Where do your loyalties lie?
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None, I'm similar in all aspects of life really. I wouldn't buy a Mercedes C220 but I would buy a C63 AMG, similarly I wouldn't want a Audi A1 but I'd love an A5 3.0Tdi Quattro with an autobox. I wouldn't buy a Mitsubishi Colt but I love Evo's...
I find if you base each model on its own merit you can't go far wrong.
I find if you base each model on its own merit you can't go far wrong.
StottyEvo said:
None, I'm similar in all aspects of life really. I wouldn't buy a Mercedes C220 but I would buy a C63 AMG, similarly I wouldn't want a Audi A1 but I'd love an A5 3.0Tdi Quattro with an autobox. I wouldn't buy a Mitsubishi Colt but I love Evo's...
I find if you base each model on its own merit you can't go far wrong.
I need a IX in ruri blue, so bad !I find if you base each model on its own merit you can't go far wrong.
I don't have loyalties with cars, I just buy the car that suits my needs the best at any given time. That's a principle that I'm quite passionate about.
That said, like the OP and most of my friends who love driving, I've had a string of BMWs for daily drivers and am currently on my 5th, because whilst many other manufacturers provide roughly what I need in terms of practicality, BMW also have the right chassis layout and chassis tuning to make their cars drive really well. Anything else, and I do drive a range of cars from month to month, just seems like an absolute joke when you go anywhere near a corner.
Lotus also deserve a mention, because even though I don't have loyalties to particular marques, the Elise, Exige and 2-Eleven are the best cars of their type that I've ever driven, and by quite a long way. If I wanted a sports car, a focused coupé or a road legal trackday car, I wouldn't buy anything else other than an Elise, Exige or 2-Eleven.
Caterham also - they only do a very specific thing, but they just do it so unbelievably well.
That said, like the OP and most of my friends who love driving, I've had a string of BMWs for daily drivers and am currently on my 5th, because whilst many other manufacturers provide roughly what I need in terms of practicality, BMW also have the right chassis layout and chassis tuning to make their cars drive really well. Anything else, and I do drive a range of cars from month to month, just seems like an absolute joke when you go anywhere near a corner.
Lotus also deserve a mention, because even though I don't have loyalties to particular marques, the Elise, Exige and 2-Eleven are the best cars of their type that I've ever driven, and by quite a long way. If I wanted a sports car, a focused coupé or a road legal trackday car, I wouldn't buy anything else other than an Elise, Exige or 2-Eleven.
Caterham also - they only do a very specific thing, but they just do it so unbelievably well.
I don't have loyalty to any one particular manufacturer but I do like certain periods/types of car such as:
- 90s Toyotas. They made such a lot of cool stuff back then and nothing beats them for reliability
- Pre-95 Mercedes. I love the engineering, the styling, pretty much everything about them actually
- 60s & 70s US Muscle. Gotta love a huge pushrod V8 and the looks back then
- 90s Japanese turbo nuttermobiles
Was a Fiat man in my youth, after 6 years I then moved to Volvo and stayed there until I broke the T5 for spares. Im still a moderator on the forum (T5D5) and still have a V70, but I don't feel any loyalty to Volvo any more.
I now have an MX5 that is currently the worlds slowest build and the hand-me-down V70 will go once it becomes uneconomical to repair for either a Honda CTR or ATR.
Got my mum to buy a Honda Jazz and the missus a Nissan X-Trail.
Think I'm slowly turning Japanese.
I now have an MX5 that is currently the worlds slowest build and the hand-me-down V70 will go once it becomes uneconomical to repair for either a Honda CTR or ATR.
Got my mum to buy a Honda Jazz and the missus a Nissan X-Trail.
Think I'm slowly turning Japanese.
I always try to buy British, even if it is only in spirit, rather than actual brand ownership these days.
As a 'grown-up' I've owned Lotus (Malaysian), Land Rover (British and Indian owned), MINI (see above), Jaguar (Ford era), but also Saab, Subaru and Skoda (pre-VW). All the cars I've bought new have been 'British'.
I have a particular fondness for Subaru and Land Rover. I have never owned (though driven a few rentals) anything German - they just don't do it for me.
As a 'grown-up' I've owned Lotus (Malaysian), Land Rover (British and Indian owned), MINI (see above), Jaguar (Ford era), but also Saab, Subaru and Skoda (pre-VW). All the cars I've bought new have been 'British'.
I have a particular fondness for Subaru and Land Rover. I have never owned (though driven a few rentals) anything German - they just don't do it for me.
I'd like to say that I have no loyalties but my car history suggests otherwise...the last 4 cars I have owned have been BMW (and owned 5 in total).
