Share your petrolhead sacrilege

[DannyScene]

This thread is leaning less towards 'petrolhead sacrilege' and more towards 'I'm old/old before my years'

[irocfan]

DannyScene said:

This thread is leaning less towards 'petrolhead sacrilege' and more towards 'I'm old/old before my years'

I really LIKE the Chrysler Crossfire - how's that?

[Hell27]

I love big auto diesels
I also like most BMW's and Mercs
I think personal car finance is a rip off
2 best looking cars ever made for me are the 1967 427 Ford Mustang and the 1967 Corvette StingRay coupe
I am really tempted to buy a Citroen berlingo as a second car so as to support my cycling addiction
As I get older my desire to own a sports car wanes (apart from the aforementioned yank tanks)
I tend to disagree with most clarksonisms, but like him as I find him funny but is now a caricature of himself.
I also am bored by F1 but enjoy touring cars even though it's mainly fwd hatches and saloons these days.

[V8 FOU]

The Delorean is an ugly overrated POS.

Why do the owners always park like tts at the Brooklands meetings?

An Alpine GTA is better in all respects for less than i/2 price..

[Beer Man]

I accidentally destroyed a perfectly good and monstrously powerful Skyline GT-R 33 V-spec

[deltashad]

I quite like the look and the thought of owning a new Range Rover. I used to think vulgar oppulence over indulgement.

[Beer Man]

New Range Rovers ooooooooze class. In a way that the others (notably the X5/6 and Q7) cannot possibly emulate.

[KaraK]

I've got several, mostly I've discovered that they are sacrilege as a result of reading PH to be honest!

Firstly I hate Alfas.. I find myself genuinely bewildered that anyone can find the front end of them pretty. Secondly with the exception of the E-type I find most "classic" cars hold virtually no appeal to me, even the E-type is something I'd much rather have a modernised version such as the Eagle Speedster and finally I really didn't like the EP3 Civic Type R!

[Dave G fsi]

I don't understand/know the model system on Mercedes or Aston Martins

[sparks_E39]

I'd genuinely buy any current Maserarti over any current Aston had I the means to.

[jayfrancis]

I drive a diesel Vectra. It's my 9th Vauxhall and some of the previous ones have been diesel.

Whilst at the car wash today there was an Audi R8 and a Jaguar XF being washed. I preferred the Jag! (It was an XFR)

[Leafspring]

jayfrancis said:

I drive a diesel Vectra. It's my 9th Vauxhall and some of the previous ones have been diesel.

Whilst at the car wash today there was an Audi R8 and a Jaguar XF being washed. I preferred the Jag! (It was an XFR)

Nowt wrong with that IMO the Jag is a far more useable fast car

[jayfrancis]

Leafspring said:

jayfrancis said:

I drive a diesel Vectra. It's my 9th Vauxhall and some of the previous ones have been diesel.

Whilst at the car wash today there was an Audi R8 and a Jaguar XF being washed. I preferred the Jag! (It was an XFR)

Nowt wrong with that IMO the Jag is a far more useable fast car

The guy washing the cars agreed as well. It was lovely.

I may be tempted with an XF next...........diesel of course.

[anonymous-user]

Amirhussain said:

I don't think the E-type is the best looking car ever made, nowhere near. A Miura pisses all over it in the looks department.

Agree.

Plus:

• Anything to do with the Nurburgring bores me
• Porsches leave me cold
• There isn't a bad angle on either the Peugeot 205, 306 and Rover P6
• I don't understand nor care much for the mechanical side of cars or engines (torque, compression, BHP etc)
• Despite their best efforts, modern Audi's are very dull cars (and I say this having owned 2 previously and am now on my third). Some describe them as understated; no, they are dull.
• The Audi quattro is great on the outside only. Like a cheap old, VW inside
• Ford Anglia is one of the ugliest cars ever made
• Range Rovers are starting to appeal to me
• I'd never own one but I suspect BMW do build the best cars on the market
• All Nissan Micra drivers need help in some way, shape or form
• Ssangyong Rodius owners leave me incredulous. How on earth did you force yourself to pay money for that?

[swisstoni]

Ok I'm getting worried I signed up to this self-help group now.

[rockford22]

I currently own a white BMW diesel.....and I like it

[sparkyhx]

ferraris' do nothing for me.

[Onetrackmind]

Ive lived in a place where fuel costs about 30p per litre for the past 2yrs and not yet owned a V8. I do, howeve, have every configuration of 6 cylinder. Still, not good enough.

[fivepointnine]

I found my BMW X3 2.5i more exciting to drive than a Porsche 996 6 speed...
and I passed up a smoking deal on a '84 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe in perfect condition...to buy a '02 Boxster S.

[thatguy11]

Amirhussain said:

I also fond Aston Martins boring, they all look the same.

I'll give you that, they do....but does that make them boring?