[Closed] Really un-cool car's you secretly want?

Berlingo XTR...
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DrP

Suzuki Alto

seriously uncool car but seriously fun to drive

MG ZR

Nasty little chav car that I was given while mine got fixed. 60 felt like 100 and it could turn through 90 degree bends without any braking. If I didn't have to drive lots on the motorway I would def get one. If you let it get over 4000 rpm it was like the jump to light speed in a 1.4 petrol.

Skoda Yeti... Evo mag loved theirs, they look a bit odd but there is just something that makes me want one.

I know someone with one of those (well rugged version of the original berlingo), it's like a normal one, but with even more body roll.

He now transports his bike on the back of an Africa Twin so I'm not sure what that says about the Van!

I'd like another old-style Fiat Panda 4x4 at some point. I loved the one I had all those years ago, but have seen only one on the road since. That was the main problem... They just seemed to rust away to nothing.

I wanted one of these so I got one!

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Before the 4x4 hating brigade string me up, it goes off road on a regular basis due to my job but also makes a pretty good motorway car which is also a requirement for my job. Clarkson slated the X3 but I like mine and think its pretty good. Not cool though, being male and driving a "womans" 4x4 school run car.

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Oh, hang on, my dad *did* have one... 😉

911

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E30 BMW 325i sport

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In that colour too.

I drove one many many years ago, when I was still in a rusty Mini and the BMW blew me away, it felt so solid on the road, sounded amazing and the power delivery back then was enough to make you smile, I am sure there are loads of modern cars that are better, but for me, it was one hell of an eye opener back then.

^ I know where one of the Volvo's is lying, unused for 10 years...

What I really really want:
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Fiat X-19.

Wan o these
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Parked up last night at cinema and there was one there. I nearly wet myself.

Two of the above my dad had a princess and sadly i can still remember the reg, i also like the cube

Not sure if its uncool but I really want a Mk4 (I think) Golf TDI 130/150, ideally black as my bike car.

There's something about them I quite like.

Ski +1,
had a D plate 325 sport, wife deceided we needed to sell it as it cost too much to run, have VERY happy memories of the time it was ours. Would like another one day or even better an Alpina C2 2.7 (325 on steriods 210 Bhp instaed of 170Bhp......) 😀

I have a huge soft spot for these

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Thom - I reversed into the passenger side of one of those volvos years ago, quite hard, fearing the worst I got out to take a look at the damage. Not a mark on it.

2cv bamboo

I always had a soft spot for the Renault Kangoo. Ended up buying one of these as a result:

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It is slow and thirsty but very practical and for some reason makes me smile when I drive it.

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Saabs are never uncool 🙂

My Volvo is not cool but it's great as a car!
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Not even sure why really, i don't even like driving but these just appeal to me.

E30 BMW 325i sport

The OP requested UNCOOL cars... An E30 325i Sport is/was the epitome of cool... At least for me growing up anyway!

As for uncool cars that were actually quite good... I had a Citroen Xantia Active 2 litre turbo at one point. Seriously torquey engine, decently quick, cornered like it was on bloody rails due to the ridiculously clever suspension setup. By flipping a lever on the centre console you could either slam the car on the floor (for showing up the chavs with their cars with "only a 50mm drop" in the carparks on a friday night), or raise it up so it had almost 12 inches of ground clearance! It had a huge boot too, was massively comfortable.

In fact it had everything going for it, except... Well, it was a Citroen! Which meant it was bloody unreliable, and it was designed with a ruler and a set square. Cool, it was not! Oh, and it drank petrol too...

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As for other old cars I'd secretly like... Well, a Volvo 240 Estate is so uncool it's actually cool. They were built like tanks too, it would be the prime candidate for creating a monster street sleeper with a heavily turbocharged engine! That or a Volvo 360... A decently quick hatchback with rear wheel drive, and massive reliability, if not any cool factor at all.

^ What he said.

Kangoo 4x4, Vauxhall Combo, Dacia Duster, Berlingo. All are not cool!

@thisisaspoon - well that Mini certainly is uncool, all new mini's are uncool. Surely if you wanted a convertible and had that much to spend you could find a nice Alpha Romeo with a budget for maintainence.

I have plenty of car's I'd like all of them cool in my eyes, probably the top of the list would be a 2CV corrugated van like this

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^^^ too cool to go in his thread ^^^

I don't think any retro van could be considdered un-cool? It's like VW campers are cool, but almost not as the owners are trying to hard, therefore anythign else is as cool + a bit more for nto trying to be cool.

Ditto any old-skool fast BMW, or any old fast car for that matter?

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I had a 1.6l version in this colour the late 80s (don't laugh, I was given it), but I always wanted the powerful version.

Woeful round corners, and my current 2.2l diesel is way more powerful. Ho-hum.

Citroen C4 "Loeb" limited edition.

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cheshirecat.

The Capri 280 is the antithesis of uncool. It is a beautiful car. I saw one for sale last week £15k with 37,000 on the clock.

This special edition was perfect for the 1980s.

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i want a c1 / aygo/ smart coupe.

Shopping trolly on wheels - i have no where to go in it as id hate to drive it on the dualer and i cycle most other places.

But i think they are cool as **** for what they are designed to do.

