Favourite car!

[bluethrunthru]

Modern cars in general really. All for safety which is fair enough I suppose - airbags in A and B pillars, side impact protection, curtain airbags, etc. All that stuff takes space.

I maintain that the early 2000s was the high point in vehicle design. Modern enough to be safe and comfortable, but before the current trend of everything being operated by electronics and touch screens came in.

Design was generally more restrained and tasteful as well - look at the early 2000s BMWs compared to today, or the Land Rover Disco 3 compared to the current models.

I have a thing for BMW and Land Rover so am a bit biased but the same applies for basically all makes.

In reality that is the case - as your car rolls repeatedly your concern is not that you with the pillars were skinnier so you could enjoy the ride more are you ha ha ha

Likewise whilst I do not like the new Defender I have no doubt its the much better vehicle to slam into a lamp post in than an original Defender

 

[metalblue]

We were on a golf trip in the South of France a few years ago and decided to have the Sunday in Monaco. We got there by train and the first thing we heard coming out of the station was an almighty roar of a car which turned out to be a Black Ferrari which was absolutely stunning.

We had a mooch up to the Cafe de Paris area and outside the hotel there’s like a circle car park, it was full of high end Ferraris, Porches, Aston Martins, unbelievable cars, the wealth on show was incredible. Jordan (her with the plastic tits) arrived at the hotel just as we were going in the poor man’s casino, the fawning around her was off the scale.

Money talks mate, wealth whispers. It was money not wealth you were looking at (bar the Astons, more old money cars them).

I love a car that looks a bit ordinary but has a bite, my Polo G40 was one of them and probably my favourite car to have owned - but it had a few mods shall we say and was very quick due to not weighing very much at all. Even the traffic cop commented on how quick it was (and that was around 2018 when it was already 26 years old). One thing a 1980/early 90s modern classic teaches you is how to drive again, brakes are an after thought on VWs and none of the safety features we have today as standard - by mid late 1990s cars got safer, my 1998 Scooby has ABS and front airbags.

 

[hammocity]

Money talks mate, wealth whispers. It was money not wealth you were looking at (bar the Astons, more old money cars them).

I love a car that looks a bit ordinary but has a bite, my Polo G40 was one of them and probably my favourite car to have owned - but it had a few mods shall we say and was very quick due to not weighing very much at all. Even the traffic cop commented on how quick it was (and that was around 2018 when it was already 26 years old). One thing a 1980/early 90s modern classic teaches you is how to drive again, brakes are an after thought on VWs and none of the safety features we have today as standard - by mid late 1990s cars got safer, my 1998 Scooby has ABS and front airbags.

My first three cars from 1977 onwards were a Ford Cortina, a Mini and a Volkswagen Beetle. Non had any bells or whistles but lived them all. I gave up on cars when I bought my house (couldn’t afford both), when I got back on the driving ladder about 10 years later the difference was staggering but if you compared early 90’s cars they’re still basic to todays models.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

In reality that is the case - as your car rolls repeatedly your concern is not that you with the pillars were skinnier so you could enjoy the ride more are you ha ha ha

Likewise whilst I do not like the new Defender I have no doubt its the much better vehicle to slam into a lamp post in than an original Defender

I quite like the new Defender but only in basic farmyard trim with the steel wheels and hose down interior, with the expedition pack. Looks quite cool.

Like most modern Land Rover models the more blinged up versions do absolutely nothing for me at all.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Jensen Interceptor, saw one on the M1 once....*sighs*

edit; trying that firefox trick on safari, this one...

Rodney Marsh used to drive one when he played at City. Had my pic taken with him leaning on it.

 

[Lowtower]

Wanted one of these when I was a kid, parents went to buy a new car in 80s and one was in showroom, they didn't buy it and bought a XR3i

Got myself one when I started working, with the astronomical insurance costs and constant repairs it cost me thousands.

Worth a fortune now, wish I kept it.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I quite like the new Defender but only in basic farmyard trim with the steel wheels and hose down interior, with the expedition pack. Looks quite cool.

Like most modern Land Rover models the more blinged up versions do absolutely nothing for me at all.

There is a 3 door Landcruiser in the village here - 5 or 6 years old finished in an olive metallic riding on steelies - looks like it has been given a good hiding with the Ugly Stick yet I am strangely drawn to it whenever I see it

 

[bluethrunthru]

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Wanted one of these when I was a kid, parents went to buy a new car in 80s and one was in showroom, they didn't buy it and bought a XR3i

Got myself one when I started working, with the astronomical insurance costs and constant repairs it cost me thousands.

Worth a fortune now, wish I kept it.

I bought a brand new Orion Ghia Injection in 1987 - I only got it because I read in a magazine it was "the thinking hooligans hot Ford" - never liked it the steering was heavy as fuck I realised how impractical a saloon was over a hatch and the tin worm began its work in just under 3 years

 

[Lowtower]

I bought a brand new Orion Ghia Injection in 1987 - I only got it because I read in a magazine it was "the thinking hooligans hot Ford" - never liked it the steering was heavy as fuck I realised how impractical a saloon was over a hatch and the tin worm began its work in just under 3 years

Those early 80s hot hatch fords were a thing of beauty and hate, winter mornings were a lottery of whether they would start or not, along with those impractical immobiliser alarm things insurance companies insisted you put on.

Footwells like swimming pools were also a minefield in them.

 

[Kompany Car]

We were on a golf trip in the South of France a few years ago and decided to have the Sunday in Monaco. We got there by train and the first thing we heard coming out of the station was an almighty roar of a car which turned out to be a Black Ferrari which was absolutely stunning.

We had a mooch up to the Cafe de Paris area and outside the hotel there’s like a circle car park, it was full of high end Ferraris, Porches, Aston Martins, unbelievable cars, the wealth on show was incredible. Jordan (her with the plastic tits) arrived at the hotel just as we were going in the poor man’s casino, the fawning around her was off the scale.

If you go there, you want something thats different if you want to be noticed, either a classic or as my brother found out just unusual when he parked up in his TVR Sagaris worth less than 1/10 of most of the other cars but it was the only one.