The Citroen 2CV concept design

I Wonder Why You Feel The Need To Capitalize Every Single Word.

— jeffy210 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/7/2008 2:38:04 PM | | Votes: 2   

The 2CV is an amazing car. I learned to drive in one.

— Rupert (View Profile)

Posted on 6/7/2008 3:57:28 PM | | Votes: 1   

I learned when I was like 14, it was the first manual car I ever drove. We had a holiday home in France, and the 2CV stayed there so when we were there we could be like proper French farmers, driving over fields etc. Never had it in England, and I never drove it legally or anything, just on back roads in very very rural France. And it teaches you a lot about driving! No power steering or power anything actually!

And what are you insinuating about my Lupo? It is very far from the tin can that is the 2CV!

And perhaps it's not actually a good car, just the memories of it are - going to the patisserie to get bread, bombing down country lanes in summer with the roof rolled back. I miss France :( (But then I remember there was nothing to do and if it was raining it was very dull and damp).

— Rupert (View Profile)

Posted on 6/8/2008 6:55:15 PM | | Votes: 1   

And what did you learn to drive in anyway?!

— Rupert (View Profile)

Posted on 6/8/2008 6:55:50 PM | | Votes: 1   

I miss it in my head. If I went there I would hate it, the locals were all inbred and smelly, and there was nothing to do.
And it was fun, on the way to the house we always went past Le Mans, down the Mulsanne Straight. My dad never failed to show just how fast cars went down there on race days...in a separate incident, once we raced a TGV. We won. :D

A Ford Consul...only a 2.8? The first auto I properly drove was a 4.2 Range Rover (a 92 LSE model, not a modern supercharged one). I win the mythical competition of engine size we're having! Drove it off-road as well, and one time (in another bit of France actually) I was just driving round a field, then we needed to go to the shop, and my dad let me drive. You have no idea how scary 30 mph and actual roads are when you're 14. Then I really started practising driving when we sold the house in France and bought one in Spain, and so I drove the rental cars. I've driven too many Ford Focuses (Foci?) to mention.

Rallying/sledging sounds fun, but a Lada? You can't tell me off about France if you had a Lada!

And the Lupo is great! Being so easy to park has such advantages, I can get in spaces that most people would only dream of! I want a GTi Lupo though, it looks awesome (and goes like sh*t off a shovel!)

— Rupert (View Profile)

Posted on 6/9/2008 7:27:44 PM | | Votes: 1   

Damn. Well you win everything then. At some point will you post my dignity back to me?

— Rupert (View Profile)

Posted on 6/10/2008 7:54:28 PM | | Votes: 1