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had a mare fitting a 2.0L subaru engine in it a few years ago but now it runs sweet and loads more reliable. had plenty of good times in him so far though. next project is building a kids bed for the little un for when she gets a bit bigger but for now she's in the moses basket on the passenger seat... 🙂 looking forward to taking it to europe for a month in summer 🙂
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[/img] Here's my ford V6 powered landrover that I built from the groud up on a shortened discovery chassis. Coils springs disc brakes. Looked a bit ratty but mechanically perfect and fast! Took 2 years to build then sold it when expecting first child. :o(
@ Mattbike - That is amazing! I want that.
I used to live in the south of Spain and take people on 5 week trips round Morocco for a living, so fuel costs were never a concer.
Ex-Californian Postal Service Jeep with 4.2 V8 and custom airbrush paint job (done before I bought it), picture quality is rubbish due to it being a scanned copy of a photo. Was right hand drive so postie was next to kerb.
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Land Rover 101 Forward Control, originally with 3.5 V8 then swapped out for a Perkins Diesel, great fun messing about North Africa with mates.
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Mines a shonky old Ford Cortina.
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Loving Flying Ox's RX8, That's an absolute beauty
Here's my fun car
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Around 400bhp, loads of mods (turbo, induction, exhaust, stand alone engine management)
I've never driven anything that covers the ground so fast and effectively. It eats hot hatches for breakfast and makes Porsches look stupid on twisty roads.
However its a nervous jiggly heavy bag of shite at normal road speeds and the clutch is ridiculously heavy in traffic.
Also it only manages about 8 MPG!
Consequently its currently for sale
You guys sure have a lot of money to buy a car for fun, lol
Anyone every owned a 350Z?
Seriously tempted to buy a 2005 from a friend. Seems to tick all the fun car boxes. Either that or sit my bike test!
270bhp available apparently
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[i]Mines a shonky old Ford Cortina.[/i]
It's very nice. Never thought I'd say that about a Cortina. How old am I getting?
[i]You guys sure have a lot of money to buy a car for fun, lol [/i]
Tell me about it. I thought I earned good money till I looked at this thread. I still like plenty of these cars though. I fancy one of the older 1970's cars myself. like that Spitfire.
daniebike - Member
You guys sure have a lot of money to buy a car for fun, lol
That is very true Danie, But what has been great from the contributors to this thread is that they have all been about adding a bit of fun to life rather than any willy waving "look how much my car cost"
Peterfile...350z is serious contender for me as well, they go great will be comfortable and reliable, have nice V6 engine, only thing perhaps they lack a little spirit ??....Maybe a good place to start from though.
It's got 5.0 V8 under the bonnet Samuri, you are forgiven.
buy a car purely for fun!? some people have too much money sitting around.
When I was about 8. Brrrm! Brrrrmmm!
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jekkyl - Member
buy a car purely for fun!? some people have too much money sitting around.
jekkyl - Member
I was bored one day at work so here's my bucket list, for your admiration and/or derision.1. Get and maintain independence- Achieved 1999
2. Fall in love – Achieved 2004
3. Get married and be happy- Achieved 2007
4. Have at least one child – Achieved 2011
5. Get proficient at a sport (Golf: 25%, Swimming: strong but never competed, Mountain Biking/Cycling: 70%?)
6. Compete in a XC mountain bike race and not come last. Achieved 2013
7. Complete an olympic distance triathlon and not come last
8. Scuba dive somewhere tropical.
9. Get proficient at a musical instrument.
10. Have a ride on a helicopter
11. Parachute jump, incl freefall
12. Visit Thailand
13. Visit Rome, incl The Colisseum & St Peters Basilica - Achieved 2008
14. Visit New York
15. Visit Paris and climb the Effiel Tower, see the Mona Lisa @ the lourve and visit Notre Dame Catherdral – Achieved 2007
16. Cycle coast to coast UK – Achieved Sept 2011
17. Cycle coast to coast Italy
18. Cycle coast to coast USA.
19. Cycle John O’Groats to Lands End
20. Ski down a mountain.
21. Ride a gondola in Venice – Achieved 2007
22. See a wild snake – Achieved 2011
23. See a wild badger – Achieved 2013
24. See a wild bird of prey - Achieved
25. See a london show- Achieved X 3
26. Hike up the highest mountain in England – Achieved 2011
27. Hike up the highest mountain in Scotland
28. Hike up the highest mountain in Wales – Achieved 2013
29. Live long enough to see a grandchild (hopefully many)
30. Ride on a horse at a gallop
31. Swim across a lake (& back again) – Achieved, Coniston 1994
32. Shoot a magnum - Achieved 2007
33. Shoot a shotgun - Achieved 2007
34. See an opera - Achieved 2007, in Verona - La Boheme.
35. Visit Pompei – Achieved 2008
36. Visit the houses of Parliament, London – Achieved 2009
37. Go to Oktoberfest, Germany
38. Go to a music Festival
39. Go to all-night ‘Rave’ – Achieved several times ;o)
40. Compete in a Poker Tournament – Achieved 2010
41. Create a sculpture
or it might just depend what you choose to spend said money on 😉
Wife just bought this which is quite good fun.
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That Rover is absolutely stunning ......
Probably not that good to drive, however?
djglover - MemberNew fun, commuting, family car
On the £300/month lease deal by any chance? I know I'd be tempted...
Those 135i's are stunning value on lease deals at the minute. We were very tempted....
Where is this deal. Just about to buy a fiesta st and would look at this instead
The Audi Quattro (the actual one used) from ashes to ashes has just sold on ebay for 15 grand!
