MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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The best thing about mine is it’s exactly the one i wanted.
It does everything apart from silly speeds totally effortlessly, it can handle any road conditions regardless of weather and it’s ok on fuel.
Subaru Forester.
Not my first scoob, and unlikely to be the last.
Smax. Lots of space for bikes and other assorted paraphernalia. I love the colour (ruby red metallic). The stereo isn't bad. So far (touch wood) it has been reliable and it's not bad to drive (for a people carrier). I like the heated windscreen on frosty mornings.
Tax exempt. 60mpg. Heated seats. DAB radio. Rear seats and front passenger all fold flat so it swallows my windsurfing kit easy. Doesn't look too tragic for an estate.
Negatives; slow as f*ck.
1.6tdi Leon ST
£20 VED
£160 Insurance
Genuine 50-55 mpg
11 years old, never failed an MOT
Citroen C1 - it does what I need it to
- Company Car, so relatively low cost/BIK to me
- does 70mpg more or less all the time
- comfortable heated seats
- DAB radio played through a half-decent JBL sound system
- all the space I/we/the dogs need with the seats down
- Auto Cruise Control, auto lights, parking sensors, and other similar toys
Top of the range Prius (yes I know I'm asking to be mocked. Fill yer boots, I don't care)
Won't skid on the leaves
Tackling any obstacle
Majestic Nissan
2006 xtrail 2.2 tdi. It rolls on...
I'm not a huge fan of the Maxxis 4 season tyres I got recently, but they're cheap and the car's already over 400k.
Love the exhaust noise (deliberately) transmitted thru the bodyshell......vroom vroom!
Off topic, but best car - Fiat Panda 1.2, £5,500 new in 2008, fun to drive flat out without any chance of losing my licence, reliable and economical. I love small, underpowered cars!
I've had it since 2007 and its been pretty blooming reliable and now has just shy of 230000 miles on the clock
I’ve got a DS3 had it since 2013, it’s paid for, low costs, stupidly low mileage at 23k, it’s got an old fashioned 1.6, 155bhp engine, not one of these eco engines. It does the job, bar a new battery due to me not using it much. Oh and a towbar for my bike rack, certainly stands out in the staff carpark, normally get asked why has that little car got a towbar, in reality it’s not that small a car.
I can charge it at work at the moment for nothing and the heated steering wheel.
Adaptive cruise control
Dynamic chassis control
Front differential lock
Electronic handbrake
Tartan seats
Spare wheel (space saver)
Only wish I had heated seats
I love my van, best vehicle I've had yet...
In particular, I love the bins in the front doors, so useful! Plus getting from front to back without getting out or having to fold oneself up
Another Passat estate. Pretty basic by modern standards but flash enough for me. Reasonably priced second hand, comfortable, economical and an aircraft hangar behind the rear seats. I could happily have gone for something smaller but one of the requirements was fitting a hard cello case in out of sight (not mine).
Golf R - It has a button to make it noisy, and revvy and extra grippy what not, and on the rare occasions I get go to use even 10% of the performance it makes me smile lots.
Love my reversing camera. Never thought I wanted or needed one, couldn’t live without it now. It’s turned me into a parking God 🤣
Beringo (old, old shape).
Its f****** huge inside. And (literally) on top of that is a full length sun roof! It's car sized on the outside but I can get up from the drivers seat and walk arround!
It only cost £650*.
Not the spirit of the thread but the cup holders are rubbish. Truly rubbish. The one at the back is narrow/tight, the ones at the front are in a little well together so if you use one the cup sits at an angle, and two can't be done.
*and by the end of tomorrow it will have already paid for itself in super comfortable motorway 45p/miles.
Mazda 3 for me.
not stupidly powerful but got a good enough chassis that means I can play a bit without travelling at death speeds.
I love the hud and will be sad if I ever have to get a vehicle without.
Heated windscreen
Heated seats
Auto wipers
Auto lights
Auto rear view mirror dimming
DAB
Cheap to buy
Cheap to run
10 year old ford. Don't think I'll ever get a newish car. 5+ years minimum.
Close mines an old 1.8vtec civic 👌 luvs an old jap petrol motor
Best of both worlds, electric for around town, petrol for everything else. Oh and 8 speed ZF gearbox
Golf R – It has a button to make it noisy, and revvy and extra grippy what not,
You do realise the noise is artificial played through the speakers
Its got a supercharger got to love the whine - Mini Cooper S
It’s tiny and so easy to park.
