Motoring Discussion > Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a £1500 car	Buying / Selling
Thread Author: VxFan	Replies: 56

New Mon 23 May 16 13:12   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a £1500 car - VxFan

www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/prime-minister-buys-used-nissan-micra-for-his-wife/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 13:51   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a £1500 ca - Runfer D'Hills

Now that guy has style ! As does his wife for agreeing to it. Popular with the retired though aren't they, Micras? ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 14:13   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �£15 - John Boy

>> Popular with the retired though aren't they, Micras? If you keep up the good work for long enough, Runfer, you'll be able to get one. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 14:20   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Old Navy

Runfer is more a Jazz owner, he could even get his mountain mobility scooter in the boot. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 18:43   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Cliff Pope

£1500 buys a good car, not a banger. Ten years ago I bought a spare Volvo 240 for £100 and sold it 5 years later for £300. It's still on the road - probably worth £500 now. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 19:09   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - legacylad

Yeah right. I can just image SamCam dropping her children off at the school gates in it five days a week. t*** Rhymes with spratt Last edited by: legacylad on Mon 23 May 16 at 19:09 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 19:41   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Runfer D'Hills

Why wouldn't she use it though? It might not be your choice of car or mine but it seems to be a perfectly OK little car. Not sure what they are up to here but it might just be very simply that they don't like to put a lot of their own money on the road. I know a few people like that who could easily afford expensive cars but who choose not to. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 20:00   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - legacylad

Absolutely nothing wrong with a Micra Runfer. I think they are regarded as reliable cheap motoring, and indeed, I would be happy to own one like that for a short period of time whilst I waited for a replacement to come along. However,if I could afford something better, and my children were travelling in it, I would buy something which gave my nearest & dearest more protection in a heavy impact accident. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 20:10   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Armel Coussine

>> However,if I could afford something better, and my children were travelling in it, I would buy something which gave my nearest & dearest more protection in a heavy impact accident. Bentley? Huge great Mercedes? The Benz didn't work for the unfortunate Wincess, poor girl, or her stoned spook driver. Terrible way to go. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 20:22   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Duncan

>> Bentley? Huge great Mercedes? The Benz didn't work for the unfortunate Wincess, poor girl, or >> her stoned spook driver. Terrible way to go. Hmmm. Four people in that car. Three people died in the crash. Three people were not wearing seat belts. One person survived the crash. One person was wearing a seat belt. Would anyone like to have a wild guess which was which? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 20:39   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Alastairw

I was in school with the survivor. Not the sharpest tool in the box, who rose to the dizzying rank of Corporal in the army before going private. At least he remembered his belt though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 20:13   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - tyrednemotional

>>......I can just image SamCam dropping her children off at the school gates in it five days a week..... ...but the Nanny, however........... Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Mon 23 May 16 at 20:14 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 19:26   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Armel Coussine

>> £1500 buys a good car, not a banger. I was about to say: that isn't a banger, it's apparently a very respectable small car. A 'banger' in that class shouldn't cost more than £350 say. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 20:37   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Alastairw

In truth this looks like a little runabout to be kept at the country pile for those last minutes runs into the village for missing ingredients and such like. Official journeys will obviously be in the armoured Jag and, istr Dave also has a CRV for family use. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 20:51   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - John Boy

For an older car, the safety rating looks quite good to me: www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ratings/en/results/nissan/micra/15615 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 21:12   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - mikeyb

Good bit of PR all round. Supports UK manufacturing, local car dealer, and makes him / Sam look like commoners Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Mon 23 May 16 21:34   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Runfer D'Hills

I know a guy, quite well in fact, who has a net worth well in excess of £200 million. You'd never guess it though if you met him. Very unassuming chap, usually in jeans and a torn jumper and drives about in a 15 year old Golf diesel. The Golf often as not has a bale of hay in the boot or some other random agriculturally related detritus. He's just not interested in cars other than as functional items. Things are not always as they seem. Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Mon 23 May 16 at 21:37 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 22:16   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Kevin

A friend of mine, who's worth a few million, bought about 500 hundred acres of land in Texas. He designed the ranch house himself and had it pre-fabbed and shipped from a company in New Zealand. I helped him get the foundations and utility outlets laid correctly by converting the metric NZ floor plans to imperial (try getting a metric tape measure in a Texas Home Depot). While waiting for the house and construction crew to arrive he bought half a dozen longhorn cattle to take advantage of the tax rebates for anyone keeping native cattle breeds. On one trip to see how the foundations were getting along he decided to give the cattle a treat so we drove to the local feedstuff store to buy some cow-candy, salt-licks and molasses blocks. The guys in the warehouse were gob-smacked when they were asked to load them into a pristine 560SL and not a pickup. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 22:22   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - John Boy

