OT Rant, feel free to ignore.

Stupid lorry drove into the car I got to replace my uneconomical to
repair one.

Just spoken to the insurance company, unsurprisingly they've written
it off.

Now I've got to go through buggering about finding yet another car.

And I hate the new astras, visibility is crap and I can't see where
the bonnet ends.

<sulk>

 

no point transferring it into your name now. I'd call that almost a
result

Adie

 

That was Laura's excuse.

 

She's happy as the insurance company are paying £300 more for it than
we'd agreed as a purchase price.

 

There's a lever on the right hand side that raises the seat - should
sort that... Visibility is just fine.

 

That makes more sense than my daughter's suggestion that I sit on a
cushion.

The rear window is barely bigger than a letterbox and the rear quarter
window things are tiny.

I hate it. Discourtesy car that's what it is.

 

So dont buy a Vauxhall, buy a car FFS.
Even one of those Nichole&Papa contraptions is better than an astra.

 

they polish up nicely, though:

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=347865&page=1

<ginge auto="on" />

 

As Champ would say "What's behind you doesn't matter".

 

So you CAN polish a turd.

 

test drive it before buying it next time. and astras are a pile of shite,
in 2 years the ceiling felt[1] will all be falling down and it'll look
like it was made in the 1980s. and i don't mean knight rider.

tbh you don't need to see where the end of the bonnet is, though.

[1] sorry, "headlining" (nods in direction of absent bear)

 

i fondly remember darsy's deep desire to be in a spirito di punto advert

 

that's handy, because i don't.

 

I didn't, I wouldn't - it's the discourtesy car.

I want another Toyota.

 

Can none of you buggers read? It's the discourtesy car.

I do when getting onto the drive. Everything else I've driven I've had
a sense of where the car was - the astra seems immune to spatial
awareness.

 

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is that because you like it in the Yaris?

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meh. you went on about those puntos for a good year.

 

My middle daughter has one, it's shit.

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

I genuinely don't remember.

I mean, we had a Punto once, about 7 years ago, but it was fairly
shit.

 

OK, but dont buy a Supra.