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Big Skoda estate? Check.
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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
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Non-sensible
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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
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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
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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!!
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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
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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!
My old Octavia is now in Poland, replaced by this:
I love it, I like the way it looks, it’s very well equipped, it’s very comfortable and the driving position suits me perfectly, and the 1.0 EcoBoost motor seems to be getting better and better - it had 3300 miles on it when I got it last August, and it was 14 months old, it’s now got just shy of 8000 miles, and it does move along pretty quickly.
A remap is something for the future, take it from 125 bhp to nearly 150, with a boost to the torque, to improve overtaking when necessary.
Slightly shonky 2007 VW Caddy, usual lowered/facelifted/big wheels/remapped ect treatment. I've painted mine like an old Land Rover though. And a dull but worthy 2010 Volvo C30.
No, that's not how this thread works.
V70 D5 Manual
probably the shittest car on here
An inline five. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
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 🤣🤣
If it helps, my car is 36 years old and probably has quite low power (300ish bhp) compared to modern cars.
I still think ebikes are terrible for the environment 😉
Mazda CX-9. 3.7l V6.
Judge away 🤣
My old Octavia is now in Poland
I was staying with friends in Munich when a "visit Poland" advert came on the tv, they all laughed and said "yes: come to Poland.... your car is already here"
Put 20k on this thing since buying it for a little over a grand 18 months ago.
Seen here in Gibraltar with Morocco in the background.
couchy
Free Member
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
You must have missed my car.lol For even more kudos it's now a Cat N write off courtesy of a neighbour that can't leave a car in gear on a hill... Or put the hand brake on.
There are also a fair few on here that don't have a car for whatever reason.
However, yes, if the Ling Wars™ thread taught me one thing (amongst many) there are a lot of petrol heads on here.😉
Posting photos here is witchcraft.
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Stage 1, 5 pot. Chav life. Too many doors
Also a Mondeo for family duties.
My eyes! I’m not supposed to get gopping in them.
Cubes are mega. Shush now.
Obligatory 2008 v70 D5 auto as bike/general thing. Bloody love it. Far more than previous 95 aero.
Also constantly trying to find a bike rack for this, but 12 years later, still nothing.
Ooh, classy
Mint. Love FD's, they look much nicer with only subtle mods.
Here we go Drac, another couple, just for you 😘
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Oh, and Kayla1 won this thread way back on page 3 or whatever.
Oops, double post
Thanks 👍 externally pretty standard, but mucked about a fair bit underneath. I fell in love with them in my early teens and it was always a bit of a dream. I adore the shape, and never wanted to mess about with the exterior (it's got a small diffuser and sideskirts, but that's it)
And yes, I've rebuilt it twice, but one was for tuning reasons 😀
2018 Ford Galaxy. It’s ace!
Put 20k on this thing since buying it for a little over a grand 18 months ago.
Yep, people do spend a lot of money keeping their old crap VW vans on the road.
😜
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!
LOL!
In the past two years we've never had all three working at the same time!
Horse OK - Car OK - Trailer Broken
Trailer OK - Car Broken - Horse Broken
Horse Broken - Car OK - Trailer OK
Horse would be off to the glue factory if it was down to me - sodding thing has cost more than all our cars combined in the last two years! And another trip to the vets on Tues for Back scan, Back Xray and endoscopy to check it's bloody stomach ulcers have cleared up! 😱😱
No car or van since 2004. I feel better for it.
Standard issue 14 plate Octavia diesel for us. Expect we'll keep it until it dies. Although the oldest is learning to drive so may get him insured on it, at which point im sure he'll bin it.
My 20year old t4
it\s red inside as it used to look like this
Toyota Hi-lux (68) queen cab works vehicle that I have private use on, excellent for towing the caravan.
Volvo D5 manual (55) 190,000 miles on it currently, love it!
VW Polo (06) 3 cylinder 1.2 powered go anywhere vehicle. Kind of surplus to requirements currently but while hold onto it for our youngest learning to drive.
Latest addition Smart forfour (17) ideal as a little run about and the ridiculous turning circle.
My Focus ST3 petrol estate. Just had it's 4th birthday last week. 22k miles as I ride to work 3 days a week but enjoy it when I can.
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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 🤣🤣
You sound surprised... I stay well clear of most of the political threads in here, it reads like The Guardian🤣
I'm just surprised by how few people have vans. Unless they're interpreting the thread title very narrowly
Sounds exactly the same as our horse. looks like an ACL thing now so 12 months rest and only a slight chance it'll come good afterwards!
Hyundai i30 N Performance - awaiting all the brand snobs to have a go at the "Korean junk"
I've got a doblo maxi crew cab for everyday and bike duties.
Lack of going out, no holidays left, working all through this past year left me with a bit of extra cash and an itch.
I'm forty and never had a non sensible car so Bought myself an mx5 for a bit of fun
My first propper forray into Bangernomics. The last car I just kept long after it was worth anything until it got written off. This one was just cheap even with covid tax applied.
Shame as Colin the C-maxeratri was in much better condition than Benoit the Berlingo (I've already decided 2 years ahead of time it's not worth doing the cambelt and I'm reluctant to say the clutch is quite right).
Mr Toad the Midget (named by my GF). Actually gets driven quite a few miles as I like to try and justify it in 45p's for work.
The Cube is awesome, have wanted one for a long time. Think I'm too much of a pauper for this thread.
3 Series GT
Pros
More luggage space than a Touring with the seats down.
More legroom in the back than a 5 series
High ride height
Cons
Looks
Sadly predictable Octavia Scout
PiknMix and Kayla1 win this thread by a mile.
I really miss the Panda we had until two years ago, every journey is fun.
Currently very boring Qashqai and Fabia in our house being replaced by Octavia hybrid and Peugeot Traveller which will double as a van and camper.
DrP
This is what sits on my driveway 99.9% of it’s life
Are we living parallel lives. I have one of those on my drive, same everything. Is yours also dinged up and scraped by the wife?
servo
My Focus ST3 petrol estate.
@servo - I was looking at the diesel version of these as an alternative to to Leon I ended up with.
It proved too hard to find one relatively local to look at - they are pretty rare in diesel & estate body.
I love the looks & the interior, but like I say it was very hard to find an estate to look at (managed to have a poke about in a hatchback at my local dealer).
I used to be really into cars
Then I had kids and got a van shaped Mondeo.....
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I've got a Subaru Levorg identical to this one. After years of Alfa Romeo hatchbacks (147/147 GTA/MiTo) we needed a family car. This was available when looking and ticks most of the boxes. It's not exciting but comfortable, speedy enough and a good size without intimidating the Mrs. 😉
subaru...
no photos of the T5 moneypit....
No pictures but. Recently got rid on my full on ASBO Electric Orange Ford Focus ST.
Drank petrol far too quickly and ultimately by today’s standards not that quick. In 6yrs of ownership though it never put a foot wrong.
Criticism has to be lack of cruise control (tart?!) but it could become tiring on long trips.
The sound of the I5 engine though. Lovely.
Have gone completely the opposite direction now. Lost a 1000cc of displacement and 2 cylinders and got 6 month old (at the time) ex BMW head office 1 series that looks like it was basically an end of line exercise in ticking every option box.
I may miss the noise and grunt of the ST but the BMW is a vastly nicer place to sit in every other way.