alta-pete Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 (edited) Jeezo, if ever there was a thread set up for me on a Sunday with no fitba on and self excluded from OtB - *clears throat*, starting from 1988 to the present day: Capri MkIII 1.6GL. GLX976T Midnight Blue Honda Accord saloon AUR304S white Hillman Imp P reg Tartan red Singer Chamois E reg Bronze Renault 5 Gordini Met blue Vx Astra 1.3 Brown Capri MkIII 2.0 Laser C212JSU Met blue Golf GTi MkII orange Capri 2.8 injection Special grey Alfa 155 TSpark (1st company car) gold Renault Laguna (2nd company car, poorer car, much better pay) white Nissan Primera black Volvo S60 Metallic black BMW325i saloon Sienna Red Saab 9-5 HOT Turbo (shite, sold it six weeks later) Metallic black BMW325i Sport coupe silver Audi A5 3.0tdi Garnet Red Audi A6 Avant 2.0tdi (a premature attempt at being a grown up) Metallic grey BMW 330d saloon silver Range Rover 3.0tdv6 Metallic black Range Rover 4.4tdv8 Metallic black Range Rover Sport hybrid (current), and with a leap of imaginative faith, Metallic black And in amongst all that along the there have been various second ‘toy’ cars for use on high days and holidays that have included 2no. Classics Range Rovers, a Mercedes 320 estate (all for going camping with the boy when he was a kid), 2 more 2.8 Capris and, currently sat in the garage, a 2004 BMW325i convertible (in metallic black ) Edited July 21 by alta-pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Silver Black Black Black If my midlife crisis gets any worse, might treat myself to a red one. Red is the fastest. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 20 minutes ago, coprolite said: Silver Black Black Black If my midlife crisis gets any worse, might treat myself to a red one. Red is the fastest. I beg to differ... https://youtu.be/9KxOdaDp8vo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 30 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: I beg to differ... https://youtu.be/9KxOdaDp8vo Blue took a shortcut and PEDs. Cheating bassa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 I had a red car and it was fucking shit. Being French probably didn’t help it either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 1 hour ago, Richey Edwards said: My dad used to have a Multipla. Ugly big frog looking thing it was. What was the car like? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 46 minutes ago, Venti said: What was the car like? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 10 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgie greatness Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Car history; mk2 escort 1.1 pop plus mk2 escort 1.6 ghia mk2 ford fiesta xr2 mk3 ford escort xr3 honda civic type R tesla model 3 ️ & a shit ton of vans along the way! i fuckin hate vans 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 2 hours ago, coprolite said: Silver Black Black Black If my midlife crisis gets any worse, might treat myself to a red one. Red is the fastest. From my earlier post I went green. Silver, baby diahorrea, black, red, black and red. Can confirm red is fastest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Renault 5 Astra 1.2 Cavalier 1.4 Fiat Bravo 1.2 Toyota Corolla Renault Mégane Estate Mazda 6 Mazda 3 Hyundai i40 Mercedes E Unsurprisingly the Merc is a step ahead of the rest although the i40 was decent and had brilliant spec. The Mégane was a fucking nightmare. How Renault can sell fully electric cars when the electrics on their normal cars are so dreadful is a mystery. Latterly Mrs has also run a 2004 Yaris which had nothing going for it really other than it was just a great wee car that never, ever caused a problem followed by a Mini Cooper D which has been a good wee car too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 (edited) How Pie and Bovril killed the planet.. Edited July 21 by Cosmic Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 3 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: Ugly big frog looking thing it was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 My old man used to buy wrecks and try and do them up (without great success). His history went something like: Daf 33, Daf 66, Fiat 1100, Daf 33, Skoda Estelle (engine in the back, brick red colour), Skoda Estelle, Renault 4, Nissan Micra box shaped, Hyundai Pony, Nissan Micra, Skoda Fabia, Renault Clio, Daimler Herse... I bought the then girlfriend's Vauxhall Cavalier before I learned to drive and it sat in the garage before being scrapped. So the first car I had was a C reg Renault 5, then another Renault 5, a Peugeot 106 with a NI numberplate, Skoda Fabia, Nissan Micra (stolen when it had no petrol in it), Nissan Micra, Nissan Micra, Citreon C3 and the current bammobile is a Dacia Sandero which has lasted 5 years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Only ever had really fast and sporty cars... Peugeot 405 (saloon) - grey Peugeot 406 (saloon) - red Peugeot 406 (saloon) - silver Ford Focus (hatchback) - blue Vauxhall Insignia (hatchback) - silver/blue (current) The first 406 was written off by a drunken old dear who fell asleep at the wheel just outside Freuchie. The others were sold for cash including the second 406 that I'm led to believe became a taxi in North Africa somewhere. All purchased for cash as not a fan of leasing/PCP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 50 minutes ago, Gorgie greatness said: Car history; mk2 escort 1.1 pop plus mk2 escort 1.6 ghia mk2 ford fiesta xr2 mk3 ford escort xr3 honda civic type R tesla model 3 ️ & a shit ton of vans along the way! i fuckin hate vans It was all going so well until the Tesla. Shame on you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Manhattan Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Last Century: too many to list, some decent, some clunkers, but my favourite was my first, a basic 1989 Astra 1.3 (silver; many, many speeding tickets.) Worst was a Renault Laguna (also Silver, woeful electrics.) This Century I have been mostly driving Jaguars: S-Type 3.0 (Ultraviolet), S-Type R 4.2 (British Racing Green), F-Pace (Caesium Blue), and currently an XJR (Yulong White), and my wife's iPace (Firenze Red.) All-time favourite, by an absolute mile, is the XJR, an absolute fucking beast of a car. 2 minutes ago, johnnydun said: It was all going so well until the Tesla. Shame on you. Never thought I'd say this, but I must confess to a sneaking liking for the wife's iPace, whose acceleration isn't far off the XJR. Feels more "car-like" than a Tesla too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 28 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: He meant it looked like a frog. There was actually a worse post in response with pretty much outright racism which has gone now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Peugeot 107 - got it after my gran died and everyone agreed it was the best idea to give it to me. Cracking wee car and I got nearly 3 years out of it before it needed a big repair and I traded it in. Fiat Punto - My first ‘big’ purchase I ever made, kept it for 3.5 years. Had alloy wheels and a leather steering wheel. I felt the bollocks driving it, even if it did have 77 horsepower Seat Ibiza - My current motor, bought this after graduating as a treat to myself, had it nearly 5 years and love it to pieces. Fast enough to overtake easily going up the A9/A82 and pretty good on fuel too. Average about 50mpg usually. Rough plan is to keep the Seat and think about a new car in 2 years for my 30th. Barring any disasters between now and then 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgie greatness Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 34 minutes ago, johnnydun said: It was all going so well until the Tesla. Shame on you. You know your getting old when you say things like the most practical car I’ve ever had I’m rarely in it mainly a white van man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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