Company Cars. Who has one?

by **Frost** » April 18th, 2008, 11:00 am

Who here has a company car and what is it?

I have several

while on Base

Toyota Camery
Ford Falcons
Ford Mondeos
Holden Rodeos
Hino Trucks

But my company car is a Nissan Navara, kindly given to me my the person I sub contract to.

by **Sunboost** » April 18th, 2008, 11:09 am

Nice.

I haven't ever had but it'd be sick to have one.

Starting a job with Ford on the 30th of April, hopefully get a FG to frash around for a night every now and then.

by **93edxr6** » April 18th, 2008, 11:11 am

my mummy

is a salewoman for a bed compny and she just got an ve ss lol thing fucking flys dont know why she need a v8 b4 that she had a ba

by **Commando** » April 18th, 2008, 11:12 am

No car yet

Working on it though

2 definite payrises this year + a potential 3rd payrise make me happy in the pants though

by **BLC** » April 18th, 2008, 11:17 am

When I worked for Chrysler, I had quite a few drive cars, we didnt have a set car, just took whatever hadn't been driven for a while.

Grand Cherokee Hemi's are fun, 300C's are nice too, but not very sporty. Crossfires are cool too.

Worst thing I had was an early PT Cruiser.. driveline vibrations like a massage chair, they drink fuel at the rate of ~14L/100km

by **Malakai** » April 18th, 2008, 11:18 am

I don't have a company car per say... I have a car that I get to drive to and from work in so that it doesn't have to be locked away at work. It's not even really a car. Daewoo Matiz anyone?

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » April 18th, 2008, 11:26 am

i used to drive a company car on my L's before i got the ED, 2000 Toyota Avalon CSX, one of the employee's couldnt drive n e more but had her license so i had 2 chauffer her around.

by **oneredED** » April 18th, 2008, 11:49 am

Kia Pregio or Mercedes Vito. Both shit.

by **nommic** » April 18th, 2008, 12:06 pm

Kias are fast! (according to stalker)

At my old job I had to deliveries/pickups occasionally.

We had:
- bombed out old Charade (only used it when the highway wasn't needed... felt like it was maxing out at 70km/h)
- manual Echo with the rear seats pulled out (every gear change was 5k+ RPM when I had it

)
- couple of oldish Hiaces with sloppy as **** gearboxes
- a new Hiace

Probably the funniest moment in those cars was when me and another guy had to drive to Ballarat with the back of the new Hiace full of boxes. He took a shortcut to the Midland Hwy, which involved gravel roads, huge potholes etc. Anyway at one point the gravel road we were on crosses an asphalt road, our road had a Stop sign at the intersection. He just slowed down a bit while approaching, looked left and right for traffic (could see the other road clearly in both directions for a few hundred metres), then fanged it. Where the gravel met ashphalt there was a slight rise, so the Hiace jumped (at least it felt like it was airborne), so did the boxes, then the Hiace came back down and half a second later the boxes did too. Hiace took it like a champ

by **Frost** » April 18th, 2008, 12:13 pm

Lol what is it with companys giving people crappy cars.

Defence personal who get cars get BF MK2 Fairmonts, Futura wagons, Berlinas, Calais, all opitioned to the max, alot of em having sun roofs, all with tinted windows etc and fancy A D F plates

Thats your tax dollar hard at work.

by **oneredED** » April 18th, 2008, 12:18 pm

LOL, work vans cop it the most. If it's raining on the freeway, I pull the handbrake at 110km/h and see how long I can keep it in a relatively straight line for, or at least within my lane. Freaks other cars out a little though, so I try not to do it in heavy traffic too much. If it's dry 80km/h handbrake entries into the bosses driveway have been known to occur. Sooooo close to tipping on it side every time.

