Wot motor yer driving?

[darmstadt]

BMW F80 and looking at buying a Frog Eyed Sprite for weekends...(and possibly a second hand clunker for winter travelling to work this year)

[OwlHoot]

Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure my Jag is an S-Type (v6 3.0 litre)

I was lent the successor, a Jag XF, as a courtesy car a year or two ago, and frankly I preferred the S-Type. Seems more chunkily built.

When it conks out, I may go for a Lexus.

[NotAllThere]

I've at least 40 cars, mostly crap, but with some highlights. Crap ones first...

1. Some sort of Volvo 360GLi with broken power steering and a speedo that said none mph all the time.

2. Several Renault 21 Savannah's to make one good one which never happened. Was skint at the time with five kids to ferry about.

3. Maserati BiTurbo, shed of a car.

4. Mini Metro, used to shimmy left/right at the front all the time...

5. Renault 19 with the most alarming big end knock that never actually crapped out.

The good stuff;

1. Cadillac CTS, just got rid cos I don't drive anymore

2. Alfa 75 TS, best drive of all the cars I've had.

3. Lancia Gamma Coupe, had two of those, beautiful car

4. 1976 Aston Martin DBS V8, only had it a few weeks, clutch was monumentally heavy, left leg was shaking after the East Lancs Road commute I was on then.

5. Audo Quattro 200, unstickable.

6. Cadillac Convertible, 1963, cool as fook, rusted away....

7. Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, 1975, 8.2 litre, 180hp, but could pull a tree stump out of the ground easy...

I thought that DodgyAgent was the used car dealer...

[Mordac]

I've at least 40 cars, mostly crap, but with some highlights. Crap ones first...

1. Some sort of Volvo 360GLi with broken power steering and a speedo that said none mph all the time.

2. Several Renault 21 Savannah's to make one good one which never happened. Was skint at the time with five kids to ferry about.

3. Maserati BiTurbo, shed of a car.

4. Mini Metro, used to shimmy left/right at the front all the time...

5. Renault 19 with the most alarming big end knock that never actually crapped out.

The good stuff;

1. Cadillac CTS, just got rid cos I don't drive anymore

2. Alfa 75 TS, best drive of all the cars I've had.

3. Lancia Gamma Coupe, had two of those, beautiful car

4. 1976 Aston Martin DBS V8, only had it a few weeks, clutch was monumentally heavy, left leg was shaking after the East Lancs Road commute I was on then.

5. Audo Quattro 200, unstickable.

6. Cadillac Convertible, 1963, cool as fook, rusted away....

7. Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, 1975, 8.2 litre, 180hp, but could pull a tree stump out of the ground easy...

Sorry to be really pedantic on this, but... the original DBS V8 ceased in 1971. It was renamed the AM V8 from 1972 onwards, pretty much same shape and engine though. I got the full 9 yards from my dad at a classic car show in the early 80's, he was dribbling all over it, but I was more smitten by an early Lambo, which was probably the Miura, but I can't be sure.

[AtW]

One should not be thinking about the car he/she's got, but the car he/she will get...

[original PM]

Astra 2.0 cdti Sri

Crap car but it has seven letters after its name

Who can beat that

(it's also 30 quid a year Road tax, cam return a genuine 56 mpg but not the way I drive. Its the cheapest way of wearing out the m56 I could find)

[AtW]

(it's also 30 quid a year Road tax)

[vetran]

It's popular with the ladies because that's who drives 'em.

yep the Mother in law loved hers. Admittedly she was in her late 60s when she owned it. She has some BMW town wagon now.


Me the Mighty Mondeo. Dirt cheap motoring !

when I have finished the house I'm after a Jag probably an S type (I know its old hat but they look great).

[DimPrawn]

yep the Mother in law loved hers. Admittedly she was in her late 60s when she owned it. She has some BMW town wagon now.


Me the Mighty Mondeo. Dirt cheap motoring !

when I have finished the house I'm after a Jag probably an S type (I know its old hat but they look great).

Very much doubt your mother in law had a 310 BHP 2015 TTS but you never know.

[DannyF1966]

7. Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, 1975, 8.2 litre, 180hp, but could pull a tree stump out of the ground easy...

Isn't that one of the longest non-limo cars ever made?