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[Cormcolash]

Back on the brush after a month off.

oooof . I am fucked

And you were doing so well, almost managed to kick it altogether!!

 

[Deadmanposting]

The boss just bought one of these

This means we are having an ok year and I can be somewhat nervy about asking for a raise

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[ernesto]

The boss just bought one of these

This means we are having an ok year and I can be somewhat nervy about asking for a raise

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Gross.

These people with the money so rarely have any decent taste

 

[egg_]

"The brush"? What's that?

edit: Ah, back painting after yer hols in Greece. I get it now

 

[ann post]

23.74 UK mpg

BMW Alpina B8 Gran Coupe on-the-road prices RRP from £140,515.

I could get at least 35 of my car for that money. Free cars for thumped subscribers ftw.

Like technically i understand - their peers have the B7 and you got to go one better or GTFO.

But holy fuck.

 

[nuke terrorist]

working hard. exploiting people. wasting the planet's resources.
so they have the capital to waste on luxury crap.
that's capitalism for ya.

 

[therealjohnny]

 

[ann post]

Curious -

So most budgeting guides have transport around 10-15% of income.

presuming this guy has got some BMW service package and burns petrol at more than twice the rate i do (because thats what it does) he'd be wanting to be making 1.2million a year to justify this*.

*if it's his only car.

cheer me up be telling me he is dumb with money

 

[Deadmanposting]

Curious -

So most budgeting guides have transport around 10-15% of income.

presuming this guy has got some BMW service package and burns petrol at more than twice the rate i do (because thats what it does) he'd be wanting to be making 1.2million a year to justify this*.

*if it's his only car.

cheer me up be telling me he is dumb with money

It's the owner of the company and I think he's a billionaire. Or close enough that it makes no material difference
I heard yesterday that he got this because the car dealer couldn't get him a Maybach
He has a bunch of cars. One of them's an Aston Martin. The world is not entirely fair.

Nice bloke. Very driven. No pun intended.

My direct boss just got a 60k yoke. So your 15% thing tallies with what I reckon he makes.


I drive a 2008 van. But only about 4 or 5 times per month.

 

[magicbastarder]

Gross.

These people with the money so rarely have any decent taste

i read an article a while back (which i'm not going to look for now) which claimed that one reason cars (beemers in particular, with their stupid hamster teeth grilles) have gone a bit off the deep end styling wise, is because the target market for that styling now is the chinese/far eastern market. for people who grew up on manga and the like; the argument made was they would not find the styling as stupid as we do.

cars in general though seem to be getting way more fussy. i think its one of the reasons audis don't age as badly as other brands, they seem to evolve more slowly.

 

[ann post]

I was cycling in this morning and saw some guy in a BMW get pulled for speeding

Good times.

 

[ann post]

Cars in general though seem to be getting way more fussy. i think its one of the reasons audis don't age as badly as other brands, they seem to evolve more slowly.

There is the whole common platform thing going now - like VW have one toolkit that makes about 30 models across the range - and it's designed so you can redo the headlights or panels often with minumum retooling, therefore making your 3 year old golf look shit next to someones new one.
Toyota moved the prius on to thier corolla/million other cars platform recently. Selling less audi/lexus for higher markup while it essentially being a golf/corolla with a jacket on is where the money is made. Small cars don't have great markup for the manufacturers.
The evolution rate will probably be based around a sales target.

Volkswagen Group MQB platform - Wikipedia

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Toyota MC platform - Wikipedia

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[magicbastarder]

yeah, i read that because of those changes in manufacturing. the extra cost required to build big cars has come down, narrowing the difference in production cost between big and small cars - but they can still sell the big cars for big money, which is why they're pushing them so much.
we need a tax on weight and height of cars.

 

[ann post]

It's amazing and also not amazing that you can build a whole mega industry around peoples willingness to believe the hype.

 

[nuke terrorist]

when I was a kid I thought BMWs were shit cool.
this was the one I wanted - BMW 635 (1976-1989)

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loadsa photos of it on the link.
a combination of BMW changing the styling of the front of their cars circa 89/90 and me growing up and losing interest in cars completely meant I thought BMWs looked shit after that point.
I still can't drive and have zilch interest in learning.

 

[egg_]

We're having a virtual social thing for work, and I'm currently listening a lightning talk by 2 young women about how the Twilight series is "problematic". Fuck me. I had to turn off my camera so nobody would see me rolling my eyes

 

[egg_]

It's amazing and also not amazing that you can build a whole mega industry around peoples willingness to believe the hype.

Do people really believe the hype? Fancy cars are just peacock's tail's, right?

 

[magicbastarder]

many people have a blind spot about cars. i had people telling me when my last car was about 11 years old 'just get a new one, it'll cost you too much to keep that on the road', which on the face of it showed they had completely divorced the cost of buying a car from the cost of owning one.

 

[egg_]

I don't think people ever actually do their sums on that shit. Our last car (a Kia Ce'ed) was costing around a grand in repairs a year. A brand new one is at least 26K, which means it'd need to last 26 years to save us money compared to keeping the old one

(we did get a new one (an EV), but that was because having it break all the time was annoying, not because I imagined it'd save us money)

 

[ann post]

Do people really believe the hype? Fancy cars are just peacock's tail's, right?

yeah thats the hype.

I spotted a huge blind spot in myself this week. I was humming and hawing over a cycling jacket - one was about 50eu and one was 100andsomething. Meanwhile I'm spending 100eu a week on a car, almost all of which is getting burned or consumed in some way. A good cycling jacket might realistically cost me a fiver a week over three years, in which i'll get home drier and healthier and happier every time.