Dayvo
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You should NEVER drink and drive!
It's a bloody waste and shame when you spill it.
It's a bloody waste and shame when you spill it.
Cup holders in cars
- Thread starter gary r
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Although I like jugs too
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Although I like jugs too
Yeah, they're easier to hold, especially when full.
mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
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- Essex
Especially in a lacy cupAlthough I like jugs too
Boris Bajic
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I must confess to be a regular tea drinker on early-morning drives. My wife bought me an insulated mug that fits in a cup-holder, but tea only tastes good from a chine mug or cup.
But what about advantages that are more legal?
1. They are somewhere to stash bottles on the way to a club run, turbo session in a village hall, TT or similar.
2. Travelling with young children (which we no longer do) is significantly easier.
3. the bigger ones hold flowers or a bottle being taken to a dinner engagement.
But really... I don't see the point of them. They somehow pander to our adoption of all things American. I came across them in US cars before I saw them here. They are cheap (often just a differently-shaped moulding) and sometimes appeal to the masturbatory geek techno-admirer (Saab, Audi and others) for their faux-aircraft-technology softly sprung fold-outiness.
But what is worse is the need that motor manufacturers feel to pt a centre console in cars. It used to cover the gearbox, but with the advent (some decades ago) of FWD in most mass-market cars, there is no longer any need for the gear lever to live in a hump on the floor. The linkages taking commands to the gearbox (now usually alongside the motor) are odd and unnecessary.
For me, true luxury in a car is an uncluttered dash and nothing but space twixt driver and front passenger. It feels roomier but more intimate. Gear levers can go on the column (as Peugeot, Panhard and many others knew but then forgot) and handbrakes can come out of the dash (step forward 2CV).
And cup holders? Schmupp holders!
But what about advantages that are more legal?
1. They are somewhere to stash bottles on the way to a club run, turbo session in a village hall, TT or similar.
2. Travelling with young children (which we no longer do) is significantly easier.
3. the bigger ones hold flowers or a bottle being taken to a dinner engagement.
But really... I don't see the point of them. They somehow pander to our adoption of all things American. I came across them in US cars before I saw them here. They are cheap (often just a differently-shaped moulding) and sometimes appeal to the masturbatory geek techno-admirer (Saab, Audi and others) for their faux-aircraft-technology softly sprung fold-outiness.
But what is worse is the need that motor manufacturers feel to pt a centre console in cars. It used to cover the gearbox, but with the advent (some decades ago) of FWD in most mass-market cars, there is no longer any need for the gear lever to live in a hump on the floor. The linkages taking commands to the gearbox (now usually alongside the motor) are odd and unnecessary.
For me, true luxury in a car is an uncluttered dash and nothing but space twixt driver and front passenger. It feels roomier but more intimate. Gear levers can go on the column (as Peugeot, Panhard and many others knew but then forgot) and handbrakes can come out of the dash (step forward 2CV).
And cup holders? Schmupp holders!
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
I thought this thread was going to be about 'cuckolders'.
When I realised what it was REALLY about, I spilled my tea in my lap. If only I'd had something to hold the cup properly.
On another note I WANT TAPATALK BACK!! I ONLY BOUGHT IT FOR ACCESS TO CC
When I realised what it was REALLY about, I spilled my tea in my lap. If only I'd had something to hold the cup properly.
On another note I WANT TAPATALK BACK!! I ONLY BOUGHT IT FOR ACCESS TO CC
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
On another note I WANT TAPATALK BACK!! I ONLY BOUGHT IT FOR ACCESS TO CC
I'm sure if you PM'd @Shaun he'd gladly refund you and everyone else who spent money on a tapatalk app.
Talking of Picnics, i once saw a family having a Picnic in the middle of a roundabout !
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
A guy I worked with once saw a family having a picnic on one of the raised vantage points the police have at the side of motorways.
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twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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- Over the Hill
Probably the traffic cop's family. That's what they are used for even when on duty cops are there. They sure aren't for enforcing the law
