Apparently some cars are old man cars...
No Honda Accords here I'm afraid, though I have caused much amusement to my colleagues and acquaintances, as well as much shame to my wife, by buying an 'old man car'. Thing is, all the old men I've ever seen driving are pottering about in little Ford Fiestas or an occasional clapped out MG Maestro. Fair enough, most of the people I've seen driving the same metal box of failing rust as me tend to be at least middle aged, but it works as a family car and it goes fast if I want it to, and it's comfortable. I refuse to be identified as an old man just because of my choice of vehicle!

Now - the beige slacks and zip up acrylic M&S cardigan on the other hand...
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 15:25, 10 replies)

I'm 25.
I'm running about in a Saab 9-3 diesel (It was at the right price).

My friends like to point out that I'm not a dentist at every opportunity.

Then again my colleagues used to rip me for driving an absolute bucket of an astra, when "you're 25, you should have a golf gti". Waste of money imo.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 15:34, closed)

Precisely!
I had a Golf (not GTI) and it was shite - spent more time with the AA than Charles Kennedy.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 15:37, closed)

My Old Dentist used to drive a SAAB.
Is it a requirement?
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:26, closed)

Yes.
See also: A-Level history teacher.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:30, closed)

I love my luxo barge
After a FTO, a Supra and a Scooby WRX I am now wafting around in the leather clad luxury of a 1995 Mercedes C Class. It doesn't have a lot of go but then it weighs 2 tonne. It is wafty though and relaxing and if it had cruise control it'd be smegging amazing.
(fivetide, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 11:01, closed)

Leather clad luxury is the ONLY way to travel.
I toyed with a C-Class but opted for legendary British reliability (ahem!) instead.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Sat 9 Jun 2012, 10:22, closed)

A few years aged 37 I bought a shiny new Mercedes SLK.
Mid-life crisis car, apparently. And a hairdressers car to boot.
I now have a Z4. That's a mid-life crisis barbers car apparently.
Before that I had a boy-racers car.

My first car? A Rover 214.. That's a proper grandads car.

I'm doing all this car stuff in the wrong order.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:05, closed)

You'll be in a Citroen Saxo with a body kit and wide exhaust by the time you're sixty...
Or failing that, an obnoxious yellow Renault Clio.

FWIW, I would happily drive an SLK or a Z4. My mid-life crisis is an S-Type. There's more wood on the dash than there is in HMS Victory, but I don't care, it's awesome.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 16:16, closed)

Just posted something about this separately...
...but my previous car was a Citroen Saxo (unmodified though, i'm not a boy racer) and I now own a Honda Jazz, which I think is fantastic. A sign of getting old :)

It's cheap to tax, insure and run, one of the safest and most reliable cars in its class and due to it being considered a boring car makes it less attractive to thieves.

Yep. I'm old.

(Me and my wife like to amuse each other when out driving by playing "spot the Jazz driver younger than us". We've only seen one, and she's a friend of ours anyway)
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 15:08, closed)

At least it's not a Toyota Yaris
A car so targetted at old people it even resembles a mini-hearse.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Sat 9 Jun 2012, 10:23, closed)