Big Skoda estate? Check.

Loads of toys, lane assist, radar cruise, expensive stereo, 55mpg on the motorway – bought to do hours on the motorway going to places all over the UK, which it did last year with ease.

Ford Ranger. Had it since 2013 85k so far. Really like it. Don’t want a van for day to day, could drive the Vito from work but Ranger is much nicer. Wife has 2011 Insignia est. Dull as ditchwater. Keeping Ranger until I can buy a Rivian in UK

The other car what I drive more often than my 159 – Seat Leon ST FR Sport  1.5, 150

Missus has an FN2 Civic, a proper 5 door with the cyclist friendly rear seats, and it’s Red which makes it the best. It’s just clicked over 200,000 but from the state of the posh 17″ wheels and the peeling lacquer, you’d think it had done 500,000.

Mine is a Iveco camper/bike van/horse box tug that likes to eat roll bar bushes

This thread has changed my whole view of stw, from reading lots it seemed it was full of poor eco friendly cyclists that didn’t like change or waste, reality is it’s full of middle class consumers pretending to be the former, awesome 🤣🤣

Nothing Eco friendly here

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think there was much love on STW for anyone who dared to have an interest in cars. That’s another STW myth busted.

Just picked up a SEAT Ateca with lots of toys yesterday, we also have a Fiat panda with no toys and apparently not even rust protection 😂

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think there was much love on STW for anyone who dared to have an interest in cars. That’s another STW myth busted.

You must be new here 😉

There is always one car thread on the first page, normally more.

This place is basically Remainer Pistonheads most of the time.

Oh I’d seen (and contributed to) the odd car thread but generally not what I expect from STW. Actually, I’m talking pish – you can expect anything and everything on STW.

Still, I’m somewhat relieved I’m not the only one here with a stupid, anti-social car 🙂

To add to the German estate contingent, 335d touring

Not my actual car, but close enough

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.

Snap! A red 8v with a tweaked TSR motor and half decent suspension. Still really good fun to drive and practical with it. Oh, and a Corrado VR6 Storm, one of the blue ones, for sunny days and nice noises.

Yep, I’m aiming to be saving the planet in a 3t electric pickup with a vegan leather (sounds unkind) and wood interior and a sub 4 second 0-60.

Range Rover Sport (the mrs) Renault trafic LWB Hitop (me)

Golf GTE, good for going to the shops I EV mode and burning dinosaurs in GTE mode.
Also bought a transit connect for bike duties but has stood still to the point the battery went flat, roll on the days when I can escape to the peak.

I miss my alfa 159 brilliantly comfortable, a just a all round nice car. Went through suspension arms quicker than tyres though.

BMW 1 Series Sport

I’m trying hard to be the polite, courteous driver that others don’t expect. I’ve found my magnetic rear bumper only seems to attract the magnificently skilled Audi drivers. 😎

Sensible

Non-sensible

Been a bit of a rethink and a cull during the lockdown 🙁 Wife’s Maxda MX-5 RF and my old Range Rover now both gone. Kept the Subaru Forester as it covers our dog/bike/moving stuff about needs pretty well.

2006 BMW E91 330i M Sport Touring

1996 TVR Chimaera 4.0

I only average 3.5 litres per car 😂 Luckily combined they only do about 6k miles in a non Covid year, current looking at about 4k this year.

Lots of cool cars, Alfa’s, Minis, TVRs, Porsches, Landies, some practicals as well, I’ve enjoyed this thread. Thank you!

2015 Ford Tourneo Custom SWB as family bus for kids, dog, bikes and towing caravan.

2010 Vauxhall Meriva as wife’s commuter and runabout.

I used to love having nice cars, then we had a family. Wife couldn’t care less about cars.

Goes full send:

Also practical:

Edit: as per the above, I am most definitely a hypocrite and feel very conflicted in enjoying my car so just try to use it as little as possible and make sure I enjoy it when I do!

1994 E36 M3

2006 Octavia vrs

@ads678 – nope it’s at <checks Google Maps timeline> Camping Le Bois Guillaume which is about 45 minutes outside Auxerre. It was our first Europe trip and we just drove without a plan for hours until we were well past Paris then booked it on Pitchup.

And there I was pegging it as the campsite I use in Font. Apparently all french campsites are identical!

arrrh posting images!

Got there in the end. It’s no SUV and crap for carrying bikes…. or anything else

I don’t post much, but enjoy reading and I do like cars.
We like big German vehicles, or so it seems… self converted VW Crafter, a 1.6tdi Passat and an RS6..

And I don’t know how to post pics either…

I have a 2005 skodia fabia estate 1.9 TDI…not sure I haveca pic of it. The front electric windows don’t work but the air con does and the heated seats. Don’t remember the last time I drove it…I’d sell it if it was worth anything.

Low mileage 04 Mk.3 MR2 with TTE exhaust and a Torsen LSD (on its winter wheels it was driftasttic in the recent snow)

And a 5dr 1.8 Mk 8 Civic in Nighthawk Black (really its blue) with stainless exhaust, resonator delete and big wheels as the family car

V70 D5 Manual

probably the shittest car on here. 238,000 miles . cost £800 18mths and 50,000 miles ago

If this doesn’t work I give up

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Nowt wrong with a Lolvo, and I always liked those Audis too.

Now that post image is working I’ll try and upload from there…
A couple of the T6, including the daughter on the inside after a very wet ride….
As you’ll see I’m not one for cleaning my cars (or bikes for that matter)

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Bought this for Mrs T almost 7 years ago when it was 6 months old. I don’t like white cars, but there you are. I took it over when I went on to a car allowance and it’s been faultless.

It’s going in the next couple of days as I’m going back onto the company car scheme and getting an A250e. Will be sorry to see it go, but soon it will be too old for me to qualify for the allowance.

Daily driver on left, occasional weekend tripper on right. Not sure either of them are particularly eco friendly, but to be fair my mileage is low!!

Seat/Cupra Leon ST 300 4DRIVE and a BMW E91 325i.

Both reasonably rapid, both reasonable bike/surf wagons. Both get over 25mpg generally so reasonably eco too 😇

This, unfortunately both the horse and the car are currently broken and i regret chopping in my 2014 passat tbh cause it was cheap, relatively economical and didn’t ever break!

I do think both these methods of transport look nice though

A fun little french thing and a boringly reliable and economical Japanese thing for us

Speedyopie01 you have the same Passat as me – body wise and wheels anyway.

The 3L Turbocharged follicle botherer…

Has done less than 1000 miles in the last 6 months. I do have a work van too though, but that hasn’t had much use either!