My (if you believe the internet) wholly unreliable main vehicle:
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And when it was famous (on the old Extreme Offset wheels):
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And the runabout:
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@a11y – ok, I’m out of touch, what actually is that?
Vauxhall Monaro? V8 from GMs Australian brand Holden, I think.
here’s some surprisingly not bad cars in here for a bunch of tree hugging Guardian readers
the guardian readers will be along shortly to tell people off.
Still really good joy driving my VW T6 Kombi.
the guardian readers will be along shortly to tell people off.
It's ok mine needs charging up every night, must be a plug in hybrid.
Lots of recycled parts too.
There is a distinct absence of German estate cars. 🤔
xDrive on summer tyres = not going anywhere.
Sub 5s in the dry though, for :making progress:
The current Pimp-Mobile is an ex-demo Volvo V90 with almost* every option ticked. It's so cavernous I've had to crawl into the boot to get a bike out and it more or less drives itself on most roads. I now drive around car parks looking for the perfect gap so it can park itself.
Favourite toy is a button to whack people in the back seats with the headrest if they annoy me. It's an AWD diesel but since my personal carbon footprint over the last 12 months is more of a carbon nuclear crater, I'm living with it.
* except for the bangin' sound system which I'm still resentful about.
my current one is 3litre v6 pickup truck which im sure will cause all sorts of planet killer accusations, but find me something small and econimical that will drive through quaries and landfill sites, haul 3 tonnes and has a closed bed to stick samples of nasty infectious things in, or stinky petrochenical things in. Even worse i have to have diesel as petrol and electric vehicles cant enter COMAH sites. I am basically automotive satan 🙁
Judge away. On my drive is
2012 Mercedes Vito 113 Campervan
2012 Fiat 500 1.2
2014 Vauxhall Corsa
2021 Mercedes C300de AMG
The Fiat 500 wipes the floor with 90% of cars for character in my eyes. I have had it since new and will have it for as long as i can. Mercedes 300de is my first dabble with electric/diesel hybrid. Picked it up on monday and not used a drop of diesel yet.
Holidays, weekends and races
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Everyday and biking duties
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Family sharing
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Daughter has spent the last 6 months restoring a Mk 1 which I can use.😃
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There’s some surprisingly not bad cars in here for a bunch of tree hugging Guardian readers 😗
There certainly is, considering how argumentative STW gets at the mere mention of a log-burner! 🙂
BMW i3S, Fuggly but a hoot to drive (Fast steering rack, RWD, skinny tyres, instant torque)
VW T5.1 California, still like it after 8 years
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One for the SUV Haterz. Pulls a caravan and accommodates kids, bikes, plus all the outdoor crap we seem to collect. Cheaper to lease than a Focus, due to ludicrous staff purchase rates. It's being swapped for another one at the end of the month.
@a11y - here's a picture of the Busso from my 166 (pictured in the Classy Cars thread) preceeded with a picture of the GM (!) engine from the 159
Co car - 7yr old mundaneo with over 100k on the clock before I got it, they clearly value my hard work 😬
There’s some surprisingly not bad cars in here for a bunch of tree hugging Guardian readers
I'll have you know my hot hatch only burns artisanal petrol hand squeezed from organic dinosaurs
Electric Golf for everyday
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Honda Stepwgn for when we have too many people or too much stuff for the Golf
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monaro v8 bad boy
Company car, cheap motoring.
GR Yaris.
Somehow I’ve ended up with two frenchies ... Peugeot 5008 and a Citroen C4 picasso ... and they’re both really quite nice!
I’d have a berlingo instead of the picasso tbh but the wife wont entertain it
A small practical four seater with room inside for the whole family.
And plenty of space for bikes.
Sadly I think I'm going to have to sell it this year to help fund a house move.
Who you calling a tree-hugger?
@appltn You can get two transverse hunch-backs in the rear of that? Is that on racking? 🤪🤣
Owned since 2016
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Fiat panda 4x4 and I love it. It’s the 0.9L Twin air so loads of fun but a bit thirsty.
Ive not yet found anything it struggles with off-road.
@appltn my 911 went for this, boring estate car.
'11 Mercedes C350 Sport petrol v6 full on retirement lump sum spec.
306bhp and 38mpg (not at the same time).
One of about 15 cars sold new, everyone bought the diesel.
Vulgar,
I'm dying to buy a Panda 4x4. Especially the Cross version with the little red tow hooks. I'd swap my van for one in a second but it couldn't carry a YZ125 in the boot.
Berlingo for general duties, mainly driven my my wife, Navara for tree work duties, Trafic for rope access stuff, just chopped in the motorhome for a caravan and this is sat in the garage waiting for warmer sunnier weather.
Very predictable
Octavia VRS Estate
Audi TT Cabriolet
Okay, as everyone is posting pics
(Not my actual car, but identical).
The best bit is the inside
Ohh, and the crazy adaptive lights too.
2003 Nissan Elgrand 3.5 V6. Had it 6 years now it’s a great family and bike bus
Wife has a new Mercedes A250 plug in. 5 weeks in and no petrol used.
