EvilBevel

AS, I realize you are not exactly familiar with user interface design being an AS400 bod, but a smiley with glasses usually means people are not upset. Just some info.

The thumb pointing down usually means the previous poster is a plonker

Oh, and leave my ***** out of this, you really don't want to know

Type_RA

So was I right does the AS400 username refer to the machine you work on ?

ADP

na, boy racers are novas, astras, calibras, mk1/2 golfs, saxos, puntos, festas, escorts etc etc

though I think scoobs do probably quite often get tarred with the same brush, though they also often escape as they realise anyone driving a £20K car isnt really in the category of boy racer

barge

he's not answering the why the AS400 user name.

Up_North

Calling yourself after a computer system - oh I hope not - now what kind of image is that too project - maybe he has a t-shirt with "Intel Inside" logo on it.

Ian

StefB

Don't give damm what anyone thinks. Life is not a rehersal. Had scooby for 2 yrs now. I'm 46 - what you might call an old boy racer.

Scooby Dooby Blue

BEW & Theo

Beautifully put boys

Paul

King RA

WRKFATCAR CAR(SCOOBY) MODS(*YES) BHP(265) RACE(*YES) BOYRCR(*NO)

There's your answer AS/400

Robertio

iTrader: (1)

as400, IMHO it is not so much the question that provoced the responses, but the phrasing of it. Had you said something along the lines of:
'I used to have an Impreza, but felt I had to get rid of it due to the boyracerish image, am I alone in having found this a problem?'
I suspect the replies would have been of a more friendly nature.


In answer to the original question, yep I did have a problem with the cars image, and that was one of the reasons I decided to change car, as it was with my previous car (Saxo VTR, which I had before the max power lot decided to adopt it). Everybody is different, some people care what other people think about them, others don't, it is just the way things are. In this particular instance I guess it would be the < 30 year olds who are more likely to be put off by this association, those older than this are more likely to regarded as enthusiasts by the general public, than a menace to society.

Type_RA

Interesting reply Roberto I find that when I drive the Fiesta nobody gives a second glance, people tailgate me and hate been overtaken and wont move over on motorways and dual carriageways. I dont flash, tailgate, undertake or drive aggressively I just wait a safe distance behind. Same route in the scoob at the same speeds people dive out of the way (teh very same people as I recognize the cars as you do same time on drive to work).

Makes me laugh how other people judge your driving by the car you drive. They dont mine been overtaken by a loud, spoilered up 280bhp scoob but hate it with a 60bhp Fiesta .

RichardPON

LOL @ this post!!!

I'm 23 and drive a cossie. My dad's 52 and drives a Nissan Pulsar GTiR.....

He's the one who gets called the boy racer!!!!!

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

I'm not one for any sort of "image" as I am what I am - take it or leave it.

I like the scoob as it is one of the fastest, yet safest, ways of travelling from A-B under most road conditions.

It is the car's ability I'm interested in - not the image

lordharding

iTrader: (1)

Maybe im having a mid-life crises than as400 im 30 something and driving my scoob makes me feel young and alive reminds me of my real boy racer days with the XR£i and my RS turbo, i like the image my scoob portrays the admiring looks it gets and the noise is fab like many people on this site i could spend twice as much on a car, my wife said if i win the lottery what would you have ? leather in my wagon .PI sti7 and an evo and a skyline for tuesdays! maybe i should get out my flares and wear my sunglasses {when it rains}. if some one gives me the 2 fingers its probably cos ive scared the s**t out of them with my exhaust! BMW not for me.

STi-Frenchie

I got 43 yrs on the clock and just put down the deposit on a new STi yesterday.

When I told ppl that I was buying a scooby, one reckoned it was a mid-life crisis. My point of view? I got a wife, a mortgage, two kids and this car fills all MY needs...got AWD for the snow in the ski season, it's got 4 doors so my family will quit bitching at me about the previous coupé I used to have and it's got some serious power under the hood which *I* can enjoy. Sounds like the ideal family car to me ! Which is why I bought it.

ETA, end of the month and I was lucky to get one of the last blue mica's in France as there is now a 4 month delay before the next bleus arrive.

Boy racer? Yeah, maybe...at my age I'm gonna bloody well enjoy it! My bro-in-law is a bit older than me and rides a BMW535i - which goes to prove you are never too old to enjoy your motor.

Beemer_Deano

I just wonder which Scoob had just wasted him to cause such a bitter sounding post.

millband

Mmmm... in West Yorkshire a classic STi with a big spoiler generally means you're drug dealer, which is why I got a UK wagon instead

Image is other peoples problem, you don't have to accept it. Anyway, I don't think the M5 image is a very attractive one - shouts arrogant tosser stereotype to me (or drug dealer's boss! )

Steve

(name would have been VMS_5.5-2 if I was being sad and techie)

fatherpierre

The scooby has (IMO) the same image as the XR3I from the 1980s. So many of 'em about now. It's the faster version of the BMW 318i. Makes me laugh when you slag off cossies - far more rare (still nasty, though).

5252

Image is everything, everything bad. I removed the wing and painted the wheels black to match the car. i kept the exhaust tone to a minimum. and nobody knows it isn't an economy car.I want to blend in. Good question!!!
I am 44 and my scoob is the last performance car I will ever need.

swaussie

What other people think of me is none of my buisness!!! I bought my car because I liked it.

peccy

luvit

Makalu

as400....
propably a programmer working in a darkened room with long hair and sandels who just aint cool enough for a Scoob.