EDIT: oh, and we used to jump speed bumps, at around 80kmh with one hand out the window each screaming YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!!! cowboy styles. After a while the ladder racks tore out of the roof of the van and well, it was fucked after that.

by **FTE146** » April 18th, 2008, 1:23 pm

I got a BF mk 2 XT E-Gas.

by **SLY347** » April 18th, 2008, 2:51 pm

BA XLS Ute
Comfy as to drive around, plus its got some form of hardened suspension so its no to bad to give a squit thru the hills, no where near as much body roll as a stocker.
Also have a fuel card to go with it, handy when ya own part of the company and your dad is the boss

by **BI6TIM** » April 18th, 2008, 3:01 pm

'04 Ford Courier, which i'm starting to hate.
Nothing particularly bad about it but then there's nothing particularly good about it either.
Hoping to get something new next financial year.

by **slo_sprint** » April 18th, 2008, 4:04 pm

BI6TIM wrote:'04 Ford Courier, which i'm starting to hate.
Nothing particularly bad about it but then there's nothing particularly good about it either.

Ditto, the only upside is its wet weather warrior capabilities are pretty rockin'.

by **braiden** » April 18th, 2008, 4:12 pm

When I used to work at SLC in Ballarat, we had 2 vans that we used to cart shit around.

The old van (Mazda something), was a fucking warrior. Had done like 300,00k's or something, rust all over it, windows wouldn't go up, had to kick the back door in a certain spot to get it to open, could start it with almost anything, serviced probably twice by the boss (who knows a little bit about cars), and all of us flogged the living fvck out of that thing. Redlined every gear change, hand brakies, clutch dumps, etc.

My favourite phase was when I decided to learn how to change gears without the clutch. Drove from one side of town to the other without clutching. Grouse fun.

Fvck that thing copped it.

by **Alesia** » April 18th, 2008, 4:15 pm

damo (xrlightning) could agree with me ..working at a car dealership has its perks getting to drive the brand new vehicles ,working at Mitsubishi getting to drive brand new Lancer and Colt VRXs , as well as brand new EVOs

by **Kenaz** » April 18th, 2008, 4:48 pm

I build Motorhomes, but I don't get to drive them home

by **[Sterling]** » April 18th, 2008, 5:04 pm

At our work we have a range of new BF XR6's and BF Utes. one boss has a VE senator in black looks hot! the bloke who owns the company has a V8 audi.

my brother was a Rep for a water proofing place they gave him a VY crewman it copped a beating, spent a Maxium of 3 days at the shop just to geta service he stuffed it that much. he changed companys and they gave him a bloody yaris.

by **holmsy** » April 18th, 2008, 5:11 pm

we sort of get company cars but only for around the plant.
pile of turbo deisel hilux's couple of crewmans, and pile of little vans.

i need to get pictures of the vans.
you would be amazed the damage people have done.
half of them no longer have doors

by **Kaddis** » April 18th, 2008, 5:41 pm

AU Tradesman 1 Tonner (thing ways nothing with an alum tray on the back)

by **speed.freak** » April 18th, 2008, 5:42 pm

my dad has one of the new turbo diesel hilux dual cab thingos, its farkin dirty as all hell. (works at loyang and had to lend it to some of the crew in the mine,so the whole interior is just covered in coal dust,oh and when ya put the air-con on,you get blasted with coal dust.) other than that its a great car. :roll:

by **KeeddleZ** » April 18th, 2008, 5:45 pm

2003 Subaru Outback wagon thing, does anything i put it too, goes 4wdin allright for a AWD :lol:

by **Frost** » April 18th, 2008, 6:20 pm

holmsy wrote:we sort of get company cars but only for around the plant.
pile of turbo deisel hilux's couple of crewmans, and pile of little vans.

i need to get pictures of the vans.
you would be amazed the damage people have done.
half of them no longer have doors

You dont work on the docks do you?

by **five point slow** » April 18th, 2008, 6:24 pm

No company car but we get to cain the **** out of work cars. Foresters are the best for reefing the hand brake while flying over speed humps. The bright yellow '84 Sherpa is awesome. Well was, it's sort of got more blowby than exhaust pressure these days. Best thing is it's so small it fits through those poles they put up to stop you driving in parks.

