Perfect Retro MTB hauling car?

I mean, apart from the fact it’s a Jag built in the 1980’s, if you had the cash, you would, wouldn’t you?

Lynx Eventer

@rustynissanprairie to the forum please.

Surely if you are going shootingbrake you need to go either

Jenson interceptor

Or

Reliant scimitar

It might lag in performance, but I’d have the best-looking estate car in history:

Go RAD!
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Jenson interceptor

Princes Anne had one, y’know.

Surely it would have to be a Series 3 Landrover? Or an early-modern Volvo Estate?

Interceptors would pre-date MTB’s surely?

It might lag in performance, but I’d have the best-looking estate car in history:

Not an estate.

Its a shootingbrake. Only got 2 doors innit.

That XJS is awesome, you can buy the company and all the tooling for a mil too

Screw that – Merc S124. I very nearly bought this exact one a few years back – motoring perfection…

Not an estate.

Its a shootingbrake. Only got 2 doors innit.

If they were more likely to be found on a council estate than a country estate, then I reckon they’re estates.

My old Espace Quadra.

Scimitar GTE – but recalling long family trips to Spain and the SO France (in GTE and later SE6s) – probably more room in a current mk polo!

Princess Anne liked them….

My old Espace Quadra.

Looks pretty cool now

As the answer on here is always Berlingo, surely the period correct alternative is a Citroen C15? Here is ours hiding in the pits of a Norwegian Grundig World Cup.

My Choice:

https://skodafeliciafun.co.uk/html/skoda_felicia_fun_model_histor.html

Convince me I’m wrong.

Convince me I’m wrong.

You’re wrong!… 🙂

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1651001

Volvo P1800

Something like this for me

The Subaru would get my money if I wanted a pickup. For an estate though, there is only one answer

I came in to say Jenson. Now I’ve seen that P1800 tho, one of those 🙂

I read an article saying that P1800s were surprisingly affordable. They were not, I was sad. Gorgeous though.

I’d like a Volvo 940, nearly bought one but I suspected the gallon of new underbody paint might be straight over rust and isopon so chickened out. But they’re just gorgeous, so iconic, and can be decently quick til there’s a corner. A beat up one with steel wheels and a roofrack is as handsome as it gets. Dabbled with the idea of an OM606 in a W124 for a while too.

I think you can just about make an argument for the mk3 Mondeo now? Modern classic anyway, they’re not old but they’ve got that air of venerableness and respectability and yesterdayness, and they’re actually getting pretty scarce.Mine was a bit of a rusty nail so I could fill it with mud, not stress when bits fell off or when it went on fire that time or that other time when I drowned it in a flood. But it was huge, and not fast but fast enough (the 2.2 diesel was a work of simple genius, just that little bit better than the 2 litre but literally no drawbacks) did 55mph no matter how hard you pushed the pedal, and handled astonishingly well for such a big boat. And very handsome I think. Well, mine wasn’t.

Likewise hovering around the “modern classic”, but I have a subaru legacy bp5 these days. Could do with being just a little bigger in the back, the boot floor’s quite high which is fine for normal estate duties but does impact bikes a wee bit, you can’t quite have a 29 inch wheel vertically. But seats down, it can still hold a size large enduro 29er with both wheels on which is ace, just roll it out and go. And it’s comfy but great to drive, fast on any sort of road, with some suspension tweaks it handles well enough that I’ve had it on track a couple of times. And being a jdm import wasn’t rusted out like every UK subaru is, and is cheap to tax to boot. Basically it’s an impreza hatchback for old people and it’s brilliant. Just a shame it can’t legally tow as the jdm cars were never plated for it 🙁

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For an estate though, there is only one answer

I know it’s blasphemy but they’re not really that fast and the awd versions push the front end way too much, for me it was a case of never meet your heroes. Great engine though even if it’s mounted 90 degrees from the correct direction. I was always semi tempted to get one and rwd it just for lols but then they got expensive.

I think no self respecting dentist would be seen hauling his FRO or Attitude in anything less than an an E34 M5 touring

Citröen DS Safari.

DS is pre-mtbs. Needs to be a CX Familiale or XM to be the right age.

There’s some nice cars there, Jensens, Scimitars, Jags are all lovely. But you’d always be wishing you were in one of these

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DS is pre-mtbs. Needs to be a CX Familiale or XM to be the right age.

Go big or go home

There’s some nice cars there, Jensens, Scimitars, Jags are all lovely. But you’d always be wishing you were in one of these

Here ya go (just paste the URL in, you don’t need the tags)

It’s gopping, by the way 😉

Mid-’90s, I was in my early teens, and there were occasional mtb races in Tentsmuir Forest. I remember being overtaken repeatedly by some gorgeous 20-something rugby player kinda build girl, and realising that I wasn’t into skinny girls at all. At the end, she packed her bike up in a black CSK Rangie, and I fell in lust with that as well.

Skip forward a decade or two and I’m running around in a ratty classic Rangie – although sadly, not a CSK – and it was perfect as an MTB support vehicle. Packed cleverly, it could take three folk, three bikes, and all their gear. The split tailgate was perfect for bike maintenance, and as it was ratty enough to not worry about, the bonnet put a Weber barbie at the perfect height for cooking. I miss my Rangie so much.

I’m still not into skinny girls, btw.

I wish my user name was just Nissan Prairie and rust hadn’t killed it.

It was fitted with a Stanza turbo engine for speed as well as style!

There is/was 2x Ultra cool Brooklyn machine works bikes in there, my #126 Racelink and my mates #13FQ

I’d take a 1950s Chevy Nomad Wagon:

@Daffy, that would ground in just about every MTB car park I’ve been to.

I thought the default STW answer for stuff like this was a Unimog?

American wagons and vans are awesome.

I thought the default STW answer for stuff like this was a Unimog?

only if your steed is a Surly Pugsley or Salsa Beargreas both shod with 45°nrth Hüsker Düs

Talbot Matra Rancho would be the vehicle of choice surely!?

Before I was an environmental headbanger, I enjoyed my year with this. A bike would go inside no bother and it was ALL brown inside (seats, dash, carpets, mats) so soil just blended in.

First owner was the bloke who invented Brookside and Hollyoaks.

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Mmmmm, retro-tastic.

I was behind a Crawford Cortina 1600GT yesterday.

That would be nice with a period boot rack and some Heath Robinson-esque Thule rack arrangement.

Ideal for Eroica type event

Talbot Matra Rancho would be the vehicle of choice surely!?

Oh, well done sir, well done indeed

For an estate though, there is only one answer