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I give you the Kia Borrego. Possibly the most boring thing fitted with a 3.8l V6!
Very capable and very boring.
One of these. I can even get a bike on the roof
Braaap braap...
The DrP croooz-wagon...
30mm lowered all round, with stiffer springs..
Cross climates all round too
Aged '07 Octavia, but I love it...
2l dirty diesel, but mainly used for longer journeys. Boot space is vast, and though it's currently shiny outside, the inside is a right effing pig stye!
DrP
Mine, on a hill, 1500km from home. Not sure I’d buy the same thing again in more enlightened times, but it does what I need/want from a vehicle very well. 18mpg offset by not doing many miles
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goslow, that's a kit car surely, not original?
NickC - yes, a GP Spyder. I think there were only ever thirtysomething Porsche RSK 718s built and any survivors will sell for 7 figures.
A refreshing amount of convertibles - particularly MX5s on this thread.
Better add to the mountain then....
We've got other cars and a motorbike too but this probably creates the most smiles.
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To @stumpy01
@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).
ST Estates are fairly rare but I do see some around. My mate bought a new Tangerine Scream one after seeing mine. Used prices are holding up well 🙂
Love mine.
Few little mods:
Stage 1 map.
Stage 1 intercooler.
De res exhaust.
Goes so much better now than standard. Does 23 mpg all day long 😐
2014 Vauxhall Insignia Country Tourer for shed-dragging duties...except I've only owned it for 5 weeks and its in the garage for the 3rd time after spending 90 minutes on the side fo teh road waiting for breakdown recovery... 🙁 Prior to that it was a 58 Vectra Estate 3.0cdti (4th Vectra - they are bloody big in the boot-department)- full plant-killing mode, but for shed-dragging. Oh and a Kia Picanto for Mrs Fazzini as she doesn't like big cars. No pictures as I just can't despite the current STW Witchcraft thread. One day...Aston Martin DB5 will be mine
Nice. Same year and set up as I had.
Have you updated the gearbox torque mount?
iirc the mk3 came with a ‘better’ mount as standard.
Made a huge difference I found.
Also fitted a quick shift thing. Could never make my mind up on that though. Improvement as such was minimal that if I’d never bothered it wouldn’t have ‘lost’ anything.
2003 passat estate with 230000 miles, I have owned it for 14 years and love it
A refreshing amount of convertibles – particularly MX5s on this thread.
Agreed 🙂 First time in ages we haven't had an MX-5. We had the same mk3 Sport @chrispoffer. Highly recommend the Eibach springs for it.
The trusty Subaru we have at the mo...
Highly recommend the Eibach springs for it.
@Jamze .... too many speedbumps on our estate to lower it! They do look much better though. Don't think it makes much difference to the handling, at the owners club trackday at Croft last Aug they were all as quick as each other through the twisty bits.
too many speedbumps on our estate to lower it!
There is that!
No, I’m not a vegan hippy. I bought it because it’s really fast.
Mercedes C63 wagon, makes a nice noise but due to furlough, bla, bla, bla.
It’s getting replaced by an older BMW 335d, which is almost as quick but 10x more boring to drive.
DrP
The DrP croooz-wagon…
30mm lowered all round
I could do with that on my car, so I can get the bike on the roof a bit more easily when necessary!
The family wagon.
Ying:
Yang
This is Mrs Fruitbat's car - Abarth Punto Evo
Volvo V60 & Renault Clio, about as boring as it gets!
@pictonroad, I do like Yang. What is it? Nissan Patrol? (I have no idea about cars!)
Smashing sunset too!
No, I’m not a vegan hippy. I bought it because it’s really fast.
Methinks sir doth protest too much. 🙂
I’m still rattling around in my rechassied Discovery 2 with 215,000 miles on the clock. My V70 is snapping at its heels.
My 1932 Morris Major Six is still in a barn and gets started now and then, and the Corniche is proving an excellent tool shelf still
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Navara, one step removed from a serial killer, juke Nismo an actual serial killer with no redeeming features its an onging fight to stop it killing me or me killing it. Do not buy one.
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What?
A pair of Audi’s. Year old Q5 and a 2 week old Q2.
I was led to believe this thread would be full of Mk. 3 VRS’s, but seeing as I can only see one other...
(And I want double STW points as I bought it off an another STW’er via the classifieds)
Sounding like an FN2 Type R is now officially the STW car of choice! I’ve got one too, taking us to three or four I think? Never saw that coming!
If you can live with the ride, an excellent fun, cheap and reliable car.
LWB T6 67 plate Highline for @p20 and I with our very individual take on a conversion. Daily driver (well sort of - we both cycle/walk/train to work). Absolutely love it.
Toyota Yaris for shifting people, Citroen Relay L3H2 for work, biking and camping. Only problem is that work has been crazy busy with covid so the van has done 25k since September 🤯
Just added to the stable by cashing in all my premium bonds. So I can no longer play on that thread, but will shortly be bringing a T6 camper to this one! Prob a better investment to be fair!
I think I have the same car as momo, a 1.8l corolla TS. Wouldn't mind something else; but very cheap as company car.
@momo, are you in HO?
Astra Vxline SRI TDCI
Work
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Weekend
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Currently a mazda 3 sport nav and an octavia estate for trips.
Due to wife moving sites to closer to home am thinking we will keep the mazda for now and get a van for trips.
