Your Machines Past And Present....

[Stuno1]

Here are some of my bikes and cars...

Started off my car interest with a skoda fabia vrs. Was mapped to 175BHP and I added lowering springs, wheels, splitter etc. wheels were a mistake. Was fun modding this car.

Sold this and bought a Mazda 3 mps aero. Again started modding! Wheels, exhaust, black badges etc 265bhp front wheel drive. Loved this car.

Then bought a rx8 231. Again few mods done like boot spoiler etc. cracking car but oil consumption and mpg don't add up for a 231bhp car. Also, gearbox went pop! Great looking car though. Racing beat exhaust sounded great.

Then needed some money so sold this and bought a v6 200bhp fto. Real chav car and loved it to bits. Did Loads of mods to this one. Mainly interior but also exhaust, wheels intake etc. lots more engine bling on this one. Took my modding a different direction.

Sold this for the biker dream and bought a ninja c1h 636 and a seat leon 1.6 se. Loved the ninja but it got stolen :(

Then bought my GSXR 750. Spent loads modding this from carbon fibre panels to exhaust to levers etc

Then moved to Chelmsford. Went contracting and bought my isf. Hands down best car I have ever owned.

Stu

[Stuno1]

Few sound clips in there as well :)

FTO one is clip of the car.

[Boxbrownie]

You started with a Fabia? Blimey you must be a baby my first car was a 1965 Mini I bought for £50 (and I was done!) it was only 6 years old at the time.

I have a list somewhere, its long and varied with some very nice what now would be considered classics........if only we knew then what we (think) we know now!

[Stuno1]

Lol. If 30 is a baby then i am indeed :)

Made a fair few modding mistakes with these cars. It's all a learning curve I guess.

My brother is 32 and has had over 25 cars. There are a few inbetween my ones above but only a few.

Stu

[Boxbrownie]

Lol. If 30 is a baby then i am indeed :)

You are indeed...........or so it feels to me! :D

[bobbyc]

First car was a Vauxhall Vectra 1.8. Most basis car in the world but other than odds and end never caused me many problems and I certainly got my money worth out of it and it is still running today.

Moved onto a Mazda 6 sport. Lovely car and very high spec. Did not notice how basis the Vectra was until I got this. Great car to drive and was ideal for the family. Unfortuantely it hit black ice in December and was written off.

Then brought the Lexus Is250 because I had always liked them. This is a step up from the Mazda which I did consider very good, however the Lexus is more refined and feels very well build. So far more than happy with this car and hopeful will have for many years. Also on Saturday my wife is going to pick up a Mini Cooper so I will be playing about in that "go kart" over the next few months.

[IHgs300]

My first car was a hand painted black Ford Escort MK2 van, donated to me by my Grandad. Things then got worse and i purchased an Austin Allegro.

[harrylime]

I tried to count the cars I have has a while back, and gave up on about 65, but I currently have a Lexus LS 400, possibly the best car I have ever had, a Skoda Octavia TDI , brilliant workhorse, my wife has a Fiat Panda, a lot better than you would think. In my garage I have a Jaguar Mk 2 3.4 manual with overdrive, owned, minus a break, since 1977, and a Lancia 2000 HF Pininfarina Coupe. Both of these have been off the road for some years and need restoration, when I finish my house renovation. They are two of the most beautiful cars ever designed in my opinion.

Among my past cars I have had a Jaguar XF 3.0 D Portfolio - not bad but unsupportive seats and way too expensive to leave parked anywhere - 42 mpg all day long though. A Renault 16 TL, the most comfortable car I ever had and incredibly quiet, a Datsun 180 SSS, the noisiest car I ever had, the engine drone gave me headaches. I had a Vauxhall Viva HA, which was horrible, a Cortina Mk 3 1300, the slowest and most underpowered car I ever had, several Rover 2000s, which were lovely things but you could watch them rusting before your eyes. I had a couple of W124 Mercs, which were brilliantly engineered and put together. I had several Mk 2 Golf GTIs, which were brilliant - foot down in any gear, at any speed and you were off. The ride was too harsh for south yorkshire roads though. I had a couple of Cavaliers, a Mk 2 LX and a Mk 3 2000, they were good cars. I was given a Volvo 340 and quickly gave it away again. I had a Audi 90 2.2 which I loved and kept for a long time. The 5 cylinder engine was sublime. I had a Renault Espace, which was great in many ways, and a Mk1 Escort that wasn't. I had an Audi A4, efficient but soulless, A VW Beetle old style, could not keep up with the rust, a Triumph 200 that was OK but drank petrol at an alarming rate. I had a Mazda MX-5 until last year, which was brilliant. Handled like a go kart with a very comfortable ride - how do they do that? I had a BMW E46 BMW 330 D for a long time 40 mpg all day long, a fantastic engine, but £4K in bills whilst under warranty scared me off, also they do nasty run flat tyres now which are a bad idea imho.

It took me many years before Lexus came onto my radar, the LS is probably the best of the lot, wish I had looked at them years ago.

One question, what is the best looking car ever made? in my opinion, the Lancia Aurelia B20 .

