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|   I've had a fair amount of experience with the Mustang. The 2006 model but it's still only three years old, so it's the 'new' one. I've had one experience with the BMW Z4. That was good, I liked it a lot. 2007 I believe. Anyways, I've been thinking about the two and for some reason debating with myself which one I like more. Obviously they both have they're good points in their own ways. They're both very different cars, but, they're two cars I very much enjoy. The engine note on the Mustang is epic, the way it growls through the low revs is spine tingling, but the acceleration on the Z4 is breath taking, and those if those two things were put together in one car, I think I'd cry. It would be beautiful, but, unfortunatly, I haven't been lucky enough to experience a car like that. They do exsist though, no doubt. The Z4 is, inside at least, smaller and more compact, much better for me as I'm a short arse, and in the Mustang you get two back seats that shouldn't be there. No one can use them. The front seats, when pulled all the way back, which is how everyone but me would position them, are literally an inch from the back seats, which leaves no room for passangers, so why bother? The Z4 doesn't have useless, irritating back seats. The Mustang is about £47, 000 and the Beemer is £37, 000 a whole £10, 000 cheaper. The Mustang GT has 315 BHP and hits 60 in 4.9 whereas the BMW has 306 and hits 60 in 5.2 so you'd think that the £10, 000 difference is, well, right. Well yes technically it is, you get more, you pay more. But, that Z4 makes me smile more. Which, in the end, is what counts. The Mustang makes you smile when you pull up at the lights with gazing eyes staring at it, but the Z4 has subtley about it. Everyone knows the mustang, and they know it's hot, but with the BMW, you kinda have to be there. You can read all the reviews you like, watch as many Top Gear episodes you want, but until you experience a car like the Z4 you can't say anything about it. Although bare in mind that the new 2009 model isn't as pretty as it's predecessors. The lines on the bonnet and sides are, to me, all wrong, I much prefer the 2008 model. Today, pulling to some traffic lights in the Mustang, with a Porsche beside us, I have to admit, felt good. But I have a feeling that it's only because we were in the shittest part of the shittest part of London. The East end. And every guy with a car seems to think he's suddenly driving a Bently. Which, when you look closer, they're not, it's actually a ford focus. Easy mistake. But yes, these two young chaps sat in this Porsche Carrere 911 and stared at the Mustang in disbelief before they promtly ducked their heads slightly. Then we pulled away. Quickly. It's a good feeling, but 1) It only work where there are 'playas' and where everywun towks lyke dis yeah. Blap. and 2) It's not going to last. You'll either get bored of it very quickly or an Aston will pull up next to you and you'll be the one ducking your head slightly. In the Beemer however, you can hold your head up high, even if you're sitting next to some flash bastard in a Ferrari. Who propably can't see you and your nice subtle moter because he's ducked his head right down passed the dashboard. That'll teach him for being flash. Anyway, you can hold your head up high in the Z4 because not only is it a thing of beauty, but you can sit there at the lights, quietly knowing you could pull away quicker than the car next to you and leave them for dust. Which is another good feeling, but again, one that wont last. You'll get bored of beating everyone so easily. The Z4 isn't made for traffic light get aways. It's made for country roads. There is an angry growl from the engine when you rev up high, into the 7 and 8 thousands and through the lows it's quiet and civilized, unlike the Mustang. Press the excellerator and it jolts you and the car forward as it accelerates and you are pushed into the back of your chair by sheer force. And that something you will never tire of. Well I wont at least. *Specifications of both cars are top of the range models | |
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| Ok, considering I haven't written about a new car in while, in fact even an old car, you'll have to forgive me if I'm a little rusty. But something, this week, has cought my eye. A brand new Aston Martin. Oh yes? Oh no. It's called the ' Cygnet' which is wrong for a start. It sounds like a sexual transmitted desease you can only catch from the welsh. Nothing like the exoctic names of its predecessors. Vantage, Vanquish S and Volante spring instantly to mind, and it certainly doesn't sound as brutal as the DBS V12 or One-77. But then it wouldn't, it doesn't look exotic or dangerous. It's looks crap, infact, it looks a bit like Barbies shoe. It's based on the Toyota iQ, which isn't a bad little car, infact it's a very good little car, because thats what Toyota are good at. Making little cars. But Aston? No, they're good at making sleek but scary sports saloons and then adding an outrageous price tag. And then building a Race version. The price tag for this concept is set to be about £20,000, which is DOUBLE that of a high-spec iQ, but, and here's the 'interesting' part, Aston say that you can only buy one if