When I started looking for new cars (and before I agreed to purchase “The Silver Bullet”) I checked the relative premium costs with my insurance company (shameless plug coming) Direct Line. I knew there would be an additional premium to pay, and the quoted £200 was within the realms of my expectations.
Now when you buy a car from Ford, you can get seven days free drive away cover on the condition that you get a quote from Ford Insure. Imagine my delight when a Catherine Tate character (the girl from the fast food place) answered the phone! “Can I get a quote for yourself?” Well yeah, duh?
Anyway, what do you think the quote was…£2580. I informed Catherine that this was about £1780 more than Direct Line and she asked: “so would yourself be interested in paying the extra money to be with Ford”.
Altogether now: errrrr…nah!
Bovvered?
Are you sure you didn’t accidentally forget a ’2′ when Direct Line asked you how much BHP your car produced?
They never asked me how many horses it has!
Suckas! ;-)
I was bricking it though when Ford gave me their quote, just in case I fucked up and gave Direct Line the wrong details or something. I didn’t.
So do I currently have officially the largest engine of all igence employees past and present? A claim to fame worthy of being put on the wiki!
Sadly not!
You will recall that Richard worked with us as a student for a while (does that count as an employee?). He is just about to start flying a Squirrel helicopter, the engine of which develops 732 shp! Mind you I suppose it will be disqualified because it doesn’t spend a lot of time on the road (hopefully) :-)
Can I claim smallest engine, and hence largest penis? (not P-ness).
Helicopters are disqualified because they aren’t proper cars – although I know you can also make a case for disqualifying diesels using this rule (ZING!).