Mini 1000 rusted badly, sold
Fiesta 950 sold
No car for quite a while 92-97 at a guess
Citreon zx died on the pass of glencoe
Volvo 340 crashed pronounced dead at the scene
another volvo 340 bought for £250 sold 2 years later for £210
Another volvo 340 mate crashed it to death
Escort diesel cam belt death
peug 306 sold
Skoda Fab sold
Skoda Fab estate mrs has nicked it
Rover 75 diesel auto bought to use during knee op recovery until I can get back on motorbike

some high quality vehicles I’m sure you will agree. Volvo 340’s were the most reliable and cheapest

My ‘car’ was always a bicycle (just wasn’t interested, loved cycling more) until reached late 30’s and couldn’t put it off anymore. So relatively few.

Shogun Pajero (ridiculous thing)
Citroen ZX (I too loved that thing until it died)
1989 Scirocco GTII (feels faster than it is)
E39 touring (felt like the Millennium Falcon)

Now back to bikes until can afford van.

1999 – 1990 H Citroen AX 1.4 GT
2001 – 1996 P Peugeot 306 2.0 XSi
2002 – 1996 P Peugeot 306 1.9 D Turbo
2004 – 1994 L Subaru Impreza 1.8 AWD
2006 – 1999 V Peugeot 306 1.6 Meridian
2009 – 2001 Y Ford Mondeo 2.0 Zetec
2012 – 2006 06 Ford Focus 1.6 TDCi Zetec
2014 – 2009 09 Ford Mondeo 2.0 Titanium

So many people seem to have gone:

Shit car,
Slightly less shit car,
Nice car,
Very nice car,
Shit car.

The first three are googled, the last two are mine 🙂

Christ!
UK Cars
72 Spitfire
73 GT6
77 Mini
68 Mini (cousin still has it)
76 Mini – full spaceframe, steel flip front, 1480 all steel engine, race cams, twin 40DCOE’s, etc, etc, etc – used to destroy anything that tried to race it – still going but now 4WD and supercharged by the nutter I sold it to!
Morris Marina 1.8TC Coupe
Hillman Tiger
82 Mini

Following all in Spain

Fiat X19
Fiat X19 with Uno Turbo engine
Fiat X19 with Fiat Coupe engine – tweaked to god knows what
MG Montego Turbo – tweaked – sounded bloody good
66 MK1 Mini Cooper rally/race car complete with provenance, stage stickers, etc.
Fiat 124 (Plopper) used to regularly rip the anti roll bar out of the chassis on back road jumps
Clio 1.2 (brand new for ex)

UK again
200 diesel (awful)
Ford Sierra (even worse than awful)
Zafira 1.6 Active – bloody quick for what it was!
A3 2.0 170 DSG Sportback – love this car but really should sell it 🙁
330D M-Sport Factory – chipped, on proper factory spec chassis – ridiculously quick car – 360bhp and 530nM torque! Loved showing up M3’s and the like.
Caddy Maxi Life DSG – surprisingly good fun, do it all, throw anything in it car. Not quick but everything is useable.

If I want to go fast I just open the garage door 😉

86 Fiesta XR2 – girlfriend (now wife) wrote if off
85 Fiesta XR2
96 Saxo VTS
06 BMW M130i

Toys whist I having company cars:

98 Westfield Sei Zetec
99 Lotus Elise S1
02 Lotus Elise Motorsport 190

Company cars:

99 Audi A3 1.9 Diesel
05 Golf Gt Diesel
07 Golf 1.9 Diesel
09 Golf 1.6 Bluemotion
11 Golf 1.6 Bluemotion
13 BMW 116d
14 BMW 116d

I want that suzuki tonka toy

So many great cars – favourite would be the Volvo P1800.

Makes me realise how dull my car history is… Owned cars for 17 years and only owned 7 cars too…

almost hate to do this, but:

Which was actually a very pretty car at the concept stage…and how about this?

