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12 Plate C180 Blue Efficiency Estate in Black.
Just about to get a Mizty L200 for firewood and dumping duties.
Wants a C63 AMG 😆
I think my next motor to replace my FRV will be a V70 r-design with a piddling 2.0d
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Although I do get giddy occasionally and these are loads of car for the money
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How cheap
My C1 is a dirty cheap deal lease car. HALF the monthly cost of an Aygo. Why own if leasing is so cheap?
Mazda 3 2litre Sport. All the toys, terrible fuel economy. Bland as. Reliable.
Mini Cooper Clubman. 1.6 a bit wheezy. Good economy. 17in wheels + run flat tyres give harsh ride. Handlers great.
Mazda's going next year. Just going to buy a big estate (A6, 5 series, Passat, etc) and be boring.
fist bravo
yowsa!
Subaru Impreza sportswagon, fantastic car, super reliable and still has the grin factor despite looking boring. So good we haven't found anything to replace it yet.
2005 Renaultsport Clio 182 - small car, big fun!
Mrs Legend has a 2011 Mercedes Vito 113 which is obviously a pretty handy bike mover
sprootlet what average mpg do you get?
Family wagon is a Volvo XC90
Wife requested an A3 as a runaround - had to be black or silver with parking sensors.
I found her a nice A3 3.2V6 Quattro DSG :-)). Bought it yesterday for a good deal - first drive today with 2 filthy bikes, and 2 even muddier riders! Oops!!
Bregante WCA was telling me how much discs/pads cost him on a similar sized merc of his - 2k? I think
😯
I could just sit in it outside the house though, revving the engine to annoy the weird man next door 🙂
301,000 mile Y reg Passat Estate . 1.9 TDi
Bought at 236,000 miles and has only needed ,-
12 tyres
1 aftermarket Cat ( weld snapped on OE one, but was only £125 )
front pads
windscreen
headlight bulb
6 oil and filter changes
Big swap aound this year:
Have gone from
a Volvo XC70 2005
Defender 90X5
BMW 6 series Convertible
To
2012 Volvo V70 1.6d R Design
2010 M Sport X5 3.0D
**** me how much do you guys earn!!!!! Are all stf users minted!!!!!! There be some 300quid plus per month cars on ere!!!!
Maccruiskeen, have you not seen a fist bravo? They pull a right punch 😳
This thread is getting silly. Doing nothing to save reputation if stw members. Beemers, Audis abd general showing off. Please more examples of 100k plus loved cars with soul. Corrado storm mentioned giving me the palpitations. 😀
1997 Audi A4 2.6L estate on LPG with 147,000 miles - love it!!
Also got a 1993 Mercedes 190D with 65,000 miles on the clock stored in the garage
Mazda 6 TS2 estate (2006) its only done 70,000 miles and I can't see any reason to change it. Had the silly cars in my 30's
Did own one from 6 to 265,000 miles only 1 breakdown in that time too
Would probably like an Evo though
2004 Accord Tourer, 2l petrol, 66k. Two weeks so far.
Middle aged white men in having the trappings of middle aged white men shocker.
One car house as cars are expensive here.
We have a 2012 Hyundai Veloster, got it 4 months ago, has 10'000km on the clock already, 500km a week commute for the GF.
When I was in the UK I had a work Transit Connect and a 306 Rallye, she had a Fiat 500 1.2 Lounge.
Freelander 2 TD4e here. Surprisingly car-like for its bulk, surprisingly good off road for its car-likeness
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Toyota Tacoma 4X4 and Toyota Highlander
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Never selling this.
Daily beater is a 2000 1.4 Citroen Xsara (not a picasso). Cheap to buy, cheap to insure, cheap to fuel, cheap to fix. Comfy and never lets me down.
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In the spirit of BiscuitPowered, I'm never selling this.
Horrendously thirsty, terrifyingly quick, achingly beautiful, and I can get the bike in it.
Also, a Jeep Cherokee for when the bambino arrives. It's my safety net for when I get the inevitable "oooooh, you'll be getting rid of that silly thing then, what with a baby on the way?"
BMW 320d M Sport
.......... With working indicators
Jambo asked a long time ago (7 months!) how dreadful was dreadful. If i drive with slippers and don't exceed the speed limit maybe 30 to the gallon. Mixed use around town and use of the loud pedal to get to the limit quickly 23! Throw another polar bear on the fire, I'm cold!!
My S3 is a 52 plate and has 130k on the clock and in keeping with Dribbling it's a cherished beastie.
singletrackmind - Member
301,000 mile Y reg Passat Estate . 1.9 TDi
I think me and you might be jockeying for the highest mileage motor. I don't own a car but have a Y reg sprinter with 308,000 miles. You'll probably overtake me pretty soon though as I've also just recently bought a wee astra van which will do the bulk of the longer journeys from now on as it uses exactly half the fuel.
Sandwich - Member
Jambo asked a long time ago (7 months!) how dreadful was dreadful.
