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Mark1984_SRI
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   13th Jun 06 at 13:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
After getting my 106 GTI a couple of weeks ago i came out of my house to hear the end of a conversation between a 40 something woman with baby and her daughter. I heard the older woman say "ooh it's good that, it'd do you nice that, what is it!" to her daughter, to which her daughter replied "yeah it's nice that, it's a FORD FIESTA i think?" to which i replied "yeah it's a 106 GTI, PEUGEOT!". The older woman replied "yeah it's nice that" and walked away. I can't see it myself i walked off wondering if people could really be that clueless? Anyone else had a similar experience
CorsAsh
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13th Jun 06 at 13:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Not everyone is a petrolhead, if you'd stood there and commented on her handbag or something, she'd probably have the same reaction as you to her.
Edd
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13th Jun 06 at 13:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
hardly ignorance just not very clued up on cars
Mark1984_SRI
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13th Jun 06 at 13:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Just upset me a bit that's all
CorsAsh
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13th Jun 06 at 13:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Does look a bit like a Fiesta Mk2 I guess





















JessKate
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13th Jun 06 at 13:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Not so much ignorance, more stupidity, but my best mate rang me up upset the other night, as she had cleaned her new clio with a brillo pad!
Robin
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13th Jun 06 at 13:23   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
FPMSL @ that ^
Mark1984_SRI
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13th Jun 06 at 13:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by JessKate
Not so much ignorance, more stupidity, but my best mate rang me up upset the other night, as she had cleaned her new clio with a brillo pad!


serious.... ooops not something i'd recommend
Scoty B
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13th Jun 06 at 13:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Pfft wimen?
Scoty B
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quote:
Originally posted by JessKate
Not so much ignorance, more stupidity, but my best mate rang me up upset the other night, as she had cleaned her new clio with a brillo pad!


She's deserves a medal for that one.
JessKate
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13th Jun 06 at 13:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Apparently it was the only solution she could think of to remove all the dried on muck!
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13th Jun 06 at 13:26   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Remember my sister sticking water in the brake fluid reservoir on one occasion
Mark1984_SRI
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quote:
Originally posted by JessKate
Apparently it was the only solution she could think of to remove all the dried on muck!


i knew hot water with some autoglym shampoo and a sponge would never catch on
abdus
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13th Jun 06 at 13:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
put some stickers on the car...'it's a 106 GTI, PEUGEOT!'
Mark1984_SRI
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quote:
Originally posted by abdus
put some stickers on the car...'it's a 106 GTI, PEUGEOT!'



well i have re-badged it with the GTI badges on the doors, and it still hads the boot lock with peugeot badge on the back
Carl
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13th Jun 06 at 13:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Middle aged women are generally thick as fuck and don't listen, get them all the time at work, I tell them some good stuff to get but might as well talk to the wall.
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13th Jun 06 at 13:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
most people have no idea what my car is
Mark1984_SRI
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quote:
Originally posted by scoob
most people have no idea what my car is


Not a ford fiesta is it?
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark1984_SRI
quote:
Originally posted by scoob
most people have no idea what my car is


Not a ford fiesta is it?





could be
Mark1984_SRI
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13th Jun 06 at 13:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
you're avatar suggests otherwise
abdus
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a mini?
Andy Stocker
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Ignorance is bliss
Sooty
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quote:
Originally posted by scoob
most people have no idea what my car is


A trolley perhaps?
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quote:
Originally posted by Sooty
quote:
Originally posted by scoob
most people have no idea what my car is


A trolley perhaps?



a very fast trolley
Ian
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I've heard Police call a car a Volkswagen Corsa, and identify a Vectra as a Mondeo, despite me telling the WPC it was a Vectra GLS V6 saloon and giving her the reg.

I had a mate years ago who couldn't name any cars at all, but who could name planes while they were flying at full altitude over the schoolyard. Some people are just in to different things.

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