CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: It's true about expensive cars! http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: It's true about expensive cars! en Mon, 18 May 2026 22:20:06 +0000 cc on "It's true about expensive cars!" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14535#post-183575 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:06:10 +0000 cc 183575@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On the other hand someone in a low black Audi R8 ("From £93,735", or £119,500+ for the "All-new" version) stopped it very politely yesterday in order to let me turn right across their path. </p> amir on "It's true about expensive cars!" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14535#post-183549 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:54:19 +0000 amir 183549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You guys must live/work in posh parts - I find myself cut up by cheaper cars as well </p> wee folding bike on "It's true about expensive cars!" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14535#post-183545 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:01:28 +0000 wee folding bike 183545@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In the late '80s a friend started working with a legal firm in Charlotte Sq. Some of the staff just parked outside and paid the tickets because they reckoned it was worth the price of a few tickets a week. </p> Stickman on "It's true about expensive cars!" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14535#post-183544 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:56:50 +0000 Stickman 183544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was there not a story about a partner at one of the Big4 who parked illegally in George Square in Glasgow every single day and racked up several thousand pounds worth of fines? </p> Fountainbridge on "It's true about expensive cars!" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14535#post-183543 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:49:36 +0000 Fountainbridge 183543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've noticed that it's the expensive cars on George Street that normally have the parking tickets. Easier to pay the fine (if you receive one) than it is to find a ticket machine, find "coins", put them in, get ticket, walk back to car to put ticket in window. </p> wee folding bike on "It's true about expensive cars!" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14535#post-183527 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:20:29 +0000 wee folding bike 183527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>WeBuyAnyCar offered me £75 for mine.</p> <p>I must be a blinking flip saint.*</p> <p>I saw a people mover lose the top of its roof box in Coatbridge Asda car park on Sunday. Don't know if it was a spendy one.</p> <p>*Roger Moore did drive a Volvo. </p> Min on "It's true about expensive cars!" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14535#post-183490 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:54:43 +0000 Min 183490@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31761576">Article in the BBC</a> telling us what we already knew - that drivers of certain cars are often far more obnoxious than others.</p> <p><em>"None of the drivers of the least expensive cars broke the law, while close to 50% of our most expensive car drivers broke the law," he says.</em> </p>