If you won the lottery.. Would you keep your Fiat?

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If you won the lottery.. Would you keep your Fiat?

No because you'd rather spend your lottery winnings on a huge building and fill it with cheap old rubbish cars, costing an absolute fortune to do, than buy a couple of really nice quality cars to enjoy and cherish, which you could keep in a small heated garage.

There is far more to life than cars and without financial constraints I'd spend my time traveling and enjoying life, not sat in a barn full of tat like some sort of motoring gollum polishing an old corsa and repeating the mantra "my precious"

I still don't get where self esteem comes into the equation. I like small cars, so therefore, I'd want to save them from being scrapped. There's very few large, expensive cars that I like, so why would I want to waste my winnings on buying any?

And of course there's more to life without financial constraints than cars: I'd give up paid employment to work for a charity shop. As someone who's fed up with the godawful noise that saturates the music charts these days, I'd employ people to go round pubs to find talented small bands, and I'd help them try to get their talent discovered.
 
I still don't get where self esteem comes into the equation. I like small cars, so therefore, I'd want to save them from being scrapped. There's very few large, expensive cars that I like, so why would I want to waste my winnings on buying any?
Because you have to show how much self-esteem you have by showing off your money in a big mean car with a fancy badge to hide behind! :p
 
So you imply that 9-speed gearbox (which comes with its issues) is designed and built by Land Rover?

That and not even spelling the names of the cars you're defending properly?



Yeah, I'm leaving this "discussion"...



What a jealous bitch with low self-esteem I must be when you can literally buy a brand new car with 4 rings or a star on the grille for the money I spent on a Doblo without a bragbadge, huh?


The 9 speed box is built by a German company and used by a multitude of manufacturers including fiat and Land Rover.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF_9HP_transmission

You seem to still be hear despite saying you were leaving and have taken to criticising spelling so I'm guessing you're out of argument.

Looking at the prices of the Doblo I see that even the very top end model costs about the same as the cheapest Mercedes you can buy and that's the small little A-class.
Certainly absolutely no risk of bragging about your Doblo badge that we can agree on.
 
I still don't get where self esteem comes into the equation. I like small cars, so therefore, I'd want to save them from being scrapped. There's very few large, expensive cars that I like, so why would I want to waste my winnings on buying any?

And of course there's more to life without financial constraints than cars: I'd give up paid employment to work for a charity shop. As someone who's fed up with the godawful noise that saturates the music charts these days, I'd employ people to go round pubs to find talented small bands, and I'd help them try to get their talent discovered.


Self esteem is where you see your self and how you see that you fit into the world around you, if as a millionaire you want to continue to drive small old cheap problematic cars carry on not a problem but it's a view into your psyche.

If you say you'd give up work and with your enormous wealth you'd go and work in a charity shop then that says a lot too.

You basically don't see yourself worthy of anything better.


People who haven't got something and see everyone else as "showing off" need to spend less time worrying about others and focus more on their own issues as it really doesn't matter what anyone else has, those people driving big fancy cars couldn't give a stuff about you and neither would they if you had a Rolls Royce.
 
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Self esteem is where you see your self and how you see that you fit into the world around you, if as a millionaire you want to continue to drive small old cheap problematic cars carry on not a problem but it's a view into your psyche.

If you say you'd give up work and with your enormous wealth you'd go and work in a charity shop then that says a lot too.

You basically don't see yourself worthy of anything better.


People who haven't got something and see everyone else as "showing off" need to spend less time worrying about others and focus more on their own issues as it really doesn't matter what anyone else has, those people driving big fancy cars couldn't give a stuff about you and neither would they if you had a Rolls Royce.

Let me tell you about William Morris. As you may have guessed from his surname, he was the man who created Morris Cars. He was a man of immense wealth, and people saw him as a tightwad, because he lived in a modest house, and at the time of his death, he drove a 20 odd year old Wolseley. However, he was not tight: he wanted other people to benefit from his wealth, and gave vast sums of money to hospitals and educational organisations.

So, to explain things to you clearly, yes, if I won the lottery, I would have a vast collection of what you consider to be worthless old bangers, not because I have esteem issues as you seem to think, but purely for the simple reason that I actually rather like them.

And I would work in a charity shop not because I don't consider meself worthy of anything else, but because I'm not a greedy b4st4rd, and I would want other people to benefit from my fortune. :thumbup:
 
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I'm not really sure you can compare working in a charity shop a Lord who built up a huge business empire and gave a fortune away to charitable causes, it really isn't the same as sorting through an old pile of jeans.


We get it, you would be a selfish tw@ that doesn't give a shlit about anything or anybody...

Sorry we're not all such sad individuals, jeesh...


Sadly your wrong, I just have far more imagination than going and working in a charity shop.
 
I still don't get where self esteem comes into the equation. I like small cars, so therefore, I'd want to save them from being scrapped. There's very few large, expensive cars that I like, so why would I want to waste my winnings on buying any?

And of course there's more to life without financial constraints than cars: I'd give up paid employment to work for a charity shop. As someone who's fed up with the godawful noise that saturates the music charts these days, I'd employ people to go round pubs to find talented small bands, and I'd help them try to get their talent discovered.

Steady, it is ok to differ. I relate to the idea of preserving many more common cars.. I would find it fun to have such choice! Also many would be of interest in years to come.

Of the Fiat range it would be a top spec 4x4 Panda Mj with the 95 Hp option or more as a custom extra and lowered to the standard height. I like the car and like having hidden power ;-)
 
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I'm not really sure you can compare working in a charity shop a Lord who built up a huge business empire and gave a fortune away to charitable causes, it really isn't the same as sorting through an old pile of jeans.

I never compared the lottery winning version of meself to that, I used Lord Nuffield as an example of what I meant.




Steady, it is ok to differ. I relate to the idea of preserving many more common cars.. I would find it fun to have such choice! Also many would be of interest in years to come.

Thank you! That is exactly where I was coming from! For me personally, I think they're more worthy of being saved than all the various luxury and supercars due to the fact that they provide transport to the masses, yet so often get overlooked and scrapped. It's not common for survivors of various cars to be in single figures, which I think is quite sad tbh.
 
It's not common for survivors of various cars to be in single figures, which I think is quite sad tbh.

+1 for this. According to How Many Left, there are just 9 Tipo 1.4 TDS cars left, including mine. That's really sad and makes me really want to look after it.

So, if I won the lottery the Tipo would stay, in a garage alongside a nice Mk1 Uno, an 850 and maybe something new for the family. :)
 
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