Eeek! Car overturned on Coldharbour Lane

[editor]

It's just a normal size family car

I come from a time when a Cortina was a 'family sized car' and that thing fucking dwarfs it.

 

[Pie 1]

I come from a time when a Cortina was a 'family sized car' and that thing fucking dwarfs it.

<bangs head on desk>

 

[Idaho]

I come from a time when a Cortina was a 'family sized car' and that thing fucking dwarfs it.

No honestly - it really isn't more than a few inches bigger than a cortina.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I come from a time when a Cortina was a 'family sized car' and that thing fucking dwarfs it.

Cortina is a big car compared to my idea of a family car, which is a hatchback!

Seriously.

 

[editor]

No honestly - it really isn't more than a few inches bigger than a cortina.

Well, that and the great big estate bit at the back of course.

But do you really think the car in that video is a small one?

 

[editor]

<bangs head on desk>

Keep at it! Go on! Harder, harder harder! Keep going now!

 

[editor]

The Cortina is shorter, narrower and smaller.

Skoda Octavia Estate Height 1468, Cortina 1320 mm
Skoda Octavia Estate Length 4572, Cortina 4260 mm
Skoda Octavia Estate Width 1769, Cortina Width 1702 mm

Ithankyou.

Can we get back to the topic now please?

 

[Crispy]

I come from a time when a Cortina was a 'family sized car' and that thing fucking dwarfs it.

		Skoda	Cortina	Difference
Wheelbase 	2578	2578	0
Length 		4572	4267	-315
Width 		1769	1714	-55
Height 		1468	1320	-148

facts, ladies and gents, facts.


EDIT: Oh My God. I can't believe we both did that.

 

[WouldBe]

I come from a time when a Cortina was a 'family sized car' and that thing fucking dwarfs it.

The Cortina is shorter, narrower and smaller.

Skoda Octavia Estate Height 1468, Cortina 1320 mm
Skoda Octavia Estate Length 4572, Cortina 4260 mm
Skoda Octavia Estate Width 1769, Cortina Width 1702 mm

So the skoda is 4" higher, 1' longer and 2.75" wider.

Hardly dwarfing it then.

 

[Idaho]

Can I be the first to get all angry and ranty and start demanding people "read the fucking thread" or "apologise immediately"

Tbh - I'm suprised the Skoda is a whole foot longer. I had a hatchback one and I bet there would be precious little between that and a Cortina.

 

[Idaho]

Also are we comparing an Octavia Estate with a Cortina Estate?

 

[editor]

Also are we comparing an Octavia Estate with a Cortina Estate?

No. Why on earth should we?

 

[editor]

So the skoda is 4" higher, 1' longer and 2.75" wider.

Hardly dwarfing it then.

I think you'll find in 'real life' that adds up to a considerable difference.

Anyway, about the accident on Coldharbour Lane...

 

[editor]

EDIT: Oh My God. I can't believe we both did that.

Sad fucker 1 meet Sad fucker 2!

 

[Crispy]

I think you'll find in 'real life' that adds up to a considerable difference.

Anyway, about the accident on Coldharbour Lane...

What accident? More car size arguments !!!

 

[agricola]

i take it there isnt a traffic island nearby? usually they are to blame for these types of things, i know when that las car flipped on streatham high road about six months ago they were to blame (at least partially).

 

[Bob]

i take it there isnt a traffic island nearby? usually they are to blame for these types of things, i know when that las car flipped on streatham high road about six months ago they were to blame (at least partially).[/QUOTE]

Nope - nowhere near!! It's straight road with nothing on it. So some people drive ridiculously fast but it's hard to see what the car could have hit apart from another car.

 

[editor]

i take it there isnt a traffic island nearby?

Nope! As Toyah sagely put it, "It's a mystery."

 

[Idaho]

I think you'll find in 'real life' that adds up to a considerable difference.

You leave me no choice.

On the common at sunset. Furry dice or traffic light air freshener?

 

[editor]

I laugh at your feeble leather glove and raise you six pointy gloves, complete with numbers.

 

[Idaho]

Ok - I'll move all in with a surreal OAP glove picture: