What guy doesn't like a pretty girl in a Mini? (Top ten favorite cars)

Member Name: thedevilinme

Product:	Top ten favorite cars
Date:	30/03/09 (175 review reads)
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Advantages: British cars!

Disadvantages: British cars!

My top ten are not necessarily ones I have driven or purchased but just ones that I love to look at or make me chuckle. As March is car month on dooyoo then I thought I would make an offering.
= = = Aston Martin = = =

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To celebrate the DVD release of the Quantum of Solace (its not very good), any of the Aston Martin DB range should make the list. James Bonds iconic coupe is quite simply the perfect sports ca and its mix of technology, power and mahogany wood finish makes it the perfect purchase for any red blooded male. I saw the Vantage the other day and was mesmerised by it, the sun catching the metallic spokes and rain drops in that way only the best cars can sparkle to. Even the old DB range has class and if I ever make millions it will be my first purchase.

= = = VW Beatle = = =

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'A hippy is doing 70mph down a country road in his VW Beatle. Gets pulled up by the law. Cop gives him ticket for speeding. Bloke gives it back to cop and says can you make it out for 90 mph. Why says the cop. I'm trying to sell it says the bloke.'
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Which ever way you look at it women bought the new VW Beatle (spelt Beetle) because it had that flower in it. The German motor manufacturers brilliant but simple marketing campaign for the relaunched model made it the must have car for the trendy young female professional around town. Women seem to like small cars on some sort of twisted logic theory that they will be less likely to be involved in car smash, presumably because the other drivers don't see them to squash them.
The original VW Beatle, along with the Camper Vans, was the traditional preserve of the backpacking hippy type, the workhorses been around the world more times than a demented Russian satellite. They were so reliable and with their ability to run on pretty much any cannibalised spare parts from other makers it made them the surfer's choice of shag wagons. Then Kevin Bacon made the VW Beatle cool in America with Footloose and now half of Mexico drives them it is in the world's most popular cool car bracket. When you see archive footage of Mexico City it does seem to be full of them.

= = = The Ferrari 599 GTB = = =

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There are beautiful Ferraris and their chunky ones, but there are never ugly ones. The 599 GTB is one of the beautiful ones. I wanted to hyperlink a picture of it to show you how gorgeous it is but as usual dooyoos Mazda text editor won't have it.

= = = Maserati Granturismo = = =

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Maserati were always the great Italian pretenders to Ferraris throne but couldn't quite attract the glamour of the blood red contenders. They are as equally stylish and fast and have those Aston Martin sexy compact curves that move through the air like a ghost. It was, along with the Detomaso Pantera, the coolest 'Hotwheels' car I ever had!

= = = Lamborghini Countach = = =

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The familiar gull-wing doors to many who played Top trumps as kids define this Italian supercar. You would be lucky to get ten miles to the gallon from it, prowling around Milan's streets, but you would certainly get some good mileage of female action from it, although there's no back seat to get her ankles behind the ears. These noisy dickwaving super sports became so iconic of garish Italian performance cars it soon became labelled as tacky and cheesy. If you could afford one of these you certainly wouldn't buy one. Most are exported to South America were drug dealers growl around Bogotá in them and you just wouldn't be seen dead in one of these in Europe, if you wanted to be seen - if you see what I mean. If you wanted to beat it in top Trumps only the Bentleys superior wheelbase could nail it.

= = = The Ford Mustang = = =

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Although American cars are notoriously uneconomic, chunky and angular affairs the Mustang stands alone as the class act for me. Its one of only two I have driven in my list and acted as my wheels for part of my coast-to-coast trip across America. Blasting through the Arizona desert in one of these is the true America car experience...wing and road kill in your hair. You can buy the new ranges for as little as twenty thousand dollars in the US and their performance and cool far out-strips most of its British rivals.

= = = The Reliant Robin = = =

The ironically named three-wheeler was my dads first car and so my first memories of being in one, which made for plenty of jokes about it.

Q: How do you double the value of a Reliant Robin?
A: Fill the petrol tank

Q: What do you call a Robin with two exhaust pipes?
A: A wheelbarrow
Q: How do you execute a hand brake turn in a Robin?
A: Stick your arm out the window and grab a sign post

But it was also quite cool to get a lift by my dad to school and it would be often full of friends I had made through having a dad with a whacky car. Because it was full up it would indeed tip on the corners and the cheap fibre-glass bottom would drag and then bite like an ice-skate. It's on my list because it brings back good memories and it also reminds me of our Delboy and his yellow one. The boxer Ricky Hatton is also a big fan of Delboy and has bought one of the three yellow Independent trader Robins used in the sitcom and drives it around his local Manchester streets dressed in full Del garb after one punch too many. Can there be a more eccentric British car?
As a senior citizen was driving his Reliant Robin down the motorway, his mobile phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Dennis, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on the M42. Please be careful!" "Hell," said Dennis, "It's not just one car. Its hundreds of them!"

= = = The Ford Model T = = =

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As most of you know the Model T was the world's first production car (Stephen Fry will probably buzz in here), but its not that I'm interested in. The Model T was also the Laurel & Hardy car, so demands respect, Stan & Ollie's inability to fit into one together the source of many big laughs from the comedy duo. Then when Ollie has to get his rather overweight girlfriend in along with Stan when the couple plan to elope the car can only be tested to the max. But it was pretty durable and even Laurel & Hardy couldn't destroy it, surviving a chainsaw at the saw mill, being sandwiched by two tram cars and being run over by a steam lorry!

= = = The Mini = = =

A true British icon the Mini is a car that has crossed all social backgrounds and lifestyles, a rare feat in Britain and a car we are very proud to be the creator of. After its rebirth at the turn of the millennium sales were boosted by its appearance in the remake of the Italian Job, the movie that had made the cars reputation back in the 60s, its nimble selling point succinctly demonstrated. Ok it's made mostly abroad now but it was born out of British Leyland and it's a car that's as British in appearance as the Bolar hat and we shouldn't forget that we used to make great cars and the industry is worth supporting in these tough times. Once you mothball a production line its over.

= = = The American Police Car = = =

Whatever make they are the American police car is the workhorse of Hollywood, prepared to take the hits in every movie. Only in America can 25 of them manage to run each into each other in spectacular style and at ludicrous speeds on queue or role over 30 times for no apparent reason. If a British police car roles just once in a movie it's a rare event, half of London taped off for the stunt. The dumb American shefiff often makes a movie and what would the early 70s movies be without the tobacco chewing redneck highway patrolman...

Summary: They all breakdown