It’s simple so less to go wrong.
It’s quite nippy.
It doesn’t cost much to run.
It can find 2 bikes in.
10 year old Nissan Micra.
Still looks smart when clean but is actually pretty banged up if you look closely, so I'm not precious about it. Lovely auto box, everything still works. 174bhp of turbo diesel power in a hatchback means I can overtake with ease and safety on rural A and B roads.
Honestly I bloody love mine, except for the autobox but that's fixable. Makes a nice noise, goes fast when I want it to, but also just a nice place to be and can bimble when I want to bimble. Cheap to tax, not too bad to insure, not even too bad to fuel with the LPG though it bloody drinks premium petrol when I let it. Not quite big enough to effortlessly swallow bikes like a van or my old Mondeo but still, big enough, and it doesn't <feel> big. And generally in amazing nick for 16 years old on account of it's not been ruined by scottish winters.
It'll be better still with the new map on it, and then the 6 speed out of my other one, and most importantly the HEATED BLOODY SEATS AWWWWWW YISSS
Sadly the new exhaust means it's no longer completely invisible to the police but it's still basically a grey old man's car with an STI hidden in it and that's like a super power.
It's a van.
There's nothing good about it apart from it was new. I try and keep it nice but it doesn't stop people not giving a shite about it and denting it with their doors in car parks.
Supercharger makes a lovely noise (2003 Cooper S I've had since new).
When its cold outside and I set it to pre warm to 21 degrees and the heated seats to come on.
The headlights are immense on dark country roads.
It has 290hp, does 50mpg and isn’t a diesel.
New shape Berlingo.
Very Comfortable.
Individual armrests.
Unbelievably practical shape.
Lots of storage spaces.
Good quality stereo.
Rear seats and passenger seat fold flat.
Built in satnav (dont need to link with phone).
Low boot floor.
Sliding rear doors.
Cruise control.
No turbo lag like my last car.
Surprisingly good 3 cylinder engine.
Not a diesel.
Not anything to do with VW.
It has a button on the steering wheel to skip tracks on the SD cards.
2 x 16GB cards so lots of music choice.
Heated seats.
Heated mirrors.
Folding mirrors so I can see that I've locked it.
Parking sensors.
Hatchback + folding seats so I can do tip runs.
Flappy paddle DSG gearbox.
By most standards, pretty quick.
4wd and cross-climates so adequate in the snow.
"I love the fact I can really trust my parking sensonrs."
And you wonder why she's off?
Alfa 159 here. The best thing about it. It’s a bit of road art. 6 headlamped road art.
You do realise the noise is artificial played through the speakers
Of course, but that’s perfect. It sounds reasonable in the cabin, whilst still sounding like the nice quiet 4-cylinder engine it is to everyone on the outside. You do get more (real) noise from the exhaust too, which I find pleasing. I can pretend to be racing driver whilst bimbling to nursery at 30mph.
It’s all mine.
It’s 7 years old but with only 52,000 miles on the clock
Still drives like new.
Had my golf for all ten of it’s years, bar 2 months and still drive so well. Can get bikes in the back and no one will steal it. Low mileage, as only for long journeys. 1 year I did just 500 miles.
2010 Mondeo diesel 2.0 Titanium
Big, comfy, fast enough, quite good fun for a big long lump on B roads. Drop the seats and it takes a big bike with ease. I'd happily jump in and drive to France tomorrow or NW Scotland. Great car and very underrated
Best thing about my car is it's massive! Can fit shit loads of shit in it.
Going in the garage tomorrow though, so ask me again later.....
2005 Skoda Fabia 1.9tdi estate, bought about 5 or 6 years ago for £1k. Still goes. Cd player on the blink though 😟
TBH I should sell it as its hardly used these days but I cant be arsed, its worth nothing.
It drives exactly as I want it to. It still feels like a dream sometimes when there is a wee bit of open road and it just goes, perfectly!
No unexpected wheel spin, no shuddering, (mostly) no rattles or squeeks, no under steer, no unexpected oversteer, no pulling out of slip roads and wondering if I'm going to get rammed as in the last super slow car was super slow. It came with pre curbed alloys. Perfect as it ment I didn't have to fell bad when I curbed them.
It did catch fire a bit once and handed me a very large bill. I still haven't quite forgiven it for that.