You'd think the giant Subaru stickers down the side would stop us acting like idiots in it. Nup.

by **old_mate** » April 18th, 2008, 6:26 pm

04 mitsubishi express. Farken terrible.

by **OED666** » April 18th, 2008, 6:28 pm

my work has about 10, hilux's 4x4 courier and 1 335i bmw.

i use them all apart from the beamer..

i wish...

by **ORSMEB** » April 18th, 2008, 6:31 pm

I have had:

Renault Kangoo
Mercedes Vito
Toyota Hilux

Am currently rocking an AUII Wagon on Gas

All cars have been annoying and slow..

by **holmsy** » April 18th, 2008, 6:36 pm

Frost wrote:
holmsy wrote:we sort of get company cars but only for around the plant.
pile of turbo deisel hilux's couple of crewmans, and pile of little vans.

i need to get pictures of the vans.
you would be amazed the damage people have done.
half of them no longer have doors

You dont work on the docks do you?

nah mate. alcoa in geelong.

its funny the explanations some of the people come up with when the door drops off or the whole front end is crushed in.

by **[Sterling]** » April 18th, 2008, 6:43 pm

holmsy wrote:
Frost wrote:
holmsy wrote:we sort of get company cars but only for around the plant.
pile of turbo deisel hilux's couple of crewmans, and pile of little vans.

i need to get pictures of the vans.
you would be amazed the damage people have done.
half of them no longer have doors

You dont work on the docks do you?

nah mate. alcoa in geelong.

its funny the explanations some of the people come up with when the door drops off or the whole front end is crushed in.

ahh, you would see our trucks come in then yes? got anypics of the vans, or are they like full size vans jus really messed up.

by **simon5574** » April 18th, 2008, 8:28 pm

Ive had a few hilux's over the years, the current one is shite in my opinion, give me the model before back

by **oneredED** » April 18th, 2008, 9:16 pm

braiden wrote:The old van (Mazda something), was a fucking warrior. Had done like 300,00k's or something, rust all over it, windows wouldn't go up, had to kick the back door in a certain spot to get it to open, could start it with almost anything, serviced probably twice by the boss (who knows a little bit about cars), and all of us flogged the living fvck out of that thing. Redlined every gear change, hand brakies, clutch dumps, etc.

My favourite phase was when I decided to learn how to change gears without the clutch. Drove from one side of town to the other without clutching. Grouse fun.

Fvck that thing copped it.

You just described almost perfectly, my Kia Pregio. Sad thing is, the Kia only has 63,000km on it, and is still under warranty. It's fair fucked. Just two days ago, the rear door jammed shut, and the side one came off it's hinges and jammed shut too, so we had to use a crowbar to get in to our work gear. Poor heap.

by **old_mate** » April 19th, 2008, 9:32 pm

yes i have seen many stuffed Pregio's. They rust while under warranty and shit like that. We had two of the new Mercedes Vito's at my old work. i actually really liked them apart from the lack of legroom. Who's game to post skid pics

by **markTD** » April 20th, 2008, 5:04 pm

I have a 2006 VZ SV6 as of last Wednesday that I take home every day except weekends. Its the old company as the boss got a new VE R8. I hate Commodores but aye free fuel so can't complain about that.

by **Eb Barbie** » April 21st, 2008, 8:53 am

Dont have one and never will in my position. Dam public health systems

by **wolf** » April 21st, 2008, 8:55 am

markTD wrote:I have a 2006 VZ SV6 as of last Wednesday that I take home every day except weekends. Its the old company as the boss got a new VE R8. I hate Commodores but aye free fuel so can't complain about that.

Plus the sv6 is awsome to thrash around.

by **private9** » April 21st, 2008, 10:19 am

My EB is my company car!

by **Alesia** » April 21st, 2008, 10:25 am

think i may be getting one ....if so will be a dual cab mitsubishi trition GLXR

by **Nicko** » April 21st, 2008, 8:04 pm

i have a ba xr6 turbo - Piece of shit car, wouldnt buy one myself! Lease is coming up - might look at the holden camp or even toyota!

by **markTD** » April 23rd, 2008, 7:15 pm

wolf wrote:
markTD wrote:I have a 2006 VZ SV6 as of last Wednesday that I take home every day except weekends. Its the old company as the boss got a new VE R8. I hate Commodores but aye free fuel so can't complain about that.

Plus the sv6 is awsome to thrash around.

Hell yeah. I love it. Its always on Power mode and revved out

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