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"Svend" (svend) 06/27/2016 at 02:13 • Filed to: None

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Several comments on Top Gear were made about the umbrellas.

Okay but.

The Rolls Royce Dawn is £250,000, 6.6litre V12 with 563bhp, and two umbrellas (some other stuff too but forget that).

My ‘Piglet’ is a Skoda Superb hatchback is £25,000, 1.4TSi ACT with 148bhp, and two umbrellas.

With the change from £250,000 - £25,000 (£225,000) I could get a new Bentley Continental 6.0 W12 GTC with 626bhp, for £185,000, no umbrellas though.

Still have £40,000 change.

Now if someone could give me £225,000 please.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:18

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That’s really cool. I wish my Subaru had that except I rarely use umbrellas.

phenotyp > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:21

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I was gonna make a post about that, but... I guess things are going to get worse before they get better.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:23

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Your Skoda has umbrellas, no ugly visible shut lines for the hood, and a better color blue painted on it.

It’s officially better than a Rolls-Royce.

Svend > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 06/27/2016 at 02:36

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I’ll be honest. In the Mk2 Superb prior to the new one I only used the umbrella two or three times in three years but it’s nice to know it’s there.

Svend > phenotyp 06/27/2016 at 02:37

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?

phenotyp > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:42

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Brexit, Top Gear, etc.

Svend > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 06/27/2016 at 02:43

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You forgot the ice scraper in the fuel filler car. Lol.

and massive boot.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:47

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Step aside Rolls, there’s a new luxury king in town.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:48

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Especially for the day that you need one and forgot one or something.

Sam > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:49

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I’ll take the Bentley myself. Unless I want to pretend I’m a rapper, then I’d take the Roller.

I don’t need either, since my dad is going to let me rock one of these once we get it back to our house (not ours, but it’s the exact same color and body type)-

All 19 feet of it.

Svend > phenotyp 06/27/2016 at 02:51

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With regard to Brexit. What’s done is done. The people have voted (I voted remain) and now we have to work with what we have and carve out a new place. Nobody really knows what will happen and when.

Like in any marriage there is ups and downs and a divorce is the unknown. A larger number have chosen divorce so there’s no point dwelling on the fact, what’s done is done. It’s how we progress from this moment on that matters.

With Top Gear, people wanted change and the change isn’t exactly what they wanted while others wanted it to stay the same and it didn’t (I guess very much like the E.U. referendum but we won’t see how that pays off for some time yet).

Svend > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 06/27/2016 at 02:52

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Lol. Probably not but Skoda is more the modern SAAB, the thinking Mans car.

phenotyp > Svend 06/27/2016 at 02:54

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Not the reply I expected.

But the best possible.

Svend > Sam 06/27/2016 at 02:59

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Very nice.

For me I could have the Bentley, my Skoda Superb hatchback and a Skoda Superb Sportline estate with a 278bhp 2.0TSi engine and still have some change.

Svend > phenotyp 06/27/2016 at 03:03

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We can’t do anything about the vote now.

Just got to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get on with it.

It’s the British way.

The WWII ‘make do and mend spirit’.

phenotyp > Svend 06/27/2016 at 03:11

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In the words of my brother: ‘BrNeverGoingHomeNow’

PS9 > Svend 06/27/2016 at 03:19

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I’m not sure I would buy a Bentley or a Rolls if I were rich. They’re all not much more than the car equivalent of going up to everyone’s ear and screaming, “ I HAVE MORE MONEY THAN YOOOOOOOOOU ”. I really don’t care for that.

Actually, I’m pretty sure something like this would happen if I became rich.

Svend > phenotyp 06/27/2016 at 03:22

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It’ll take at least two years to separate the U.K. from the E.U.

It’s down to how the separation is handled but nobody can say or predict what will happen so personally I’ll take each day as it comes and work from there.

6Cylinder > Svend 06/27/2016 at 03:55

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Wow. Your Skoda looks nice. I kind of wish they sold them in the states.

Svend > PS9 06/27/2016 at 04:04

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For £250,000 I could have:

and still have several thousand change.

Svend > 6Cylinder 06/27/2016 at 04:10

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It’s essentially a VW Passat but cheaper and more practical.

A sunnier picture. The blue is almost alive with the changing light.

bingham123 > Svend 06/27/2016 at 04:21

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the skoda is lovely, i want the estate version of it

Svend > bingham123 06/27/2016 at 04:30

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Ye’, the estate does look good but went for the hatchback as it looked sleeker and the boot is massive as it is.

6Cylinder > Svend 06/27/2016 at 05:31

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And oh my, the paint!

Svend > 6Cylinder 06/27/2016 at 05:49

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Ye’, it’s good.

I love how the bonnet has no shut line gaps too, it’s hidden in the crease starting at the rear of the headlight leading down the side of the car.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Svend 06/27/2016 at 08:15

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Looks like the Dawn has Jeep Grand Cherokee headlights.

GE90man > Svend 06/27/2016 at 08:48

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my passat has that feature!

CalzoneGolem > Svend 06/27/2016 at 09:04

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What % more British does a car become by having built in umbrellas?

Svend > CalzoneGolem 06/27/2016 at 10:00

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I don’t know. The Skoda Superb has had umbrellas since the Mk1 (rebadged VW Passat) but it had them in rear door bins, the Mk2 had them in built in recesses in the rear door one the left hand side only. Now the Mk3 has them in both front doors.

Svend > GE90man 06/27/2016 at 10:10

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Which doors are they in? The Skoda had them in the rear but has them in both front doors on the current Mk3.

GE90man > Svend 06/27/2016 at 10:12

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only on the drivers door

Svend > GE90man 06/27/2016 at 10:23

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Our Mk2 was weird in that it only has one and it was the rear left hand door regardless of whether the car was LHD or RHD. Which suited RHD cars as the rear occupants exited onto the pavement/sidewalk.

The Mk3 has them in both front doors (probably makes more sense really).

bingham123 > Svend 06/28/2016 at 13:59

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i keep seeing the taxi drivers round me using the hatchbacks they look nice

Svend > bingham123 06/28/2016 at 14:05

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I think the hatchback has a nicer profile. But it really works in both hatchback and estate. Either won’t let you down.

Autocar have a red estate on long term test and the writer has been taking it on holidays with his family and loves it.

bingham123 > Svend 06/28/2016 at 14:13

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the hatch has a nice profile but im an estate man, love me an estate.

and the fact i have kids and a baby so i need the space and height for lots of crap/moving furniture, if i didnt have to do any of that i probably get a hatchback tbh

Svend > bingham123 06/28/2016 at 15:07

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Ye’, we loved our Mk2 estate but it had too much wasted space. I could get all of my stuff in the boot and still close the loadspace cover.

But for a family. It’s ideal.

((sorry it wasn’t Autocar, it was Autoexpress)).

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/skoda/superb/94805/long-term-test-review-skoda-superb-estate