[Closed] What cars do you own ?

And, as a result I think of encroaching middle age, I really like the look of Porsche Cayennes. There may also be a bit of Panamera displacement in this...

If you're getting a Mk I, stick to the V6 or the Turbo - the stock V8 doesn't have the greatest longevity. Seriously flawed design.

I'd get the Turbo, but allow for huuuuuuuuuuge running costs. 14mpg is the least of your problems - servicing, tyres, insurance.....all are monstrous.

If he's buying a Porsche Cayenne, I don't think money's an issue for running it 😉

Rather than wasting money on some thing like a Porsche my aim is to waste money on some thing like the toy below, and then keep some thing like the old Mondeo for day to day use. A nice car for weekends, and a shed for day to day driving that I dont care if it gets dinted etc.

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03 Audi A4 1.9 TDI (130BHP) MPG between 50 and 60 to work. Servicing between €100 and €150 for a standard service at local garage. Only had to replace the front and rear windscreen wiper motors since I bought the car 4 years ago. 116k on the clock and plan to keep it going for as long as it will go. It's way fast enough for me, can take a lot of bike stuff in the boot with seats folded down not to mention furniture etc, criticism would be the width of the boot as transporting some stuff diagonally in the boot is a pain in the hole.

08 Vw Touran - bike bus
05 Panda - run around
65 mini 850 - Concours Show car
63 mini 1071 - screamer
67 E Type Jaguar - ding dong baby

Transit van. White.

Old Audi A6 Estate. Happily swallows a bike with both wheels on

Citroen C4 Grand Picasso
Peugeot 308 CC

mk5 solid black golf gti for my sometimes daily (cycle 4 days out of 5 :-))
mk1 mars red golf gti for my hobby car 😈
mk6 fiesta zetec blue in silver for the misses - good mpg & fits my bike in the boot 😉

Re: the Jeep.
It's a diesel, so 30mpg is about right. And as far as I'm aware, they're actually pretty solid as cars go. Certainly never heard of one having its floorpan torn off. Not much cause for that kind of offroading in Edinburgh, anyway, but the 4x4ness of it should help out getting to various parts of deepest darkest Scotland when the weather's too extreme for the Rex.

Citroen C4 Grand Picasso
Peugeot 308 CC

You walk on the wild side Tracey 😯

a piece of cr4p 2003 golf 1.4 stationwagon - used as a van

and the missus has a 2010 Golf TDI stationwagon - excellent car

currently considering getting a new X-Trail or Audi A4 offroad

Saab 93 tdi

Mazda RX-7 single turbo conversion.....430bhp rather quick really.

Selling soon though!!

2 Ultimate dull wagons:
07 CMax 1.6TDCi and a 55 Mazda 6 Estate. I have almost monthly urges to buy something flash, but as the kids (not to mention my mtb habit) have pretty much destroyed the interiors of both cars, why bother, i'll just run them into the ground...both have about 80k on the clock, so should be good for another 3 or 4 years minimum.

@nicholasnismo

That RX sounds fun!

The Picasso is great for bikes, boards and family
The 308 CC is for me

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BMW 320D estate, gf has one too.

Just this, not diesel, not an estate, not good on mpg but it does me just fine!

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'11 Golf 1.6 TDi bluemotion Match, it's a bit of a mouthful but I get 58mpg

Also have an '04 Honda Stream MPV which is the do it all van of the house. You can chuck a bike in the back without taking the wheels off. It doesn't do many miles now, we only get 34 mpg but it has never had anything replaced in 70k miles so that counts for a lot of petrol.

You walk on the wild side Tracey

C1 was it Hora? Are they 900 or 1000cc? 😆

Currently have '59 BMW 118D company car (great to drive and 50+mpg, but too small for a family of 4)
wife has an 09 Skoda Fabia (brilliant build quality but crap on fuel as it is petrol)

The BMW is going back within the year, and will be repalced with either a Passat or Touran Bluemotion.

I'm keen on picking up a nice hilux twin-cab for camping/bike carrying duties but finances won't allow at the moment... ;o(

Huge fun - well, not actually huge, but fun...

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@nicholasnismo

That RX sounds fun!

It's a lot of fun, only down side is the mpg which is around 10mpg when Im having "fun" so its a little on the thirsty side, proper weapon though.

Currently depressed with my car situation.

Only have a Alfa 156 Sportwagon.

This time last year before the move down south, I had the Alfa, Fiat 500, 1967 MG BGT, KTM 200EXC enduro bike and a go kart....miss a garage.

Only plus point is the Alfa will soon be replaced by a Navara as a bike hauler 🙂

S3 Quattro, fuel economy dreadful but such fun.

+1, +1 and +1

Sprint Blue too 😀

Both good bike luggers!

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I've got a Seat Leon Fr - petrol. Its a great car, really enjoy driving it. Usefully quick without being likely to get me into too much trouble and practical without being boring.