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I got this little beauty in 2012 & it's great fun, manoeuvrability is fantastic, both inside & out. The engine is a little unreliable at times & often will just give up until it gets more juice. 😀
Jekkyl..Those things just run and run with no maintenance, they handle best with with one steering and one on the roof for ballast.
Where is this deal. Just about to buy a fiesta st and would look at this instead
They ended a couple of weeks ago when BMW stopped the subsidy.
Gateway2Lease and Central Vehicle Leasing were the main suppliers. You might get lucky with a cancelled order or alternatively Golf R's are £300ish on a 6+23.
Well I had a test drive of a mountune fiesta st and tbh the m135i isn't half as fun. I was tempted to wait for the m235i, the dealer has one for a test drive in march so going to hang on until then. But I suspect the fiesta will still be more fun and as second car to compliment my t5 it seems perfect
You would expect the smaller car to be more fun though, and the larger one to be more refined and comfortable over longer distances. Not really comparing apples with apples
Was just reading about the new Golf R today. 300bhp 😯 and 40mpg. Less CO2 and cheaper tax than my 2.0 diesel Passat!
Next year they are bringing out a polo r
4 wheel drive and 250hp. In a polo!!!
Anyone every owned a 350Z?
Not owned, but had a reasonably lengthy drive in one (Montrose to Edinburgh) which was distinctly underwhelming. Whilst looking nice on the outside the interior felt a bit vanilla, like it was lifted straight out of whatever executive-spec repmobile Nissan were producing at the time. It also didn't feel very fast at all, despite it obviously being so. Still, not for me in the end. I much prefer a more distinct sense of building up speed than somehow arriving at it unruffled. That tends to come from less comfortable cars though, so you takes your pick...
If it's a friend's 350Z, I'd definitely ask to borrow it for an extended weekend before buying.
I was enjoying this thread until people started missing the point of it and started posting their new BWM M5s and 1 series!
Because it only counts if the car is a 10 year old weekend fun car....? 😕
Some of us can't afford the luxury of a 'cheap' car like that. It has to double up as an everyday commuting car too.
Does a 20yr old land rover qualify as a fun car but a 135m doesn't???
What nonsense!!! Someone is indeed 'missing the point'...
I saw it as a car that's your pride and joy, that is a bit different to the norm and doesn't get used every day.
A car doesn't have to be fast to be fun, people get enjoyment from tinkering with old cars and taking them to shows etc.
As for the comment about not being able to afford a second car for weekends, if you don't spend £30k on a BMW 1 series, it's quite feasible to buy something more mundane to commute in and be able to afford a more interesting older car for weekends. It's something's my dads done for as long as I can remember and I've been lucky enough to do for the last 10 years or so.
Good for you, if I could afford it I'd go down the M5 route, leave tinkering with shite to others. I can't afford either however, so I'm stuck with my Touran which is fine by me. That's as close as buying a dedicated 'fun car' as I'm likely to get.
Agreed. The m135's can scuttle off back to pistonheads.
Here's my old 88 944 turbo.
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Of course its true I could have had a second hand 911 and a 5k Euro box for the price of my 1 series, and I did seriously consider this option for a long time, but then up popped the 135i and I could own a car that will hit 60 in the same time as, and has the same power as a 996 911 Carrera. Of course trade off is that its a more modern car and you don't feel as connected to the road as in those older cars, primarily because of the electric steering rack but what you get in return is a comfortable, econmical fast and fairly reasonably priced car. IMHO of course
I certainly did buy it for fun, too my commute is an almost traffic free fun drive, for the first 30 miles, and where would the enjoyment be in slogging down the A682 every day in a diesel golf when its a great driving road and almost traffic free even at rush hour :-D?
I've not driven either, so a genuine question....is driving the 135i even remotely comparable to the 911?
I have a 130i as my only car. Done over 8,000 miles in 5 months. Hilariously good fun when poked, refined on the motorway and I can fit my bike in the back easily. Only downside is the 32mpg average. Thinking of selling though as the ratio of motorway to fun driving is, unfortunately, massively skewed towards the motorway driving.
No pictures as I can't access them here from work. But I'm in mid refresh of a 1991 BMW 850i which will be the Wifes fun (and only) car
Is driving the 135i even remotely comparable to the 911
No, one is a sports car and one is a turbocharged family hatchback. The similarities end at; is RWD and has >300hp
I'll leave it there as I risk becoming a bit like Surfmatt if I continue to dogmatically state how good a car it is though...
The most fun car I have owned so far:
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Impreza WRX. Scoobysport exhaust and remap for about 280 bhp. Prodrive springs. OZ Superleggera wheels, gold of course. STI mudflaps for the rally look.
Used to love caning it around the track.
Just to add to the annoyance of people who dont think the m135i can be classed as a fun car. Mine arrives in 3 weeks, im trading in my m3 for it,but im keeping my proper fun car , a caterham 7.
Cars bought for fun because i have loads of money
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Yes its parked in the hedge 🙂
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Not a sporty driving machine but rather allot of fun to drive about in.
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The noise the noise oh the lovely noise. V6 with tweaks.
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A different kind of fun like grown up mechano that you never finish.
julians - Member
Just to add to the annoyance of people who dont think the m135i can be classed as a fun car. Mine arrives in 3 weeks, im trading in my m3 for it,but im keeping my proper fun car , a caterham 7.
So are you saying it is or isn't a "fun" car? You're post seems to argue both sides