Comments by "SHROOMY" (@shroomyesc) on "furiousdriving" channel.

This one is in exceptionally good condition. Hard to believe someone has managed to maintain one like this.
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I understand especially that actions like publicly promoting a controversial political party like the AfD in Germany has lead to a particularly big drop in sales over there. Typically the more on the right you are, the less EV-positive you are, so it seems like a really strange move if we're thinking from the company's perspective.
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The Matiz was probably the most copied car design by both microcars and "real" cars. Tons of three wheelers and four wheelers from various countries and companies look either exactly like the old one or this.
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I had never realized how clever these were! The only thought I ever had while seeing these was the failed moose test but now I wish I could find a clean one.
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Love the 75 so much. I still get loads of compliments from mine the design inside and out has just aged so much better than for instance it's Jaguar rivals of the time, just such a shame mine is on it's way out what with 340k km on the clock. If I didn't have one in green, it'd have to be this red.
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The Honda E was short lived, but i understand why. Renault is sort of doing the same concept right with the retro R5, because the pricing on that is more reasonable and it offers both long- and short range battery options.
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For comparison I have a 1999 Rover 75 1.8 with over 320k kilometres on the clock and the biggest issue I've had was a worn out gearbox cable snapping while I was in 2nd on an 8-lane junction, besides that just your typical parts replacements.
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The next twingo (current) definitely upped the quirk back up and then some, being rear engined and rear wheel drive with it's wheels at the very edges and it's funktacular design. Hope furious gets his hands on one.
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Wait... They sold these in 5-door variant??? I've only ever seen 3-doors so this one just looks odd.
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I'm actually considering one of these late 00's / early 10's 4-seat hardtop convertibles for my next car to replace my Rover 75, and I do like aspects of this one like the 3-piece roof mechanism and the closed silhouette on this one a lot. Unfortunately, it's still a mid 00's Astra inside and at the front so I associate it instantly with my sister's and her husband's old astra wagon that's falling apart, which is why I'm more considering a facelifted Ford Focus CC or Peugeot 308 CC since they're a bit more exclusive and definitely more rare. If only the Astra Twintops successor the Cascada had a hardtop.
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Unrelated to the video but just wanted to say that your video on the original Merc A-Class set me on the road to my current daily which I just picked up on Saturday. I got myself a '98 A 140 Classic to replace my Rover 75 and it's a gem! I agree with pretty much everything you said in that video it's so versatile and shockingly comfortable and refined for such a small and boxy car.
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GM officially sells the Corvette in Europe nowadays, so there's that.
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They kind of destroyed the Ka name by giving it to that developing market bargain bin Fiesta (Ka+), which also had an Active model so it would have been somewhat confusing.
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Current Picantos are actually hailed for being the most engaging and comfortable city cars, that feel much bigger than they are! Definitely come a long way. Shame they're ditching the 1.0l turbo engine in the facelift now, up till now with that engine it was a baby hot hatch.
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11:05 They're actually learning and adapting better than, say, VW because after they came out with the XPower version, that and all MG4s after have a rear wiper now.
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@lukemallory7832 I do like a Saab, however I think the rear lights on the 9-3 convertible (the latter one since I'm not looking to buy anything pre-2006) look a bit off, they're a bit too large. If I was to get a soft top I'd probably go for an Opel Cascada or BMW 1-series convertible however I live in Southern Finland so a hard top convertible definitely is a safer bet as a year round car. You could do a soft top too, but really I'd need to rent a garage at that point.
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@benday1218 Similiar, but doesn't seem quite like that exactly? Lower bumper part and some other details are different at least.
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Wasn't aware of this gentry model! I've only known of the 206 Roland Garros models with their green leather interiors and such.
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17:06 The more recent post-2016 twinair engines have a 6-speed manual and if I'm not remembering wrong the main reason the 1.2 doesn't have one is that the 6-speed box simply doesn't fit because of how small the car is, whereas the twinair engine takes up less space so they could fit one for 500's with twinairs.
