What car do you drive?

[mickle]

Now now. EVERYONE knows that hairdressers drive little 3 door, ragtop 4 x 4s and not Minis.
I had a mini, a 54 reg Cooper, called 'Red' and I loved him. Traded him in for a stupid Cooper Clubman, which was a pile of poo and spent more time being fixed than on the road.

Went and bought a new (to us) second hand car for husband yesterday. We had a tiny budget but need a second car by Monday morning latest, we can fudge all the appointments on this coming Thursday. We found a teeny tiny Daewoo Matiz in a bright green colour. It buzzes along with its 3 cylinder 798cc engine and is very economical, it is taxed and has a year's MOT as well.

Husband has called the car "Sprout".

Designed by Guigaro for FIAT, but in time it took between commissioning the job and presenting it to the board they'd changed their mind about the need for a mini people mover in the range. He bought the design back from them - turned around and offered it to the koreans and the rest is history. It's a wicked little car.

 

[addictfreak]

We have two renaults a clio and a megane. But the aim is to get rid of one and buy a motorhome, eventually.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

merc slk here, looks amusing with bike rack on the back

One of my (running) club-mates has a rack on her Porch Boxster!

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Currently I've got a BMW 3 series.
And in a couple of weeks I'll trade in the wonderful-to-drive waste of money gladly for a Suzuki Swift or something of that ilk.

I've got a 30 year old Carlton Kermesse steel road bike, and a 2001 Scott Voltage YZ-1. I don't see a correlation between the bikes and the cars.
The bikes certainly aren't the stupendously bad financial decision that the car was. Only conclusion I can come to is that 'Approved used' means 'farked up con-job', and BMW couldn't assemble a piss-up in a brewery in early 2007.

 

[EltonFrog]

After a very long wait, my new 4 wheel motorbike has finally arrived.

Is that Oxygen Blue? I thought MINI had stopped doing that colour?

 

[SS Retro]

Van with windows!

Had nice cars in the past 2 seater sports cars, convertibles, 4x4's, hot hatches. But when I was made redundant couple of years ago I immediately sold my 4x4 and got rid of the Wifes corsa VXR.

So we needed a car that could do everything camping canoeing (getting back into bikes wants on the horizon then) a lot of my canoeing and outdoor buddies all ran turbo diesel citroen berlingos or Pugeot partners and swore by them, so I followed suit. It taught me a valuable lesson a car is just a means to get around and it's still with me.

I can get two canoes on top a couple bikes in the back stood up without taking the wheels off. If I leave it on the side of a Scottish loch or river for a week no body's going to nick it, great fuel economy to boot when its knackered its getting replaced with the new shape version. We do also have a nissan micra now another box with wheels just to get about in.

 

[flissh]

Here's mine.

 

[Primal Scream]

Fiat Sedici 4x4 diesel, about the same size as a focus, great fuel economy and as reliable as a reliable thing. Very handy with the roof bars.

 

[Large]

Fiat Sedici 4x4 diesel, about the same size as a focus, great fuel economy and as reliable as a reliable thing. Very handy with the roof bars.

Love the play on words for the Sedici name. 4x4 = 16.

 

[Large]

Citroen C6
Ford Focus Zetec
(until recently a Smart City Coupe, which has been replaced by a Cannondale Bad Boy)

 

[Lee_M]

Here's mine. It's a bugger getting the bike in though

 

[donnydave]

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Here's mine.

Nice. I love seeing these out and about, and it always surprises me when looking at used prices how their value has remained over the years

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Do you remember Jeremy Clarkson testing the first Kangoos & raving about it???

I still like them, we almost bought one a few years ago, but SWMBO decided to stay 'conventional', & we bought a new ('53' at the time) Fabia estate

 

[flissh]

Nice. I love seeing these out and about, and it always surprises me when looking at used prices how their value has remained over the years

Hope it does hold it's price cos I'm selling it this summer

 

[Saluki]

Van with windows!

Had nice cars in the past 2 seater sports cars, convertibles, 4x4's, hot hatches. But when I was made redundant couple of years ago I immediately sold my 4x4 and got rid of the Wifes corsa VXR.

So we needed a car that could do everything camping canoeing (getting back into bikes wants on the horizon then) a lot of my canoeing and outdoor buddies all ran turbo diesel citroen berlingos or Pugeot partners and swore by them, so I followed suit. It taught me a valuable lesson a car is just a means to get around and it's still with me.

I can get two canoes on top a couple bikes in the back stood up without taking the wheels off. If I leave it on the side of a Scottish loch or river for a week no body's going to nick it, great fuel economy to boot when its knackered its getting replaced with the new shape version. We do also have a nissan micra now another box with wheels just to get about in.

We used to have a Renault Kangoo and it was fabulous, until it started playing us up. We could load all our dogs in, we could stuff all our camera equipment out of sight, we holidayed in in, slept in it, ate in it and put thousands of miles on the clock. The sliding door feature was very handy too. Although I was glad to get rid of it due to all the niggly little faulty, I kind of miss it too. Especially if I have a trip to IKEA