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View Poll Results: Driving or Car Enthusiast?
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28th October 2009, 16:54
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Established Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1,228
Car(s): Trophy #433
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Driving or Car Enthusiast?
Asked this on Cliosport & got a pretty one-sided response, so it would be interesting to see wat you guys say 
Many people like cars & driving them, but do you sit in the 'driving enthusiast' or 'car enthusiast' school of thought?
Personally, when i drive a car, i love the actual process of driving, the perfect heel & toe for example, or the delicate communication of details from the wheels through to the steering wheel, the feeling that your mind & car are directly connected. You think, it does. The sense of satisfaction from catching a slight moment, some unexpected oversteer. I can have a brilliant drive in a Daewoo 1.0, an underpowered BMW, or a transit. I am a driving enthusiast 
Some people however, love cars, they lust after Audis, BMWs & Ferraris, such cars are wonderful & have fancy sequential gearboxes that blip the throttle for you...they are the pinnacle of modern automotive greatness & people buy them because magazines say that they are the best. Such people are car enthusiasts
Question is, what are you? Do you lust after that perfect downshift, on that Welsh backroad at 4am, or do you crave the latest model, the latest automotive breakthrough ..... Discuss.
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28th October 2009, 16:56
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Saxperience Forum Bum
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Fareham
Posts: 3,029
Car(s): Saxo VTR
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Drivng enthusiast all the way. Love being "one" with the car. no matter what the car you can always get a thrill from driving.
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28th October 2009, 16:57
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Guantanamo Bay
Posts: 28,700
Car(s): oyster card
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Driving enthusiast aswell.
If i was a car enthusiast i would know other cars apart from saxos exist. Ask me a question about a car that aint a saxo and i aint got a clue!
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28th October 2009, 16:58
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Costa Del
Posts: 8,010
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Love putting my foot to the floor on the back roads in the early hours of the morning, no matter what car im in..
(Awaits SaxP bandwagon of ''Your speeding'' brigade)
Driving Enthusiast FTW
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28th October 2009, 17:00
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: East Devon
Posts: 7,472
Car(s): Clio RS200 Cup, Twingo RS133, Triumph Street Tripl
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Both.
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28th October 2009, 17:01
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Saxperience Addict
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Solihull / Bournemouth
Posts: 14,233
Car(s): 2015 Lapiz Blue Golf R
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I love modifying/working on cars fitting new parts/getting things working.
I'm hoping to get down to the south of France/Switzerland in the Summer so could change to a driving enthusiast!
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28th October 2009, 17:02
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Regular Poster
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Coventry
Posts: 498
Car(s): Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo
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100% driving enthusiast. I get enjoyment out of any car i drive, even my dads Rover 75 is a little bit fun when the turbo kicks in 
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28th October 2009, 17:06
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 6,713
Car(s): VTS & EK9
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i cant drive  lol,
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28th October 2009, 17:11
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Established Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Nantwich Cheshire
Posts: 1,747
Car(s): Imperial blue mk5 Fiesta ZS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nicole_
i cant drive lol, |
me niether   its the worst noing your cars sitting there waitin to be driven n all you can do is take it uo the drive or sit in it
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28th October 2009, 17:13
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Established Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Rugby
Posts: 1,438
Car(s): VT yeSSSSSSS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nicole_
i cant drive lol, |
lol soon hun
Driving enthusiast all the say had my step dads 2.8 turbo estate Volvo flying down the country lanes and a Lil bit of side ways round tight corners and roundabouts good times i say.
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28th October 2009, 17:16
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Established Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Whitby
Posts: 2,367
Car(s): A4 B7 2.0T Quattro
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nicole_
i cant drive lol, |
sucks being a woman huh?
i joke
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28th October 2009, 17:33
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Established Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Rugby
Posts: 1,438
Car(s): VT yeSSSSSSS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by furiomike
sucks being a woman huh?
i joke
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ahahahahaha i lol
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28th October 2009, 17:36
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Saxperience Forum Bum
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 3,471
Car(s): Saxo 1.1
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enthusiast for sure. there are some shitboxes out there that i would never touch again!
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28th October 2009, 18:05
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Established Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire
Posts: 1,527
Car(s): 55 Corsa SXI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by furiomike
sucks being a woman huh?
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lmfaoo
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28th October 2009, 18:16
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Regular Poster
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: near to barrow
Posts: 384
Car(s): 03 saxo desire 1.1
mini city 1000cc
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i do enjoy driving... but being an engineer i have to beer a car enthusiast, building, modifying, and repairing anything with an engine is awesome. also i recon at the top level of racing, the drivers if in the same cars would be pretty evenly matched (with some exceptions), but put in similar class cars with individualy setup and the little changes/mods make all the difference.
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28th October 2009, 18:17
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 16,839
Car(s): Saxo VTS, Westfield
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Car Enthusiast.
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28th October 2009, 18:19
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Sussex
Posts: 7,566
Car(s): CLS63 AMG
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I take my driving very seriously and indeed I'm enthusiastic about the style of which I drive etc, but cars themselves is what makes me feel passionate.
So for that reason, car enthusiast. Having said that, I'd also consider myself a driving enthusiast as well.
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28th October 2009, 18:22
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Saxperience Forum Bum
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,565
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Both tbh.
I enjoy the feedcal and the way different surfaces feel through the wheel,the noise of my h22 when on cam,the different feeling between cam profiles,perfecting heel-toe and getting spot on shifts so as not to drop off cam,i basically love everything about driving ffs i even enjoyed crashing which is wrong.
Yet on the other hand i like my cars to look good and i enjoy fixing things on there and fitting new parts to make the driving experience more pleasurable.
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28th October 2009, 18:32
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 5,204
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Car Enthusiast.
Driving bores me tbh. Although that could just be because I own a 1.1..
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28th October 2009, 18:39
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Established Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: St Helens isle of wight
Posts: 2,089
Car(s): Saxo 1.1 Forte MKII, Black Phase2 VTR
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definatly a bit of both, always been into cars and there is nothing like having a good drive on a good road on a summers evening lol.
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