willay
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Originally posted by CorsaB4ever
is that actually you ben?
Yep thats him..
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BluKoo
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He looks very worried and uncomfortable in both the pics 
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willay
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cause he knew they would end up here
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Toby
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hoe did you get them willay, is it a employee magazine or a thing on sale to general public?
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Ben G
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yeah it's me, got photographed in worked last year after i bought my focus.
they wanted 3 ford employees who had bought new fords for the @ford employee magazine and i'm the berk in the pics
i have a number 2 all over haircut now and have put on about 2 stone so don't look so silly now
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Ben G
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Originally posted by willay
Ben posted it up ages ago and I nabbed both pictures knowing full well they would be useful in threads to come
bastard, i'll get you back at the next meet  
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Graham88
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Never post up pics like that where Willay can get them
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Ben G
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least i got a ford wrc jacket for doing that very geeky indeed 
they are giving me a free courtesy car at 5:30pm tonight, wonder if it'll be new or a rusty old ka?
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Graham88
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Focus RS? 
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Ben G
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can wish  it's just a pikey small allen ford garage, not many cars there really.
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Toby
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so its just an employee mag? ah well a jackets nice. what price did you pay for the focus if you dont mind me asking? you never fancied a trip to mountune?
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Fad
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So is it true they mug off employees with discounted Friday cars
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by CorsaB4ever
so its just an employee mag? ah well a jackets nice. what price did you pay for the focus if you dont mind me asking? you never fancied a trip to mountune?
yeah employee mag only, got some good stuff in it. it's a ford world magazine so has stuff from all over the world in it.
focus was 16.6k iirc and i would've liked to have got a mountune/dreamscience upgrade but it feels more than powerful enough as standard  do't want to lose my license really
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by Fad
So is it true they mug off employees with discounted Friday cars
it's possible a bloke i work with had nothing but problems with his s-max, had to get a new engine a few weeks back because it completely failed
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Ben J
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Question for you Ben.
Is it true if a car "falls off" the assembly line, that the shell gets scrapped but any sellable items them get stripped off and sold.
Reason being, my Dad's been offered a brand spanking new 2.0 Duratec engine (complete) from a Ford dealership which has supposedly come from a shell that "fell off the assembly line"!!! Been offered it fo £1500. Its only going in a kit car so not too arsed tbh.
[Edited on 10-09-2009 by Ben J]
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Ben G
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not too sure mate, i only build the engines on our line, but if any engines are damaged whilst being built, we either fix the part that broke or strip the engine back and put all the parts on other engines to cut down on waste.
the same would apply to car assembly lines too i would assume, as ford don't like scrapping things
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Ben G
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oh my, it's terrible, awful, putrid, vile, rancid
sterring feel is non existant, gearbox is sloppy and body roll maks you feel you're going to turn over when cornering (slow)
going to have some right laughs with my work mate taking him to work and home tomorrow!
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AndyKent
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What is it?
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Graham88
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He's talking about his ST isn't he?
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Ben G
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nope, it's a purple 09 plate ford fusion.
i feel such an old twat driving it. not even bothering to thrash it everywhere as it is slower than a 12v corsa.
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Graham88
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A Fusion, my Mum is 50 and drives one of those
I'd rather have had a KA!
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Ben G
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i had a KA when a van wrote off my corsa, had 110 on the clocks in it
this thing takes forever to get to 30mph, not even risking 60mph
it's alright though, no one looks at me or tries to race me so i feel so much more relaxed. when i'm in the ST everyone always seems to want me to go fast or rev it up so never have a nice easy cruise anywhere.
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Graham88
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I can't imagine that. I know it's an ST but it's not exactly a supercar so I don't understand why people would do it 
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CORSA NUT
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Fkin lol at the mag thing you look about 19 Ben 
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