What causes these topic titles to metamorphose into Freemasonry symbols? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 22:36   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - tyrednemotional

...It caught a virus from Runfer - he's not too careful where he hangs out, you know..... ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 May 16 22:38   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a £1500 car - Slidingpillar

What causes these topic titles to metamorphose into Freemasonry symbols? The process of 'reply to' bombs out if there is a symbol in the title. And once it has started, it gets worse. You can though correct it, like I have, but the whole process just starts again unless everyone corrects things. Last edited by: Slidingpillar on Mon 23 May 16 at 22:38 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 24 May 16 07:48   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a £1500 ca - Cliff Pope

>> >> And once it has started, it gets worse. You can though correct it, like I >> have, but the whole process just starts again unless everyone corrects things. >> Yes, I had a real banger like that once. If I drove it very carefully I could stop the big-ends from knocking, and I did try fitting new shells. But it started up again so there was nothing for it but an oversize crank regrind. The car had cost me £10 - I sold it for £20 two years later. Triumph Mayflower, if anyone remembers them. Quaint little thing, pretending to be a big saloon. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 09:30   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a £1500 ca - Focusless

www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/im-not-fking-driving-that-says-samantha-cameron-20160524109050 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 24 May 16 12:27   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a £1500 ca - Mapmaker

I'd have thought something bigger of a similar vintage would have been a better idea. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 12:39   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �£15 - Alanovich

A friend of mine used to work with Mrs Cameron, and his opinion is that she's a lovely lady but slightly scatty. You know, the sort who couldn't park a car bigger than a Micra if her life depended on it. So perhaps she just doesn't want anything bigger or newer. Which would be fairy nuff, there's plenty of Mums in my children's school car park driving Sherman Tanks and other such motorised buildings which they fail to park and manoeuvre properly on a daily basis. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 12:44   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Ian (Cape Town)

>> A friend of mine used to work with Mrs Cameron, and his opinion is that >> she's a lovely lady but slightly scatty. So maybe SHE left the kid at the pub? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 13:25   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Dulwich Estate II

In an article about his car purchase the dealer mentions that Cameron didn't even attempt to negotiate and just paid the screen price. This tells us at least 2 things: 1) He doesn't know how the real works for us normal people. 2) It doesn't give much faith in the outcome of his 'negotiations' with the EU to try and get us a better deal. I have no time for him at all. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 13:29   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - No FM2R

Or perhaps he thought that being criticised for not negotiating was better than being criticised for beating up on "the little guy". Like him or not, agree with him or not, he is no fool. Reply to this message | Report message       4

New Tue 24 May 16 14:00   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - VxFan

>> In an article about his car purchase the dealer mentions that Cameron didn't even attempt >> to negotiate and just paid the screen price. IIRC, on the local news last night it was said that one of his security guards asked if there would be a discount. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 27 May 16 15:48   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Mapmaker

>>This tells us at least 2 things: >> >>1) He doesn't know how the real works for us normal people. It may actually say that he thought the price was fair. In my experience car dealers don't give much away on a car like that. 6 months' free tax perhaps at best. Unlike you, not all of us spend £30,000 at glass palaces where they'll throw in £2,500 of paint coatings and floor mats. If something has been fairly priced quite a common conversation is: "can you help on the price" "I think it's pretty fairly priced, don't you?" "yes, here's the cash" Mrs C, BTW, I found to be utterly delightful when I met her. Yes, OK, politicians wives are (not) paid to be. But niceness shows. Last edited by: Mapmaker on Fri 27 May 16 at 15:50 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 13:56   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Armel Coussine

>> A friend of mine used to work with Mrs Cameron, and his opinion is that she's a lovely lady but slightly scatty One of my grandchildren used to go to the same school as one of the Cameron sprogs, and I remember her waiting with the other parents and carers, looking nice and smiling. Seemed like a very nice woman. I don't have an opinion of her driving. I'm sure it's competent, she must have passed the same test as the rest of us. Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Tue 24 May 16 at 13:58 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:06   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Pat

100% publicity stunt trying to convince some of us he's a normal working man with a normal working mans wallet. ....is there a vote coming up soon? He thinks we're total idiots. Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:11   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - No FM2R

>>He thinks we're total idiots. Dunno about him, but I do. Someone is buying the Mail, and I struggle to believe its the smart people. I guess there could be some degree of fascination involved. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:29   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Focusless

