A classic green Corrado Storm here too. Mines got 135k on the clock, its in pretty decent nick for the age. I love the sound of the VR engine at 4000rpm+. Not fuel efficient, but I can easily get 2 people and 2 bikes + kit in there! Perfect car!

mine - 52reg 1.4tdci fiesta
wife- 56 reg 1.6tdci fiesta

she has the better one with more toys, they are both waaay to small with our 2 year old but we get by, we have to as we have debt and cant budge 'yet'.

some of you lot must be stupid, mad or loaded! 😉

i dream of the day when i have a tidy car 😉

Renault 4- sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo rare now 🙁

My first ever car was a Citroen Dyane6. Awesome flimsy thing 8)

XC90: bit thirsty but otherwise faultless as a family car

Wifes 52-plate Vectra: written off by yours truely earlier this year but bought back from insurance company as salvage. Drives perfectly but now worth approximately 30p

1972 Fiat 500L: been in the family since 1974. Fully restored 2 years ago. Pure comedy to drive - especially the lack of self-centreing steering.

Citroen C4 Grand Picasso
Peugeot 308 cc
Fiat 500 for Katie to learn in

@legoman - any piccys of the fiat 500?:)

Great big Volvo XC90 7 seater. Second one we've had, total of 8yrs now and I'm bored of them. Super-practical for kids and dogs but never invested in a towbar so bikes on the roof gets tired as the kids get older and their bikes bigger.

Only about 30mpg too so going next year in favour a BMW 5 Series Touring....that'll do about 54mpg I think.

Main reason I got another 4x4 was my wife loves the high seat position. It doesnt feel relaxing to drive to me, I cant wait to get back to a normal height car. And I love BMWs.

This thread needs more pictures. My '54 Fiesta Zetec
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But I learnt to drive in a 2CV.

You learn to preserve momentum in one of them, I used to scare the crepe out of people on roundabouts by using the slow down a long way before the roundabout (i.e., without needing to brake) then accelerate as hard as you can into the gap method.

You can do the same thing in modern cars of course, but it makes you look like a hooligan.

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320d wagon. First car I've had that I actually love in the same way I do my bikes.

XC90 - had it for 10 years. Fantastic load lugger for our family of 5 plus dog/bikes/boats/etc. Only gets used for longer trips so does about 7k/year.
Golf Bluemotion Match - our second Golf (had a TDi GT before this one). Very nice and quite grown up compared to the '07 GT plus it does 60mpg which is very nice. Gets used for 95% of all the running around we do.

Got one of these for playing around on too 🙂
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ZOKES - I'm considering a freelander2 myself, any more opinions of it?

Report from the garage is that the rear differential needs replacing. That's after 25,000 km, a reasonable number of which haven't been on tarmac. Which just about fits in with the "Land Rovers made out of cheese" thoughts I was warned about when thinking about buying one two years ago.

So no, I won't recommend one unless you're buying it new / nearly new, and have a warranty with it. The internet seems to indicate I'm not alone with very early diff failure on the FL2. Pity - apart from a very expensive and major part that probably shouldn't fail within the whole lifetime of a vehicle, it's been great 😕

Got a touran tdi dsg. Had so many lovely cars over the years that I just got bored of them and no longer aspire to own anything nice these days. Just want it to get me about and not cost too much to run.

Wife is thinking of getting a new Golf GTD.

A few of my favourites over the years--

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which is actually mrs rkk01's

Or perhaps this...

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Not mine (but was the same - red 5 door 309 GTi) - pic ripped off the interweb

Interestingly, the Abarth is probably the closest recent car that I have driven, to the original 80s / 90s hatches. Very similar feel to the 205 / 309 GTis. Weight and power are almost identical. Good pull from low revs. Handling is very direct.

A refreshing move away from the more power / more weight formula of the last 20 years 😛