What Car do you have

Shevyrabbit · 19-12-2011, 09:16 PM

I will start it off I have Mercedes 200 E-Class Avantgarde, in Silver

Doghouse Riley · 19-12-2011, 11:47 PM

I've had a UK made Honda CRV from new, it's nearly seven years old now but only 32K on the clock. Our previous car was the same, again from new, but made in Japan, I kept it seven years.
When we bought it there were very few on the road, so if you ever saw another, we'd all wave like mad..... Now "everyone's got one." We had a new Honda LSI before that.
Touch wood neither have needed anything other than tyres and regular servicing.
The MPG is rubbish, around 23mpg, around town which is what mostly I do. But I don't mind, I don't do a lot of driving.
My wife likes it as with her disability it's easy for her to get in as the seats are at bum height and she doesn't have to bend her head as she gets in.

She calls the modern saloons of friends and relatives "Head bangers."

miles41 · 20-12-2011, 08:11 AM

Well, I'm a Jaguar nut! Currently have an X350 XJ6, seven years old though with 74k on the clock. It's my 4th XJ in a row....do I need to see someone!

go54nke · 20-12-2011, 10:09 AM

Apart from my works VW transporter, I'm a Ford man. Her indoors has a Focus tdci and I have 2 Sierra RS500 cosworths, 1 in black and 1 in white. The black 1 is quite tame...ish, the white 1 has 536bhp with lots of toys on it, and its a bit of a handfull.

DHR, I would love to see 23mpg lol

gaz 69 · 20-12-2011, 10:12 AM

no you dont Miles ive always wanted a jag ever since i was a kid but never did untill i had 2 heart attacks in 2006 laying in hospital i said right i want a jag and a superbike why i dont know my wife talked me out of the bike but after the 3 months when i was allowed to drive again i got the 3ltr s-type i loved the old ones ive still got it but love the new xj also got a subaru legacy estate 07 but drinks petrol. so no Jaguars are fantastic. ps But seriously thinking of getting a mercades CLS 520 in bourdox red with cream leather seats

Doghouse Riley · 20-12-2011, 11:39 AM

If we're going to include cars we once had, my first car when I was seventeen in 1958 was a 1936 Austin Seven convertible. I'd saved up money I'd earned for my Saturday job and working during school holidays. I bought it as soon as I left school and started working
My parents didn't drive, I and a doctor were the only people who had cars in our road. (I passed my test first time a month after I bought the car, just drove it around without L plates. Only put them on for the test! I've never had a driving lesson, my wife says it shows!)
I kept it for a year, all it needed was a set of tyres and a bearing for the dynamo, which cost me 1/- which I changed myself.

My favourite car was my 1980 2lt Alfa Romeo Giulietta, all aluminium twin cam engine canted at 30 degrees to reduce height, two twin choke down-draught Webber carburettors, torque tube to gearbox attached to de Dion back axle.
It used to see off those "biscuit tin" Ford XR3s, despite being 300lb heavier.
Fantastic car, but it "rusted to death underneath me."

Hulley72 · 20-12-2011, 07:37 PM

The Missus has a VW Golf GTI , which is soon to be swapped for a nice Audi A4 S-line as we are expecting our second child soon and the golf just won't be big enough , I myself drive a very nice Toyota supra that was imported from Tokyo in 2006 .

terrydog · 20-12-2011, 07:50 PM

hi all
i drive a toyota IQ .
like some of your cars 2 cosys wow what do you get out of the white one?

go54nke · 20-12-2011, 08:49 PM

Hi Terrydog, the white 1 pulled 178 on datron timing gear at bruntingthorpe on a warm day, best recorded times, 0-60 in 4.8secs (launch control & antilag on) and a standing 1/4 mile in 11.8secs at santa pod.

pmplumber · 21-12-2011, 05:45 PM

i drive a bag of shite because iv spent all my money on my fish! simples 8)