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What were the favorite 3 cars you had as normal road cars?
Mine were
Hillman Hunter GLS ( The one with the Holbay engine with twin 45 webers  :) ) not much top speed but so rapid, proper drivers car
Lancia Delta HFi Turbo.......very fast stuck to road like sh1t to a blanket
Ford Cortina Mk 5 ....2.3 Ghia......fast and quite luxurious in its day

Mini 1000 in maroon and rust with a retro fitted 1300 engine.

Mk 4 Cortina in Jupiter red, also with a 1300 engine but this time fitted as standard. Did oodles to the gallon but wouldn't pull a greasy man out of bed.

2004 diesel Polo (5 door). Felt like driving a big saloon, bought it second hand, had it 5 years plus, never put a spanner on it except for normal maintenance.

Bugger! I forgot about a white Mk1 2.3 diesel Sierra that I bought with 100,000 miles on it. At the time, it was the best car I had ever driven but it took me weeks to remember to use 5th gear.

Audi A8 4.2 V8, with about 500 miles on the clock when I got it.

Cars with TVs were quite the novelty in 2006, and very handy when I was stuck in traffic driving to the Vic/Sportsman  :D



Toyota MR2 Turbo, with about 400bhp, which was a nightmare, and at high boost span in the first 3 gears.

150 in that, felt a lot, lot quicker, than 150 in the Audi!



Vauxhall Nova 1.3 SR with K&N and Twin Weber Carbs.

First motor, and had great fun bombing about in that for a year or so.

Mk IV Spitfire. You always have a soft spot for your first car,  can still remember it was TLO792M.

2000 BMW 5 series. Did 100k miles in 3.5 years, brilliant motorway mile cruncher.

BMW 335d. 0-60 in 4.9s in a family wagon is great fun, stupid amount of torque.

Can't follow instructions but good memory test, think i've missed a couple that, incredibly, must be even less memorable than a few of these.

Not any kind of petrol head but quite fancy a drive in a number of the cars other people have mentioned

Cortina Mk III
Cortina Mk IV
Fiat Supermirafiori
Marina Estate
VW Golf
Sierra Sapphire
Sierra
Mondeo
Mazda 626
Honda Prelude
VW Passat
Rover 600
Jaguar XJ6
Mazda RX8
Mercedes CLK
BMW 3 Series Coupe
Citroen C4
BMW Z4
Mercedes A180
Alfa Romeo Giulietta

I’m probably a bit weird as a bloke in that I really don’t give a shit about cars. I’ve been able to choose company cars for the last 25 years and for the last 20 of those years I’ve basically chosen one of the cheaper ones on the list I’m given in order to pay as little tax as possible. As a result I’ve always had relatively basic cars compared to what I could have had if I really wanted.

BMW 5 Sports for road handling and totally bullet proof

Range Rover TDV8 for comfort

Jaguar S Type V8 Turbo charged for speed and comfort - but a total nightmare for electronic faults

Ford Capri 3L for your youth and constant sliding in the wet

Volkswagen Transporter - for knowing that you could never get a speeding ticket 0 - 60 in about 20 minutes 

Sounds epic. Did you get it modified or was it done already?

MG Midget ragtop.
Mercedes 190SL.
Ford Capri 3L.

My mum's mini 1275GT was a cracking little motor too.

If we are measuring "favourite" by the most pleasure & excitement they gave us, I'd have to select the first three cars I ever owned.

This was my first, reg number VDT 645. I loved it so much that, before passing my test, I'd go & just sit in it for hours on end, dreaming of when I'd pass my test & start a new life of independence. 


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Next came this beauty, a powder blue Morris Minor, reg plate 6667 MM.

My word is was posh - it had quarter lights with beautiful chromed fittings.

Big drawback were the semaphore indicators, or "trafficators" to give them their correct term. They'd stick in the "out" position, & when exiting the car I'd snap them regular as clockwork.


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Finally, at attempt number 3, along came what I thought was the most luxurious car it was possible to imagine, a Hillman Minx, reg XHV 57.

Not sure how I can recall the reg numbers of every car I have owned, but not the passwords I use to log on to websites daily.

The Minx had a sun visor - a proper sun-visor, as pictured. Nobody, in the history of ever, can dispute that those sun-visors were the coolest things in the whole wide world.


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Golf GTI Mk1 - My love affair with the Golf GTI started here. I replaced the exhaust and manifold, replaced the cam with a 'fast road' version. Unfortunately i never upgraded the brakes :)
BMW 335d X-Drive - Stonking all-round car only sold it last week
Audi RS5 - 450 PS, 2.9 ltr V6 twin turbo only picked up last week but it is already a favourite

I think I've only ever had 5 cars so it's not hard to narrow down. 

