Who buys Superbs?

[gianthotdog]

I am about to fall asleep....

[Albervin]

Not sure if the moderators will allow this to get through...

[Kiwibacon]

Mechanical Engineer here who wanted a manual superb and couldn't get one. So I got a manual scout instead.

[BilboBaggins]

Pharmacist/NHS Manager. Mechanical and technical idiot, so not an engineer. Just wanted a big comfy car that worked

[Dustpuppy]

Computer Service Engineer.

[BOBW]

Retired robotics/computer engineer ,had the Octy Scout before the Superb ,it was never in the garage for any faults.Hope the Superb is as good.

[The Transporter]

Ah traffic cops - as they are so reliable and road holding, and safety record, I drive Octavia VRS saloon and estate at work, and now on my own 5th Skoda, just awaiting collection of a 2010 Superb Estate

[Mercurio]

I'm a consultant project manager working in an office full of engineers... and the only Skoda owner at work!

But all my colleagues who have been in the Superb have been impressed, so maybe that will change.

[Elvar]

It sysadmin here. Had my superb for only a few days. Coming from a Mazda 6 wagon.

[m0gsi]

Communications engineer about to buy a superb!

[mark1]

I had one as a taxi gd car got a octy vrs now gd car aswell its a taxi.

[dstev2000]

Building services engineer. Bought it for the enormous boot. My business partner has an Insignia Tourer and the boot on that is a complete joke despite the car being more or less the same length as the Superb. Rear legroom is crap as well. How did Vauxhall get so little interior space from such a big car?

[smf1007]

Building services engineer. Bought it for the enormous boot. My business partner has an Insignia Tourer and the boot on that is a complete joke despite the car being more or less the same length as the Superb. Rear legroom is crap as well. How did Vauxhall get so little interior space from such a big car?

Exactly why I chose the Superb. I had a Vectra Estate which had very good rear legroom as it was built on the Signum chassis and therefore had an extra 5 inches in the wheelbase, over the hatch version, which was all in the rear seat legroom. A look at the Insignia estate was the logical first consideration for a replacement. My God! I was immediately disappointed with what I found. The boot was marginally bigger than the Vectra but the external length had grown from 4.7?m to a little over 4.9m and yet the inside is smaller??? What a crap piece of design I thought. The Superb is 1mm shorter than my old Vectra but has tons more internal space...brilliant design and front-end packaging.

[Alvaro]

Telecommunications engineer, working for a medical devices company.

4 years with a Superb as company car, and now I have just ordered another one, Combi this time

[andrehj]

Mechanical System Developer (another engineer), working in a company which produces machines for the semiconductor industry.

[Claymore]

Q: What is the definition of an engineer?

A: Someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you

don't understand.

Q: When does a person decide to become an engineer?

A: When he realizes he doesn't have the charisma to be an undertaker.

Q: What do engineers use for birth control?

A: Their personalities.

Q: How can you tell an extroverted engineer?

A: When he talks to you, he looks at your shoes instead of his own.

Q: Why did the engineers cross the road?

A: Because they looked in the file and that's what they did last year.

Q: How do you drive an engineer completely insane?

A: Tie him to a chair, stand in front of him, and fold up a road map the

wrong way.

Me....R/C Model Aircraft Engineer

Jim

[Claymore]

Having, apparently, stopped the conversation...I might as well continue with the old (to save me from updating them) engineer jokes.

I just wish so many didn't strike a cord with me

You might be an engineer if ...

1) choosing to buy flowers for your girlfriend or upgrading your RAM is a moral dilemma

2) you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.

3) in college you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure.

4) the sales people at the local computer store can't answer any of your questions

5) at an air show you know how fast the skydivers are falling.

6) you bought your wife a new CD-ROM drive for her birthday.

7) you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.

8) you can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting.

9) you comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.

10) you sit backwards on the Disneyland rides to see how they do the special effects.

11) you have saved every power cord from all your broken appliances.

12) you have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

13) you know what "<http://" stands for.

14) you look forward to Christmas so you can put the kids' toys together.

15) you see a good design and still have to change it.

16) you spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring.

17) you still own a slide rule and know how to use it.

18) you think that people yawning around you are sleep deprived.

19) you window shop at Radio Shack

20) your laptop computer costs more than your car

21) your wife hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work.

22) you've already calculated how much you make per second.

23) you've tried to repair a $5 radio.

Jim

Edited 26 September, 2012 by Claymore

[SuperT]

Crikey, the engineer thing is hilarious!

Myself, civil servant, aviation industry - not an engineer! Sorry....

[Claymore]

Why Engineers Don't compete in the Great British Bake-Off?

Here is why :

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1.) 532.35 cm3 gluten

2.) 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3

3.) 4.9 cm3 refined halite

4.) 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride

5.) 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11

6.) 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11

7.) 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde

8.) Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein

9.) 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao

10.) 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)

To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat

transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two

and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a

radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five,

six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous.

To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of

the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine

and then slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this

point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the

result of an exothermic reaction.

Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture

piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a

period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order

rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the

reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table,

allowing the product to come to equilibrium.

[Quino]

engineer in automatic control and applied informatics here !

superb = best quality/price ratio.

gasoline rules, 4x4 rules, too bad for no dsg on 1.8 tsi 4x4 engine by skoda.

p.s. : check google :

Edited 3 October, 2012 by Quino

[Yearofthegoat]

Crikey, the engineer thing is hilarious!

Myself, civil servant, aviation industry - not an engineer! Sorry....

Might be more insightful to get everyone to post up their Myers-Briggs type?

Mine's ENTP

Perhaps I could do a poll?

[wowbagger]

Is a glass half full, half empty, or twice as large as it should be because it was designed by an engineer?

Any way, I'm not an engineer. I work for a house builder. I'm the guy that buys the land and starts the process.

[Pesmog]

Not an engineer, but a Chartered HSE Practitioner whom runs a global HSSE incident reporting system for the engineering division of an Oil company. Aaaaaaaaaaaagggghhhhh, this engineering thing is getting a bit silly isn't it.

Skoda Superb, driven by people whom really understand engineering & the sciences......................... :sun:

Edited 5 October, 2012 by Pesmog

[highwray]

I'm an accountant! Had my Superb for a month now.

[Johnny_Bravo]

I'm going buying a Superb after I changed my mind buying a VW CC.

I chose Superb due to its boot, look and possibility of being equipped with the rough roads package

I'm an IT engineer, contributor to what RNS510 does today (that's the reason why I had to choose a VAG car)