Its nice and comfy and everything works.
It's never let me down and it's paid for.
It's not so shiny that I'd stress over the odd scratch.
I can put the seats down from the boot, never realised how useful that would be
Yes I have this in my Golf Estate. Why don't all cars have this?!
07 plate Seat Altea. Ex rep car with nearly 180K mileage but still a pleasure to drive. The turbo is whistling a bit so that may be the end of it but I intend to run it for as long as I can.
P-Jay that sounds like my wife's brief for a car - what is it?
Big old sweet deo. It's got my bike cleaning kit in the boot, along with mobi washer, I've stashed spare tubes for race bmxs to 2.5" 29ers. I wired a 3.5mm jack into the stereo so I can stick the music off my phone on. It's been to Alpe d' Heuz four times in the last five years and got the sticker to prove it. It's transported the family on some fantastic holidays. It's comfy. It's fast enough for me. I'm getting 50+mpg. The wife hasn't dented any panels in it for at least 3years.
It needs a good clean inside and out however 🙂
It's not particularly fast but it revs to 7200
I already have it, so until it dies I haven't got to go and get a car.
The fact it's not even been started for over four months now.
E63 Wagon, the 5.5 v8 makes up for my tiny pe....
Heated seats
4 wheel Drive go anywhere
Pulls bike rack/ trailers
7 seats
Has the reputation of being unreliable but this ones never let me down
Best thing is that it spends most of it's time sat on the driveway undriven by me.
Its a van .
It adjusts the clock for the change to and from summer time every year.
(And the fact that it has just *worked* every time I've needed it for the last 11 years).
heated seats are a revelation
in fact all of it is 'superb'(estate)
Take a look at the advert and find out
https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1625003592
Edit - dirtyboy, is yours the same as mine?
Compared to the one it's just replaced, it doesn't have terminal rust in the chassis. Also does a bit more to the gallon.
It's mostly comfortable on long journeys and has a fair bit of legroom. Economy is pretty good and it can run on E85 so we can use it in the city without killing baby robins*. Also has a huge boot for dogs and stuff.
VW Passat.
It's a cavernous, frugal estate car that's old enough that we don't need to give a shit if the kids/bikes get it dirty or someone dings it in a car park.
Does 50mpg with ease . Big enough to roll a bike or pram in easily without dismantling while remaining a reasonably compact foot print
Was cheap so don't worry about parking it in tight spaces etc.
It's the most fun per £ around I think
It is free to fuel.
I've basically had nothing but bangers for 15 years, 2 years ago I bought a 2 year old VW Golf and I never knew what delicious delights I would be showered with.......auto handbrake, working air conditioning, bluetooth and DAB radio. Add to that 60mpg and that makes me a fairly happy bunny
Super smooth and powerful electric drivetrain.
The fact that I effectively have a fuel station on my drive.
Driver profiles that tailor EVERYTHING. Seating position, mirrors, steering wheel reach and rake, regen, driver mode, etc.
Free over the air updates that improve performance. The sort of software update I can get on board with!
Edit. Remote climate control via an app, for those cold winter mornings and barmy summer days when the car has been left in the sun. Game changer.
Heated memory electric leather seats.
Upgraded stereo.
Auto climate that works.
Auto everything else.
Very safe in a crash.
Steering adaptive headlamps.
Warbly torquey engine.
Can get any non-tandem bike in the back seats down.
Bad-
Expensive
Uncool
Noise in drivetrain could be failing auto gearbox
It fits in perfectly with my STW profile
Mk1 Skoda Octavia vRS estate
It's like an old pair of slippers. I bought it new in 2005, left it with my ex-wife when we split up, she traded it in, then a couple of years ago I fancied another one so I put 'Skoda Octavia vRS estate' into Autotrader and a tidy example was the first one thatcame up (full service history etc). I looked at the number plate and it was my old one and it was in a garage 3 miles away. He'd literally listed it ten minutes earlier. so I nipped down and bought it. Again. It's got 3 names on the log book. Me, the bloke who bought it, then me again 😀
I figured we were just destined to be together
Cost me bangernomics money and it just keeps running. Just passed its MOT with nowt needed. Happy days
Head Up Display. Not just a gimmick. I don’t like audible turn-by-turn for the sat nav so would occasionally miss a turn, but not anymore. I can scroll through radio stations & playlists without taking my eyes off the road now too.
Toyota Avensis D4D, sips fuel even if you drive it like you stole it, not that anyone would.
Nothing ever goes wrong.
Got a GR Yaris on order, I'll update the thread in January with sh1t off a shovel, my Mr Sensible days are over.
Car:- 1986 Porsche 951
It accelerates almost as well in 5th as it does 3rd, until it bounces off the rev limiter at 150ish (I assume). It's also 34 years old so still fun without breaking speed limits.
I can fix it myself.
Can get two MTBs in it or one MTB, spare wheel set, tools and luggage.
Van:- 2019 Transit connect L2
Comfortable, economical, great radio, love the cruise control. Can drive all day without much fatigue, which is handy as I sometimes do drive all day.
Six litres of LS2 V8 which sound rather naughty.
Everything else is a bit shit though TBH.
Free fuel until Oct 2021
Netflix
You Tube
Beach Buggy Racing 2
For me,
Double clutch gearbox
Heated seats
adaptive headlights
Auto wipers
And the nearside door mirror that angles down when I go into reverse so I can keep an eye on those pesky alloy wheel damaging kerbs when parking
Jealous of the adaptive cruise control in the wife's car though
Good old PCP...for an affordable monthly payment getting me into cars I don't have a cat in hells chance to afford to buy!
Still miss the heated windscreen from my old SMax though. The automotive world can never claim to have progressed until these are standard on every car.
2006 signum
It cost me a weeks salary when I bought it 7 years and 70,000 miles ago and its still running.
Nothing else
It's big but not too big
Auto everything
Heated screen and seats
Fast {enough for me} yet does good mpg for what it is
Big glass roof is nice (I'm told - I can't see it)
Very comfy
Has air suspension which allows you to lift/lower the car and make it all squidgy or rock hard (missus) at the push of a button.
Cold starts and the pops and bangs on the over run always make me smile.
Interior LED strips you can change the colour of, the kids LOVE it.
Hah - mine has that too - and my kids love it too. It also has a randomised option so it just keeps changing the colours as you drive.
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.