you're an excisting Aston Martin owner. WHAT?! Now, I may be alone in think this, I don't know, but surely if you already own an Aston Martin you're not going to go into your garage, look at your Vantage or DB9 and think "You know what, I could do with a tiny super mini for driving around in the city, something like that Toyota iQ only double the price and made of pink wood." You're going to look at your excisting Aston Martin, then immediatly get in it and take it around the city because you're a flash bastard for buying it in the first place. And it's not like they could fix the problem by opening up sales to non Aston owners, because anyone who buys one will be seen as a complete cock for buying a £20,000 car from Aston Martin. That would be like only buying things from designer labels if there was a 90% discount. You think "Oh great, an Aston for twenty grand" and everyone else will think "What a pillock, he's bought the cheapest Aston ever when he would have an iQ for half that. Twat". And if Aston does open sales up to everyone, they'd be paying £10,000 for the car and £10,000 for the badge. And you'll end up sitting at the red lights with everyone laughing at you and your silly pink car. | |
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| So the F1 'Rebel' teams have decided not to break away and form their own F1 season... What a fucking surprise. Lets be honest now, it was never going to happen was it. I mean for a start Ferrari threaten to pull out every season, because they think that the sport will fail miserably without them and the rest of teh teams don't really have the bollocks to anyways.. And now Max Mosely has had to promise not to run for re-election just to shut their spoiled mouths. Thats all the teams by the way, not just Ferrari, they're all as bad as each other. And apparantly once he's gone, they'll try and get their budgets back to that of the early 90's... Like fuck thats going to happen. But, perhaps now that Mosley is leaving, we'll get someone who cares for the sport, rather than their pocket.
I think, maybe, it would have been interesting to see the teams break away. Just for shit n giggles and if it worked out better and more fun then keep it that way. Because, up until Silverstone, this season has been pretty fucking boring and maybe having two sperate seasons with 'the big boys' in one (so you don't have to watch them prancing about the track while you're trying to watch the underdogs)and the underdogs in the other (SO YOU CAN FUCKING WATCH THEM FOR ONCE!) I mean honestly, having the camera constantly on a Ferrari, McLaren, Brwan or Red Bull is just plain boring, unless they're crashing into each other and on fire, which they don't allow anymore for some weird reason. But on the other hand, it was good last year, with one season... I wonder why that is? Oh yes, because Brawn weren't there hoggin all the titles. They could at least pretend to be a little bit shit, just for our entertainment. And If Jenson fucking Button blames 'the english whether' for him not coming first I will slap him... With a massive wet fish. Just admit it wasn't a good race for you, shit.
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| So The Stig is Micheal Schumcher... No he isn't | |
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| Good. I like this news. I like this news a lot. I don't know what it is about Saabs that I secretly love, but yes, I secretly love them. The old ones obviously. And with Koenigsegg being in my top five car manufacturers, I'm rather hoping this all goes well. Saab have two brand news cars on the way, one of which being the 9-5. Which is pretty much just a Vauxhall Insignia if truth be told. They've been limited to two new cars by their old owners GM as they're still working with them until later this year/early next year, but really, and lets be honest, there wasn't much chance of Saab making more than two or three news cars. Obviously the new 9-5 will not exactly be any competition for the likes of Audi, BMW and Volkswagen, but it's a good start I guess. | |
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| The more I read about TF2, the less I actually want to see it. First it was the shit designs for Sideswipe and various other 'bots n 'cons, then it was the The Fallen (pleh) and now it's Megan Fox. Well, less of the fact that she's pretty much naked in the first one and she will be again in the new film, which the critics seems to focus on more than the film, which fucks me off.
Yes yes, I know it's a mainstream, action film directed by Micheal Bay and therefore will not have much of a storyline, but c'mon!! I was reading The News of the World today and there was like, a whole page review of the film, but did the critic go into detail about what the film was about? Did he mention any of the 'bots? Did he mention any of the hard work gone into creating the effects and graphics for the film? No, the whole page was dedicated to Megan fox and her tiny jean shorts. Great. I'm sure Micheal Bay is literally just a dirty old pervert and wants to look at pretty young women sprawl themselves across a fucking motorbike in a pair of shorts that that would put The Cheeky Girls out of business. And I'm sure all the other men in the world do, maybe even the gay ones, I don't know.