Also have a transit courier van for work and mtb, 55-60mpg and I like vans 👍
@appltn You can get two transverse hunch-backs in the rear of that? Is that on racking? 🤪🤣
You can fit a 2 year old and a 4 year old in there, not so much a 4 year old, a 6 year old and a yet to be born year old...
@appltn my 911 went for this, boring estate car.
I'm currently struggling with "I want something else that's fun" (maybe a Golf GTI/R) versus we probably don't even need to own two cars most of the time.
I like red cars and I cannot lie*,
Cars with bigly bigly boots....
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*we actually don't, they were both just good cars to buy at a good price.
Both ours. Seat is 95K and not missed a beat, ideal for learning to drive and local runs car with a hoofing big estate boot. Ovlov is 140k, ideal for carrying multiple bikes, boats and bodies, cruiser down the road and the best car we have ever owned.
Postimages.org is down so will try and see if Flickr works for me...
I’ve been called a lot of names on this forum already, so I imagine my vehicle choice will annoy some folk even more.
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Also a Kia Sportage but Mrs W is in that at the moment. I know nothing about cars or have any real interest in them. The thread from the other day about knowing how things work, I’m in the camp of not having any interest. Fuel in, drive. I’ve had a good number of “fancy” cars, but being honest, I’m just as happy in my old Berlingo.....but I do like the practicality of my T6.
8 yr old builder spec 65000 mile white stealth camper Vivaro
13 year old black 105000 mile BMW 130i M
21 year old black 101000 mile Porsche 996 C4 aerokit.
13 year old black 10000 mile KTM950SM
Been quite happily pootling about in my Mitsubishi ASX4 (the '4' is very important!) for the last 3 years. 
Carries 2 dogs, pulls the caravan far better than any other car I've had, more economically too, lugs bikes around no problem, inside & out and travels across any terrain I've needed to cross without even batting an eyelid.
I think I may be hanging on to this one for quite some time. 🙂
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Not sure if postimg works...or even if I can post an image at all! Woodster we seem to have a similar taste in vehicles!
Photo taken when new...now under wraps till the sun comes back.
11 year old Ford Focus & a 7 year old Kia Sportage - both of which I've driven less than a dozen times in the last 12 months.
I've never felt the need to take photos of them.
After my VRS Estate died a few years ago I got a last of the line, fully specc’d up B7 Passat Estate which is fast enough in 2litre form and pretty spacious - though not Superb or EClass spacious. I’ll be keeping it until we move, perhaps. The good lady drives the Golf Mk5 - best looking imo- in GT sport diesel guise. It’s getting at 12 years old but only just hit 100k miles and still looks and drives ace. She would replace it if we had the money but I think it’s worth keeping forever.
I’d love a Sunday fun MX5 or TypeR but have less cash than I have space - and I have no space.
Now the photo hosting site is back, I will try again.
One I bought.
One I built.
One I wore a mask to hide my face while driving even before Covid.
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Seat Leon Cupra R estate with abt tuning here. Can't post pictures at the moment.
2008 Saab 9-5 Aero estate. It's comfortable, fast, and spacious. I chose to ignore the tax and petrol costs and think of how much something that offers similar would cost in depreciation each month.
07 plate Alfa Romeo 159 JDTM 16v Lusso here. It has a certain lantern-jawed, low slung charm and the interior is a nice place to sit with leather(ish) chairs and whatnot. I wouldn't be seen dead in an Audi or BMW and Mercs for me don't hold much appeal beyond the old W134 which is just timeless if you owned one of these you could be an aristocrat or a plumber, it simply wouldn't matter.
1990 Mk2 Golf. ‘Entry-level classic’ that can still do the daily duties, cruise on the motorway and haul kids and bikes.
All that as well as being one of the greats when it comes to everyday car design IMHO. The late 80’s were a great era for well engineered German cars.
So much this. Aside from an old Saab 9000, the Mk2 Golf probably the most ergonomically perfect car I've ever driven. Everything falls within easy reach of your fingertips, anyone can fit comfortably in one and the pedals & steering wheel are perfectly aligned, it's even easy to heel & toe. It's surprising just how many cars get these basics wrong. I've also driven a few Mk4 Golfs, while the plastics and blue instruments are lovely, they're deathly dull and inert.
There's some lovely stuff in here: @bartesque's TVR, yum. There's little modern stuff that excites me although @paino's Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaag is bloody lovely. I need rear seats for kids though.
@fruitbat - lovely. I was always too cautious to own an Alfa and now feel I've missed out not owning a busso engined car.
@a11y – ok, I’m out of touch, what actually is that?
@toby1 - @jamesoz has it: Vauxhall Monaro VXR. Aussie-built as a Holden (RIP) and rebadged by Vauxhall as part of the GM group. Complete bogan but I love it for that: 6.0 LS2 V8 shared with the Corvette C6 of the same era, manual 'box that needs your shoulder to change gear, LSD, and little in the way of electronics to go wrong (or keep you out of a hedgerow) compared to newer cars. Fairly old chassis architecture so it's not sophisticated in the least, but I love it.
monaro v8 bad boy
@andybrad, you got one too? Or was that an answer to the above query?
