surely not

[deanrosc]

Hi all,
hope santa brought you everything. My mother in law bought me a subscription to top gear magazine which i was well made up with. til i opened it. Amongst the usual barrage of crap leaflets in the middle was a coupon for £3 off "top gears book of crap cars". And on the front of this book was a 240, and not a banger, it looked like an old brochure when it was new. Now i dont think the 240 is a pretty car, but crap? Do these people actually drive these cars before coming to this conclusion? Sheep, thats what they are, someone says a car is crap and every other critic agrees, not having the balls to stand up and say "hey thats not that bad". Makes my blood boil.

[welsh wizard]

quite agree boyo these folk are almost as bad as those sad geeks who think that everything with a volvo badge cannot possibly be a pile of junk!....get real man, the car in question WAS crap, live with it!

[deanrosc]

hope your not implying that of me. i had a 480. now IMHO that was a pile of junk. And although the 240 wasn't the best car ever made, it surely cant be compared to the allegro or ital. And seeing as this is a volvo forum, from the VOC, dont act so shocked that i/we are a bit biased.Was it just the "sheep" bit that interested you? :-)

[222s]

The book is slagging off the 262C for its 'pimptastic' styling, rather than the rest of the 200 Series.

1967 Amazon 122S B20 Estate
1961 A-H Sprite Mk2 948cc

[deanrosc]

thanks for clearing that up. "pimptastic" now thats a great word.

[S_Lock]

I saw this book in Waterstones and to be honest there was loads of cars in it that I actually quite like!

That may say a lot for me! (although it was written by the little guy off top gear so who gives a monkeys what he thinks!!!!)

[deanrosc]

richard hammond he's called. He used to be on Men and Motors and was quite good on there. Now he's just clarksons yes man.

[Citizen.Agfa]

Which reminds me of the old saying: "Don't be a yes man, if the boss says no, you say no!"

Nick.

[5lab]

its actually written by richard porter, the guy who does www.sniffpetrol.com - a very very very funny website.

[Citizen.Agfa]

Thanks for the link, I just been and copped a look; you're damn right about it being v.v.v. funny, I had to wipe my eyes before I could type this!
Nick.

[deanrosc]

i second that. funniest thing i've seen in ages. The jersey advert about mansell nearly made me pee myself.