Cars you love

Moneymaker

Whether you owned them or otherwise, what cars do you, for whatever reason just love?

My 1992 Daihatsu Charade diesel comes to mind. It was a handdown, first car. Absolute shed, brutal to drive, noisy, clutch that would break your leg, 0-60 took about a week. But it absolutely never let me down, did about 80-90mpg(yes really), cheap to tax, insure and it just oozed character. After a while I learned all it's little quirks. There was something about it. I still miss it.

Foxhole Norman

Any and all E39's. They've aged so well. EG Civics too.

MuppetCheck

My old Mark 2 Leon. Not fast, a bit too thirsty and had one or two problems but loved the thing. Never kept a car as long as I did that.

The Pheasant2

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS...classic muscle, purring engine, just love it

Senecio

There will always be my first car. '76 Honda Civic Coupe.

It broke down at least once a month but with an 8mm spanner, a No. 2 Phillips screwdriver and a hammer it was back on the road quick smart. I once painted it with 20+ cans of spray paint I took from the back of my fathers hardware store. Sure, we all have stories like that about our first cars.

It meant I will always have a soft spot for Hondas. I went on to own an EG Civic follows by an EK, both VTEC. I ended my love affair with Hondas by buying the wife a BB6 Prelude VTiR.

The EG Civic was my all time favourite.

ZENER

3rd Generation Honda Prelude.

Fat Nav

I loved my sierra rs cosworth .
I spent more time going sideways than going straight

dgt

The red 406. Has never failed to make me smile or break my sh*te laughing, never a dull moment with it. Power, economy, fast, reliable and comfortable. It's life with me spent on a full straight exhaust and driven places it was never meant to go (across fields, forests, bogs, Grafton street even a disused railway track)

I really miss driving it be back soon though :cool:

GvidoR

ZENER wrote: »

3rd Generation Honda Prelude.

Those are nice, of the few cars that have 4-wheel-stering.

Let's see, cars that I love:

Nissan 300ZX 3L TT
Nissan Silvia S13/S14/S15
Mitsubishi Mirage (Mivec)
Volkswagen Jetta MK2 (Petrol, preferrably 1.8 16V like in Golf GTI)
Volkswagen Caddy/Golf Pickup (^^ same engine)

Unfortunately haven't owned any of them............ yet!

whupdedo

Mitsubishi gallant, my dream car especially the 00 model, I loved the big angry nose on them

Gumbo

Lancer Evolution's, all of them

MJ23

The Honda Civic that Butch drives in Pulp Fiction.
Land Rover defender with the big pipe coming up out of the engine.

bazz26

My old BMW E90, loved the way it handled.

Cee-Jay-Cee

88 Civic saloon. I love straight lines on cars so many Japanese cars from the 70's and 80's fall into that category.

wotzgoingon

Honda Integra type-R DC2 and DC5

Mitsubishi Mirage Asti RX Version R

Mitsubishi Lancer GSR

Theanswers

Range Rovers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX9GDYXesbA

Mycroft H

My little 95 Clio.


I loved its gutsy little 1.4 and its near 800kg weight.

Its sheer ability to chuck it into corners.

Its bare bones interior.

The fact that it would go places unheard of crammed with 5 people and still keep on giving.

The sunroof that I never dared open and it still would piss water in on top of you going round a bend.

The radiator fan that broke one day and I drove without one for near 6 months without fixing it.

The day a dead bumble bee living in an air vent shot out and went down the girlfriends top. I nearly crashed the car laughing at that one.

I regret selling it now. Fecks sake.

Lardy

Would love to own: 1952 Jaaaaag Roadster
Loved my dads old Voxhaull (Lotus) Carlton... Epic car
Favourite car I owned: Mini Clubman GT
Polo G40 would have been my favourite owned only it never made me smile like thee old Mini!

wotzgoingon

Lardy wrote: »

Would love to own: 1952 Jaaaaag Roadster
Loved my dads old Voxhaull (Lotus) Carlton... Epic car
Favourite car I owned: Mini Clubman GT

Lardy what is that geocaching in your signiture?

alfa beta

my alfa gtv

sold it when moving back to ireland in 2003 - then four years later saw it for sale on autotrader by the guy I'd sold it to - so I bought it back off him!!

only car I've owned twice!

Lardy

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Lardy what is that geocaching in your signiture?

http://www.geocaching.com/guide/

Celly Smunt

My HGT bravo.The scariest car I've ever driven, it lost me more money than it cost me to buy and when it came to reliability it was a grumpy bitch.But it was my grumpy bitch.

visual

E type jag in black with chrome wheels and exhaust, fully restored

Never owned one, probably never will but its a thing of beauty

Interslice

Loved my Citreon AX. You had to get in through the boot and out the passenger door, but I still miss it.