorter bonnet too.


Mine was a manual 2.5, and nowhere near Executive spec. Which meant it had thin floor mats, plain vinyl seats, no clock or rev counter.

[BazaJT]

Dads last company car was the MKIV Zodiac Executive[they'd stopped making his favoured Humber Super Snipes] he wanted a Rover P5B but his dad[who owned the company]wouldn't allow it and he finished up with the Ford instead

[BazaJT]

MkIV was I think the only Ford after the V8 Pilot to have a bonnet mascot/ornament[standard on the Executive optional on the rest I believe] it was in the form of an oblong with a cross in it which by accident or design was a driving/parking aid.If you lined the vertical bar of the cross up with the kerb you were the correct distance from the kerb  for parking and if you lined up the horizontal bar of the cross with the white lines at a junction you weren't poking the nose out into traffic on the other road.

[Raeturbo]

Ha ha that’s very true😂😂

[Shackeng]

Surely your wallet is lodged behind the counter at the local Jag dealership
On the subject of moth I seem to get plagued with very small moths here just as I did last year.

You could buy an Audi, where they charge you for one of their staff to acquire all cash, cards and anything else that might be of value in your wallet. Including the wallet itself. This charge also include rubber gloves for when the bouncer ejects you from the showroom for looking poor....

I've often thought I'd like to win the lottery and wander into one of these showrooms in dirty jeans and a tee shirt. What fun.

Back in the 60's I had a mate who was a builder, he saved up, in cash, enough to buy a Ford Zepher.

He wandered into the Ford showroom in his builders gear, cash in a paper bag, and got ignored until he sat in one.

He should have done what I did in similar circumstances. About to buy the first of only 2 new cars I have ever bought, always for cash (cheque), midway through demonstrating the details of the R16 I was buying, a lady came into the showroom of the small dealership. The salesman(?) receptionist, promptly deserted me to deal with her car to be serviced. He ran after me as I walked out almost pleading. Too late, bought it elsewhere for a bigger discount. I had a similar experience recently in a BMW dealership, ignored for too long by sales who didn’t like the look of my overalls. One wonders what training these people get. The chances are the scruffier the punter, the more cash they have.

[Kevin Wood]

He should have done what I did in similar circumstances. About to buy the first of only 2 new cars I have ever bought, always for cash (cheque), midway through demonstrating the details of the R16 I was buying, a lady came into the showroom of the small dealership. The salesman(?) receptionist, promptly deserted me to deal with her car to be serviced. He ran after me as I walked out almost pleading. Too late, bought it elsewhere for a bigger discount. I had a similar experience recently in a BMW dealership, ignored for too long by sales who didn’t like the look of my overalls. One wonders what training these people get. The chances are the scruffier the punter, the more cash they have.

Yet when they're in the forecourt hastily trying to jump start the Jaguar you came to test drive they are all over you and can't offer you enough coffee.

[Shackeng]

Apropos Jags, back in the late ‘50s/early ‘60s farmers had done very well in the period after the war. A friend was in a Bucks pub and overheard a farmer talking to his friend.
“I bought I one of they ther Jaglers, but e’ll have ter go, I carn’t get but one hay bale in’t boot.”

[Rangie]

My father had all the big Fords when I was a kid & I had a MK2 Zephyr back in the seventies, I remember he bought a 1960ish Jaguar 3.4 in black with chrome wire wheels but just found it too cramped, that is the only car of his that I would dearly love to own now.

[New POD]

Women. You can't live with them. And you can't kill them. Legally.

*that's a joke.