I'm also on the insurance of my brothers Evo VIII which I get to experience from time to time so long as I pay the not insubstantial fuel costs. Its frankly astonishing how quickly you can cover ground in the thing.

I'm glad its not mine though single digit MPG figure when you are pressing on and MPG in the teens when you aren't trying don't bear thinking about!

03 MX5 Sport
85 Transit Autosleeper

I just wish I could put the MX5 in the van. Would save many hassles.

Company car: 2011 V/Hall Astra 1.7 TD SRI 5DR - IMO a very well made car. Don't like the handbrake system, doesn't always engage & once found myself chasing the car along the road. Ave 47mpg, but drive it hard. Main car to lug the bikes around, comes with tyre marks on the roof lining 😆

Shared car with the missus: 2001 Mk4 Golf GTi 3DR in black (2 litre 8 valve). Nabbed it as a trade in for cost 3 years ago & it's still worth more than what I paid for it then. Lots of extras including a gun turret & heated seats. Getting an ave 35mpg, and only 38K on the clock.

Only have a Alfa 156 Sportwagon.

Brycey 4yrs ago I almost took my old Toyota Aygo onto the 'Ring but (I was calling round whilst in Germany) I couldn't find Ring insurance the day after NY's day ...so I had to drive past it on the way home 🙁

I didn't realise we were putting pictures up 😉

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Daily drive is a 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX FQ340. It gets used for hauling the bikes around also.

I keep resisting buying an ariel atom for weekend use as they are quite cheap nowadays.

A5 Sportback - surprisingly good when it comes to fitting the bikes in, certainly better than the coupe would be!
Still regret giving up my fireblade powered kit car, stupid amounts of fun to be had in that!

Friend has an Atom 3 300... tis an immense bit of kit, shame its got no handbrake and is so difficult to get MOT'd. Oh, and not great for the bike!

At Mayhem last year. Time for a change soonish

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I don't. I have 3 bicycles, a kayak and a National Rail photocard for special occasions.

A Honda Accord estate and a Merc eclass diesel estate ( tickled by Brabus 🙂 ).

If the garages weren't fully of bikes I might have something more interesting but I have trouble letting go of my bikes!

Celica 190
MX5 1.6

Celica might be going soon, probably buy a Civic, but I do love that car. MX5 was a recent acquisition I can take hair dresser jibes all day.

'06 VW T5 Kombi SWB 130
'07 VW Toursn TDi S

Am sadly going to have to sell the van any day to make room for a Polo due to a change in circumstances.

220 bhp T5 Kombi
Smart fortwo cabrio

ZZR 1100 (96k miles)
KTM 660 SMC

Missing the older 1.9 tdi quattro A3

Would love a 500C Arbarth, Lupo Gti or a well specced Skoda Yeti..

There are ALOT of VAG products on this topic. 😯

Would love a 500C Arbarth

You might quite fancy this then..

Have to say, the Azzuri blue is rather nice

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Personally not bothered about the rag top...

These look like cheeky fun though - apparently the 1.4 T-jet engine from the standard Abarth 500 has been tuned to deliver 300bhp 😯
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This last track version looks like something from a Scaletrix set!!!

Have to agree with charlierevell, A5 s/back good for getting bikes in… and on!!

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2CV IS the car of the thread.

My car is a Citroen C1.

You get 27mpg out of a V6 4motion? Best I got was late teens!! Now I get 40 at best out from the C1.

Citroen 2cv6 charleston
Ripple bonnet 2cv
Honda accord tourer
Porsche Panamera
Puegeot 307 xsi
New model Volkswagen beetle

I buy cars and tend to keep them forever.

Not bragging or anything, but most expensive car in the world.

Oh yes.

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Fiat 500. Not an ideal bike transporter although I did once get two bikes to France on it...

We have a few of this sort of thing in the yunki household..

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1.8 A4 saloon,
2.4 v6 A4 Avant,
Nissan 200sx s13 with RB25DET 2.5 straight 6 turbo from a skyline dropped in.

We have Sonnie and Natasha

Sonnie is a yellow Fiat 500 1.4 Sport. More smiles per mile than you can possibly imagine. We will probably trade up to an Abarth Essesse next.

Natasha is a red Alfa Romeo 147 2.0 Twin Spark Lusso. Why did I wait so long to get an Alfa? Loving her so much. And I think she is the only the second Alfa on the thread. Would love a Q4 Brera or Q4 159 Sportwagon.

Celica 190 T-Sport gen 7 (mine)
MR2 mk3 (hers)
Both mildly tuned.

Fiancée has works car too, Golf Bluemotion which is dull & boring.

Audi A3 Sportback 2.0T Quattro. VW High Up! for commuting.

How strange this post is up 7 months after I started it !

