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What cars do private school mums drive?

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lavendarhillslob · 01/09/2015 00:52

Is it all 4x4s and Porches? Do any of you drive cars that are not range rover evoques. And if there are mums at your school who drive normal cars, like a Ford Mondeo - what do you think of them?

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WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 01/09/2015 15:16

Not a private school but dd went to a primary in quite a well to do rural village. My brother couldn't believe the amount of 4x4s at pick up time when he came with me once. To be honest it was the ponies which suprised me more. Mums turning up on horses with a pony on a lead rein to pick their dc up.

I had a Yaris. Grin

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 01/09/2015 15:14

Crumbled
Do you have a Labradoodle or Cockapoo in the front seat barking directions as your visability is restricted.

CrumbledFeta · 01/09/2015 14:46

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SquirrelledAway · 01/09/2015 13:43

Having one's head wedged firmly up one's arse would explain the standard of driving of most urban 4x4 drivers.

Do you manage to keep your very large pair of sunglasses on OK?

Verbena37 · 01/09/2015 13:34

Why did you ask Lavender?

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 01/09/2015 13:23

CrumbledFeta Tue 01-Sep-15 13:12:38 That made me laugh !

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Iloveadrianmole · 01/09/2015 13:10

At my DC's school we have a massive range of cars from Porsche, BMW, Audi etc. to mini, fiat 500, normal family saloons and a smattering of old bangers. Also have some 4x4's from ultra shiny, never even mounted the kerb to filthy Landrovers. No one cares who turns up in what.

WorriedMutha · 01/09/2015 13:09

We go to a private school and our sole family car is a Ford Fiesta. Can't aspire to a Mondeo sorry. I can't look down on anyone unfortunately except I do look down on those intellectually shallow materialistic types who judge people by the kind of cars they drive.

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 01/09/2015 13:08

Fair few 4x4 style but everything from uber smart Range Rover to a Qashqui [?] I've seen Ford SMax and Citroen people carriers. People buy a car usually based on their budget followed by their needs but maybe I'm naive.
If I'm honest I don't really know. The parents that do drop off by car tend to dump cars in surrounding streets and walk the last 1/4 mile towing kids on a scooter.
Everyone is too stressed trying to get to school on time and then get to work to give a rats ass really. Grin

There was a moment at the school sports day when an announcement had to be made to say that someone had left the windows open in a Maserati outside the gate....... some poor guy had to make a walk of shame across the grass in front of a ton of grinning parents making jokes about their Mazzer being in for it's MOT. It HAD to be a Maserati - I'm pretty sure that was never used on the school run. Grin

JanetBlyton · 01/09/2015 13:01

Also surely they are mummies? I've always been mummy. Mum sounds working class!

DadOnIce · 01/09/2015 13:00

Was that to sort the riots out, cogito? :)

cogitosum · 01/09/2015 12:59

I used to live near a very famous public school and at the end of term they'd be helicopters overhead

DadOnIce · 01/09/2015 12:58

I don't judge anyone by the car they drive - they are all metal boxes with wheels on and it's a bit like judging someone by their make of washing-machine, or lawnmower.

I am, however, interested in knowing what the local "naive area" is like. This is a new one on me.

JanetBlyton · 01/09/2015 12:56

First of all real clever women who pay school fees and are not kept by men aren't boring enough to want to do the school run and have someone else do it!

Secondly only the jumped up something to show off nouveau riche types who are so worried about their social position want a posh car.

BrendaFlange · 01/09/2015 12:53

HaHa at NewBalls immediately pulling status on the enhanced sense of values that private school parents have over those shallow, materialistic state school parents.

OP:

On MN: they drive 40 year old beat up Volvos, in order to afford the fees - because their superior values (see above) do not allow them to spend their pocket money on flash cars and big tellies, and if only everyone drove a 40 year old beat up Volvo they could easily afford the £15k per year per child.

At the end of my narrow road: they drive very wide new shiny XC90s

And I daresay a car which fits every wild generalisation in between.

Our state school doesn't have a car park, and over 70% of households in this borough do not own a car.

Abraid2 · 01/09/2015 12:52

2006 Ford Focus.

NewLife4Me · 01/09/2015 12:39

I don't drive or own a car my dh has a very old Passat.

shushpenfold · 01/09/2015 12:38

Ferrari is in the garage this week.....Grin

SquirrelledAway · 01/09/2015 12:37

Slumming it on Wednesdays then?

SixtyFootDoll · 01/09/2015 12:24

Depends which day of the week

Monday - my merc
Tuesday - my tvr
Wednesday - my vw golf
Thursday - my BMW
Friday - my range rover

PettsWoodParadise · 01/09/2015 12:20

A train as I have to go to work to pay for the fees!

SquirrelledAway · 01/09/2015 12:19

So exactly the same range of cars as our state primary and secondary school then.

Now, if you'd asked how many have vanity plates personalised number plates then I bet our school would win hands down.

DotaDay · 01/09/2015 11:05

Let me just check with my chauffeur...

HelsBels3000 · 01/09/2015 10:15

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