Other than that
4.8s 0-60, 309hp and 50mpg. Not all at the same time 😀
It's too fast really, I'd be better with a slower cheaper one 99% of the time. I'm glad I've got it but I'll never buy something this fast in the future. It's wonder full for the 1%
Seats
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Automatic lights & (I think) wipers
Automatic gearbox.
Comfy.
Heated seats.
Dual zone climate control operated by proper knobs, no fiddling with the infotainment system.
Airline trays on the back of the front seats.
Parking sensors front & rear.
Parking camera.
It’ll take 2 bags of cymbal stands, half a dozen microphone stands & a bag full of microphone cables without even having to move the cover over the boot area. Plus numerous drums from 8x8 up to 22x18 in the rear passenger area.
It’s £150/month less than the last one.
It’s not diesel.
Bright headlights (apologies to you in oncoming vehicles)
No leather to scorch your legs when you get in it wearing shorts in hot weather (ok there is some leather, but not where it’s going to burn)
Downsides:
No CD player so I’m going to have to rip a load of my CDs to iTunes
It’s not 4wd. Would have had to get a dirty diesel for that. But I can probably live with that, we don’t get [i]that[/i] much snow
It’s still got an infernal combustion engine.
Skoda Karoq 1.0 TFSi DSG SE-L
330bhp
Rear wheel drive
Locking diff
Sports exhaust
And the roof comes off!
It’s my early mid life crisis but it makes me smile
It’s electric.
It drove to Germany and back and went 160kmph (on the Autobahn - don’t flame me).
My mum argues with it about its chosen route. OK, that’s not actually good, but it is quite funny.
When I press the accelerator it makes a lovely noise 😁
My Passat's done about 200kph on the Autobahn. Would not go any faster!
With the current car there is so much to like - I can honestly say I'd not change it for love or money right now.
It's ten years old and lacking in gadgets/electronic whizzy things (this is a good thing) but it so neatly fits what we need as a family right now, it's a lovely place to spend a long journey and it's paid for.
The only thing I don't like about it is it's pretty old school on emissions and I'm comforting myself that it's doing not very many miles due to lockdown. If I start consistently piling on the miles for work again it might have to go but for my Covid mileage it can stay for now.
Oh and my wife can't find Wave 105 on the radio 😁😁😁😁
Heated seats, steering wheel and windscreen
Sat nav showing between the dials on the digital dash
Has an app that reminds the wife where she parked, the app also tells me how much fuel is in it before getting in so I'm not surprised when she has left it on the fuel light for me....again.
Volvo XC40
2019 Berlingo Enterprise 100 XL.
It’s a van, but essential a large car so all the space benefits without the size disbenefits.
It’s a LGV so I have to drive slower and I find it’s actually a lot more relaxing and I’m not really in such a hurry anyways. Helps driving the A9 behind artics...
Ok, it’s babykiller diesel, but it gives up 50+ mpg as a matter of course. No mountains to cross and it’s 60.
Cruise control that goes up/down in 5mph shifts which makes the A9 easier to drive in the dualler/single carriageway sections and comfier too (feet free to move about).
Cab seats, higher up (easier to get in and out of in my old age) and plenty room.
The cab defrosts quicker as it’s half the volume of a car.
Self folding mirrors (which as already mentioned shows it’s locked).
Stalk for control of radio/music. iPod plugs in in the glovebox out of sight/the way.
Android auto means google maps on the 7” display panel when I need ‘satnav’.
The glove box can take a 15” laptop (out of sight) and the middle seat folds down with a swivel ‘table-top’ mobile office thing. Meant I can sit in a work car park piggybacking off the WiFi for meetings when needed. It’s a cab, there’s a bit more room, so kind of a mobile office...
There’s quite a lot of useful storage (overhead is nice, underseat ditto).
Proper sized steel rim wheels. Shitty Highland singletrack roads have battered the 15” alloys to buggery on my Roomster.
There’s two sliding doors, it’s like having a portable park bench with you everywhere you go. You can have a chipper supper without stinking up the place and there’s plenty lay down space for your drink, etc.
It’s long enough I can sleep in it if I fancy converting it.
Bike(s) go straight in the back no problem and it’s easy to clean out the detritus that accumulates from riding in the Cairngorms.
I’m a hombre camioneta blanco
But apart from that it’s absolute rubbish... 🤪
It's got no power steering and has overdrive on 3rd and 4th gear.
