Italians...

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:42 pm

Meant to be the masters of stylish automobiles.

So, that said then....

Explain this?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:46 pm

Some other things I have learned about them this evening

1. You have to be incredibly thin if you work in an office block:

2. In amongst a celebration of all things marble:

They like to ensure that they remain anatomically correct:

Post by **bluejackhustler** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:52 pm

Wait until you've ridden an Italian motorcycle,
Incredible, but ridiculously unreliable.
And if you can't ride it fast because you're frightened that it may fall apart then what's the point?

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:01 pm

It's a fiat ducato Van. They are never good looking.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:06 pm

Post by **ek9sid** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:15 pm

What you on about?! That's beautiful...just let me put on my glasses for a better look

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:25 pm

wurlycorner wrote:Meant to be the masters of stylish automobiles.

So, that said then....

Explain this?

damon · Post by **damon** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:56 pm

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:01 am

A few more motoring related points of note from the napoli area.
They don't drive Alfa's. Seriously, I have seen more Citroen C5s than Alfa's)
They buy Pandas, not 500's.
Hyundai's and ice cream apparently go well together:

Electric mopeds are popular but an absolute menace - can't hear the damn things zoom up behind you in the pedestrian areas.
Hybrid cars, are not a big thing (only seen my first one today - which was an insight, so at least they have taste in which ones they buy

)

Post by **indigolemon** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:33 am

I've just spent two weeks on Sardinia. Over there, the Max Power car scene is alive and well. Stopped at a wee coastal village called Torre Grande and the whole front was taken up with crap like this:

Oh how we laughed ...