Alternative to 35is?

scootr · Post by **scootr** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:01 pm

Ask the Mrs

Stevo1987 · Post by **Stevo1987** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:49 pm

Apologies to all, I should have handled that a bit better. In response to my right honourable friend enuff_zed I did think that maybe the 35is was not really cut out for Norfolk roads. The roads here are not great. They are as bumpy as hell. There are very few long sweeping curves to soak up all that power. Look, Norfolk roads are just plain bad. As for asking the Mrs......are you talking snoring?

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:56 pm

Stevo1987 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:49 pm Apologies to all, I should have handled that a bit better. In response to my right honourable friend enuff_zed I did think that maybe the 35is was not really cut out for Norfolk roads. The roads here are not great. They are as bumpy as hell. There are very few long sweeping curves to soak up all that power. Look, Norfolk roads are just plain bad. As for asking the Mrs......are you talking snoring?

Hi Steve, well I guess then that it depends on how much you'd miss the sound, power and (for some) kudos of having the 35is.
If what you want is a fun car for nipping around the back roads or wriggling along the Norfolk Coast road then why not do what I just did for Val. Spend about 1/8 of the budget on a decent E85 and keep the change for servicing and fuel.

Stevo1987 · Post by **Stevo1987** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:19 pm

Well, there is some mileage in that because I'm really looking hard at my pension options now. Sad but true but I want to be retired in
the next couple or 3 years. I have a cunning plan and see my IFA next week. With an e85 I could kick the proverbial out of it and almost write that money off. When I first started looking at my Z4 journey this is where I began. I can't go into details but my circumstances changed and I then found myself in the position of, hey, I can have that one. Top of the range. Look at me ma top of the world!! 10 Stevo points if you know what film that is from. And no cheating.

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:23 pm

Stevo1987 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:19 pm Well, there is some mileage in that because I'm really looking hard at my pension options now. Sad but true but I want to be retired in
the next couple or 3 years. I have a cunning plan and see my IFA next week. With an e85 I could kick the proverbial out of it and almost write that money off. When I first started looking at my Z4 journey this is where I began. I can't go into details but my circumstances changed and I then found myself in the position of, hey, I can have that one. Top of the range. Look at me ma top of the world!! 10 Stevo points if you know what film that is from. And no cheating.

Jimmy Cagney? Think it was White Heat?

Stevo1987 · Post by **Stevo1987** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:12 pm

It was. I think I watched it with my dad when I was kid he kept saying it the rest of the week.

scootr · Post by **scootr** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:18 pm

Something to be said for affordable toys

My 3.0 is a race car (to me) that corners like a cat with a dog on her tail.

Stevo1987 · Post by **Stevo1987** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:19 pm

Stevo1987 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:12 pm It was. I think I watched it with my dad when I was kid he kept saying it the rest of the week.

No. I remember we did watch the film together. It was when he fiitted the central heating and he was on top of the roof putting in the flue liner. Yep, he was on the roof holding on to the chimney shouting 'Look at me ma top of the world!!' ha ha he was fearless my dad. He was a lot of other things as well but no one is perfect.

Stevo1987 · Post by **Stevo1987** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:20 pm

scootr wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:18 pm Something to be said for affordable toys
My 3.0 is a race car (to me) that corners like a cat with a dog on her tail.

Yes, maybe.

Argyll Andy · Post by **Argyll Andy** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:34 am

Stevo1987 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:19 pm
Stevo1987 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:12 pm It was. I think I watched it with my dad when I was kid he kept saying it the rest of the week.
No. I remember we did watch the film together. It was when he fiitted the central heating and he was on top of the roof putting in the flue liner. Yep, he was on the roof holding on to the chimney shouting 'Look at me ma top of the world!!' ha ha he was fearless my dad. He was a lot of other things as well but no one is perfect.

I’m laughing at that as it’s almost the same scenario my granny shouted that line at me. 82 years young and on top of her two story house painting her chimney. I nearly had a turn when I saw her. She wasn’t for comming down until she’d finished

She’d already painted the rest of it with my granda footing the ladder because he didn’t like heights.

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