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...taking absolutely everything into account? When you factor in price, performance, comfort, safety, economy, cost of ownership, practicality, image(?), reliability etc etc... is there something that hits the sweet spot or just a bunch of overly compromised jack of all trades?
I was just thinking as my Volvo V40 is more or less perfect for me, it's comfy, fairly quick, great economy, big enough for what I need but not too big and so on. One of the others that would be great for me would be the Golf GTD estate. I'm not suggesting it's the best car on sale, but what is?
/expects Skoda and Audi estates to feature heavily from the STW demographic/
Maserati.
Please retire to a darkened room and have a quiet word with yourself
Whatever meets the individual's needs.
It depends
Ford Orion 1.3L
Unbelievably, there's one blocking my driveway and it's yours for £50.
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This would do it for me.
Leased, cash or PCP?
2016 Honda Civic apparently.
I'm not in the market for a new car, just idle curiosity. I remember in the mid/late 90s Clarkson said the BMW 5 Series was the best all round car in the world. Just wondered what today's equivalent would be (other than a new 5 series, obviously).
A Porsche Panemera estate which uses the running gear for the 918 hybrid hypercar would be ideal.
As it doesn't exist, and given that BMW don't do an M5 Touring and that Mercedss don't do an S65 shooting brake, it'll have to be an RS6 Avant.
A helicoptor.
Latest VW Passat, epically good yet totally unnoticeable, won't break the bank and won't mark you out as a nob but it will get you from A to B in comfort and without fuss.
The latest VW Passat is NOT "epically good" Good it may be, but it's a very, very long way from epic.
When you factor in price, performance, comfort, safety, economy, cost of ownership, practicality, image(?), reliability
Don't want much, do you? 🙂
Insigna, sod teh haters. Great cars for the money.
Or an i40, but something tells me they're going to look super-dated in a year or two.
Please retire to a darkened room and have a quiet word with yourself
+1 spunktrumpetry of the highest order in the OP.
Ford Focus.
Although, I am loathed to give a semi-serious answer to what is either lukewarm shitposting, or genuine nobsense.
The very bestest one in the whole widest world? Are you 12?
Tesla Model S with ludicrous mode (faster than most things on the road, cheaper to run too and lots of space).
Yours for £60-70k though!
Macan
They are all really dull. Better to get one from the early 90's when even small Japanese hatchbacks were interesting.
A van.
End of thread.
DaffyA Porsche Panemera estate which uses the running gear for the 918 hybrid hypercar would be ideal.
As it doesn't exist, ........
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Honda civic tourer 1.6d. Email me if interested, yo.
I would be pleased with this:
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Covers all bases for me
Golf GTI or Golf R estate. Sorry. Or the latest Rhd Mustang.
But for my needs Alhambra tdi.
Lwb camper that handles like a supercar, does 80mpg if not electric carries 7 bikes and looks good when I pull up at a 5* hotel.
Well that's my criteria
My current Mondeo estate or my 1st 51 Passat estate.
Does that come with it's own Mr T?
@daffy, I suspect how we measure "good" is different. That porshe looks rubbish to me as a UK transport,brilliant for the once a year I drive to the south of france, but like wearing a tux tescos the rest of time.
Given how I'd quite like to be driven around these days now I'm suffering from all that stuff in the 40 plus thread, one with a chauffeur please. The new Mercedes 600 maybach would be ideal but I'll settle for a £1500 Lexus 400.
I'd be asleep in minutes.
Same thing I say in every thread, a scabby estate with a half-decent engine in it. A bicycling gentleman's motor vehicle should carry him to the riding venue with comfort and effortless pace; but once he arrives, it should be cheap enough and ugly enough that he doesn't mind [s]abandoning it[/s] parking it in a ditch, then filling it with mud and food wrappers for the waft home.
Mine was a bit too nice so I've spent 3 years ruining it, now it's perfect.
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Golf GTI or Golf R estate. Sorry. Or the latest Rhd Mustang.
But for my n
The R can be had for £200/month at the moment
A Berlingo but with a 306 GTI-6 engine in it
These car threads always remind me of the Ford dealer salesman I met c.1980 in Leeds, I was a young guy just beginning to earn a few quid and looking to buy a RS something.
He said,where are you driving then, cos the limit here is 70 mph, all our cars do over 80mph, so why do want one of those shit boxes?
Cup holders, radio, safety, comfort, style, beyond that just marks you out as bit of a douche.
Whatever your first car was. For me it was a cut&shut W reg metallic gold MK3 Escort 1.3L. My first car - it was a shed but I had some of the best times of my life in or with that POS.
Edit -ah, just re-read the title, probably not on sale today though!
Assuming new, and that you value a bit of performance over mpg, it's hard to look past the Golf R estate.
There are quicker or cheaper or more economical or more comfortable cars, but not at the same time. Nigh-on 300bhp, 4WD, comfortable, easy to live with, huge boot, proper roof rails, so safe it costs very little to insure, 35mpg, and everyone outside of the car nerd world just thinks it's an ordinary Golf.
New Mazda MX5 though that F-type is amazing!
best is a bit of a subjective term.
Assuming new, and that you value a bit of performance over mpg, it's hard to look past the Golf R estate.There are quicker or cheaper or more economical or more comfortable cars, but not at the same time. Nigh-on 300bhp, 4WD, comfortable, easy to live with, so safe it costs very little to insure, 35mpg, and everyone outside of the car nerd world just thinks it's an ordinary Golf.
See, now that's a sensible answer to what was a genuine question. I'm fully aware there is no "right" answer but that wasn't that hard was it?
I'm biased. I have one 😛
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As it doesn't exist, and given that BMW don't do an M5 Touring
Yes they do
As a feat of engineering the Range Rover is hard to beat. The new ones are too gaudy though and will make you look a twunt. Brilliant car let down by it's customers,they are what they used to be.
Jeez, Skoda Octavia. C'mon people.
Tesla s 90 performance. Mega fast. 300 mile range and free fuel at the airport. Oh and 5 people in luxury with a practical hatchback boot.... mmm