I'm getting a bit narked with up to date cars and all their electric gubbins.....so what were good cars of the seventies/eighties maybe even nineties that you wouldn't mind driving today?
personally
a bit thirsty perhaps?
rose tinted glasses.......probably
Quattro = Win.
Going back a little earlier - I had one of the original 400 made ....
Started as a road car, then road rallied and onto stage rallying !
Great fun and a change from the Escorts at the time 
Really miss my Golf VR6, though not the bills that went with it. Fantastic car, fast, comfortable, practical. Bought a new mini and wish I had kept the VR6 and spent the difference on getting it properly sorted.
saw one of these up the Horseshoe Pass a couple of weeks ago. Obligatory Cibies too.
A chap coming on our annual bank holiday ride/bbq tomorrow has a mint RS2000
Aracer, congratulations for picking the most unreliable car on the thread! I thought I'd win that one with the Integrale..... 
I'd like an early Elise, I will own one, one day.
Looking back l'v owned a few chavy cars in my youth 
Love that corrado, not sure on the R5. Escort??? Well what can I say, before the Vr6 I had an Astra GTE, loved it too
...and a guy at the gym has a Maserati Ghibli, 1990s one. That's nice too.
still tempted to buy one on the cheap.
I'd say Escort 2000 by far. Sound fantastic and rwd.
Or out there, Capri !
+1 for the Mk2 RS2000.
Here's mine taken at Gisburn forest in 1987.
Blimey, is it 24 years ago...... 
1990 3.9 efi Defender 110
Two people, four bikes and a weekend's camping gear with ease.
The r5 Turbo and escort wasn't even fast by today's standards., I was only 18 at the time tho!
This was prob my favourite alongside the vr6
I had one of these, it was a cracking motor....
The Sierra & Escort Cossie's always seemed to be popular, mostly with blokes making un announced withdrawls from Post Office's
I'd love an rs2000 now, bit before my time back then.
slainte 
rob
Talbot sunbeam! Fast motor they were
The Sierra & Escort Cossie's always seemed to be popular, mostly with blokes making un announced withdrawls from Post Office's
The bloke who owns the house opposite us had an Escort Cosworth. It got nicked three times! First two times was used for the aforementioned withdrawls, that last time they torched it.
The funny thing was, I never saw him drive it once.
I think I prefer the flat front RSs now.
Had a 1670cc Sport that was quite rapid, followed by an XR2i. How unstable did the Fiesta feel at speed?
more unreliable than both the lancia and the lotus
By Christ there's some shit cars on this thread! 
The Eighties must surely rank as the worst period for car design in the history of the Automobile.
How unstable did the Fiesta feel at speed?
My Supersport was on rails.
Agree on the flat front Escorts - preferred the slope nose when I was young, but not now.
Elfinsafety - MemberBy Christ there's some shit cars on this thread!
The Eighties must surely rank as the worst period for car design in the history of the Automobile.
Haha - from the bloke who doesn't drive
(of course you can still have an opinion on aesthetics though)
I think I prefer the flat front RSs now.
The only 'official' flat front Mk2 RS's were the Mexico with the 1.6 Pinto engine, & the RS1800 with the iconic 1.8 twincam BDA engine.
However, if you'd stacked your droop snoot RS, there was nothing to stop you rebuilding it as a flat front.
steellam - Member
Talbot sunbeam! Fast motor they were
slainte rob
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