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Car knowledge. How’s yours



  VW Potato


on a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your car knowledge? i dont mean technical, i mean ability to correctly identify a car at 100 paces, knowledge of what cars are current and which arent, and what sort of spec levels they come in at. If you can tell apart every current 911 derivative, and you can separate all the Impreza versions, you get an instant 10/10.

I ask, because i used to be 10/10, but not anymore. I see a Mondeo and the name that comes to mind is Sierra, an Audi A4 is still an Audi 80 to me, I cant name or identify any korean cars except the hyundai coupe, and i only recently realised that Porsche stopped making the 928. So today, Id give myself 6/10, which I expect to slip to about four by Christmas. And you?

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i got a firnd who is 10, and its f*kin annoyin, every car u see he tells ya, and if u get one wrong no it aint u mug! thats y no1 wanted to sit next to him in 2 fast 2 furious
 
  VW Potato


OK, one trick i can still do - identify a car from a bit of the interior. Example; imagine a camera is in the passenger footwell angled up toward the driving who might be talking. From what I can tell of the A- and B-pillar, plus other interior clues, I can work out the car.

God gave people many wonderful and different skills. And thats the one he chose to give me. Gee, thanks!

g
 


I think im in the same boat. Used to be good but slipping all the time. I mean christ do ford still make scorpios and if not what did it get replaced by.

And why do cars get bigger like all the time. You get testers going "oooo theres loads more space in this new focus" yeah thats cos its twice as big as an escort you muppet. Civics and even the new megane are just vans with windows arent they.

Sorry if i slid from the subject a bit.

In fact i apolagise (is that spelt right?) for this whole post.

Sorry.
 

KDF

  Audi TT Stronic


about 4/10..

and the reson that your not 10/10 anymore is cause every f**king car looks the same nowdays..
 
  VW Potato


also slightly o/t, but am i right in thinking the Omega pre-dates Noahs Ark? I seems like that cars been around since the dawn of time (Im not dissing it as my local cab firms Omegas are my comfort blanket after many a night out or a stressfull oversea business trip)

g
 
  Clio v6


A red one, a silver one etc thats about my limit. When it comes to Clios though, its anybodys guess, they are seldom what they really are.
 


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