My mate had a 107 as a coutesy car and it was an ace little thing - wheel on each corner revvy wee 900cc engine and it returned good fuel economy according to him (who is as anal as peterpoddy when it comes to fuel spreadsheets)

That godawful Capri convertible Ford developed in conjunction with Mazda.

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Alway fancied one of those old big engined open topped Mercs so I could cruise around Eroupe.....
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Good frined of mine has recently sunk ~£4k on a fully restored Mk3(IIRC) Escort RS1600i, just because he always wanted one as now has space in the garage. Proper 80's chav chic.

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The conversation with his wife went something like '..if I won something on Ebay and I had to head off to pick it up before the kids are up and won't get back until after they've gone to bed, which day this week would be best for you?...' I think the swearing started from there..... 😉

Always wanted a Mk1 Escort camper conversion. Hideous and so crap it's cool!

One of the 70's Works Prepared Rally Maxis.
White, black bonnet, Minilites, spare wheels on roof.
Love one.

Skoda 110R, fantastic little car.

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I'll get my coat...

Allegro vanden plas, just for that grille....

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Dacia Duster please! (and I've got one on order so there!)

A Sierra RS Cosworth. In white, obviously.

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Mine, I have it. It was a gift from my Nan. I ooze mutha funking coolness 8)

MGZT.

Why yes, that is my coat....

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Mitsubishi Dacia 4x4

I'll have a Smart Roadster Brabus Edition. They are the definition of hairdresser's cars, the gearboxes are rubbish (apparently), I think cabrios are a stupid idea in this country and it would be completely useless for biking, but still...

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Strada Abarth - good choice

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Interesting mix of genuinely un-cool and actually incredibly cool cars here. I think matt_outandabout has already posted the ultimate uncool car which is, in reality impossibly cool.

In case anybody was wondering, the coolest car in existence anywhere is a Red 1982 Porsche 944 with black Cookie Cutters, almost like this;
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pixelmix - don't they retail at near enough £300k?

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Don't knock the Lada Cossack. I once did a 600km cross country drive from Stepanakert in Nagorno Karabak to Yerevan in Armenia in one of those. All the roads were dirt tracks at best and we bought fuel from a guy with a petrol tanker and a Kalashnikov!

If you use Google to translate 'Volvo 262C' from Swedish to English it suggests 'pimp'*:

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*this may not be true.

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Skoda Yeti in black with privacy glass

A kind of middle class suburban gangster

I just bought one 🙂

When I was young my friends family garage built and sold these:

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I wanted one 😳

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jools182 - a renault 4 🙂 I learned to drive in the pick up version of that, gear stick came out of the dash board, great fun in a field aiming at the cows*

*I was 10 and my uncle who ran the farm was with me.

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Got to be a 2CV - I've heard all the bad things about them. They are girlie and french. But I want one, I really really want one.

And now especially the corrugated van in jambalaya's post

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I must protest most vigorously about a Renault 4 being in a thread about uncool cars.

+1 for Leku and Tomthumb. Lada Niva and a Volvo 240 (estate) for me...oh and an early Unimog

In V6 24V flavour

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Pigface - Member
I must protest most vigorously about a Renault 4 being in a thread about uncool cars.

I thought my Dad was very uncool for buying a new one sometime in the seventies as our main family transport. He didn't keep it very long but didn't trade it for anything much better.

I'd love to find a standard, unmolested S1 106 Rallye. Although like lots of other cars on the thread, its probably a pretty cool car, or at least I think so.

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Another uncool but actually pretty cool car, someone around me drives a mint Renault 5 monaco. In gold with leather seats. It is so awful its ace.

That's awesome... I was about to post saying I really wanted a gold vovlo 340 when I was a lad. My matr had a 2 lire one. It was a beast (compared to our 1.1 fiestas), a few years later I met a girl and decided she was the one for me when I found out she had a 340.

I've always liked big Citroens but would dare buy one! I think the C6 looks fantastic, particularly the convex rear screen.

Also like Bristols (of all types!).

I'm with pigface, Renault4's are uber cool so have no place in this ere' thread.

I've owned Smart ForTwos (though don't have one now) I've ran 7 through work fleet and kept a Pulse for years. I love them no matter what anyone thinks, they are cool so again have no place in this thread.

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I'd love to find a standard, unmolested S1 106 Rallye

You'll be lucky these days!

I had one back in 97, sold it in 2000 still standard apart from a Magnex exhaust and a Pioneer CD player, and the guy who bought it was just so relieved it was a good condition unmolested car cos all the rest were badly modified heaps even back then! FFWD 12 years, and well... How many are still on the road of the hundreds registered even?

It was a bloody good fun little car though!

Also like Bristols (of all types!).

Every red blooded male likes Big Bristols... It's something to do with something called innuendo so I'm told! 😉

Agree with some of the above, here's another I have always liked....

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Another Impreza PPP would be nice - miss it so much. Never thought to take a photo but this one is the same colour...

Rachel

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@chojin. My mum is about to sell her Elan turbo if you're interested.

Just bought my "dream" car - a new Berlingo with a modutop 😳

Oddjob - how much? 🙂

Huyjayteens, a man of class and taste. 🙂
Citroens and Bristols are indeed the cultured gentleman's conveyance of choice.

But, like most of the cars on this thread, achingly wonderful and cool.
Hardly any German cars are cool however, not even that Grosser Mercedes on the last page, so they all win.

I want a fiat multipla, do I win?