What luxury item do you hanker for.

by **JoeC** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:38 pm

Interestingly, you may be right that the car is ugly and brutal. Some may find that attractive. The classic landrover can hardly be called beautiful, yet it's functional simplicity make it very appealing.

by **Vince C** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:53 pm

JoeC wrote:Interestingly, you may be right that the car is ugly and brutal. Some may find that attractive. The classic landrover can hardly be called beautiful, yet it's functional simplicity make it very appealing.

I agree! The original Landrover is, as you say, functional. As is a Fergie tractor. Therefore it's appealing. Form following function (Spitfire, Concorde) always beats 'styling' hands down any day!

by **Bill McCarthy** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:58 am

Don't get me started on Land Rovers - they've been making them for over sixty years, and they still haven't got it right.

by **Jim Jones** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:24 am

I've been refelcting on this thread and decided a luxury item is not what I want. More important is time and health to enjoy it.

Maybe a bit of travel to places I've not been, but authentic enough not to be coddled in tourist safety like a cruise.

Maybe some help with the garden chores and household cleaning

A share in a nice aircraft

A newer version of the car I've got now

Rent an E type jag for a week in Scotland.

Half a mill should do it.

by **GrahamB** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:04 am

Monocock wrote:A small 10 acre Sottish island with a 400 yard grass airstrip (with 40x30 hangar) and a little cottage with running water and no electricity. It wouldn't have a phone line, and O2 wouldn't service it with mobile phone reception.

It would have a small sheltered beach and a small boathouse, big enough for a 15 foot sailing dinghy.

Or is that a bit greedy?

By the time you'd sailed to the mainland and back to get your NOTAM, you'd be too knackered to go flying! :lol:

Edit to add: Now I've read the rest of the thread I see Monocock has a fine answer to that problem!

by **Bill McCarthy** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:20 am

When I was in the mob I used to be a ship's diver (as an additional qualification) and went to Horsea Island old torpedo test range to maintain qualification. Access to the island was by footbridge when the tide was in and by gravel ford when out. It was an absolute haven of peace and tranquility right in the middle of a bustling Portsmouth/Fareham area. Now, land reclaimation has wrecked that and the island is consumed by motorway I suspect. The old torpedo test range would make an ideal floatplane Lake. The RN diving training base is still there I think.

by **Lindsayp** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:23 pm

Aaah, Bill has got it - my request is for a Sunderland and a few places to park it, and of course the cash and erks to maintain it.

by **Paul_Sengupta** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:18 pm

Monocock wrote:Audi Q7's are for female divorcees with axes to grind.

Who here has one?

None, I hope.

My cousin is on his second one as a lease car. He doesn't like it at all. It's a bus for his wife to drive the kids to school. :roll:

by **Miscellaneous** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:11 pm

Don't have one now, although I wil confess to having had 2. Tremendous car to drive, fuel consuption impressive for a car that size, I just couldn't justify the cost in tyres. I would have one again if someone else was footing the bill, but then if that was the case it would be a Range Rover!

Misc.

by **Grumpy One** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:45 pm

Can I have an Emma Watson please?

An Emma Watson in a lycra suit, in a rowing boat with NOTAMS tucked between her gunwhales, every morning at eight bells ..... and with a boiled egg.... and toast ..... and marmite. Thank You.

by **Monocock** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:19 pm

Grumpy One wrote:Can I have an Emma Watson please?

An Emma Watson in a lycra suit, in a rowing boat with NOTAMS tucked between her gunwhales, every morning at eight bells ..... and with a boiled egg.... and toast ..... and marmite. Thank You.

Err,isn't she, like, 16 years old? :shock:

by **rats404** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:27 pm

Lindsayp wrote:Aaah, Bill has got it - my request is for a Sunderland and a few places to park it, and of course the cash and erks to maintain it.

Lindsay, you are a man after my own heart. I've always had a soft spot for a Sunderland. Island hopping in the Caribbean, moor up offshore, BBQ on the beach, then back to kip in a bunk onboard and off again.

I was in Florida recently, and when I saw Kermit Weeks' Sunderland, I lusted after it mightily...

by **Grumpy One** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:30 am

Monocock wrote:
Grumpy One wrote:Can I have an Emma Watson please?

An Emma Watson in a lycra suit, in a rowing boat with NOTAMS tucked between her gunwhales, every morning at eight bells ..... and with a boiled egg.... and toast ..... and marmite. Thank You.

Err,isn't she, like, 16 years old?

An' wots rong wiv that? :shifty:

Shirley a 16 year old shud eazly be abel too spredd Marmite on towst wivvowt too mush bother ... evun werring a Lycra pinny and 'eavin' on a pare ov ores...... Drool

by **Rob P** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:42 am

Come on you guys.

Vince is the ultimate arbiter on all things motoring on the forum. You should know this and cease your feeble attempts to convince us there is any view worth listening to other than Mr Clarkson's and Vince's mates down the pub.

Although oddly, on this occasion had he suggested the MX5 as a better choice for the rich old girl I would have wholeheartedly supported him

Rob P

by **Rob P** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:45 am

And for me - Keira Knightley please. :bounce:

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