It may have taken you a while to reply but they missed the 'S3' bit of your original sentence. To be fair though it was eight words long and had a punctuation mark.
My '99 Bora, aka The Beast, has just notched up 80k and still going strong. 30+ mpg around town. 40+ on the motorway. Not bad for a often slated petrol engine that dates back to the 80's.
I've got the poor mans S3...
A3 TDi Quattro Sport. 80k on the clock, bit heavy on tyres but great on fuel.
And a passat tdi estate with 155k, getting traded for a t4 or T5 soon.
02 t4 with 190k, a 93 volvo t5 estate with 140k, and a 98 R1 with 41k
A battered W Reg Passat estate 1.8T that does 27MPG because it never gets out of town and a bike.
Renault scenic '04. Terrible car that gets terrible treatment. Dented rear end, gaffer taped bumper, dodgy electrics and an interior that's usually awash with comics, bits of food, random toys and a thick layer of grime.
The automatic headlights are quite handy though.
an interior that's usually awash with comics, bits of food, random toys
thats how Scenics leave the factory isn't it?
the short journey will kill a diesel engine urban myth is bolox imo. I've run a 1.4 tdci fiesta for 7 years rarely sees a dual carriage way or motorway and just hit 93k on 52 plate, hasnt missed a beat. may be different for bigger engines though?
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I also have a Border Terrier, an Orange Patriot, Apple products but I don't read the Guardian or visit trail centres every weekend. Still that's close to be the STW stereotype.
Toyota IQ3. Fantastic and does a zillion mpg. Can't get a sniff of a bike in it though.
Is that number plate scottish for "nay two ways"?
That's pushing the private reg to the limit
09 expert van (handy) and a 12 year old micra which wont die 🙂
Big grey sheddy denty Mondeo estate, full of mud. Ideal for me really- quick enough, and quite fun to drive (180bhp from the 2.2 diesel, with a little fettling) but can waft along on fumes giving 60mpg, if allowed to.)
Can't park it though.
Up until recently I had a Mercedes S65, a range rover sport tdv8, a BMW 335d and a VW fox. I've had a bit of a meltdown I guess and have chopped in my rich ahole lifestyle for a much more simple lifestyle in the middle of nowhere (well, Wales.
Currently borrowing a neighbour's vauxhall signum ( worth "about 800 notes with a full tank of diesel butt" ), and you know what, I think it's so uncool it goes full circle and is probably the coolest car I have driven for years. Have my eye on a Subaru outback spec B or a forester. .
Feels good man.
I want a C63 black and it's not far away....
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Nissan Navara Tekna Connect 2.5td 190bhp
MK3 TDi golf estate, 140k on the clock and the damned thing keeps sailing through MOTs so can't find an excuse to change it. Also a scruffy little 77 MG Midget that is be rolling restored.
ZOKES - I'm considering a freelander2 myself, any more opinions of it?
Also, what kind of mpg do you get, i've heard they can be a lot thirstier than their claimed consumption? Cheers.
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Ford capri MK2 3.0s - white black vinyl roof, rs2000 mexico - orange and green, sierra cosworth - white, type 1 vw beetle - grey with whitewall's, immaculate dormobile t2 earlybay vw campervan - baby blue and white, 1958 vw splitty - race taxi colours & a yard full of used and abused t2's, t25's etc. & then motorbikes - All the Rd's, 3fizzys, zxr 750, fireblade, r1 and the reliable c1 lol. Oh and a tuned up E46 bmw m3 & evo 7:) im a bit of a petrol head!
Renault Clio 197, hideous fuel consumption at circa 28mpg, it's a 'get it out if your system car' that attracts all the wrong attention,
I WISH! lol i have a vw beetle flat screen in the garage ready for my 17th! but apart from that its just my bike! 🙁
You and me Drac living the dream. We're not related are we?
Berling multispace Mk1.
Proper sporty like 8)
I've got an A4 2.0tdi S line, 2008 that I've had from 8k miles upto the current 70k, it's been a cracking car, however, it's actually not very big, especially with the big s-line bucket seats in the front, there's no leg room behind me at all. It's going to be chopped in for an A6 when one comes into the dealers.
2003 TT, not a great drivers car, but fun enough cruising in the sun. It's done 50miles since it's last service 3 months ago! Also trading in for the A6
Mk6 golf 2.0 blue motion as a company car, 6 weeks and 3.5k miles nice little motor and surprisingly rapid with the 140bhp engine. Does 48mpg driving like a lunatic on country roads. Very pleased with it
Gixer 1000. Golf R32. '66 VW split. Mini Cooper.
Selling half the fleet shortly.
58 plate Fiat Doblo - very practical and surprisingly good to drive - very reliable so far.
The Doblo replaced a 280,000 mile Vauxhall Omega which had just lost the will to live. 😐
The Omega replaced a Daewoo Nexus, which was given to me and which I loved - it was a fantastic car, took us to some wonderful places - RIP Shedric.