I want a yaris gr though as they look hilarious
A 7 year old X1 -that ive owned since new - 120k miles, never missed a beat - has a few scratches and the interior is covered in mud and shit as the wife and daughter are horse obsessed which means it spends half it life transporting mud and shit covered clothing, people and assorted junk to the yard..up a mud and shit covered road. The rest of times its carrying me and my bikes, covered in mud and shit to and from the Lakes, Dales, Moors, Hamsterley etc for mountain biking. And the dog.
Our 'nice car' is a spanking new Audi Etron - which we got in November. And I crashed in January. Oops - hopefully getting it back next week from the body shop - sick of driving a Goddamn Suzuki Celery that the body shop gave us a replacement!
Audi and a BMW - tool to the max.
02 plate Mk4 Golf, 97k miles on the clock. It'll do for another couple of years.
My Vito for bike/building work duties
My wife’s 335d x-drive
My next car
2019 Golf R mk7.5. Doing about 3000 miles a year - much less than that in lockdown. 1 commute a week and then a bike trip one day at the week. Smaller than the series of A6’s and A4’s I have had - but the children don’t want to spend the same amount of days out with us now... 🙁
A 5 yr old X1 25D with all season tyres and a 5yr old Mini Cooper with all season tyres. Both insured for work use, ie the Wife takes the X1 when it’s snowing due to heated seats and 4WD and I take the mini and a shovel. I have little or no interest in cars unless they were made pre 1990. (Apart from the new Yaris GR.)
Mine and the wife's :
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Both petrol and manual.
They are non standard back badges mate.
White care has them too now ....
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My missus runs around in an all black 2007 Alfa 147 Collezione which is quite canny.
I am the proud owner of the ex Harry’s Garage Jaguar XJR in British Racing Green ...all over now (thankfully we’ve lost the Orange ‘lipstick’ and wing mirrors).
Love it (don’t care much if you don’t):
I'd love a Giulia Q.V.. Probably in red, although the Misano blue does look lovely. Until the lottery win, I'll have to make do with my S-max.
@renton they looks good. Stand out really well on the white.
Are they from Super Skoda?
I was looking at changing out to all black badges inc the detail on the boot as currently chrome. I think the 21s have black boot detail now or at least an option.
I have a 2018 superb 280 4x4, in grey. Needs a clean and will out some pics up. 🙂
Clearly this thread needs more German estates:
G21 330i
Really really enjoy this vehicle and it cost less than a bike.
A practical and reliable (= boring) 15 plate Yeti for everything and my old VW for sunnier covid free times.
Had this for almost 3 years now. I30N, ~300bhp. Super fun wee hatch.
Keep looking at what I want next, but there's no much that does the same and looks decent.
Probably a AMG 45 will be next I reckon.
@teesoo the Giulia's funny. In theory it should be a nasty evil death carriage, but it's not, it's a properly sorted, accessible, performance car. A big fluffy kitten in a tiger outfit...
...unless you put it in Race mode. Then it will bite your leg off and gnaw on it menacingly while pirouetting into a hedge.
Properly built as well, unlike this thing which is almost but not quite as unreliable as the last one. It's not set itself on fire, yet.
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Love the alfa QV!
Mine is a Toyota Corolla 2005 1.6 Automatic.
Bloody vehicle tax has gone up by £40 to £305!
I had a little prang in the wife's car earlier. It should buff out.
The arrival of kids is on the horizon, it would be rude not to make the most of our freedom...
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(3.0Si Sport 👌🏼)
BMW F31 335d. I have a 30 mile commute across some of the finest variety of roads N.Yorks has to offer, at the times of day one can press on a little without being to antisocial. The other route is the A1/A64. Says everything about the car that I stick the cruise on a camera van friendly 68mph bumble along the A64 with out fail.
That looks less like “a prang” and much more like ‘someone’ has driven the car for miles while the flailing tyre has destroyed itself and ripped a chunk of bodywork off.
**many years of rallying experience says this is tyre damage not a crash as such
Here's mine, well, you know here's hoping with my luck with images.
That's the pic the dealer had when they were selling in IRL, it's grey with a hint of green, not purple, and it's never looked as clean as that at any point I've owned it.
It's a Superb with a 190bhp tdi with 4x4 and DSG. Depending on my mood it's either a good compromise of performance and economy, or a rough riding, crashy pain in the arse that's not that quick. Either way the ride it terrible on the UKs freshly shelled urban roads, but I do love it most of the time.
It's massive, which is what I wanted when I bought it, I wish I kept looking for the estate version but the only ones I could find were the small engine ones and they're not for me.
Lots of tasty estates !
Here's mine, 20years old this year, still running nicely. It's a T5, with an LPG conversion which makes it quite reasonable to run.
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BMW F31 335d
This thread is encouraging me to think about upgrading or re-mapping my 320d 😀 I don't know why but everyone else's F31 looks better than mine although they are mostly the same on the outside!
Good Lord the new 3 series isn't a looker, is it?
Good Lord the new 3 series isn’t a looker, is it?
Nope, but the basic versions are comparative oil paintings compared to the M3 version:
Hmm - not sure one is worse than the other. The standard one above has lumps and lines all over the place along with the bumper cutting into the lights and the closed grill and the block in the lights, it just looks a mess. At least with the M3 above you can follow some of the lines in the bumper to other aspects of the car and the HUUGE kidney grills, lets face it, just like the above, they'll be covered by the number plate. I do quite like the bonnet on the new M3.