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This was always a weird car to me (here as the Opel Signum) for the fact that unlike other volume brands trying their hand at a luxury car (Say, VW Touareg, Renault Vel Satis) instead of giving the car boatloads of equipment from base like the Korean brands often did with their luxury sedans (Before Genesis split off) or dousing it in nice materials they focused on a spacious rear seat and higher output engines, while everything else was left Vectra/Astra. So unless you paid extra for options, the inside experience was rather the same as any old Vectra or Astra of the time with the same materials, same equipment and same overall design. The facelift perhaps improved things a little but perhaps by then the damage was done. Sure you'd have a leather steering wheel and automatic A/C, but so did my friend's 2004 Astra wagon.
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This was a time that it seemed Renault seemed to wind down their french quirkiness a little bit for some time with all of their cars (with the exception of models like the Wind), but it certainly picked back up later with the 3rd generation of the Twingo becoming rear engined, rear wheel drive the wheels pushed right to the corners and that distinctive design, their other models also becoming more interesting again.
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It doesn't surprise me, the inside experience was largely the same and the design in and out was fully the same as any old Vectra or Astra of the time without any better equipment by default.
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8:34 I can't for the life of me figure out what that DB5 esque looking thing is
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People were often calling the covid pandemic "the panoramic" or various other similiar sounding words mostly to avoid social media censor detectors, since negative content isn't good for advertising.
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It's definitely more lively nowadays than it was in the late 90's/early 00's where it truly was the greyest of the grey, at least now with most affordable cars there's some kind of colour interior option although they often don't sell well.
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13:24 Now if only you could find one of those Winds to review. Such a clever little convertible.
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This mk1 mondeo was my childhood car. Got it towed out of a ditch while I was in it once (after bio dad drunk drove it in there) and at some point it just started running with so little horsepower it could barely go 10km/h so it just got abandoned in the yard to be replaced by a first gen C'eed brand new (which of course then got totalled drunk within like a year but that's neither here nor there). First car I ever remember riding in though. A sedan with cheap red paint and no A/C, it was our trusty steed for my early childhood.
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I find it quite fun somehow to hear that 41k is exorbitant for a Mini as currently you could easily get a 5-door Mini to 41k here in Finland with only a couple options, nevermind a countryman or clubman.
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Would've been nice if the Rover brand could've been let die with grace after the 75, but no. Still waiting on someone to purchase the name and brand from JLR or whoever still owns it and start making cars again, although extraordinary circumstances would be required for that to be succesful (probably EVs).
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@biggobmalc8118 From purely a business sense, Tesla should get rid of Elon to save their absolutely crashing sales. Political agreement doesn't help if those in agreement aren't the ones buying the cars.
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I really do like the idea of the Idea, but I even more like it's Lancia sibling, the Musa which I would want some day. Unfortunately both are really rare especially here in Finland. The Musa is as practical, just with a different styling. They do sort of remind me of my 1998 A-Class, although the A-Class is a bit wider and more technologically advanced, it's way shorter but the interior space and tallness is comparable.
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Oh, this brings some memories! I've commented about my 75 before, I had a dark green 1.8 Classic with a tan interior, proper bmw era '99 year. I still miss it very often now that I've been without it and with the A140 instead for a bit over a year. Had to give it up due to not being able to afford all the small repairs I would've had to do with the mileage it had, nothing compares.
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Unfortunately a lot of the bings and bongs are just standard on all cars, not even because of regulations necessarily but because companies want a full 5-star NCAP score, albeit the speed limit one is a regulation. Some cars luckily make this stuff easier to turn off than others, others don't let you turn anything off.
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Oh my, this would be quite the dream for me. I currently own a dark green 1999 75 1.8 which I do love but I am planning to get rid of for the impractical sedan shape and lack of a/c (as it's a classic trim). There's not enough of these wagons here in Finland for me to have much of a choice if picking one though. Although one good thing I suppose about the 1999 models like the one I have is I've heard they're of the best quality.
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I believe most if not all BMWs have had them for decades, but might have chosen to do regular stalks that stay up/down in the recent years.
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