What cars to you see as driven by people who are genuinely wealthy? Overpaid footballers have ruined the posh image of many cars as has the fact that a lot of 'new money' (at this time of everyone thinking they are rich ) buy cars they think show they are rich.

I'm just interested in how some of the former top marques come across to you.For me:-

Mercedes.....Taxi through the range.( AMG maybe excluded)

BMW...........More common than the old reps favourites

Range Rover..Twenty years ago I thought rich people all had one

Audi............A good image.The intelligent buy for the quietly wealthy.

Rolls Royce...Maybe.Bit of a rappers favourite but I think the new one is ok

Lexus... You will never have me thinking it's anything but Toyota

Lambourghini...Maybe.

Ferrari...........Footballers favourite.Not posh.

Bentley..........To this day I don't know difference between it and RR

Classic car of some sort..Morgan?

I must actually agree with Mr Clarkson on something he said a long time ago.The Land Rover Defender(forget the freelanders and discovery stuff) is a classless thing that the really rich would probably drive

If you are really posh you must have a Porsche Cayenne to take the kids to school

Really posh car? Bristol.

If you are really posh you must have a Porsche Cayenne to take the kids to school

Absolutely! The high ground clearance and 4WD is perfect for storming over the speed bumps that are meant to keep your speed down as you go past little Alice and Rupert's school

And as for the Bristol, shame it's such a parts bin special - but it's always going to be the way with low-volume cars... They all look like they should have Airfix stuck on the side, even supposedly well put-together ones like TVRs. Saw a Jensen Interceptor II the other day. Posh perhaps, but if my car had that many exposed screw heads all over the bodywork, I'd be well upset! :thumbdwn:

Aston Martin

even supposedly well put-together ones like TVRs.

"TVR" and "well put-together" in the same sentence. Now that's funny

Posh car? Pagani.

Aston Martin? Nope, too many footballers have them.

Maybach (sp?)

Chris

Record producers car, although it is nice - not classy though :(

Come on someone shoot down the Bristol

Come on someone shoot down the Bristol

I thought I already had :confused:

...and I did say TVRs were SUPPOSEDLY well put-together for low-volume cars. That's what TVR would have you believe but I agree it's all relative!

Ah, have you looked at one? Had a good look round a Fighter at the end of last week, well put together. And you did say it was "Posh" as well, which is the point of the thread

Ah, have you looked at one? Had a good look round a Fighter at the end of last week, well put together. And you did say it was "Posh" as well, which is the point of the thread

Still looks like sonething you'd see on 'Carbage' on the Top Gear website IMHO. Not as bad as the Blenheim which looks like a Capri modded to imitate a Bentley, I admit...

Just had a furtle on their website - the Speedster's the only half-decent looking one they make I reckon, but even that's full of cottage industry idiosyncracies like a completely blank three-foot panel between the seats and the boot lid. What's that all about? And I think the only reason I'd tolerate the styling (I was going to put 'like' but that would be too strong a word), is that it's trying to look retro, not modern.

Sorry, but personally I'd say spending the cost of a house on something like that is not posh, but more like the epitomy of aspirational chav-ness (i.e. it's expensive therefore MUST be good)... :thumbdwn:

Just my opinion, by the way!

Bentley used to be more tourer orientated than Rolls Royce and had a different grill. You would also rather be seen driving a bentley, and a Chauffeur driving a Rolls. The current Bentley seems to have taken over Ferrari as the footballers choice.

A real posh car, that would be the Octavia L&K

Bristol Blenheim. Looks outdated, but rare enough to dook individual.

Really posh car? Bristol.

original mini

Maseratti.....no question

Good choice think Jamie Oliver has one though

Good choice think Jamie Oliver has one though

And Johnny Vaughn!

Chris

Should it be 'Mockneyrati' then, not Maserati if they're two people that own them? One of my old neighbour's, erm, 'associates' from when I used to live in Hulme had a Maserati. Don't know the model, but it had a sort of diagonal bit across the top of the rear wheel arch, a bit like on the Fiat Coupe but without the slash / crease in the bodywork. Can't comment on what the owner did for a living(!), but it didn't half make a nice noise!

A posh car is something I would define as classy, fast, and something that not everyone has (including useless football players).

Lamborghini & Pagani fall in that league, though I'm with Lambo...Paganis are ugly.

And Johnny Vaughn!

Chris

i thought Johnny V had got an Octy vRS Estate?

i stand corrected if i'm behind on the celebrity car ownership............

Delfino Feroce.

I know its got a scooby chassis, but the styling is completley different, and theres hardly any about. Theres just something about cars that are hard to come by.

http://www.delfino.co.uk/index.htm

No car is posh i say. Each and every car listed, i can guarentee there is some pickey somewhere who lives in a compleate dump of a shoe box that can afford the monthly payments on anyone of those motors.

Delfino Feroce.

I know its got a scooby chassis' date=' but the styling is completley different, and theres hardly any about. Theres just something about cars that are hard to come by.

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I remember seeing an article about something similar called a Bulldog or something. Trouble was, it was based on a Lancia Delta Integrale, so I wondered why they actually bothered - I still have a soft spot for Integrales...

Anyone with true money and class will have at least 1 "classic" car in their collection.

New cars are brash status symbols and therefore not truly posh. (nothing owned by a footballer can ever be posh so that counts out most new cars)

We should be thinking of cars that are at least 20 years old!

How about Bugatti?