Epicsteve, you’re one of these elusive CX-7 owners. I’ve only ever seen 2 or 3 of these cars.

Worked this out a while ago and the result is quite shocking..
In order of owning:
Ford Capri Mk1 1600
Ford Capri Mk2 1600
Alfa Romeo Sprint Veloce
Ford Fiesta XR2
Peugeot 205 Gti 1600
Peugeot 205 Gti 1600
Ford Sierra Estate
VW Scirocco Mk2 1600
Peugeot 309 Gti 1900
Peugeot 205 Cti
Audi 80 Sport
Peugeot 205 Gti 1900
Peugeot 205 D Turbo
Range Rover Vogue 3.5
1995 VW Passat 2.0
1996 Jeep Cherokee 4..0
1998 Audi A4 1.8T Sport
1999 Mercedes CLK 320 Avantgarde
2001 Subaru Impreza WRX PPP
2003 Subaru Impreza WRX STi PPP
2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STi PPP
2004 Jeep Cherokee 2.7 CRD
2004 Jeep Wrangler 4.0
2004 Mitsubishi EVO 8 FQ 330
2003 Audi S3 225
2004 Lotus Exige Touring
2004 VW Golf GT TDi
2004 Subaru Forester STi (modified to 350bHp)
2005 VW Golf GTi
2006 Nissan Pathfinder Aventura
2007 Renault Grande Espace Dyn. S
2004 Peugeot 206
2007 BMW 120D M Sport
2008 Mini Cooper D
2009 BMW 118D M Sport
2011 VW Golf GTD
2010 VW Golf Bluemotion
2011 BMW 118D PE
2012 Audi A3 TDi Blk Ed.
2014 Audi TT TDi Blk Ed.
2007 Mini Cooper S
2013 VW Polo R-Line 105
2014 VW Golf GTD

and some bikes..
1990 Honda Dominator 650
2004 Honda CBR 600RR
2002 Ducati 748S
2006 Suzuki GSXR 750
2004 Ducati 749R
2008 Ducati 1098S

1990 Seat Marbella
1985 Volvo 360
1984 Volvo 360 (swapped gearbox from previous car onto a 24k mile car I was given for free with gearbox failure)
2001 Transit Van – SWB – Converted it to run on vegetable oil
1998 Volvo 940 Diesel – Sold to a guy who drove it to Morocco!
2001 Vauxhall Vectra Diesel – bought off Peterpoddy on here.
2005 Vauxhall Vectra Petrol
2003 Nissan Almera -Stop gap car
2006 BMW 335D – Current
2006 Honda Civic Petrol – Current

21 years of driving

Mk1 Escort
Mk2 Escort
Mini
Mini
Mondeo
Volkswagen Beetle
Citroen AX
Honda Accord
Citroen Xantia
Granada
Citoen BX
Transit
Peugeot Expert
Fiesta
Zafira
Peugeot Partner

Wow @simonjj 😯

4 since 2001:

2001-2003 1993 Metro Rio (rusted and died)
2003-2005 1989 Golf mk 2 (had dents when I got it, best £125 I ever spent, scrapped as my mate abandoned a Rover that I put on the road which was in better condition)
2005-2008 1993 Rover 214Si (Broke the gearbox doing a massively unsympathetic bump start after the coil got broken cos a bus had hit it and I never noticed til a very wet very long journey.)
2008-2013 2001 Mondeo ST200. Sold in working order, had stopped being able to get parts easily for it when Arnold Clarke took on the Ford parts in Scotland.
2013 on – brand new Skoda Octavia (1.2TSI woo!).

Epicsteve, you’re one of these elusive CX-7 owners. I’ve only ever seen 2 or 3 of these cars.

I think the first one I saw was the one I bought. It’s a great car but the 20mpg or so fuel consumption would put a lot of people off.

Triumph Herald (the chicks digged the retro style at university)
Austin Metro (stereo got stolen which wiped its value down to £0)
Fiat Punto
Fiat Punto GT (turbo-lag, torque steering monster)
Honda Prelude
Golf GTI
Honda S2000 (ate rear tyres)
Saab 9-3 Aero
Golf GTI
BMW 320D M Sport estate (kids arrived)
Honda CRV (currently on our fifth)*
Honda Jazz (had 3)*
Honda Civic Sport (current – and best car I have ever driven)*

*wife works for Honda – we get 2 new ones every 10 months or 10k

Had a few motorbikes too:
Honda CBF125, Hornet, CBR600

Not as many as I had thought. Lost the car love a while ago but now beginning to want something properly quick. Albeit sort of stuck with Honda – so maybe a Civic Type R.

You can plainly see the point in simonjj’s life at which kids came along and his car choices went downhill with it 😀

😉

You can plainly see the point in simonjj’s life at which kids came along and his car choices went downhill with it

He’ll be one of they many Golf GTD owners that drive like an idiot to try and prove to themselves that buying a diesel doesn’t make them old…

Austin Metro
Austin Metro
Austin Maxi (cost me £50 and used to transport mates to clubs)
VW Beetle (should never of sold it)
VW Type 25 Camper
VW Golf MK.2 16V (miss this one)
VW Scirocco GTi MK.2
VW Golf Tdi Mk.4
Ford Escort (the worst one even compared to the Metros)
VW Passat
Citroen C5
Ford Focus (the most reliable)
VW Touran
Audi A4

I thought it would be more than this, but I do tend to hang on to my motors if I like them… the Escort lasted 4 months it was atrocious.

cardo – I’m really struggling to understand why, having owned one Metro, you got another one.

