Guilty automotive pleasures...
23-02-2011, 05:13 PM
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Guilty automotive pleasures...
Just a random thought that crossed my mind. Are there any cars out there that you know you shouldn't like, but that you'd secretly like to own? Stuff that you know you'd get loads of stick for, or that isn't really very good, but you want one anway? I have several it seems!
Ford Puma 1.7 - My girlfriend has one and I love it! Girly to look at, and small inside, but so much fun. Revvy, willing, and such fun to chuck about down country lanes. Such a wicked little car. Shame most people would think you're a bit of a woman for owning one...
Mazda MX-5 - The original one, not the new one. Hugely girly again, but so so so nice to drive. Beautifully positioned controls, great driving position and a brilliant drive. Wasted on hairdressers!
Porsche 944 - I love these. I get abused by nearly everyone for saying it, but I love them anyway. They ooze 1980s from every rust hole, but I still want one. Saw one in PPC mag with a tuned Audi five pot turbo lump in and it made me want one even more!
Vauxhall Nova - The car everyone loved to hate a few years ago. Gone beyond chav now in my eyes. I wouldn't have a mad one, I think the 2.0 lump is too much for them, but I love the old limited edition Sport, and the rally cars of the early 90s too.
Citroen Saxo VTR/S - The car everyone loves to hate instead of the Nova. Tinny, cheap, horrible interior, impossible pedal spacing, and the worst image imaginable, but such a fun car to drive, and very capable. I went to a track day at Curborough with a mate in his VTR, with Spax dampers and R888s on, standard otherwise, and despite being surrounded by much more powerful machinery, the only car lapping quicker was a Honda S2000. Enough said.
Volvo 850 T-5/T-5R/R - Another car I got loads of stick for buying. People who don't know cars will mock you for buying a Volvo - until they go in it.
MINI Cooper S Works - I had to work on one of these on a placement for a few months. It was a MINI Challenge car and it broke constantly. It's an overpriced, not especially well built, girls car with a nasty gearbox. But I forgive it all of that for the noise it makes.
Volvo 340 - What a terrible car. But I'd love one dropped on it's arse with a T-5 engine in!
I'll shut up now, but, come on, what are the cars you secretly love?
Ford Puma 1.7 - My girlfriend has one and I love it! Girly to look at, and small inside, but so much fun. Revvy, willing, and such fun to chuck about down country lanes. Such a wicked little car. Shame most people would think you're a bit of a woman for owning one...
Mazda MX-5 - The original one, not the new one. Hugely girly again, but so so so nice to drive. Beautifully positioned controls, great driving position and a brilliant drive. Wasted on hairdressers!
Porsche 944 - I love these. I get abused by nearly everyone for saying it, but I love them anyway. They ooze 1980s from every rust hole, but I still want one. Saw one in PPC mag with a tuned Audi five pot turbo lump in and it made me want one even more!
Vauxhall Nova - The car everyone loved to hate a few years ago. Gone beyond chav now in my eyes. I wouldn't have a mad one, I think the 2.0 lump is too much for them, but I love the old limited edition Sport, and the rally cars of the early 90s too.
Citroen Saxo VTR/S - The car everyone loves to hate instead of the Nova. Tinny, cheap, horrible interior, impossible pedal spacing, and the worst image imaginable, but such a fun car to drive, and very capable. I went to a track day at Curborough with a mate in his VTR, with Spax dampers and R888s on, standard otherwise, and despite being surrounded by much more powerful machinery, the only car lapping quicker was a Honda S2000. Enough said.
Volvo 850 T-5/T-5R/R - Another car I got loads of stick for buying. People who don't know cars will mock you for buying a Volvo - until they go in it.
MINI Cooper S Works - I had to work on one of these on a placement for a few months. It was a MINI Challenge car and it broke constantly. It's an overpriced, not especially well built, girls car with a nasty gearbox. But I forgive it all of that for the noise it makes.
Volvo 340 - What a terrible car. But I'd love one dropped on it's arse with a T-5 engine in!
I'll shut up now, but, come on, what are the cars you secretly love?
23-02-2011, 05:15 PM
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would probably agree with you on the nova, as long as it was a gte/gsi..had a lend of a gte off me mate for a while and it was excellent.chuck it all over and wallop the tits off it and it loved it..so did i!!
oh and a s1 rs turbo which i bought, in the running for the most chavtastic car surely?
oh and a s1 rs turbo which i bought, in the running for the most chavtastic car surely?
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23-02-2011, 05:35 PM
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The missus has a Puma Millennium (the bright YELLOW one) which has been dropped on a set of Eibachs (it had new dampers and suspension rubber at the same time) and it's such a fucking brilliant car to actually drive. Simply awesome to drive with a willing rev-tactic engine.
Pity I look like such a raging homo driving it!
Pity I look like such a raging homo driving it!
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23-02-2011, 06:31 PM
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StreetKA - i know, it's awful in every way imaginable but just fancy one.
MGF - I know they're nasty british built cars but again, just got something about it.
Metro - With a propper 1.8 vvc k series engine
T5 - As above, ideally an estate
MV6 Omega - for the love of god why? but has something about it.
750i - never had a v12, and quite fancey one of them too.
MGF - I know they're nasty british built cars but again, just got something about it.
Metro - With a propper 1.8 vvc k series engine
T5 - As above, ideally an estate
MV6 Omega - for the love of god why? but has something about it.
750i - never had a v12, and quite fancey one of them too.
23-02-2011, 06:44 PM
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23-02-2011, 06:46 PM
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This 1.7 Puma was mine before some drunk idiot in a Vectra smashed into it while parked outside my house and wrote it off.