Appearing in the order I acquired them

Mk 2 escort 1.3
MG Metro
Mk 2 Fiesta 1.1 Co car
Mk 1Fiesta Pop
Sierra Sapphire 2l GLS
Pug 309 Co car
Mk 1 Mondeo 1.6 LX Co car
Rover 420 Si Co car
Vectra 2.0 d LS Co car
Pug 106 1,0 l
Bora Sport Co car
E46 BMW 320d ES co car
VW Polo 1.0
VW Bora 1.6 SE
SAAB 9-3 SW co car
E90 BMW 320d ES co car
Alfa 159 1.9 d co car
E90 BMW 320d SE co car
Audi A4 Avant tecnik co car
Ford Kuga Zetec co car
VW Golf GT tdi co car
F30 BMW 320i Sport

Quite uninspiring. I recently toyed with the idea of swapping my company Golf with a Fiesta ST that’s kicking around at work, but wasn’t sure if I’d tire of it quickly as most of my driving is on the motorway

1981 Honda XL125
1976 Honda 400 Four, F1 (the only vehicle I regret selling)
1971 Austin Healey Sprite (given by ex-girlfriend when we split up)
1985 Ford Orion company car (dire)
1983 Fiat Uno 70 – actually not that bad but never went the same after being converted to unleaded
1986 Golf GTI Mk2 – the Bosch injection one – really nice car
1990 Golf GTI Mk2 – Digifant and noticeably not so quick but got it to 230k before it spilled its gearbox oil all over the work car park a week after I’d started
2001 Honda Accord 1.8 Sport – not that sporty and constantly went into limp mode going round the bend where the A30 west leaves the M5 at Exeter. Nice drive though
2001 Passat Estate 1.9PD. Got that to 235k before a neighbour drove into me in the snow
2003 BMW 525d Touring – really nice drive but had lots of irritating things go wrong – now at 200k.

Not many for 33 years of driving and never yet had a new one – even my company car was s/h 🙁

1998 got a 90 Vw polo. Great first car. WRitten off so bought
Fiat bravo. Rubbish got rid for:
Audi a2 company car and a
Mazda mx 5 weekend toy swapped both for
Audi a4 avant tdi had 7 years and land rover defender sadly stolen in August after 3 years together.
Latest purchase this month is mercedes w164 ml which is super lux
A4 now up for sale

Not many over the last 15 years

1988 Renault 11 1.7 GTX – 1994 – Dad’s, but learned to drive in it
1982 Ford Fiesta 1.1Le – 1996 First own car, died of terminal rust
1986 VW Golf 1.3GL – 2001 Free off of a neighbour
1989 Rover 214SLi – 2002 – First 16v car
1998 Rover 416i – 2003 – First car with aircon and stupidly, first car on finance for bad credit rating.
1996 Daewoo Nexia 1.5 – 2003 – for the wife
1998 Renault Megane 1.6RTe – 2004 – after the wife wrote the Daewoo off
1989 Ford Fiesta 1.3L – 2004 – After the Rover went back. £60 snotter with tax and MOT
1990 Audi 80E – 2L – 2004 – £99 snotter bought before it went to auction after the Fiesta died
1994 Peugeot 405 Hunter 1.9TD – 2005 – Free off of my dad’s friend, and was actually quite good until the radiator went – nightmare access and hoses.
Mk4 FIesta, Pug 106 and a Vitara for the wife after she wrote off the Megane – all shitters

1996 Rover 414SLi – 2005 – not bad
1992 Rover Coupe 2.0L NASP – 2006 Loved it most out of all so far and since. Ended up with cream leather, MGF clocks, ZS hairpins, Scorpion exhaust and a T-series turbo engine transplant. Gutted when I had to sell on.
2000 Rover 75 1.8 – 2008 – was OK
Another 3-4 I’ve forgottten
1996 Rover 420SDi – 2008 – £500 banger but was a flying macjine when the tuning box was put on. 45mpg however heavy the right foot was
A terrano – fun off road, but gearbox died
A Focus 1.8TDi Estate – gutless wonder = died of rust
An Alfa 156 Sportwagon – 2.4L 5-pot fun car, but got tired of bush wear.
Currenyly still on the 2008 ~Civic CDTi – swallows bikes for fun, fast, relatively economical, and a 1996 Pug 406 1.8L for the wife.

I am very impressed by the number of french cars on this topic.