Makes it great fun to drive.
The electronic handbrake on my Leon. Superb, just makes perfect sense.
Volvo C30 1.6d Rdesigh;
+ Handsome thing, 50+mpg and £30 VED
- Gutless engine, cramped interior and small boot
VW Caddy 1.9TDI;
+ Refined for a van (despite me 'slamming' it) Can chuck all my work/bike crap in it with minimal fuss or care, Cheap to run, Earns me much more than it owes me, looks good (subjective thing I know)
- Its 13 y/0 now so Always chasing knocking noises and stupid ABS sensors, Always the nagging worry the engine will throw its rod sometime, its a modern VAG so ultimately boring to drive/own.
It upsets snowflakes
The built in age alert sensor, on the day of my 70th birthday it locks all the doors and will drive me on cruise control to the soylent green factory. 🙂
You do realise the noise is artificial played through the speakers
No it isn't.....Golf GTI's & R's are fitted with a Soundakator.
It's a mechanical resonance device mounted on the bulkhead below the wiper assembly.
Renault Scenic diesel something or other...
Things I like: it's comfortable for long distance drives, pretty good for fuel, powerful enough for motorway driving when fully laden, cruise control, automatic lights, climate control, electric parking brake. It's easy to get a bike in there with the front wheel off and one seat folded.
Minor irritations: the clutch is a bit heavy in traffic. The automatic wipers never seem to be at the speed I'd like. That's about it.
Overall: it's a dull family car, but it does its job and I'm quite happy with it.
The electronic handbrake on my Leon. Superb, just makes perfect sense
I'm the same with the automated parking brake on my Leon ST - its great. Only problem is I now assume all cars have them. Pre-lockdown went in my other half's car to collect a takeaway. When walking out with my Chinese got asked "did I have a silver Fiesta?" Got outside to see a boy and his dad pushing against the bonnet to stop the car back from rolling into a wall! Theyd been doing it for about 10 minutes, bless them. I also forgot to apply the handbrake in my daughters 'new thirdhand' i10 last week too 🙃
It’s 17 years old, has Xenon lights, navigation, heated, electric, memory leather, lumbar supporting seats, an automatic gearbox, DAb radio, 17speakers, auto lights and wipers and still delivers the manufacturer claimed figures from its 3l petrol engine.
It also still looks good and drives well at 120000 miles. I’ve owned it since it was 14months old.
Its free.
The 1st car I've owned with a reasonable amount of power and the unexpected realisation of how much easier that makes driving.
That and DAB radio, a nice leather steering wheel and it looks nice when clean (which is rare!)
It’s not my previous car.
The roof comes down at the press of a button. It will (eventually) take me on many Continental adventures.
(But I’m a little sad because apparently the oil pressure gauge is fake ☹️ )
Heated seats
Steering that helps me feel the road
Oh and the wife hates driving it, which means the chances of me getting in it and finding the radio tuned to Smooth Radio are a lot less than the previous car.
It’s Lapiz blue.
And completely standard, but that does give quite a few good things, the Adaptive Cruise Control being the best option, helps de-stress in many situations
It actually passed its MOT...admittedly with a list of advisories...but it PASSED.
Baby steps. 😉
Car A: 12 years old. High mileage and still lovely to drive with bags of performance. Beautiful engine note. Manual gearbox and handbrake. Practical estate for surf/bike duties. Removeable towbar useful for trailer duties. Still look after it but less worried about who I park next to in supermarket. Capable of low 30s mpg on a motorway, generally high 20s day to day.
Car B: 12 months old. Huge road grip, performance and handling, but a nice tourer too. Practical estate for surf/bike duties. Looks new. Bit of a sleeper. Capable of 40mpg on a motorway run, low 30s day to day. Worth more than I paid for it new.
Car B was meant to replace car A, but for a variety of reasons I couldn't sell it, now I don't want to. Incoming van next year might change things, though.
OK, a more sensible post:
Car A - 12yo Kuga. Seen the worst of 2 babies and countless tiny marks via London car parks, but just works, Its Haldex 4WD on All seasons for emergencies and bike race forest parking, has a Pug/Ford diesel which should go on way past the current 85k miles and gets a bike in the big. No frill bangernomics.
