One for the girls, best and worst car (date)

[Nicol@]

Girls, inspired by the 'best car to not impress a girlfriend', what are the best and worst cars you have been taken to a date in?

Boys, if a girl has taken you out, then you can add those too.

[MGgeordie]

You girls tend not to have a great taste in cars, best & worst I have been taken out for a date in :

Best - Vauxhall Omega (only because it was a 2.5V6 with full leather) !!
Worst - Fiat Panda (The old one, think it was a 1989 F reg - hateful thing!)

Most girls I have been out with have had the usual tat, Corsas, Fiestas etc...run of the mill stuff.

My current partner has an MGF which is quite nice, better than the P reg Punto that She had when I first met her...!

[iridebikes]

I would say one of the best cars ive been taken out in was probably a 206 TD, worst probably a 106 diesel..

Im only in my first few years driving so noone my age has anything decent..

[Ozzie Osmond]

I was driven around Paris by a very charming young lady in a Mazda MX5....

[pti]

Taken out by a girl in a Daewoo Matiz. It didn't last long.

[Russell Mc]

With an ex girlfriend the first time she ever drove us somewhere in her Civic we crashed into a tree

[Matt UK]

C'mon Nicole, you started the thread - what's your best and worst?

[reggie82]

A girl picked up my cousin in a battered old fiesta once. Not too bad, apart from the lock on the passenger door had broken so he had to climb in from the drivers side!

[jamieduff1981]

No-one ever took me out on dates. Luckily, it turns out that my wife is:

a) fairly interested in cars and

b) competent enough for me to have no reservations in driving anything at all that she/we/I might want to own

...which is nice. When I met her I had a Rover 620iSD which was in good nick and a nice blend of pleasant/comfortable/economical at the time. Hardly exciting, but it gave a better impression than my dress sense at the time.

[New POD]

My first date with my wife involved my dad's 1.6 Sierra estate, in beige, with a spec which included poverty in car entertainment. I.e. a blank plate instead of the stereo that wasn't fitted.

The fact that I'd actually passed my test seemed to impress. Second date involved me handing her a crash helmet, and taking her out on my 125 (I had passed my test on that too).

[sylva41]

Matt UK said:

C'mon Nicole, you started the thread - what's your best and worst?

Was the best a Yellow MkII Elise?

[z4chris99]

I once picked up a girl in a mini metro which didn't go down well.

[Liquid Knight]

MGgeordie said:

Worst - Fiat Panda (The old one, think it was a 1989 F reg - hateful thing!)

Couldn't disagree more. When I had my first Panda I also had a BMW 325 company car. I couldn't pull the skin off custard in the BMW but in the Panda (Bianca) I met and went out with for nearly a year Miss Slovakia 1999. The seats fold flat and with the roof open the car was as good as a convertible only with a little more privacy and little side wind. My fondness for these cars and the fact I don't need a big car means I have the green one above and I'm building one for this years Practical Performance Car £999 Challenge.



With women drivers in mind Pandas are Swizz Army knives on wheels. With the rear seat folded up the floor space is flat, the same as a Euro pallet...



...and the car can take the weight of an engine with ease. I'm over six foot and have no problems getting my nephews in the back. Easy to maintain, flat surfaces are easy to keep clean, the canvas dash can hold as much as the boot and a cavernous door pouch wide enough to take coffee cups and big enough for store a months supply of make up.

For the ladies the Panda also came in a very limited edition pink colour.



I thought I'd comment before the rest of the Pandaist find out you slated the greatest car ever built.

[Mr2Mike]

pti said:

Taken out by a girl in a Daewoo Matiz. It didn't last long.

What about the relationship?

[Captain Muppet]

Best car: Proton Gen2.

Yet they get sniffy when I turn up in an old BMW.

[big_boz]

Gotta Agree with Liquid Knight, I had a knackered old Panda Bianca at Uni and it was a bird magnet compared with the 316 E30 I had the year after!

Back on Topic, Met a girl on a night out in Leeds when i was about 20, sounded utterly full of st but was a looker and a couple of years older than me so agreed to meet her for dinner, she turned up to pick me up in a brand new RR and wouldn't let me pay for anything...turns out she was the daughter of the guy who owns a well known greetings card company, she was still full of st at dinner but I was impressed with the wheels (hers not her fathers btw)

Another date and another young lady agreed to drive us into town and leave her car so i could leave my car at hers (good start as basically on a promise ......She pulls a Pristine E34 Alpina B10 out of the garage which is sitting next to V12 Jag XJS, well impressed with that, frankly i would have taken the car for a drive rather than go out for a drink with her as she was utterly crackers.

Car i took my now wife out in on our first date.....a battered old white Xantia 1.9d tank, she hated that car so i must have done something else right!

[AndyM31]

My G/F came around to pick me up in her convertible BMW 125i in Blue, full leather, this has been the best so far through the years. An ex of mine once came to pick me up in a battered Fiat, cant remember the model. All I remember is that the gearbox was very temperamental.

[lockhart flawse]

I met and went out with for nearly a year Miss Slovakia 1999.

and I wouldn't throw her out of bed for eating biscuits...

[big_boz]

Which of you two lucky fkers went out with Miss Slovakia 1999 first? you should compare...ahem...notes

[awooga]

My now wife picked me up on our first date in a bought from new Skoda Fabia. Wasn't the worst car in the world, but not particularly imaginative.

She now has a saab 9-3 convertible.

My old Capri, while not exactly a bird magnet, certainly generated more conversations with girls than any other car I've owned. Only small boys got excited by loud yellow convertibles and they're not my type!