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Nice, I always liked Cavaliers :)
Aye me too, had a few Mk2's then onto the 3's, few GSi's, then strayed into a Calibra Turbo then n my 2nd Cav Turbo now...
Time for another update....Quote:
Originally Posted by CocoPops
So, the Golf Ed30 got put back to standard and part exchanged for a 2007 MX-5 Mk3 2.0 Sport. I bought it March 2010 and by May 2010 had been lowered, had a oversteery geometry setup and I completed my first track day with Lotus on Track at Silverstone Stowe circuit. I was asked by no less than 3 lotus owners what I'd done to it... some very surprised looks when I said it was standard bar some lowering springs :reckon: BT07JFY (became V22LAC as was common for this plate to be on my sporty cars VX220, S2000 and Golf Ed30)
The Smart then got sold and I bought a sensible Ford Focus as my misses was pregnant and was due in December 2010..... BT55JXY then became V33LAC as I bought a corresponding plate to go with V22LAC.
I kept the Ford Focus from May 2010 until March2011 when the realisation that after 3months with the twins... that a focus wasn't big enough! :) So I got all sensible and bought a Volkswagen Passat 2.0 Diesel DSG Estate :D WK58WY then became V33LAC as I part exchanged the Focus.
As for the MX-5, well I still kept that until August (just a few weeks ago) when I took it to Anglesey for a VX220 Trackday... uh oh... I wanted a VX220 again, Even tho the MX-5 really did itself proud by showing up some VXs but it couldn't compete with the SuperCharged or Turbo cars.
So, the latest addition to the 'Pops stable is a 2003 VX220 in Solid Yellow... standard for... hmmm not long :D Plans are afoot to SuperCharge it, which should see it around 250bhp or just under 300bhp/ton. Yes, the VX220 formally HT03YZS will soon be known as V22LAC, so the V22 plate will be back where it started, on a VX220 :)
So in summary, Since the start (1996):
1983 Golf 1.1
1986 Ford Fiesta 1.4 Ghia
1994 Toyota Startlet GT Turbo
1998 Nissan Almera 1.4
2002 Nissan Almera 2.2 Sport+ (New)
2002 Nissan Primera 2.2 SVE
2003 Renault Clio 172 2.0 Sport
2004 Renault Clio 182 2.0 Sport (New)
2005 Westfield 2.0 SEiW (New)
2001 Vauxhall VX220 2.2
2005 Nissan Micra 160SR (New)
2005 Honda S2000
1993 Ford Fiesta 1.25
2008 Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 30 (New)
2004 Smart Roadster
2005 Ford Focus 1.8 Ghia
2007 Mazda MX-5 2.0 Sport
2008 Volkswagen Passat Estate Highline
2003 Vauxhall VX220 2.2
(Some have been concurrent, like Passat+VX now)
Good lad, I wouldnt mind a 220 as a toy at some point, the missus has said I can have what I want if I sell the Cav, granted I was looking at Monaro's and VXR8's at the time, I'm sure the 220 could be practical :lol:
I drive a 2003 Astra SXI MK4 that i bought for £1000, its gets me from A to B, i do a lot of mileage for work in a van so really only need the car to commute as i work outside of public transport hours.
When/if i come to sell it i am sure i will make a couple of hundred profit on it, and one day i might own a MK5. :)
Mine's not really a heap, but it's old and battered and filthy.
I bought a BMW 740i E32 in Luxembourg in 2003 for €4,000. It is a 1993 model and at the time was immaculate except for a tiny rust blister in the rear number plate area. It's metallic silver blue with French airforce blue seats. I have only one photo of it I can find, which is really weird as I love it, and you can't see the front.
It was a temporary purchase, as I was expecting to leave after a couple of years and sell it, but I moved over to Zurich, which wasn't far, so I drove, then I moved just down the road to Brussels, so I took it with me, then I moved to Paris, and I took it with me, then I moved down to the South of France while working in Paris, so I took it with me. Since I live in Paris and drive it every two or three weeks when I go down south there's no point in replacing it with a new car.