Car B - 3yo 320d. Pre Covid perfect for my traveling salesman and other long journeys. Heated seats, leather, auto, nav, climate, cruise and limiter - it may be boring to some but just works and as we know this model has a perfectly mated torque curve/'box for the motorway style journey. Easy reliable driving with room I the back for bikes and tents perfect for national travel and long journeys back from a long tiring race in mid Wales. Like needs some all seasons to replace the MPS where they wear which I was hoping would be now, but Covid has extended their life.
I have paid one off completely and the other is nearly paid off....
Ohh and my 'nice car' has augmented reality sat nav – it pops up with realtime filming on the screen and superimposes pointer arrows to show you where to go. It's especially useful on roundabouts as it is much easier to work out which exit to take.
As for the other car... 14 years old and still going. Best bit? The rear tyres don't lose pressure in a week. The front tyres – that's a different matter entirely.
Brown
Wind down windows
An 'Extra' button
No VED or MOT
Built like a tank
Can withstand attacks from rampaging elk
It was free
2005 SAAB 9-5 Turbo estate:
Purchase price, tax and insurance cost exactly the equivalent of 2 months PCP payments on my previous 2019 BMW 330 M-Sport. Came with 3 months MOT so even if it fails and I get scrap money for it then I’m winning 😊
2012 Vauxhall Vivaro 90bhp:
The speeeed😂 Owned for 3 years, not a single unforced problem. Perfect for so many things.
Kryton57
Full Member
P-Jay that sounds like my wife’s brief for a car – what is it?
Skoda Superb, it's a Sportline 190 4x4 DSG to give it it's full catchy title. TBH, I think it looks great with it's 19" wheels, angular bumpers etc, but I'd be tempted by the L&K version, they're about the same money, slightly posher and have better ride. The ride in mine is, okay on rough roads, no better and bloody awful on speedbumps, I mean awful you need to get down to single figures to not crash over them.
There's loads of SEs and SE-Ls about, but they're a bit miserly and I think you need to have either a Sportline or L&K with the 190 diesel or 280 petrol to have 4x4.
Auto nothing much at all. Not even windows. Over 200,000 miles on the clock. Feels faster than it actually is. Can actually be fixed at the roadside, mostly. Goes round corners. Has a tuned engine. Is a Mk2 GTi.
The modern car is a Corrado VR6. It has electric windows.
My campervan gets people smiling and waving at you as you go past.
18 Year old Nissan Primera SVE. Bought it at 10 months old. Utterly reliable, comfy, takes 4 bikes up top and 4 blokes and kit easily - massive boot despite being a saloon. Great sound system with sub, sat nav, rear reversing camera (first car to have one on the market).
Yup it's old, but until it starts causing trouble I'll keep it. Doesn't look even half it's age.
I service it myself, and it's just had the back box replaced (by me) - not bad 18 years on an original exhaust.
MrsF has a 8 year old Qashqai N-TEC+ that's also been utterly reliable. Lots of toys and easy to get in and out of with my dodgy back being slightly higher. The beefy suspension is great on crap roads. It's not fast, but it's nice to drive.
13 year old Honda CRV
- We've already had all the typical mechanical horror stories (leaking EGR manifold, rotting fuel pipework) sorted under warranty.
- It's old, bashed and has a crappy resale, so perfect for carting bikes and 3 year olds about
- Heated seats 😀
- Is an absolute cruiser for long trips
- Can handle unploughed snowy roads (ask me how I know)
- Is the only car I have used for any length of time so feels quick to me
- We don't pay anything for it and annual upkeep is less than even the cheapiest lease.
Deep down I know we should really be replacing with something smaller, newer and cleaner but the economics just don't make sense yet. Sorry environment 🙁
0-60 in 4.5s and 190mph
And the sound of a V8
Heated memory seats
7sp auto with flappy paddles
Auto lights/wipers
Adaptive cruise
Google Earth Sat Nav
Bang & Olufsen stereo
Dynamic ride control
AWD with front LSD and torque vectoring rear diff and up to 70% power to fronts/85% to rears
Thank @P-Jay. Although its now gone South for her with “Skoda”
Yes I know.
TBH a similar age (mine is late 2016) Audi A6 quattro is about the same money, that era doesn't have the right kit for CarPlay, and they're a tiny bit smaller in the back/boot, but have a fancier 4x4 system, well half of it anyway. They were way more expensive new, but depreciate more heavily for some reason.
And the other 'car' - this is on a road, but it's coped amazingly well in horrendous conditions
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