What small cars don't boy racers drive?

[moose]

Just think of it as a Polo having a bad hair day.

 

[Looby]

Anyway I'm now the proud owner of a Skoda Fabia. It's actually a really good little car. However - being the generation that I am - I can't help feeling just a little bit self conscious - I'm sure I'll get over it soon.
It is - supposedly - really a volkswagon underneath, and if you look at the badge from far enough away it looks like a BMW!

Lot of people tried to get me to buy a skoda when I got my Corsa but I was teased at school about my dad driving one and I just couldn't bring myself to buy one. I know they are really good cars though.

 

[Chz]

The new (new? they're 6 years old now) model Micras are at least somewhat flashier than the old ones, but a boy racer still wouldn't touch it. *Very* girly, if that's ok for you. I always feel a bit silly at first when I borrow the gf's car, but then it is probably the easiest to drive car I've ever been in, so it goes away quickly. At least it's just a blue 2-door instead of the pink C+C she wanted.

 

[marty21]

It's not just boy racers who nick bits off other cars.

Years ago my mate had one of these-

and he nicked a wheel off another one cos he'd fucked one of his.

That's not a boy racer car at all!!

There used to be a gang in finsbury park who specialized in nicking metros, my mate had one nicked, and I heard of a few others as well, they weren't stolen to be sold on though, just stolen, trashed and burnt

 

[sim667]

I was also gonna suggest a renault twingo, but they seem to have made it boy racer ish

 

[Roadkill]

The boy racer version!

I fear the 6R4 is a bit beyond the average boy racer's pocket - and anyway, there's no space in the back for carting your mates about whilst driving recklessly round and round the ring road and it's so loud you can't hear them speak.

This is more of a boy racer's Metro:

 

[kabbes]

How about the Fiat Panda? Particularly the 4x4 version, if it has different specs for its parts (I don't know if it does or doesn't) -- no boy racer is going to want a 60bhp vehicle that shifts to 4 wheel drive as soon as it starts to wheelspin.

 

[IC3D]

I started a metro with a penknife once, It also opened the door

 

[Roadkill]

No self-respecting boy racer would ever be seen in anything so old-fashioned, so slow or so camp.

I, on the other hand, would love one.

 

[marty21]

I started a metro with a penknife once, It also opened the door

there was no point in locking them

 

[Griff]

I bought a brand new MG Metro in that same colour back in '85.

Fucking piece of shit.

 

[Roadkill]

Come to think of it, even older, slower and camper than a Minor is ...

Austin A35.

 

[marty21]

Come to think of it, even older, slower and camper than a Minor is ...

Austin A35.

I like them, saw one the other day, was driving behind it, but it was on a trailer

 

[stupid dogbot]

I bought a brand new MG Metro in that same colour back in '85.

Fucking piece of shit.

 

[Roadkill]

I bought a brand new MG Metro in that same colour back in '85.

Fucking piece of shit.

I've never liked Metros either. They're just like a slightly bigger, less agile Mini with most of the same faults and none of the charm.

On the subject of uncool small British cars, however, another nomination has occurred to me:

They're actually great little cars, but you do run the risk of looking like Basil Fawlty if you drive one...

 

[marty21]

more fine british car design - the austin princess

can't understand why we don't build cars anymore

 

[Roadkill]

more fine british car design - the austin princess

I thought we had to stick to small cars, otherwise I'd have nominated that and the Austin Maxi long ago! I saw a really smart Maxi for sale recently, actually. It brought back a few memories, it wasn't expensive and I did find myself thinking that it could actually be quite a practical buy..

*e2a* On a serious note, the Princess and the Maxi - and for that matter the Allegro - are quite good allegories for British Leyland as a whole. All of them were fairly innovative designs incorporating a lot of fresh thinking and some innovative technology: all of them also looked awful and fell to bits in short order. Good ideas, badly executed: that's the story of the latter days of the British car industry...

 

[kabbes]

How the hell has this thread degenerated into a discussion about crappy British cars from the 70s and 80s?

 

[stupid dogbot]

Someone mentioned Metros.

 

[marty21]

How the hell has this thread degenerated into a discussion about crappy British cars from the 70s and 80s?

Degenerated?

it has been elevated

 

[kabbes]

We had an Austin Allegro estate when I was about 13. It was bright blue. I knew we were getting a new car (where "new" = "about 7 years old") whilst I was at a friend's birthday disco, but I didn't know what it was going to be. My friend's dad and I took us to the disco in his Morgan, which was the very epitome of cool when you were 13. We were being picked up in our new car, which we were both excited about. And then this bright blue Allegro estate showed up. The shame!

I grew to love it though. Boy, was it comfortable to ride in. Like being driven in a pile of blankets.

 

[Griff]

And then this bright blue Allegro estate showed up. The shame!

Always had a softspot for the Vanden Plas Allegro in all its walnut, leather seat-fronted, big-grilled naffness.