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Old 16th October 2013, 09:40 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Originally Posted by Delboy View Post
slow it down a bit.
Going a bit off topic I know, but that reminds me of picking up our youngest from Uni (Leeds) on our way back from Scotland (walking holiday) a few years back in the PF S8 when it was "at its peak".
We hadn't planned to do this and had a fair bit of our own stuff, but in the end we COMPLETELY filled the cabin as well as the boot and got all his stuff in - apart from the contents of 2 "bean bags" that we emptied into a large bin.
We ended up inching the electric windows up and slowly feeding ever-smaller items in (to him sitting in the back) until it was literally full to the roof. Both him and my wife had loads of stuff on their laps too.

I remember him asking - won't all this stuff slow us down rather on the way home!
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant.
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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