It even had the decency to blow up outside a pub.
God, I miss that car.
Gixer 1000. Golf R32. '66 VW split. Mini Cooper.Selling half the fleet shortly.
any piccys of the split?
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2001 Gold Avensis of Doom and a rusty T4 van i got for free when my dad died.
Living the dream 🙂
love it!, love rag tops! my dads got 3 bays on the drive but not one split:(
Prefer this one.
wont let me see it
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Bike and dog car is an A6 Quattro Avant, 2.7tdi - outstanding mile eating machine - 100k since new in Mar-07
@Jason - nice combination !
@transapp - A6 has lots of room for 4 adults, effortlessly whisked 4 of us to Marseilles in supreme comfort, try and get one with parking sensors front and rear, we only have rear and front too would have been useful - biggest downside to car is its a long beast when parking
Fun little car!
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A6 avant for the last 6 years
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And a 52reg Astra runabout
MM
Loving that A6!
One day I'll have enough wonga to own an RS6...
Not quite matching but close 320i Touring for the wife, and 520d Touring for me. Paid extra for indicators just so I can not use them.
2x rover 25 and a gsxr 1100,
ZOKES - I'm considering a freelander2 myself, any more opinions of it?
Also, what kind of mpg do you get, i've heard they can be a lot thirstier than their claimed consumption? Cheers.
Well - that depends on what you want it for...
We seem to get 35-40 mpg (rough conversion from km/100L over here), but I don' drive in the city much. Off road you could double its consumption on some surfaces, but then that's normal.
As I said in my post, I find it amazingly car-like on-road, and surprisingly capable off road. It's comfy and handles well. From a practicality aspect, it could do with a bigger boot - the suspension pillars take up a surprising amount of space, though with the fold-flat seats down it's huge.
I'd had no problems what-so-ever with it for the first 25k, but just yesterday I noticed a whirring / whining from the rear, and it looks like the culprit is the rear diff. Thankfully mine's under warranty, and having just had it serviced, I'm unsure whether it is a case of the diff not being put back together correctly after being serviced, or wear. The former not being the car's fault, the latter obviously is.... The internet seems to indicate that I'm not alone in experiencing rear diff issues though.
So up until last week, I'd have unequivocally recommended it. Now, I'm not sure if Land Rover's legendary reliability issues haven't been solved after all - 25,000 km isn't far for a car to travel - things like diffs shouldn't be failing.
try and get one with parking sensors front and rear, we only have rear and front too would have been useful - biggest downside to car is its a long beast when parking
Learning how to drive also solves this issue
HTH
2005 fiesta st
2009 ka
Nowt special.
I've just (yesterday) sold my Celica, a much better car to drive than most probably think. It was 12 yrs old with 125k though so probably going to get maintainance heavy in the near future.
Now it's a (yawn) diesel avensis estate- its a better biking car though!
Oh go on then.
1995 Mercedes Benz E-320 Coupe (W142 series), lovely 3 litre V6, 155,000 miles (and it's for sale so you can do the next 100K miles if you want? No reason not to, it's built like a Panzer).
TT Mk2 as an every-day driver. Nice and surprisingly good fun to drive but should've got a Golf GTI really, if only to avoid the 'fashion accessory' image.
Toyota Rav 4, 110,000 miles and counting. Wife's car/general utility + camping vehicle.
So now you know.
General workhorse is a Focus estate 1.6tdci great on fuel.
Mrs has a little MR2 which is only used in the summer (last year it did a grand total of 80 miles!)
Here's my old clunker of a Renault 4. she's as scruffy as anything but if I started getting her tidied up I'd never use it properly.
I take it everywhere and use it in the winter as a four wheeled wheelbarrow, its generally full of logs, springer spaniel and wet children!
Brlliant car, this was taken last year on our trip through France.
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2008 Honda CR-V
2012 Ford Fiesta
2005 KTM Superduke
2005 Yamaha YZf-R1
2000 Yamaha YZF-R1.
Here's my old clunker of a Renault 4. she's as scruffy as anything but if I started getting her tidied up I'd never use it properly.
To my mind the Renault 4 is pretty much the car perfected
PePPeR - Member
Here's my old clunker of a Renault 4. she's as scruffy as anything but if I started getting her tidied up I'd never use it properly.I take it everywhere and use it in the winter as a four wheeled wheelbarrow, its generally full of logs, springer spaniel and wet children!
Brlliant car, this was taken last year on our trip through France.
i went to the R4 50th anniversary last year. it was ace.
i went to the R4 50th anniversary last year. it was ace.
So were we!
We went with a load of the Renault 4 forum chaps and chapesses!
My Four is ex police and is very battered, but I love her and the chassis is sound! It has the bigger 1.1 engine but still has drum brakes! 😕
Currently:
Freelander 2 HSE
Focus RS mk2
Westfield Cosworth