We bought a Merc C270 cdi estate in the end, but sadly its now gone so actually looking for another car !
(great car 55mpg but had an electrical fault that kept reoccurring and refuse to spend anymore on it, sold on ebay with known problem)

sticking with Jap cars now (the boss has spoken)

A lot of money on this thread!

I've got an 03 mk4 Golf GT TDI 130 it's good. 106k on the clock, 50+ mpg.

Want to replace it with an A5 once we've bought a house! Can't bring myself to drive the Sportback as it looks rubbish, so it'll have to be the Coupe and struggle with bikes!

A4 avant and A5.
A5 ok for a bike with seats down and wheel out.

2009 Renault Sport Clio 200 cup
Amazing fun, but lucky to get 30mpg.

Golf TDI se 2008
Astra ecoflex 2012 wifes
Golf GTD 2012

Guess which two are company cars though.. 😥

a 1.2 Vauxhall corsa N reg 106000 miles. Paid £290 for it. Paid about £1300 for my bike. Priorities 😉

PePPeR you rock. My granny had one of those. My brother took it on when she died and I was on the insurance. It was a really fun car to drive around in, go for picnics, take life easy in. Apparently a bit of a collectors item now.

2004 Mk6 Transit T300 SWB Lowroof.
Having had a van I will never go back to a car. Vans are just so much better in every respect.
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Would quite like an Integrale Evo3 as a fun car if I had the funds though.
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1.2 Vauxhall corsa N reg 106000 miles. Paid £290 for it. Paid about £1300 for my bike. Priorities 🙂

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And a Vectra.

A5 ok for a bike with seats down and wheel out.

Happy days, same as the Golf!

Interesting thread, this. The title being 'What cars do you own ?'

So how many of you actually [i]own[/i] the cars? H.P/ on finance/leasing/company car doesn't count.

Me. Why is this important?

*bought on finance. Now long since paid off

So how many of you actually own the cars? H.P/ on finance/leasing/company car doesn't count.

So if you've got a house with a mortgage are you not a 'homeowner'?

Well i currently own a silver forged 420bhp mitsubishi evolution 8 which was completely impractical for my good lady to drive so I also bought a stock evolution 9 FQ360 to tootle down the shops in!!
Very reasonable 4500 service intervals with the silver one returning around 13mpg so I like to think im doing my bit for shell shareholders.....i jest of course!!
Asides the above they are amazing cars to drive!! This is my fourth having owned a 5, 6, the 8 and 9!!

The silver one is for sale if anyone is interested? 😀

Pepper, that's an awesome car 🙂

I own a 2010 vw scirocco 2.0 petrol fsi turbo
and a 2010 abarth 500 esseesse which has been tuned to 200 hp and 255 nm of torque.
I still get 40 mpg and it costs next to nothing to tax and insure.
Nippy as its only just over a ton in weight.

A BMW E34 530i. Best car I have ever owned as it passed it MOT without any remedial work.

2012 Nissan Qashqai 1.5dci ntec, soon to be replaced with a Nissan Juke 1.5dci tekna

1996 peugeot 106 'new look' 🙂

A lot of nice cars mentioned and pics posted but when Pepper first mentioned his cars I instantly wanted to see them.. more than anything else mentioned on the thread.

Putting the dog aside,its the only car than made me flutter when you posted a pic of it. I still want to see the mark1 twingo though, so get a pic up!

Touran TDi - looking to replace with van/kid/bike/canoe carrier. Its been pricey to run, but good car still, and feels good and 'tight' for a 110,000mile car...
Yaris D4D - bought of my dad, has 70k on clock and has never had anything other than tyres, service and windscreen wipers replaced until a few weeks ago - and that was a 2 hr job to change discs and pads. Ace car...And I don't treat it gently...
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Bregante are you flouncin around work tomorrow or riding shotgun with los batos loca Hombres around the Peaks tomorrow?

Nah mate, feet up on my desk with a box full of donuts tomorrow.

Or what I like to call "work" 🙂

Thieves dont 'work' Sundays. They sleep in, have Sunday lunch etc 😉

We shall own the trails on your behalf 😀

1994 Hilux Surf KZN 130.

Great for putting bikes in, kayaks on, and camping trips...

Not especially good on fuel, but never breaks and I can't help but love it...

🙂

I did toy with coming and being "on call" but I'd have to be in work within 30 mins and that would be stretching it a bit!

1975 austin mini (I'm thinking of selling this with a garage full of spares if anyone is intrested) or swap for a good MTB
fist bravo
seat leon fr

Soon I wil own either a Volvo S60 T5, D5 or a 530 or 540 E39

So if you've got a house with a mortgage are you not a 'homeowner'?

Stop paying your mortgage and find out.

Very unexciting cars here, 6yr old Festa and a 4yr old Bluemotion Golf

Really quite fancy and old Mini Cooper, don't have the time for a hobby car though

So how many of you actually own the cars? H.P/ on finance/leasing/company car doesn't count.

WTF has that got to do with anything? Jealous?!