What boring cars did you really desire once upon a time?

[Tuvra]

I have had a few ones over the years, My dream car as a kid aged 10-15 was a Renault 5 Turbo, this R5T to me was the nicest car in the world:

I had posters of it all over my wall and would find myself thinking "one day i'll have a car like that".

As I got older then (15-16) I seen a Ford C-Max and thought a modified one of them would look ace and seriously considered one as a first car, I have no idea why I liked them so much!

[v8will]

Tuvra said:

I have had a few ones over the years, My dream car as a kid aged 10-15 was a Renault 5 Turbo, this R5T to me was the nicest car in the world:

I had posters of it all over my wall and would find myself thinking "one day i'll have a car like that".

As I got older then (15-16) I seen a Ford C-Max and thought a modified one of them would look ace and seriously considered one as a first car, I have no idea why I liked them so much!

Snap!

Perhaps that little 5 would be viewed as obscene now but 10 years ago I really did like it.

[Gompo]

Not in this colour..

[moreflaps]

Gompo said:

Not in this colour..

Wow It's an copy of a lego car! Nice

[excel monkey]

Really interesting to see so many bread and butter French cars on this thread. 306, Megane II, Twingo. They were so much more interesting than the plain Ford/Vauxhall equivalents.

If a similar thread runs in 15 years time, I don't think today's 308 and Laguna will be getting much love...

[Glade]

Mazda 323f with those tic-tac headlights.

I probably would have chavved it up as well

Edited by Glade on Saturday 10th November 07:48

[morgrp]

I used to want a volvo 240 estate, a merc w123 estate and a cavalier mk2 LXi or CDi

[NotDave]

Merc w123 280E on coilovers, wound right down! Immaculately clean and pushed to perfection.


To be fair my dad has a 280ce and a pagoda, so that may explain it!

[kotafey]

Renault 19 when I was 9 y.o.

[Matt UK]

In 1995 I would have given a limb for an M-reg Ford Fiesta 1.6 Si.

[reggie82]

I remember my dad had a Granada Scorpio on hire a couple of times when I was a kid. I thought it was the mutts nuts due to electric windows etc.

Also loved Rover Sterlings as they had all the gizmos too.

I remember thinking Escort cabriolets were really flash as well!

[matt21]

When I was 5 bog standard Orion.

When I was 15 Passat TDI. now own one.

When I was 25, and still now, a S60 D5

[steviegunn]

Used to walk past one of these (see below) every day when I did my paper round in the early 80s, thought it looked awesome (not any more).

[RoverP6B]

Oddly, I don't really remember much from my youth, except lots of Armstrong-Siddeleys in middle-class Glasgow. However, I can certainly remember the days when things like Volvos and Saabs seemed very smart and prestigious - I suppose they still do, I think the second-generation 9-5 was a stunning-looking thing, such a shame it never got a chance to prove itself, and I still quite fancy an S80 as a totally different alternative to the 'sporty' BMWs, Audis, Jags etc. First-generation Lexus IS only looks better with every successive generation that looks and drives worse. Absolutely nailed the 3-series rival first time out, seem to recall it was just as highly rated as the E46 in its time (which the W203 C-class certainly wasn't) - yet its successors have been totally off the mark. Generally, that era of Lexus was pretty fine - LS400, LS430, the GSs of the time were quite nice too. And yes, the bigger Daewoos of the 90s - particularly the Giugiaro-styled one that originated as a design proposal for the Jaguar XJ - were really quite sleek and handsome, if ultimately crap. Even the Mitsubishi Carisma-derived Volvo S40 was and is quite a pretty little thing. Golfs generally look right too - the Mk3, in the right spec, can be quite nice, and if you can find a Mk4 that hasn't been chavved out... Pininfarina Peugeots - 205, 309, 306, 405, 406, 605 (more handsome than an Alfa 164!)... lovely lookers... Citroen XM and Xantia... even the Renault Safrane was rather nice... Scorpios (apart from the frognose) and Carlton/Senators were quite nice... part of me wonders if I should have bought a Scorpio instead of an E30 318i, but I was keen to have a sharp driving tool rather than just a barge at that stage, and was rather badge conscious (and I'd had three bad experiences with 70s Fords, which rather put me off)...

[Paul O]

When I was a teen, I thought that if you rocked up in one of these (an ST24 with bodykit, black with tinted windows) that you would look like The Man. To which my mates laughabley pointed out "Not in a Mondeo, A top BMW perhaps, but not one of those..."




Other cars I have find curiously interesting in the past:

[anonymous-user]

steviegunn said:

Used to walk past one of these (see below) every day when I did my paper round in the early 80s, thought it looked awesome (not any more).

That DOES look awesome

I wanted a Rover 800. Less boring that some I guess, and I did finally scratch the itch.

[MrRee145]

For me it was always the Rover 200 Cabriolet.
The roof down 115HP from the 1.6 engine.
leather armchairs in the front

What's not to like?

[Puddenchucker]

For no other reason than it had some of it's anti-rust warranty remaining.



Because it had electric windows and sunroof.

[Liquid Tuna]

My dad had one of these when I was about 11:



I wanted him to get one of these for some reason and was bitterly disappointed when he chose the Montego instead:

[SturdyHSV]

All kinds of weird chaff.

Mid 90s Mondeo Saloon (had to be the saloon. I think BTCC played a part in this, that and I had a red scalextric one )





Also somehow liked the look of the Nissan Almera GTi...



Phwoar...