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Baldrick
Member Since: 15 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin
Posts: 65
  
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So there I was - listening to my old man hypothesising on whether he'd buy an Audi A6 Avant or a BMW 520d Touring.......thinking he was mad to spend so much on a new car. He called me from the BMW dealership the next day to tell me he'd been offered an X3  and was contemplating it..... I colourfully suggested that at 67 years old he'd prematurely lost it and that he could buy a Disco 3 for the same price and have more room etc..The girlfried said I was a bit tough on him.
So I called my mate who works for a LR/Jag/Volvo franchise and borrowed one overnight as my old man would be too stubborn to do it. He was impressed as was I.........and the girlfriend
Long story shot - three weeks later (last friday) he's driving a 2006 demo BMW 520d Touring and I signed the dotted line for a brand new Disco 3 delivering in October - EEK! I must be mad! They're nearly twice the price in Ireland as they are in the UK because of the extra tax. Bastard tax men.
And I swore I'd never buy a new car. I was perfectly happy with the defender as my only transport................Should never have borrowed the Disco. I'm sure there's a morale to this story but can't come up with it. Any suggestions?  Def 110 200 tdi CSW - been to Cape Town & back
2007 MY Irish spec S+ TDV6
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 Tue Aug 15 2006 12:55am |
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JMC
Member Since: 25 Feb 2006
Location: Aberdeen-Angus. Where the Bull* comes from!
Posts: 5566
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Baldrick wrote:I'm sure there's a morale to this story but can't come up with it. Any suggestions?
Smile in the sure and certain knowledge that you have already learned from your fathers mistake. You won't be 68 and wishing you had a D3...... He probably will
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| Tue Aug 15 2006 1:17am |
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SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Wishing I was ...
Posts: 11795
 
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Yep - you've had it, if you drive one - the gotta have one of these urge kicks straight in 
Indeed a good story! Steve N | 2008 TDV6 SE Auto  | Was 2006 TDV6 S Auto  | Club Tunisia | Am I Online?
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| Tue Aug 15 2006 10:33am |
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JustinL
Member Since: 26 Jul 2006
Location: Somerset
Posts: 48
 
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You can say that again. I had always admired the D3, but then one day on my way to the Audi dealers (I have had three audis on the trot over the last eight years) and I wandered into the LR dealer just round the corner. Took one for a test drive, then borrowed it for a weekend and then signed up all in the space of days.......
Now I couldn't be parted even though my last audi did 45mpg.........
 
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| Tue Aug 15 2006 4:55pm |
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