[baxlin]

First car - Morris 8 convertible, 1937, followed by 1953 Anglia, Morris 1000 Traveller, 1961 Frogeye Sprite, HB Viva, classic Mini

Then my car nadir, 1300 Allegro.....

Then variously Rover 75, SAAB 93 convertible, C220 Merc.

Bikes?

Norton 350, Honda VT250, CX500, Yam XS400, etc

Current toy, a CX500 engined Morganesque 3wheeler which I built in the late 90s. See avatar pic

As you might gather, I'm a little older than previous posters!

Best looking car? Sunbeam Talbot 90, the Alpine convertible version, there's a superb example in the Gaydon Heritage Museum.

[rayaans]

My car list is tiny!

1982 Ford fiesta in some shade of blue - bought in an auction in 1996

1999 VW Passat Sport 1.8T - again bought in auction in 2002. It was in Futura Yellow and had bulletproof glass lol

2004 Lexus RX300 SE in astral black - from new

2004 Mercedes C220 CDI in perlite grey- 2 years old from dealer. Still got this one

2012 Lexus RX450H F Sport in Arctic pearl- from new

[Connoisseur]

1982 Talbot Horizon - pushed it to 100mph downhill on the M1 near Sheffield; never repeated

1988 Ford Escort XR3i -

then kids so:

1 x Datsun

3 x Montego inc. Perkins diesel powered 7 seater estate

Honda Accord Coupe Fastback 2.3 :)

Rover 75 2.5 V6

Volvo S40 D5 - what an engine - wolf dressed as sheep

MINI Cooper (swmbo)

2004 Lexus SC430 :) a keeper

Kia Diesel - vfm car working an eight month contract - honest :)

Lexus GS450h S-EL another keeper

Mercedes CLC Sport (swmbo)

[stevet]

Bet I've missed some out but :-

Datsun 100A - Mustard yellow, 100k miles when I bought it but driving it to and from uni it died at over 200k miles, most amazing was I knew nothing about cars then and it was never serviced! Only died due to floor rusting through, engine & gearbox were still perfect and never let me down.

Ford Fiesta 1.1L

Ford Fiesta XR2 MK1

MG Midget

Sierra XR4x4

Escort XR3i

Bond Bug

Volvo 745 (bought just get my private reg off in 1987 and been on every car since. Sold for what I paid for it, so got reg for nothing)

Fiesta MK3

Passat 1.6d estate

Cavalier SRi

Peugeot 106d

Peugeot 406

Lexus IS200 - Lexus UK's Aztec Fire demonstrator

IS300 Sportcross

Another IS200

RX300

Another IS300 Sportcross

Alfa 147 Ti

IS250 MK2

Audi Q5

Alfa Brera 3.2

Alfa Brera 2.4d

Alfa Giulietta Veloce

Lexus ISF

Lexus 400h

Lexus GS250

[Spacewagon52]

Over the years I have spent a fortune on cars and drink ........................... I have wsasted the rest!

Car List

Austin A55 Pick-up van (Began by driving around a field)

NSU Prinz (Drove around a field)

1961 Ford Anglia 105E 997cc (First car in my name)

1969 Ford Cortina Mk
II 1300cc

1966 Ford Cortina Mk I 1500cc

1972 Ford Escort 1300cc 4
door

1978 Datsun Sunny 1200cc

1965 VW Beetle 1300cc

1965 Ford Thames 400E
Van 1703cc OHV

1966 Hillman Imp 875cc (Head gasket went had to keep topping
with water!)

1976 Toyota Corolla E30 4
door 1166cc (Rust - had been in the sea!
Interesting story)

1974 Toyota Carina 4 door 1600cc
(superb car)

1978 Mitsubishi Colt Sigma
1600cc

1982 Mitsubishi Colt Galant
2000cc manual (very reliable car)

1982 Volvo 240 GLE Estate
2300cc (a dog!)

1988 Hyundai Stellar 1600
cc (no power steering!)

1991 Mitsubishi Galant
1800cc 4 door saloon (very reliable car)

1998 Mitsubishi Galant
2000cc 4 door saloon (Flat Red – faded paintwork!)

Austin Metro 1000cc (What a heap!)

1990 Mitsubishi Space Wagon
MkI 1800cc (served us well)

1992 Hyundai Pony 1300cc
(inherited from my father)

2003 Mitsubishi Space Wagon
2.0 Classic (Only new car I have ever bought)

1999 Renault Kangoo 1.9
Diesel (Another Dog!)

2000 VW Golf 1600cc Auto

1996 Lexus LS 400 Mk3 ( best
car I had owned so far but not the most expensive!)

1999 BMW 525 Diesel Estate 2500cc (A real dog!)

2004 Skoda Octavia Estate
1900cc Diesel (Turbo went - £1300 – economy gone!)

2009 Mitsubishi Grandis 2000cc
Diesel (excellent tow car)

1998 Lexus LS 400 Mk4 (Now
the best!)

[Derek870]

Had a load of cars, but first was Mk3 Cortina 1600GXL with wood everywhere

Cost me £200 and £250 to insure!

Loved it, got nicked 3 times, you could start the thing with anything resembling a key

Worst car was an Allegro, what a heap of junk good old BL!