Results tagged “audi” from Liverpool Echo - Driving Passion

Good morning BFPO Frankfurt. How are things in the Rhineland?

Due to strategic commitments at HQ I am forced to follow events through dispatches but it all sounds jolly conceptual.

In the newspaper this weekend a man with a bad barometer habit predicted that by 2080 Cornwall would enjoy Mediterranean summers and warm, damp winters making it an ideal growing climate for viticulturists.
Chateaux Newlyn-sur-Mer here we come.

You know, in these hard times main dealers can be their own worst enemy. First a tale of two prices, the one discussed to sell a car and the one representing reality.
Let me explain. A friend bought an new Audi TT four years ago and the sale swung on the promise that if the car was traded in at the same outlet in four years they would assure a value of over half the original price, 'not like those BMWs.'
My mate licked his beloved Audi clean once a week and kept his mileage low. At the weekend he went back to the same Audi dealer to chop it for an A3. Guess what? Much sucking of air through teeth, difficult climate sir, South Osetia, Hurricane Gustav, global warming, that man Darling....only worth a third of its original value I'm afraid...
Deciding, and saying as much, that he did not like being lied to when he bought the car my friend now owns a BMW 1 Series. The BMW garage gave him well over half the Audi's original value.
Tale number two involves a woman who took her VW into a Manchester dealer for its first MOT. All hunky dory except the headlights were off target. £30 each to reset, please.
That alone is a joke, but what happened next was simply hilarious.
She decided to involve a mechanic friend. Who got into the driver's seat and moved the dashboard adjuster from three back to zero. This is a handy tool for carrying heavy loads... just make sure your dealer knows his cars come fitted with it. Dipsticks.

Yes, yes, I know I go on a bit about badge prejudice but I really belive there are people, from food shoppers who won't be seen dead in Aldi to clothes label slaves who waste precious pounds they could have invested on the markets. Like me, then you really would have something to worry about.
Cars are the prime one. Go on, swallow your sinful pride and buy one of the emerging cheaper makes.
Beneath you?
Well how about this.
Mr Rafa Nadal, the tennis racketeer and all round good looking cove is n ot sponsored by BMW or Audi, the natural bedfellows of such a polite sport but by Kia.
Kia has a long standing association with tennis sponsorship. This January, Kia extended its multi-million U.S. dollar partnership with the Australian Open to become the major sponsor until 2013. Kia has further broadened its relationship with tennis through its official worldwide sponsorship of the Davis Cup and association with tennis stars such as Andre Agassi and, more recently, with Rafael Nadal as global brand ambassador.
Which means he drives one of their cars.
And if he can you can. Mrs Bucket.