I know. I sound like a moody old feminist, I'm not, I hate feminists as much as I hate film critics. I'm just saying that Megan Fox's character had no use in the film film, still has no use in this film and is simply there to fill up those empty seats that would have been there if she wasn't.
Whats even more upsetting is she knows this. She knows that she's just there to get sweaty while wearing almost nothing. She knows she's a seat filler. She knows that every man in the cinema is looking at her arse and not concentrating on whats going on in the film and thats sad.
And the more that I think about this and read about the film, it makes me think "This film is gonna be shit because they've had to use a half naked chick to sell it" They could have very easily killed her off in the last film, or better still just not have used her in the first place. | |
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| So, I was reading The Sun today (I know, I know, what was I thinking) and it had a small article about how drunken assaults by underage girls have risen by, well lots, in the past few years. It got me thinking about alcohol and frankly how easy it is to get hold of. In Britain at least. I mean, now I'm eighteen, I can legally by as much alcohol as I please, but teenagers under eighteen can just as easily get cheap booze. When I was fifteen or sixteen, all I needed to do was ask an older friend to get it for me, it was my money. But at the same time, all that alcohol never once made me violent, so what's different now three years down the line? Is it society? Peer pressure? I don't really know, I've never been a slave of peer pressure, or society for that matter, I'm not too fussed whether society thinks I'm 'normal' or 'disfunctional'. But I am worried that one day I will be seriously hurt by some drunken fifteen year old who thinks because she's had a Breezer, she's all of a sudden Jet fucking Li. As a matter of fact, it's happened to me before. Me and some chums went to the cinema for the evening, the film finished at about seven, which is reasonable, you wouldn't think anything would really happen at seven in the evening, but no, some drunken lass came at me with her feet, accusing me of 'chatting shit about her mate', neither of which I'd ever met in my life. I was sixteen when this happened, and if I'm honest, I'm not a fighter, so I did shit myself a little bit. Now suppose that nutter had a knife, I almost certainly would not be here writing this. That's what worries me and so far, I haven't really seen the Government do anything about it apart from banning drinking on trains, but who the fuck drunk on the trains in the first fucking place? No one.
They all know something is deeply wrong with Britain, and pretty much the rest of the world is laughing at our stupidity and uselessness when it comes to dealing with situations like this. America seem to have a fairly decent job with the legal drinking age at twenty one, and I wouldn't mind if they did the same here because, to be honest, people are generally a lot more sensible at that age and it's not like three years of not be able to drink will make much of a difference, people will adjust to it, just like we all adjusted to the smoking ban, but at the same time, most other European countries also have the legal drinking age at eighteen, some even have it at sixteen and you don't hear about kids getting so wrecked they want to fucking kill each other. So what is exactly is our problem. Well, partly it's the way we drink. Britons drink to get drunk, it's as simply as that. Somehow we have been tricked into believing that alcohol will make us happy and give us the time of our lives. Unlike the French for example, who drink with lunch and dinner. Which is wise, you get the same amount of alcohol while getting tipsy at the most. But for some reason, that's not our style. We have to end the night with a dodgy kebab, a piss in a shop doorway and a quick shag. Sounds so appealing doesn't it?
And, as you may have noticed, it's not just the kids, it's adults as well, but it starts with those teenage years. If they're drinking and getting violent at fifteen, they're going to be drinking and getting violent at twenty-five and thirty-five. Now I am a drinker and I enjoy a drink, I will not deny that, but I know my limit, I know what works for me and what doesn't and I also know that when I go out for a drink I will not come home incoherent and pass out in the fucking kitchen. It's simply not a nice feeling. I've been paralytically drunk before, and, to be honest, I don't care for it much. There are things you do and say that you wouldn't normally even think about, you get very ill very quickly, and the best case scenario is you pass out on the sofa and some punk draws on you. And then in the morning, you have to deal with the splitting headache and vomiting. What kind of 'normal' person would put themselves through all that?
Basically, the fucking Government need to wake up and do something about this mess. Everyone is too busy worrying about other countries, a phoney war and Prince Harry or maybe it's the other one being a fucking Pilot or some shit, when the real problem, as always is there, on the streets, in their on fucking country. Big whoop America now has a Black president, congrats to which ever one of the Princes is or isn't going to go to war, oh no the Ice caps are melting and have been melting since God knows fucking when, but can we please now concentrate on something a little closer to home. Okay maybe in a hundred years, Britain may be under the sea, but while it is here, why can't we sort it out and be fucking normal like the rest of the world.