Now the poor old beast is 19 years old and has a dent on the near-side rear door from where I drove over a bent tree branch in it, has a missing chin spoiler grill from hitting something else and is full of dust and gets left standing in the garage for three weeks at a time and still runs like a dream. The a/c doesn't work, but that's why we have windows.
It has let me down once in its long life, when an electrical failure grounded it, and I have made only one modification, to put in a decent sound system that plays MP3s loudly. It still has the original integrated telephone (the size of a brick), and it still works.
My wife had a M-B CLK 320 when I bought this, and it gave her more trouble in 2 years, until we got rid of it, than my Big Blue has in its entire life.
I have covered nearly 250k kilometres in it, often at high speed, (it's only done 330k kms) I have driven from Carcassonne in the South of France to the Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, on the northern border of Belgium, and then back after 3 days of metal :rockon: I once raced a Bentley on an autobahn near Luxembourg (I am electronically limited to 240k/h) and have actually beaten a Z3 in a hill climb out of the Grund in Luxembourg.
I have used it for carrying beech and oak logs from the forest to home, sometimes around 1 tonne of them, and I have carried friends, family, cases of wine, dying dogs, young sex-attack victims, vomiting cats, plants, trees, power metal guitarists, illegal drugs, manure and once a live wild boar piglet (marcassin).
I recently drove from Carcassonne up to Germany (for Wacken open air festival) and was able to stretch it on autobahn again and it went to 240kph.
I can honestly say that it has been my favourite car, beating my wife's SL500, and my old 500 SEC and another dozen or so, always fun, cars. It's worth the risk of buying one, or an E38, if you don't mind the thirsty nature of the V8 and can afford to walk away from it in extremis. You may well be very pleasantly surprised.
Since this thread's resurfaced and it rhymes with heap...
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It's rubbish! But it has a 4.0 stright 6, so I don't care ;)
My first ever car was a Skoda 126 that a mate gave me before I passed my test to give me something to practice in, it lasted 2 weeks before it was spitting fuel everywhere from a split fuel line.
Next was Mini 1000 bought off of a mate that I drove around for ages, loved that car it stuck to the road like baby poop on a blanket and I drove it like I'd stole it :D ahhh happy days
On the original, presumably Nikasil, engine?:eek: No sulphur at all in European petrol then?
I love E38s and I've been ever so tempted to buy one recently now you can get an enthusiast owned Alusil 740i for under £2k. But it'd be a waste really as I so rarely venture out of London.Quote:
It's worth the risk of buying one, or an E38, if you don't mind the thirsty nature of the V8 and can afford to walk away from it in extremis. You may well be very pleasantly surprised.
One of those rare occasions was this weekend though, and it was an interesting one in my sh1theap, a 1996 Mk1 Mondeo 1.8TD Ghia. I've had it nearly two years now, and got it for £550 including 6 months tax from my father in law (so under £500 for the car, effectively). I never actually gave him any cash, just paid for our family holiday that year. A year later it got hit by one of our bus drivers while it was parked up at the entrance of the garage I work at; they just wrote me a cheque for £350 and I just stuck the rear bumper back on with gaffa tape. That wasn't an MOT fail, but a shagged front wishbone bush was- £100 including labour. So excluding the unavoidable costs of tax, MOT, and insurance, the car owes me £250.
So- last weekend. We had a long standing invite to go up and party with my best mate's old uni friend in Liverpool. Initially the plan was to get the train but the tickets would have been £70 each- or £100 for first class which my mate claims is a necessity on a long trip, seeing as he's a fat git. I figured it'd cost a maximum of £80 in diesel, so we decided to drive it. The train takes about 2 1/2 hours from Euston to Liverpool, but then there's a good hour of travel from SE London where we live to Euston, plus a 30 minute car ride at the other end from Liverpool station to his mate's house. All the online route plannners reckoned we could do the drive in 4 1/2 hours.