Fiat 127  was my first.  Went all over the country watching gigs in that.  Me and a couple of mates would even sleep in it now and again.  We're not the smallest chaps either.
Mitsubishi Lancer was next.  I liked that as it had electric everything, lovely.
Vauxhall Cavalier CDi next - pretty fast for me and it had a sunroof.  I miss sunroofs.

Had a couple of Peugeot company cars after that and then bought a Vectra when I left my job.  That conked out a couple of years ago so I leased an Audi A4 which is bloody lovely.  It goes back in May and I have another on order which I'm pretty sure I'm going to enjoy even more.

When I don't need the space any more I might get something a bit more sporty :)

Can't believe how many cars Nirvana has had. Insane list.

I've only had 7 cars in my lifetime so I might as well list the lot in order of purchase:

Ford Escort 1.3 bonus

Ford Probe 2.5 V6 - Close second favourite. Had it at 21 years old, gorgeous car, lighting fast at the time and an absolute fanny magnet.

Ford Mondeo estate - What the f**k happened to my life? I met a woman and moved in together is what happened. Definitely not my favourite although fantastic for getting 4 blokes plus suitcases to Newcastle airport.

BMW 330i - Boom. Split up with the woman and got what has to be my favourite car. Suddenly started attracting far more incredibly beautiful females. Not sure why?

BMW 530d - Bit of an old mans car really. Decent, quick but looked a bit meh now I look back at it.

BMW 530d - First brand new car. New shape was so much prettier than the old 5 series. Also in white so I looked like a pimp.

BMW 535d - Another new car (also current car) but looks exactly the same as the last one. Same colour (don't mind looking like a pimp), same wheels, same everything really but a bit faster and a HUD. Pointless really now I think about it but meh it's only money. Nothing to choose between this and the last one but I guess this gets the 3rd favourite spot due to being better.

To be honest I absolutely love my current car hence the reason I just got a slightly upgraded one version of the previous. If I was younger then this would have been a favourite but now I'm in my 40s a car doesn't mean so much to me. I think the thing that makes a car a favourite is the memories that accompany it, classic example being Graham C and his Fiat 127. I'm sure the A4 is better but those memories will always live alongside the Fiat :)

Pretty sure my next car is going to be a Tesla Model S and I'm hoping that will become my favourite given the build up it's had for me. Looking forward to it but it's a bit too soon to get rid of the current car.

Longines - the Jag was direct from the factory they also did a 4.8L - I am trying to find out how many they made as I am looking to buy some more for spares.

Do you mean supercharged rather than turbocharged? The S-Type R was the factory 4.2l supercharged option, don't recall Jaguar ever doing a 4.8 engine.

There are 20 Rs on autotrader so spares hopefully won't be a problem.

your correct should have put the 4.2, still cant find out how many they made - in 20 years they should be a good classic car

God this has got me thinking how many cars i have owned (and wrote off) over 26 years!  Will do a full list later and grade them.

I've had a fair few over the years. Never been a petrol head, so I'm a little short on the details.

GM 1970 Firebird. Think Rockford Files. It was Granny Smith Green when I got it, so had it resprayed Midnight Green. All engine & leather.

BMW 325i. My first sexy company car. Had it delivered to my office in Soho Square... Just in time to shoot off down to Lingfield for a day at the races. Bryan Adams or something similar blasting out all the way.

Toyota Celica 2L. C reg, whenever that was. Loved it. Handled superbly. Last of my company cars, when the salary bonus was made too good to refuse.

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1274 for the UK market.

Bit like Woodsey here cars don't really mean much to me tbh.  I have driven awful cars all of my life apart from the company car years and finally treating myself to my current motor which is half decent.  Had loads of crashes/write offs, 2 driving bans, speeding fines etc!