Absolutely brilliant drive and caused a lot of embarrassment to others in the traffic light grand prix lol. Was gutted when it happened as I'd spent a fortune on it.
and no, didn't think the Puma was 'girly' or felt any less of a man for driving it lol
some people mistake Ther Puma for that obcenity that is The Vauxhall Tigra lol
guilty pleasure:
Fiat 500 - looks pretty cool but its just a shitty punto in a different body lol
Absolutely brilliant drive and caused a lot of embarrassment to others in the traffic light grand prix lol. Was gutted when it happened as I'd spent a fortune on it.
and no, didn't think the Puma was 'girly' or felt any less of a man for driving it lol
some people mistake Ther Puma for that obcenity that is The Vauxhall Tigra lol
guilty pleasure:
Fiat 500 - looks pretty cool but its just a shitty punto in a different body lol
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23-02-2011, 07:42 PM
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Nova, had plenty and they can be cool
T5 had 2 of them both estates and there just brilliant but dam juicy,
Astra VXR, sorry i just like them and the Corsa VXR
R11/21 Turbos, both ugly as fook but sleeper action going on and both have huge potential
MG Montego Turbo, mate had one as his first car and it was mental quick, well when your 17 they are lol
Triumph Dolomite sprint, dad had one long time ago and it was soooooo cool
i could go on but i'll never hear the end of some of them
T5 had 2 of them both estates and there just brilliant but dam juicy,
Astra VXR, sorry i just like them and the Corsa VXR
R11/21 Turbos, both ugly as fook but sleeper action going on and both have huge potential
MG Montego Turbo, mate had one as his first car and it was mental quick, well when your 17 they are lol
Triumph Dolomite sprint, dad had one long time ago and it was soooooo cool
i could go on but i'll never hear the end of some of them
23-02-2011, 08:43 PM
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I've been doing work on a puma racing and they are really good fun to drive but have some pretty trick suspension and brakes, it's interesting that a few have mentioned the normal puma.
I'd like to own a pearl white renault 5 gt turbo, just purely because it was a car I should have bought when I was young, but never did. I'd love to see the look on my mates face if I bought one now, he's a total car snob and plate whore, he would probably never speak to me again lol.
I'd like to own a pearl white renault 5 gt turbo, just purely because it was a car I should have bought when I was young, but never did. I'd love to see the look on my mates face if I bought one now, he's a total car snob and plate whore, he would probably never speak to me again lol.
23-02-2011, 09:26 PM
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mine is the boggo std fiat cinquecento ive had 2 abused the shit out of them one was Ł400(left it by the side of the road) the other Ł200(sold it for 200 a year later) there so light burn out well jump evenly (not to nose heavy) puzzled alot of my mates throwing it into a wet bend and "drifting" the seats fold down and i could fit a plastering bath and all my tools in the back and 2.4m beads also loaded up 250kgs of plaster in one lol
all thing and great mpg
its not even close to a good car just liked it when i owend/abused them
the mx5 is a good one to tight handling good brakes just spin 180 easily due to the short wheel base very hard to hang out compared to everything else ive driven
all thing and great mpg
its not even close to a good car just liked it when i owend/abused them
the mx5 is a good one to tight handling good brakes just spin 180 easily due to the short wheel base very hard to hang out compared to everything else ive driven
23-02-2011, 10:26 PM
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i just bought a 51 plate puma this time last week, after having my offer refused on a mx5 lol!
the missus had a puma before that i stuck a set of H&R coilovers, 4x4 cos front brakes and it had a piper 4-2-1 manifold, sport cat and back box on, fucking loved that car, it went well, stopped like a bastard and also cornered well, but sadly had to sell before doing a trackday as we had a baby lol.
before i bought the current puma i was considering loads of shit cars lol, just need something cheap to runa nd reliable.
puma is doing ok so far lol
the missus had a puma before that i stuck a set of H&R coilovers, 4x4 cos front brakes and it had a piper 4-2-1 manifold, sport cat and back box on, fucking loved that car, it went well, stopped like a bastard and also cornered well, but sadly had to sell before doing a trackday as we had a baby lol.
before i bought the current puma i was considering loads of shit cars lol, just need something cheap to runa nd reliable.
puma is doing ok so far lol
23-02-2011, 10:29 PM
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mine is the boggo std fiat cinquecento ive had 2 abused the shit out of them one was Ł400(left it by the side of the road) the other Ł200(sold it for 200 a year later) there so light burn out well jump evenly (not to nose heavy) puzzled alot of my mates throwing it into a wet bend and "drifting" the seats fold down and i could fit a plastering bath and all my tools in the back and 2.4m beads also loaded up 250kgs of plaster in one lol
all thing and great mpg
its not even close to a good car just liked it when i owend/abused them
the mx5 is a good one to tight handling good brakes just spin 180 easily due to the short wheel base very hard to hang out compared to everything else ive driven
all thing and great mpg
its not even close to a good car just liked it when i owend/abused them
the mx5 is a good one to tight handling good brakes just spin 180 easily due to the short wheel base very hard to hang out compared to everything else ive driven
24-02-2011, 02:00 AM
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citreon zx volcane tdi my old man had it from new never once had any problem i passed my test a few years after it kicked the shite out it every where and it never broke down and still have the car sitting in the garden today (sat for a couple years now away to just weigh it in
) still has the standard exhaust from the factory worth every penny and more it ony has to get 1 ball joint replaced was great to drive (a couple years back)
) still has the standard exhaust from the factory worth every penny and more it ony has to get 1 ball joint replaced was great to drive (a couple years back)
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