Not quite the worst car I’ve driven (Allegro was the winner there, even over old style Lada’s and the like) but still a contender.

@epicsteve… the first one dissolved one Winter, I was 17/18 and insurance was sky high.. The 2nd Metro was an MG Metro (woo hoo) and was mint and didn’t rust amazingly!!

Don’t quite know the best response for you “epicsteve” but seeing as you obviously don’t know me maybe you’d be better off keeping you sweeping statements to yourself.

driving since 1995. many company cars and I like the faster ones.. stages where I had a company car but we also owned one at home which was “fun”

Ford Orion 1.6 Ghia Diesel – first car, rust bucket, slow but full of toys!
Ford Fiesta 1.0, changed engine for a 1.3 with webber carbs, alloys and lowering springs
Ford Orion 1.6i Ghia in Brown!- basically an xr3i with a boot, loved it!
Ford Orion 1.6 Automatic– horrific pile of poop I had to get when the engine in the Orion went pop, ditched soon after..
Mk3 RS 1600i Escort. What a car, stolen and trashed 🙁 worth £££ if I had it now
Mini 1.3 British Open Classic -what a car! (mate still has it in his garage)
Ford Ka Collection (this is where it all went wrong) first new car, bought to drive nearly 100 miles a day
Some random 206 – first company car, elephant bum dashboard is all I can remember
Polo 1.9 GTD – first nice company car
MG ZR – modified beyond belief, lowered, full stainless engine bay etc.
Renaultsport Clio 172 Phase 2 best car I owned bar the RS
Toyota Avensis ts- next company car, big, comfy, not at all sporty..
Totyta celica 1.7vvti lovely but very plasticcy
Audi S3 Quattro – best company car ever, but 20mpg…
Mr2 Roadster – great car, but a truck nearly wrote it off(then Mrs Muz did it properly in the snow)
Scirocco Diesel – looked so good but really uncomfy -co car
Audi A3 Quattro Diesel, in STW favourite White with black roof… co car
Lexus is 300h F sport, present car, wonderful, smooth, fast, efficient (hybrid) cheap to run and tax etc. co car and again in white to please the STW massive
Mazda 3 Sport current Mrs Muz car that I pay for…

From around 1997

Citreon BX
WV Scirroco
Corsa 1.2
MGF
Ibiza Cupra
Boxter S
Saab 9-5 3l tdi

Still have the last 2!

Since 2006

’65 VW Beetle 1200
’90 BMW 318is
’81 VW Beetle 1641
’90 Jaguar Sovereign 4.0
’87 Peugeot 309 GTI
’97 BMW 328I Sport
’83 Opel Monza 3.0
’77 Citroen CX Pallas
’87 Mercedes 230E
’01 Saab 9-3 Turbo
’92 Mercedes 300TE 4MATIC

FS1E flat out or parked up
KH250
xs 250 POs

since 78
’69 mk 2 mini subframe death
’69 midget rust bucket
’72 mini clubman estate hit rover sd1 towbar
74 beetle POS caught fire Yay 😆
😀
79 fiat 127
’78 mk2 escort estate hideous rust great for canoes camping etc
pug 309 new company car
‘citroen c15 van POS
escort mk3
rover 214
escort mk3 coy car
metro nasty
205 gti cambelt death 🙁
megane scenic
citroen Picasso
clio mk3
citroen c4 grand huge
’65 plate focus coy car
no real pattern to choices, driven by price /need alone

Don’t quite know the best response for you “epicsteve” but seeing as you obviously don’t know me maybe you’d be better off keeping you sweeping statements to yourself.

It was supposed to be a joke, but if you resemble the remark…

I drive my wife’s SLK like an idiot at times to try and prove buying her the diesel was a better option than the 300 petrol. It can be fun as I think everyone expects the diesel to be slow!

You can plainly see the point in simonjj’s life at which kids came along and his car choices went downhill with it

And also the occasional one where you can tell when the kids were grown up.

We had years of people carriers and estates but are thankfully well past that now!

Since 1990

86 Austin Metro Van
92 Peugeot 106
93 Peugeot 306
89 Golf MK 2 GLS
92 Golf MK 2 GTI
99 Golf MK4 S
03 Mini Cooper BMW
04 Volvo T4
94 VW Corrado VR6
94 VW Lupo SD & 2006 Ford Focus
92 Renault Laguna & 2007 Nissan Qashqai
91 Subaru Legacy 1.8
06 Renault Clio & 2008 Volvo D4 R Sports wagon
09 Landrover Freelander 2 & 2014 Golf Mk7 GTD still have but want the VR6 back.
03 Landrover Defender TD5 90
2012 Landrover Freelander 2

nova
astra (lasted 10 days before stolen burnt, still had the nova)
BX (lasted surprisingly long time)
zx (rusted)
zx (electrics caught itself on fire)
xantia (rear ended by lorry on mway)
fiesta (rusted)
xantia (stolen)
focus Mk1 (good car, eventually scrapped from lack of use)
c’eed (joint purchase)