Players cars...

[Red Rover]

What is the crack with the players cars??? I pass a few of them on the way to training in a morning...last week I saw Billy Paynter in a 55 reg Ford Mondeo and Tommy Spurr in a clapped out old Toyota estate?! Tommy Spurr also has a white Mercedes ML...I was wondering if it was some sort of bet or something?! 

[Bald Rover]

They probably use their heads.....if u had a fiesta and a ferrari would you go shopping in the ferrari?

[Rosso Exile Deux]

Its not a new thing, in the good old Championship days JJ used to drive an old, beaten up Peugeot 206. 

[AbsolutDRFC]

Rob Jones has got some sort of 1990's blue peoples carrier.
It's huge but completely battered!

[SoundbiteBarmyArmy]

That El-Hadji Diouf had one of these gold-plated mercedes things. Terrible it was!

[IDM]

They can drive around in a clapped out 1982 Skoda Estelle for all I care, as long as we don't lose on Saturday!

[MrFrost]

Does Kyle Bennett have his Bentley yet?

[pubteam]

Does Kyle Bennett have his Bentley yet?

He'll have it if he scores 17 at Brentford.

[IDM]

I think the offer from JR was to drive Kyle to Bentley???

[VivaRovers]

Rob Jones has got some sort of 1990's blue peoples carrier.
It's huge but completely battered!

What state is the people carrier in?

[Bentley Bullet]

I saw an old Rover the other day, registration SH1T. I wonder if it was Sam Hird's?

[AbsolutDRFC]

Rob Jones has got some sort of 1990's blue peoples carrier.
It's huge but completely battered!

What state is the people carrier in?

It's seen better days!
If I see the car parked at the gym or at the ground, I'll try and get a picture of it.

[GazLaz]

Humey has got a C-Class Merc coupe. I think a few of the lads from Leeds, Brown, Woods, Paynts etc bought a people carrier and all come into training together. At Scunny last week I pulled into the car park and said "where's the players car park" and got in for nowt! I do it all the time at away matches!

[AbsolutDRFC]

Humey has got a C-Class Merc coupe. I think a few of the lads from Leeds, Brown, Woods, Paynts etc bought a people carrier and all come into training together. At Scunny last week I pulled into the car park and said "where's the players car park" and got in for nowt! I do it all the time at away matches!

You must drive a right posh motor then!

[GazLaz]

.... or just look like an athlete!!

[silent majority]

But what is that horrible thing that Harper drives??

[AbsolutDRFC]

But what is that horrible thing that Harper drives??

Just googled it Martin,
It's the Chrysler 300C (otr price from £36k), so I guess with those tyres & matt finish, it must've cost him £45k?

Very individual, but I guess his C02 emissions are horrendous!

[silent majority]

Well he's made a right pigs ear of it, and then stuck a private plate on it too!

[Al4475]

Even if I had the salary that warranted an expensive car - I don't think I'd buy one - Cars have never really been my thing.

I once bought (without realising what it was - to me it was a nice black ford at a reasonable price and a step up from my previous cars - a Nova and an Escort) a Sierra RS Cosworth for £400 on an old H Plate. That was pretty nice.

I also had (which I loved) up until 18 months ago a silver Toyota Celica (03 plate) and that was without doubt the nicest motor I've ever driven. A chrysler Sebring (sp) in Florida was a lovely hire car!

I have no idea how much this cars retail out at on the road - my Celica cost me just under £5k with the tax and all that.

I would even on a Lg 2 wage packet probably go no higher than the new Toyota GT86 - but that's only cos I loved my Celica!

Funny isn't it - I know one or two lads with very decent bank-balances and one of them is changing quality cars quicker than his underwear at the moment, and the other guy has had some real machines in the past - including an Aston Martin!

I wonder why many (not all by any means) pro footballers feel the urge to have a status symbol car too as well as a status symbol job. Still I suppose the majority of footballers are all young lads anyhow - maybe that's it!

[AbsolutDRFC]

Well he's made a right pigs ear of it, and then stuck a private plate on it too!

If you look at the plate quickly, it actually appears to read as Herpes.

I hope none of the players read this forum, as I'd hate for them to "point" that out to him ha ha

[newyankee]

Just checked over here and Chrysler 300 starts at $ 30,000 or 19,700 pounds, as opposed to your 36,000 pounds which is $ 54,000.

 So over there, the car costs more in pounds than it does here in dollars and there are 1.52 dollars to the pound.

[GazLaz]

I've got a new Merc E350 coupe sport and its a right machine, I notice the difference when I drive our lasses fiesta. No value in expensive cars, you are always going to do your dough on them.