We set off at about 10.50am Friday; I brimmed the tank at the Sainsburys near the O2 on Greenwich Peninsula just before the Blackwall Tunnel- it took a smidge over 12 gallons, which cost £74!:eek:. Then we had a pretty smooth journey round the M25 with only one little tailback to worry about. But the overhead gantries were warning that the M1 was closed between J12 and J13- we decided to press on. When we got onto the M1 it was lovely and clear- until we hit a solid tailback 200yds before J11. Oh right- still closed then. So we headed off at J11 to try and get round it- straight into Dunstable where apparently 80% of M1 users had had the same idea.
Approx 90 minutes and one McDonalds meal later we were back on the M1, having seen one of the trucks that caused the closure coming the other way on a recovery truck as we went down to rejoin the motorway. An hour behind schedule, I floored it up the motorway doing about 80 as far as the M6 toll, which I was looking forward to as I've never driven it before. Unfortunately as we approached it I hit an expansion joint and heard a bang followed by a scraping noise. When it didn't go away I figured I'd better hit the hard shoulder- I'd just rotated the tyres, and perhaps my Lidl torque wrench wasn't up to the job. Looking under the car, the cause became obvious- the undertray had come loose and was scraping along the road. I was able to simple rip it off one side mounting, but the other side wouldn't come off, so we had to limp it off the motorway. After my google phone failed to fined me a local garage I rolled up at an industrial estate, managed to borrow a 10mm spanner from some refrigeration engineers, pulled the undertray off and stuffed it in the boot, and we hit the road again. The M6 toll was fine, and the car easily cruised at 85 despite the now compromised underbody aerodynamics, but the non-toll portion of the M6 north of Stafford was nose to tail with frequent stops due to sheer weight of traffic. We eventually rolled up to his mate's house at about 5.30 after a journey of more than 6 1/2 hours.
The run back on Sunday was a lot better with only minor traffic delays, although I came the closest I've been in 10 years to a major accident when a moron in a Corsa B pulled right out into my lane in busy 70mph traffic causing me to brake really hard to avoid him. When I got home after 470 miles I checked the fuel gauge, and I reckon there's nearly 4 gallons left in the tank, meaning that the car had averaged over 55mpg- possibly nearer 60! Considering that we spent over an hour crawling 5 miles through Dunstable, and another hour stopping and starting on the M6, and the rest of the time attempting to cruise at 70+, I think that's quite incredible.
Ford apparently spent a billion dollars developing the Mondeo- and IMO it shows. Mine still rides beautifully and corners hard. If I was buying one now I'd probably go for a Mk2 since they're just as cheap and apparently have even better suspension/handling- but they're exceptional cars. If you need a banger you'd be a fool not to check one out.
after a few poor financial desicions i had to sell my St205 celica GT4, and after a brief stint in a company 60plate poverty spec C3, i am now driving a 93 1.4 astra ;p and its toilet. quite fast in a way but utterly dangerous at anymore than the speed limit! i am currently looking at clio 172s, get a good example for under 2k now.
A very good car all in all. But sadly, for me, a disappointment when I came to it.
Sure, the handling was competent in it's class, well in advance of the accident-damaged-shopping-trolly outgoing Cav.
The downside was that I was benching it from a car that came before. When I felt the time was right to move beyond on from Sierra, I found the Mondeo wobbly and gutless in comparison. The 2.0 Zetecs infuriated me ever time I had to drop a cog to pick up from 50 to 70 and the V6/ST24 had some guts but started to really show up handling limitations on the platform. From what I heard, they really went to town with the package on the ST200, but I can't say I've tried it.
I guess I'm only posting in response to the word 'beautifully'. Adequately would be my experience of them. I just remember the disappointment of going to try a few with a mind to buy and being let down.
I very much agree, a good cheap buy now. Spares are plentiful and pattern parts are cheap (£6 rear discs for instance). Might even find a clutch change costs less than a house now (only because house prices have dropped ;) )