I have no affinity to the brands itself, it has simply been the case that BMW has always had a car in their line up that meets the requirements I had at the time. I've always test driven the alternatives and have even put down deposits on other brands but something has always fallen through at the last minute and seen me run back to BMW. On the plus side I've become quite confident with repairs, coding and have a good relationship with a few BM specialists...perhaps I am "locked in" now and will never change marque (a la Apple iPOD!)
I have no affinity to the brands itself, it has simply been the case that BMW has always had a car in their line up that meets the requirements I had at the time. I've always test driven the alternatives and have even put down deposits on other brands but something has always fallen through at the last minute and seen me run back to BMW. On the plus side I've become quite confident with repairs, coding and have a good relationship with a few BM specialists...perhaps I am "locked in" now and will never change marque (a la Apple iPOD!)
No brand loyalties as such, but the closest I can compare to is that I prefer German cars.....
Had Japanese, usually mechanically great, but the interiors (and this is more significant, the older I get) are nasty, tacky little hateful affairs.
Not had too much to do with Ford or Vauxhall (aside from my early years).
I've enjoyed my time with the German stuff - Audi, VW, Porsche.
Not tried Italian - yet
Dan
Had Japanese, usually mechanically great, but the interiors (and this is more significant, the older I get) are nasty, tacky little hateful affairs.
Not had too much to do with Ford or Vauxhall (aside from my early years).
I've enjoyed my time with the German stuff - Audi, VW, Porsche.
Not tried Italian - yet
Dan
PorkRind said:
StottyEvo said:
None, I'm similar in all aspects of life really. I wouldn't buy a Mercedes C220 but I would buy a C63 AMG, similarly I wouldn't want a Audi A1 but I'd love an A5 3.0Tdi Quattro with an autobox. I wouldn't buy a Mitsubishi Colt but I love Evo's...
I find if you base each model on its own merit you can't go far wrong.
I need a IX in ruri blue, so bad !I find if you base each model on its own merit you can't go far wrong.
Prices are on the up so buy soon!
Started with a Pug 106, then Astra Coupe, VX220, VX220.
I'd like to think the future will be a mixture of British handling and American power - with the next car potentially being an Aussie brute.
The list of cars I'd like to own at some point...
VXR8
Exige V6
Camaro
Morgan 3W
Any McLaren
And the MUST own..
Any Viper
I'd like to think the future will be a mixture of British handling and American power - with the next car potentially being an Aussie brute.
The list of cars I'd like to own at some point...
VXR8
Exige V6
Camaro
Morgan 3W
Any McLaren
And the MUST own..
Any Viper
Darko92 said:
I've been driving for near enough 5 and a bit years now (young I know) but have changed almost 8 cars already.
I started off with your standard tin-can hatchback but then I ventured onto BMW's.. Since then, I haven't wanted to drive anything else. I have had other cars in between but it's always been a hateful relationship until I get back in the seat of a BMW.
They're unreliable, expensive and thirsty and people call you a tw*t but I honestly can't see myself driving anything else day-to-day.
What about you, where are your brand loyalties and why?
All sounds a bit dumb to me.I started off with your standard tin-can hatchback but then I ventured onto BMW's.. Since then, I haven't wanted to drive anything else. I have had other cars in between but it's always been a hateful relationship until I get back in the seat of a BMW.
They're unreliable, expensive and thirsty and people call you a tw*t but I honestly can't see myself driving anything else day-to-day.
What about you, where are your brand loyalties and why?
I buy & drive cars I like. Surely buying cars you don't like will only end up with, I dunno, you not liking the experience.
I am a big fan of Fords and have owned 7 of them over the years and still really like them, I seem to have been pretty loyal to BMW over the last few years though and had 7 of them too.
Loved my TVR that I had for just over 6 years but my 200sx that I had for 4 years has been the favourite car I have had out of the lot of them.
Loved my TVR that I had for just over 6 years but my 200sx that I had for 4 years has been the favourite car I have had out of the lot of them.
300bhp/ton said:
All sounds a bit dumb to me.
I buy & drive cars I like. Surely buying cars you don't like will only end up with, I dunno, you not liking the experience.
That's true but you got to keep in mind that cars you like, aren't always cars you can have/afford. Sometimes situations call for you to have to get something you don't particularly like but it does it's job.I buy & drive cars I like. Surely buying cars you don't like will only end up with, I dunno, you not liking the experience.
Maybe "Loyalties" is the wrong word, I was more after seeing what kind of cars people generally stick to.
I'm surprised at the amount of people that swear by VAG cars - I just don't get their appeal.
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