The Best Car You Ever Owned

[pogofish]

My best is still probably my old Saab. Big, solid, fast & superb to drive.

Mechanicals great, except for wheel bearings & front calipers which wore out/seized regularly. Bearings were cheap & easy to fix, whilst calipers were eye-watering. This however was probably due to my work needing regular trips down salty & sandy estuary tracks. 4WD territory really. It coped well tho. Fuel consumption was terrible.

After I finished with it, I gave it to a relative who soldiered-on with it for another five years before scrapping it.

Currently enjoying my new car immensely - a pretty Fiat saloon with all the right toys. Which is also economic & reasonable to insure, drives really well & feels really solid too. Only time will tell if it will become as good as the Saab tho.

 

[mattie]

Had a '97 MK III GTi a few years back and it was alright, but nothing to write home about. The gearbox was woeful, like stirring porridge.

The mkIII had a pretty poor reputation, the Mk2 was quite a bit heavier than the mk1 but could be rescued by the larger engine, the Mk3 just went a little too far.

 

[Part 2]

Had two mk2 golfs, only little 1.3s. £400 a piece.

I don't look after motors and they're the perfect drive em into the ground bumper car.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Probably my Cavalier, first car I had with a decent sized engine, but sill cheap enough that I didn't give a fuck about.

From a practical point of view my Scenic is ace because I get 48mpg on a run and the seats come out the back so I can sleep in it/put kayaks in, but its boring as fuck.

 

[Pingu]

my m5

 

[Badgers]

As a real car or a toy?

 

[stupid dogbot]

I've got a 325i e30 touring right now and I'm mostly v impressed with it (although I'd prefer more legroom, being a tall git)

Yeah, the downside of that model for some - only the interior space of an Escort. Me, I'm a shortarse.

One of the best cars I've driven recently was an '88 E30 touring.

 

[Pingu]

As a real car or a toy?

real

it was a really really nice car apart from the running costs was on a 52 plate and in a lovely blue. the mielage i do means i now drive a diesil 5 series with the M sport pack added but when i stop traveling so much i will have another one.

not mine but that colour

 

[Cloud]

Mk2 golf 1.8 GL

8 years motoring for £300.

Only changed the oil once.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Someone had a shit on mine. Right on the bonnet badge.

Sorry about that!

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Bugatti Veyron

 

[Addy]

My favorite car was my Ugly, square looking thing and tottaly unhadleable in the wet, but sooo much fun to drive.
(lots of engine mods)

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Best ever. With snow tires on the front wheel drive, you could bust through snowdrifts like it was a tank.

 

[Errol's son]

I had an MGB GT V8 orginal which was a lovely car but I have to say my Toyota Landcruiser, actually a Lexus as I bought it in the States, is simply the best car in the world. It goes anywhere and is a heck of a lot cheaper and doesn't depreciate like a Range Rover. But I want a Bowler Wildcat ideally, not for every day use though. The Lexus does that.

Above - A Lexus LX

Above - A Wildcat

 

[pboi]

still own it

 

[luke1000]

best car for me is the one i got now an E36 328i lovely

 

[plurker]

my best car is my (missus's technically) current car. Though my campervan is equal in my eyes, it's the lack of it being a car that makes it ineligible for this thread

1983 Golf GX 1.5, nut n bolt engine rebuild at 62k miles, now has 65k on the clock

edited picture cause she's 40mm lower now

 

[moose]

Nice Pirellis!
We've got a Golf and a Camper too.

 

[Funky_monks]

Not strictly a car,

But I loved my 1991 Hi-Lux. Never let me down, sold it last yr with 120K on the clock and still going strong.

 

[Giles]

I had an original Elise (1998) from new. Mad little go-kart to drive. Not very practical, but who cares?

Economical as well, so long as you didn't thrash it.

Weighed less than a Mini - a proper mini, not a bloated BMW one - as well!

Giles..

 

[Sesquipedalian]

Without doubt it was a nice,fast yellow one,which i won in a race.
Brucie gave it to me even though it wasn't his to give away.
(But he is genetically different.)

I have lost it now though

 

[DeadJoe]

Early 1970s mini with an MG1300 engine transplant, cooper diff, twin carbs, four branch manifold. That was in the mid 1980s, in London. I had so much fun!