So what car do you drive?

[Chairman Meow]

A 52 plate blue Vauxhall Zafira, complete with Hello Kitty window covers to keep the sun out of the baby's eyes.

 

Gangster.

 

[Major Tom]

A 52 plate blue Vauxhall Zafira, complete with Hello Kitty window covers to keep the sun out of the baby's eyes.

 

 

The sun which invariably finds a way in anyway? Or have I just got a shit window shield thingy?

[VladimirIlyich]

Mk1 Granada was 3.0 Essex V6 as the top of the line motor. In South Africa they did Peranas which had a big V8 in it. They did a load of stuff like that with Cortinas and Capris as well in SA.

 

Mk2 was the 2.8 Cologne V6 as the big motor.

 

Mk2 Granada is probably my favourite ever car as a daily driver, like driving a big V6 armchair. This is the last one I had, a 2.8 Ghia X Estate, heated seats, electric everything, air con etc. I sold it about 4 years ago, would love another one.

 

 

Another one, if you look carefully you can just about make out the front end of my Mk2 Escort.

 

 

And the first one I owned. 2.8 Ghia in Glacier Blue, the photos really don't do justice to the colour, it looked gorgeous in the flesh. Was my daily driver when I was 19 years old.

 

 

Give it time and I may just start breaking out photos of the V6 transit we had.

 

 

We all have to compensate somehow, hence my love of A6's and big old Granadas.

A nice motor mate but I preferred the earlier,more rounded version as used on The Sweeney and the like in the 70s.

Ford used to make some decent motors. The modern stuff(I drive a focus myself) are just a bit boring.

[Chairman Meow]

The Mk1s were a lovely car too. Never had one myself though. 

[Captain Turdseye]

The sun which invariably finds a way in anyway? Or have I just got a shit window shield thingy?

You need to get yourself a Hello Kitty one. It works well and has the added bonus of making you look cool.

[lifetime fan]

hello kitty rocks.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

 

I've got a hankering to do a bike engined Trabant but current space issues mean it's a non starter right now. 

 

Back in 92 I was playing football in a tournament in Ueckermünde which is on the Polish border not far from Rostock in the old East Germany. It was only 3 years after the wall had fallen and things were still pretty much as they were under communist rule, cobbled streets, little shitty shops were people cued for ages to get food, well apart from us as we had money. Anyway, whilst we were leaving to travel back home I must have been speeding and in my mirror I spotted a police car pull out of a lay-by to give chase, a Trabbie!! I was driving a Mazda 323F back then so thought fuck it, put my foot down and the coppers were out of sight within half a minute, shitting myself for a few hours afterwards in case they had got my number  plate as i sped past them but I never heard anything after. 

 

The locals told me at the time that you had to put your name down on a waiting list for a Trabbie and some waited as long as 10 years before they got theirs. A few of the lads in this other team who were hosting the tournament had supped up Trabbies with go faster stripes, we were pissing ourselves. 

[clangers]

I was recently given an immaculate 2003 mk 1 Audi TT 225 with the s-line modification (18" wheels, lowered). Really pleasantly surprised, a lot more fun than I expected and pretty quick too. I wasn't expecting a great deal mind.

[Chairman Meow]

The Eastern bloc churned out some right old shite. However some of it is so bad I have a soft spot for it.

 

There was a guy who came over from Germany when I was a kid to rally on the RAC and the Manx rallies with a Trabant and drove the car to he rallies. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

The Eastern bloc churned out some right old shite. However some of it is so bad I have a soft spot for it.

 

There was a guy who came over from Germany when I was a kid to rally on the RAC and the Manx rallies with a Trabant and drove the car to he rallies. 

The most positive thing about those trabbies is that the bodywork lasted forever if you looked after it, it was like driving some shitty old WW2 vehicle though and the suspension was none fucking existent. I still spot one now and again where i live, it has become cult with some motorists to get hold of a trabbie and do them up. 

[Pony Princess]

2001 Toyota Celica 

 

Bought it on a whim about 6 years ago and loved it since.  Lovely drive, great reliability, not too bad on the fuel or insurance front.  Surprisingly practical if you fold the back seats down.  Starting to look a bit battered but I'm gonna keep hold of it for as long as possible.

[KMD7]

And, I assume, you've not had the experience of the heated windscreen for defrosting the ice from it in the winter yet? I'd get another Focus just for that alone

 

It's bliss isnt it?  Love my focus

[stringvest]

The Eastern bloc churned out some right old shite. However some of it is so bad I have a soft spot for it.

 

There was a guy who came over from Germany when I was a kid to rally on the RAC and the Manx rallies with a Trabant and drove the car to he rallies. 

 

Yeah, but they came out with the Tatra 603 and 613.  i love those cars

[Champ]

It's bliss isnt it?  Love my focus

 

Forget your engine spec this and torque that, this is the kind of stuff that does it for me

[Dr Nowt]

Mate of mine had a Talbot Horizon when I was in my teens.  Easily one of the shittest cars I've ever seen, an absolute tank.

 

Another had an FSO Polonez, and sold it due to the abuse he took.  The driver of the above was cool enough to revel in it's shitness and drove it for years and years, even taking birds out in it.

 

The parents of a lass I used to knock around with when we were about 15 had a Yugo, or as we used to call it, "The Yugo, I'll stay".

[Champ]

A guy I fancied at uni turned up one day with a Yugo. Opposite Sex Deal Breaker......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.....I am that shallow

[Dr Nowt]

A guy I fancied at uni turned up one day with a Yugo. Opposite Sex Deal Breaker......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.....I am that shallow

 

 

Sex.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I'd rather ride a bike in the pissing down rain than drive that!

[Champ]

 

Sex.

 

The Sport model too!

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

1 horse power. And that horse is severely disabled.

[Dr Nowt]

1 horse power. And that horse is severely disabled.

 

Here it comes now...

 

[Jairzinho]

1 horse power. And that horse is severely disabled.

 

Powered by a 99p Tesco Lasagne.

[polymerpunkah]

I owned a Ford Granada. '78?

 

Big, loose, and very fast.

 

Or maybe it only felt fast because the set-up was so loose.

 

It was particularly fun in an inch or two of snow.

 

Perfect for a half-drunk teen-ager.

 

 

 

Now, a 2000 GMC Sierra extended-cab 4wd pick-up.

 

Good truck, no gas mileage of course, but it stands up to the abuse it gets, and it hasn't got stuck/broke down in the middle of nowhere yet.

[stringvest]

Anyone seen this before?

 

[Fugitive]

I'm thinking of investing in a 4x4 next time. This is solely due to the fact that half the places I go fishing have shit access roads or paths and are destroying my suspension and undercarriage. Fucking Pot holes bigger than impact craters from an astroid strike.