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| Okay, so I haven't written in what feels like years actually and there have been a variety of happens going on in the UK and around the world. I don't really have the time, energy and, to be honest, attention span to write something interesting, witty and informative about half of these things and I'm fairly sure a lot of you (who ever 'you' are) know about these things. And to be honest I'd probably make a hash of things anyway, considering, I don't really know what is happening in the world, I know bits and bobs, some fairly important things, but most of it I either block out or don't listen to in the first place. I know that Jade Goodey is battling cancer and got married on Sunday. I also know she looked gorgeous. I know many planes have been crashing, one at London City Airport, very near to where I live. I know that David Camerons son died, but that's all I know, I don't know how or why. So I think it's fair to say I'm not the best person for the job. One thing I know all too well about though is this economical crisis going on. It's hard not to notice something is wrong really, although it's not effecting me, I'm 18 and go to college. One of the things it's damaging though is the car industry. Nissan, for example, was forced to cut some 20, 000 jobs recently. But there have been and are companies that don't seem to be hit by the crisis. Jaguar are launching two new cars this year, sales of Rolls Royce have double since last year and, actually have a new 'baby' out this year. Which looks promising. It doesn't have a 'proper' name yet, but it's very, very pretty, as you would expect from a Roller. Over the past few days I've come over all misty eyed and tongue-tied. But not for the new Roller you understand, oh no, there is something much more special than that. And it's from 1975. I know, I know, there are a lot of new cars to fall in love with, but I couldn't help myself with this one. It's the Alfa Romeo Bertone Navajo and it was only a concept, based on the 33 Stradale, and like all love affairs, it's hard to justify myself. I mean the fact that it's an Alfa is a given, I love all Alfas, but I don't know what it is about this one that gets me all flustered. It's beautiful, no one can deny that, but there's something else. Maybe it's the fact that it was only a concept, it wasn't given a proper birth as it were. It wasn't given the proper care and attention it deserved. But saying that, I wonder what I would have thought of it if it were put into production. Would my heart beat a little faster when I saw it? Would it make me sit up a take notice if it went past on the road? Of course it would, I'd still love it. It's got flare, it's got style, it's Italian for christ sake! What I think I love most about it though is it's shape. It's very straight, which I don't usually like in a car, but it works for the Navajo, and i don't usually like spoilers either, but the design of this one on the Navajo is different, it makes it look a bit like a rocket. Which is fun. That's it. It just looks fun. It looks like it could have a laugh with you, but if you pushed it too hard, it would deffinatly kill you without a second thought. There are a lot of cars on the market that do this infact, many of the Lamborghini's do this as an art form, the Pagani Zonda does it beautifully and even Aston Martins now look like, if they wanted to, they're rip your head off, in a gentlemanly way of course. But I sense this Alfa wouldn't have cared about it's paint work like Lambo's seem to. It wouldn't have cared if it got a dent in it's door or a nail in it's tyre. If it had the chance to be a real production car, it would have picked fights with the big boys, the Lambos, the Fezzers even if there was every chance it would get a kick up the arse. And that's why I love it. - Mood:in love
- Music:Too Long - Gonzales Version
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| Okay, so I've just found something interesting. http://www.theglobalintelligencer.com/december07/chrisjordan.phpThat link will take you to a website showing the amount of waste and money the USA uses in various amounts of time (things like drinks cans, paper bags ect) Take a good look at that and think hard about what and who is actually causing "Global warming" and "Climate change" Now I'm not attacking individual Americans here, but as a nation, America wastes a hell of a lot of re-usable things. Not to mention all that money on the war in Iraq ($12.5 million.... an hour) Think about all the recycling that could be done and what things that money could be spent on. I really do wonder what exactly it is that America is doing to control their waste and tackle "Climate change". But no, the US government see fit to waste millions of Dollars on a phoney war. And, please, don't think I'm going soft here, I just think it's a bit fucking wrong for a fairly tiny island like Great Britain to be recycling anything that we can, only for the USA to be undoing it all again, two-fold (but probably more-fold). I know eco-warriors will hate me for this (and frankly, I don't really care) but this has only made me want to distroy the world even faster. It's made me want to buy lots of gas-guzzling and fuel-burning things that, really, I don't need. It's made me want to leave my light on all night, just for the hell of it, throw plastic things at birds and discard my Dr. Pepper cans into the sea. Why should we try and save our planet when, it seems, nobody else does. Fuck this, I'm going to pour toxic waste down my toilet and buy a gun. | |
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