1993 - Fiat Strada - wrote off after 4 months
1993 - Austin Maestro - lasted 4 months before failed its mot
1993 - Ford Escort 1.6 Diesel - wrote off after 3 months
1994 - Mini Metro - this lasted me through uni and i treated this one careful as i paid £4k in cash for it and it was decent compared to the first 3 which were all <£250 bangers
1996 - Joined company car lease scheme at work which had Peugeot scheme.  Basically tax fiddle to get around company car tax and you basically paid £100-150 a month depending on model to lease a brand new Peugeot until you had done 6000 miles then it got replaced with another new model.  Had 106, 206, 306 gti 6 speed, 306 DTI, 406 TDI over the five years until i got booted off the scheme for writing the 306 GTI off in a crash after previously writing off one of the 106's when the engine blew up because i never checked the oil and it burnt out!
2000 - Another Mini metro as i was totally skint and couldn't afford anything better
2003 - Rover 216 - Banned from driving so had to sell it and moved to Antigua
2007 - Peugeot 307 leased car when i lived in Malta
2008 - Peugeot 307 back in UK the longest i ever had a car.  Lasted until 2017 when it had to be scrapped as it was worthless and not even worth getting mot'd.  Drove around Europe in it in summer of 2013 all the way to the East side of Poland and back.  Even had a crash in Poland and had to drive back 1200 miles with a smashed up front of the car!  Also the car i used all the time whilst travelling around playing the uk poker circuit for a few years.  Lots of happy memories of this car.  Probably my fav car just because of the length of time i had it.
2017 - Forced to invest in something decent and bought a brand new Audi a3 2 litre diesel sportback for over £20k.  Spent more on this than all the other cars i actually bought put together.  Still got it now and really enjoy driving it.  More than enough for a non petrol head like me.  Very nearly bought a BMW 435 diesel instead of this for £37k but glad i didn't now.  Was a spin up between the two.   Sensible head kept the £17k extra in the bank.

In order

1st 2008 Peugeot 307.  Lasted 9 years.  Bought it cash in £50s from Brighton Rend casino after an MTT bink and it was worthless 9 years later less than £10 a week motoring.  Can't beat that.
2nd Peugeot 306 GTI -  Rapid for a 25 year old and we shouldnt have been allowed to drive them on a company car scheme for £120 a month
3rd Current audi

All the rest were garbage bangers.

I'm not sure how I neglected to mention my current ride of fifteen years standing - Honda Legend Coupe 3.2L V6 - just a pleasure to drive at all speeds.

Vauxhall Cavalier, pale blue, first car cost £200
Ford Cortina, red with black vinyl roof
Vauxhall Cavalier hatchback, black with gold stripes down the side
Vauxhall Cavalier saloon, pale blue, first company car
Ford Granada Mk 2, mid blue
Ford Escort Mk 3, company car
Vauxhall Cavalier Mk 3 company car, red
Peugeot 406, company car, first day I got it I drove it home from head office in Maidenhead, checked to see if I needed any petrol, it was about half full and the gauge didn't seem to be going down much, I ran out of petrol about 1/2 mile from home. I had been looking at the water temperature gauge
Vauxhall Cavalier 'Mk 3 SRI, maroon, central locking came as standard but this one didn't have it, marvellous, company car
Ford Granada Mk 3, white, ex police car, I had to replace the dashboard as it had a huge cut out where some kind of computer had been.
Audi Quattro, Black,
Porsche 944, red
Ford Mondeo Mk 2
Ford Cougar, 2.5 V6, black
BMW M3, silver, with paddles,  first new car, it was supposed to come with a TV, I couldn't get the tv working, took it back to the dealer and the reason the tv wasn't working was that it didn't have a tv. They gave me £1100 to get one fitted by BMW, the screen was already there but no to module. I couldn't decide whether to keep the £1100 or get the TV fitted. I decided on the TV and used it on e I think.
Rover 75 automatic, first automatic and I would never go back to a manual
BMW 1 series auto black
Ford Ranger, pickup double cab, auto, grey never needs washing
Range Rover Evoque, White, very pretty, auto, never looks clean, would never have a white car again

1 Rover 75, first auto and just so easy to drive
2 Ford Ranger, easy to get the double buggy in the back, loved the high driving position, wouldn't go back to being low down again
3 Ford Cougar, pretty, cool

First car Vauxhall Viva not Cavalier

Thanks - L

Haha I had a 306 GTI when I was about 25 yo also, in hindsight that was probably my most enjoyable car back in the day when I briefly cared about cars, yes and quite fast for around that time!

That pretty much summed me up as well.  At 26 i got into the gambling industry and stopped caring at all about cars and stuff like that once i left the proper corporate image driven world.

First ever car ... Triumph Spitfire , every bump you felt but loved it. Blew that up on the M1 because
I didn't realise you were supposed to put oil in.

Opel Manta , sexy looking car at the time and hair raising to drive . Lost the back end going round
a corner at 2am in the morning ( don't ask ) , smashed into a tree and finished up on a slip road. Ran a mile to a
mate's house who had a pick up truck. Chucking stones at his bedroom window till he woke up but he informed
me he had sold the truck earlier that week. At 6am I managed to push it with my brother in law round to my
mum's house half a mile away. God knows how anyone didn't hear the smash . Was the only time I was third
party so it cost me £2k to jig it up but it was never the same beast again.

Had loads of BMW's , went over to Belgium to buy one many years back when it saved you £1000's but the
one I have at the minute , 6 series convertible , has been the most fun to drive.
That was until a couple of months ago I smashed into the car in front ( without braking ) as I was trying to
adjust my new glasses , and yes , I did go to specsavers.

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