From: Adrian on
Silk <me(a)privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

> The best thing about the one I own, and the thing that trumps
> everything else, is it's got me as a driver.

And modesty is just one of your many virtues...
From: Silk on
On 26/05/2010 23:23, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
> A 2004 facelift Connoisseur SE CDTI with most all of the options. It
> felt and looks a little smaller than my current motor, but then it is
> supposed to do 2.5x the mpg at motorway cruising speeds that my current
> one does. Mileage was a good bit higher than intended, but they seem to
> have been mostly motorway miles.
>
> Now I need a tow bar and electrics fitting.

Not there are three of you, that's the minimum number required to form a
self-help group.

From: Douglas Payne on
Ret. wrote:
> Douglas Payne wrote:

>> If a journalist writes bad things about a car, the manufacturer then
>> won't give them free cars to review. Sales fall, the magazine fails
>> everyone is out of a job.
>
> Nonsense. Most car magazines do comparison tests where they review three
> or four cars together - and then they rate them 1 - 4. They clearly
> cannot rate them all as first equal - and they'd soon run out of cars to
> test if the manufacturers acted as you suggest.

> Jeremy Clarkson has never been slow to seriously slag off cars that he
> doesn't like.

Jeremy Clarkson quite famously doesn't get to review some marques, as
the manufacturers won't give him a free car.

I believe this is largely because he won't promise to be nice.

I don't think he had much good to say about the Rover 75.

--
Douglas
From: Ret. on
Douglas Payne wrote:
> Ret. wrote:
>> Douglas Payne wrote:
>
>>> If a journalist writes bad things about a car, the manufacturer then
>>> won't give them free cars to review. Sales fall, the magazine fails
>>> everyone is out of a job.
>>
>> Nonsense. Most car magazines do comparison tests where they review
>> three or four cars together - and then they rate them 1 - 4. They
>> clearly cannot rate them all as first equal - and they'd soon run
>> out of cars to test if the manufacturers acted as you suggest.
>
>> Jeremy Clarkson has never been slow to seriously slag off cars that
>> he doesn't like.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson quite famously doesn't get to review some marques, as
> the manufacturers won't give him a free car.
>
> I believe this is largely because he won't promise to be nice.
>
> I don't think he had much good to say about the Rover 75.

At the Motor Show, when it was launched, he described it as 'The Star of the
Show' and raved over its looks and interior:

http://redbandhq.com/Jaguar_Cars/video:rover-75-jaguar-s-type-1998-motor-show-launch/

--
Kev

From: Silk on
On 28/05/2010 11:42, Adrian wrote:
> Silk<me(a)privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
> saying:
>
>> The best thing about the one I own, and the thing that trumps
>> everything else, is it's got me as a driver.
>
> And modesty is just one of your many virtues...

It's only part of the specification. ;-)