Theoretically, what car would you pick for wafting up and down the UK’s motorways and A roads in absolute comfort?

Criteria ;
£5k budget
Cruise control
Reliable
Easy to buy with minimal mechanical knowledge
Room for a bike (with wheels off if necessary)
90s boxy style.

Merc, jag, bimmer – stuff like that…

big Citroen – very wafty

That sounds like a Volvo estate

Volvo estate

BMW engined Rover 75.

a well looked after, petrol auto BMW 7 series would be my choice for regular motorway trips, if thats the only type of use. If usage was to be more varied then the 5 series

I feel we need to know the acceptable maximum 0-60 time of your potential waftmobiles. It appears this is very important we have all recently learnt.

Put some pics with your recommendations 😉

Unless it’s a jag, I want angular aesthetics 🙂

I feel we need to know the acceptable maximum 0-60 time of your potential waftmobiles. It appears this is very important we have all recently learnt.

So long as I can safely pass lorries on the A9, I’m happy 😇

Lexus LS400

Get a Jag

Volvo V70 max 2006year. SE with the upgraded radio. 2.4 170hp non turbo petrol for simplicity.
Ours does/did the annual run down to Perpignan in one hit in utter comfort with the dog happily snoozing in the back.

Hmm that lexus looks goooood….

Reliability? Given my previous old car (mk1 caddy) I need something that ain’t gonna break down constantly (hypothetically)

Skoda Superb 170 Tdi elegance, based on owning the 4×4 version for four years.
Loads of room, well built ( much nicer than the Octavia), reliable- only failure was a central locking switch. Very comfortable over a long distance, drove from Herefordshire to Poolewe in a day on three or four occasions. Still had 1/4 tank of fuel at Inverness. The elegance trim gives cruise, good stereo, leather interior, heated seats etc. etc. Not 90’s but certainly boxy

Non 4×4’s are in your price bracket

E.g. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202104201598839?model=SUPERB&radius=1500&price-to=5000&make=SKODA&body-type=Estate&advertising-location=at_cars&minimum-badge-engine-size=2.0&sort=relevance&year-to=2021&postcode=wr142rp&fuel-type=Diesel&fuel-type=Petrol&include-delivery-option=on&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&page=1

This is delicious

Reason it’s gotta be old and boxy is that I’ve already got a caddy maxi, which does a perfect job. I just want to scratch a 90s itch!

I <span style=”font-size: 0.8rem;”>want angular aesthetics</span>

Vauxhall Carlton or Senator Gsi3000 24v?
I know someone who had a Senator a few years ago, very well built for a 90’s mainstream vehicle and very comfortable ride and interior. The police used them for years so they must be tough?

BMW engined Rover 75.

I had a 75 for a while, needed an auto car as my motorbike or clutched cars were out after a minor miscalculation at BPW,. Had an auto diesel, didn’t so much waft as oooze. Loved that car though, made me chuckle everytime I drove it.

This!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103230475745?model=C6&radius=1501&year-to=2021&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&make=CITROEN&sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_cars&postcode=gu271he&include-delivery-option=on&page=1&modal=photos

Nothing but nothing is waftlier!

Austin 3 litre.

Nothing but nothing is waftlier!

£585 VED????

Mondeo?

Just looked up on How many left- there appear to be more Austin 3litres left on the road than Senator 24v’s. 30 vs 8. So perhaps not so tough after all

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Old roller?

Having seen your maintainance on the previous caddy via the medium of Instagram

Lease a new car and make it angular with some cardboard

Waft factor 999, plus its cooler than literally any car Jaguar or BMW have ever made. I will not be taking further questions at this time.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/auctions/1993-citroen-xm-30-v6-R8G02g

You’ve set me off now…

“typical Jaguar electrical gremlins” is probably the key wording in this ad, but still.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184783356191?hash=item2b05f2411f:g:7l4AAOSwaxlgmDME

The best wafter I’ve ever driven was my old 2.2 mondeo. Comfy, spacious, and at 70mph in top gear it was basically idling. You might be thinking, mk3 mondeos aren’t very boxy, well WRONG! I crashed it into the back of a VW and turned the front end completely rectangular.

Volvo 850 T5 ftw! Very wafty…

Get real guys, he needs this. I nearly bought it so it must be good. Full 1950’s waft with 1990 components and free entry to places like Ascot and Henley

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1314024

Rover 800 (not a Montego)

Boring choice but as above Mondeo Estate. Comfy, relatively efficient on fuel, You can probably fit the shed in the back. Never owned one but they’ve been our works pool cars through various interactions for the last 15 years. People, kit, motorways, site roads, no bother. Just sit back in the velour seats and calmly cruise to wherever.
My longest trip in one to the far side of Germany and back in a week with 3 days on site in the middle. The car just worked, no hassle, no surprises and not burned out on arrival.

Edit: it’ll swallow a bike wheels on. Can probably get a tandem in the boot it’s that big.

Is Wafty a thing on pistonheeds or is it literally a new thing tonight? I love it, beautiful definition.

CX Loadrunner if you could still get one…

ls400 all day long. just look at it

Honda Goldwing
It’s basically a car, and a wafty one at that.

Yup, Lexus 400

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202105072322704?model=LS%20400&radius=1500&advertising-location=at_cars&make=Lexus&sort=relevance&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&postcode=bd229ql&price-from=500&page=1&modal=photos

and that’s the colour to have ^^^