>> Someone is buying the Mail, and I struggle to believe its the smart people. FWIW link in OP is to Telegraph Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:30   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - No FM2R

Oh. That's depressing. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:33   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Harleyman

>> Oh. That's depressing. >> Depressing but not surprising. It's long since ceased to be anything more than an upmarket Mail; cancelled my online subs a year ago in protest at the slide in journalistic standards. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 24 May 16 14:39   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - tyrednemotional

...The Telegraph is now a truly awful newspaper. The slide has been slow but steady, and I deserted it somewhat more than a year ago. I'm not even sure you could now even consider it upmarket on The Mail, though it still has pretensions. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:44   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - No FM2R

>> It's long since ceased to be anything more than an upmarket Mail Good God. So what does one now read in the UK on a Saturday lunch time in the pub? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:47   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Alanovich

>> Good God. So what does one now read in the UK on a Saturday lunch >> time in the pub? >> i Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:53   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Armel Coussine

>> Good God. So what does one now read in the UK on a Saturday lunch >> time in the pub? Something improving by Kant, Hegel or Marx? Proust if you're in a frivolous mood. If you don't take a couple of tomes with you you may be reduced to Knitting News or talking to people who turn out to be quite nasty. :o} Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 15:04   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Alanovich

I was in a Belgravia pub on Saturday lunchtime, the one where the Great Train Robbery was plotted. On the end of some mews or other somewhere. You probably know it, AC. Perusing their bookshelves I fell upon "Modern Heating and Ventilation" by Alcwyn A. Jones. I was disappoint. But the cider was good. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 18:00   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - CGNorwich

Excellent AC. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 16:34   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - legacylad

My local pub, with a few letting bedrooms ( aka the Harts Head, Giggleswick) gets a variety of daily papers. Mirror, I, DT, Times and even the local weekly rag, the Craven (raving) Herald. Plenty of reading material. Plus a decades worth of Good Beer Guides, a few local maps. Far better chatting to the locals though if you are just passing though or staying a few days. Papers are for winter sitting in front of the log fires and nudging sleeping dogs out of the way. Summer is for enjoying the beer garden, watching the Swifts & Swallows and chatting with your pals. Which reminds me, the pubs open, sun is shining so please excuse me...... Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 17:03   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - tyrednemotional

>> My local pub..... I see you were confined to the inside on 16/4/2013, LL......... tinyurl.com/harts-head ;-) Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Tue 24 May 16 at 17:03 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:47   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Dulwich Estate II

No FM2R, I actually read the piece about his non negotiation in the . . . .wait for it . . . Guardian. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:51   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - No FM2R

This is all too much. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:39   Bangernomics Cameron buys his missus a �� - Focusless

>> Someone is buying the Mail, and I struggle to believe its the smart people. Correct - the smart ones are the millions who read the stories for free on the website/app :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 14:42   Bangernomics - tyrednemotional

>> .....read the stories for free on the website..... ...though then you have to suffer "the side-bar of shame".......... :-( Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 15:54   Bangernomics - John Boy

>> ...though then you have to suffer "the side-bar of shame".......... :-( The bit with it's own vocabulary, including: flaunting, slams, pins, flashes, ample, toned, racy, stunning. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 16:04   Bangernomics - Focusless

>> The bit with it's own vocabulary you missed out 'pert' Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 24 May 16 16:09   Bangernomics - Pat

I just click on the numerous car4play links to the DM:) That's where all their readers come from! Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 May 16 16:43   Bangernomics - Old Navy

It seems that some forum users think that working folk wouldn't understand their newspapers. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 24 May 16 18:30   Bangernomics - John Boy

>> you missed out 'pert' >> I'm ashamed - that's one of my favourites. I once heard it used in real life. Anyway, I'll visit a dominatrix for correction. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 27 May 16 06:48   Bangernomics - MD

'Moist" Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 27 May 16 07:21   Bangernomics - Focusless

And the results are in: 1760 moist 3877 pert 5939 flaunting 8656 slams 8998 flashes 10416 ample 12511 racy 13279 pins 33468 toned 75428 stunning (results found using DM site search) :) Last edited by: Focusless on Fri 27 May 16 at 07:23 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 27 May 16 08:43   Bangernomics - WillDeBeest

1 nothing better to do? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 27 May 16 21:16   Bangernomics - John Boy

I hadn't noticed "moist" as over-used and my own search for it was a bit of a dissappointment. It seems to feature mainly in cooking and makeup topics. I've noticed, however, that "assets" seems to occur rather a lot. Reply to this message | Report message