M5? Pah.... old mans car! It'll be a Jag next you watch.

And anyway...why would anyone want to name themselves after an old 1990's piece of IBM tin?

Sad if you ask me.

Mak.

MGJohn

Image is something my 17 year old son cares about - cant persuade him otherwise - peer pressure and all that.

On the subject of age, this as most people should know is simply down to a state of mind. Despite my advanced years (if I had a vagina I'd be drawing a state pension now - how do I put a smiley here ... )) and thus should know better. I'm sometimes accused by my sons of embarrassing them when driving about. Not due to the expected "old dodderer image" (there's that word again), quite the opposite! I also drive a petro-turbo which most of the great unwashed wrongly regard as a pile of **** because they have read that in Motoring Moron/Spit or Swallow Monthly so it MUST be true. Stands to reason. The look of puzzlement when my old banger leaves for dead their latest expensive toy which cost many many times more than my chosen conveyance I never tire of enjoying.

Good looking, well groomed, going places, career woman at the peak of her wossname seen pounding the steering wheel of her new three pointed star mobile only the other day .... I kid you not .... niiice ... )) Dont tell me I'm the only one who has experienced this sort of thing.

No, image is everything only to those who place a value on it. True class is something intangible but nevertheless exists within those who have the B*lls (or Ovaries) and will emerge regardless of any visual illusion irrespective of what you chose to drive.

Advancing years has some advantages. Like when I tell my son that I did 120 mph around the North Circular and a Police Car moved over and waved me by ..... all perfectly legal prior to 1966 when the 70mph "temporary" limit was introduced as an experiment ..... DOH! Such is progress .... in those days UK roads were almost deserted compared those those same ones today .... and a "transit sized" commercial vehicle was regarded as a large lorry! Another puzzle for me: Why this move by so many UK drivers to larger than necessary vehicles, some now of "Monster Truck" dimensions - and then they wonder why there's no room on our roads anymore .... :-(. At least most Subarus are of a sensible size!

You youngsters of 30-40-50 dont know youz born ... :O))

Any road up - Enjoy your chosen means of transport - and keep 'em peeled.

mista weava

nice one john!

my father is 65 and still has his 1986 v6 2.8 sierra 4 x 4 estate.(50th birthday present to himself)

many mods from brand spankers, inc:

turbo technics, bilsteins, quaife straight cut gearbox (the noise can be heard up to two miles from our home!) enabling 90mph in second. 230bhp, bought brand new and 100 000 miles since, knackered now but approaching rebuild (he is soppy about it)

every one knew whose car it was island wide, image never bothered him.

i have a 94 wrx wagon (we both need estates for work)

need to get the sierra road legal though, father is keen for back to back testing. i must admit i am scared of the old brute (the car, not my father...... well actually!)

so cheers to the oldest boy/grandad racer in town.

ps: he is still formidible behind the wheel!

EvilBevel

Great post MGJohn

Richard Askew

...I got a low car wiv big arches...phat ( ) sounds.. loud exhaust and I go crooozin at Southend on Saturday nights I also (dont) partake in donuts in car parks and (dont) do burnouts... .. I have a baseball cap which I wear backwards if the mood takes me and Umbro trackie bottoms


...the car by the way, is a Lotus Elise


... boy racer?? me??? Ohhh yessss!!!!

ps nice username LOL whats next Mr ZX Spectrum??

johnfelstead

nah, thats too modern, got to be a ZX80 or maybe a comodore PET. Sad thing is i used them when they were cutting edge....

RaZe-=Buzz=-

"the big wing small **** theory" ??????????

Tell that to my WIFE - its her car!




ps - her **** is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE !!!!!!!!

Marky-San

LOL Raze - wot a frightening thought?

I like the car because its 'on hand power' and 'sport image' at your disposal. Like one of the guys above I also drive a 45bhp Fiesta 1.0. I think you get hassle no matter what you drive.

Boy racers ignore me in my fiesta, but try to hump my ar$e in the Impreza - I just cant be bothered (been there, bought the t-shirt blah blah). They just want to see you floor it, and see if they can count to 10 (if they can??) before you've disappeared from view.

I used to class myself as a boy racer, but now I've grown up and realised that creating a car from Halfords accessory's really aint so hot, as I once thought. Leave to their 1.1 Mk2 Festers with exhaust held up with string, self applied window tint, stereo system worth more than 3 times the car value, oil leaks, baldy tyres, spotlight - where theres always one bulb blown.

Mark Jackson

Im 31 and love my MK2 Golf, boy racer, probably, but I love it, it makes snorty noises and goes reasonably well, a few of my neighbours look at it disdainfully (they are mostly older) but a lot come over and say that they used to have one and loved it, please dont class them with Xr3's and Novas, I have had/driven all of them and the Golf is by far the best.

My T5 ages me by ten years when I get in it, the Golf takes me back to being 19 when I had a Black Golf GT1 MK1, A nice MK1 by the way is far more exclusive than most ordinary Scoobs.

I am about to order a Sharan which I suspect will make me look my age, about thirty with three kids and a dog.

How old will my Supra TT make me look when I find a decent one ?

Or will I just look like a drug dealer or pimp >?

planky

Good on you mark a fellow dubber..I own mk2 golf but one difference i dont see myself as a "boy racer",saxo,nova,r5 owners etc yes but not mk1/2 golf,its a cut above all the others.

When i drive my scooby its great but deep down you cant beat a well sorted golf for fun.