Too many cars?

[bearman68]

Same disease here.

530D E39 Saloon.
Just about to go, and will be sad to see it do so, been a lovely car, and still is. Not so practical for the family though.
Saab Estate 9.5
Decent old barge, quite like it, nothing special, but love the torque. Still it off to the sales.
Pug 406 saloon.
Emotional attachment, but I lent it to someone who stuck it in a ditch. It's damaged and not worth fixing. But nearly 300k miles and 12 years ownership has to mean something.
MR2 Mk3
Love it and keeping it.
Frontera.
Don't love it, appreciate it's practicality, but don't love it at all. Going to flog it or downgrade it to towing truck. Not sure yet.

So going to swap all that lot for a H6 Outback. Hopefully will pull the caravan waft the motorway, and be a OK ish to drive. Looking forward to 6 cylinder petrol, just not the 22mpg most seem to report. (LPG anyone?)

[Djtemeka]

I have a van(work) and a corsa 1.0 (shopping and tip runs as the van gets charged to go to the tip) THe corsa costs nothing to run as the money I save on the tip runs covers the corsa running costs and we dont need to worry about car park dings.


oh, and 4 motorbikes

[paulmakin]

i keep falling victim to the speculative ebay bid

current "fleet":

the GTV V6 (keeper)
the Stage 3 9-3 Aero with the MoT fail that needs time or money chucked at it
the 9-5 Aero to use as a daily hack whilst i sort the 9-3. but, i'll probably keep it as i have a few choice upgrades sitting in the garage which it would be rude not to utilise now that i have a 9-5 again
the "new" 9-3 Aero which matches the original in all but reg. probably end up combining the two
the spares 9-3 Aero

got an Alfa 156 and a TS GTV hanging around somewhere but they really need weighing in now that i've had anything useful off them

paul

[anonymous-user]

You're clearly a car connoisseur. I admire your Saab selection, must admit I'm really loving mine. These cars have character!

[lostkiwi]

We currently have 5, soon to be 4, then as soon as I can manage it 3.

Each car has always ahd a purpose. The Defender is a workhorse and camper, the Saab is my winter car (when it works) and the Smart is my daily.
The new acquisition will replace the Saab and be my Winter car, holiday car and long distance tourer. We don't need a workhorse any longer and we don't do camping any more either.

[Piersman2]

Me and the OH have 4 cars now:
Range Rover
Audi A4 Convertible
Boxster
XKR convertible

Not sure how we've ended with 3 convertibles, guess we like the toys.

Oh, and my motorbike which is parked up in the garden shed, forgot about that!

[PinkRinse]

At a rather hectic and busy point, the OH and I had 5 cars between us (Astra, Mini GP, Evo, Exige, Panda). I guess one doesn't count which is the Astra as its a company car but that's soon to be replaced by own own snotter as new job forces me getting my own "daily"

We're now down to an entirely respectable 4 cars between the two of us

[interloper]

Currently we have 6 cars between the two of us. 4 of those are road legal and 2 are currently projects. I think it works well because I like working on oldish cars. For me a good weekend is normally one spent in my overalls!

[V8RX7]

We've had these threads before - you aren't even in the "too many cars" postcode until you have at least 5.

I have around 15.

I regularly buy and sell cars - if I see something I fancy, I just buy it.

Recently I have bought:

Dodge Ram
200 SX
V6 MR2
Honda CR250
Merc CLK

I have 3 supercharged MX5s, 5 pick ups etc

[sebhaque]

I recently downsized from 4 cars on the driveway to just 3. I live alone, if I had company then it was 5 cars on the drive.

It's only in the last month I downsized. I went from the following:
TVR T350C
Mazda MX-5 Mk1 1.8
Volvo S60 T5
Austin Cooper

To the following:
TVR T350C
Mazda MX-5 Mk1 1.8
Mercedes-Benz C180 Wagon

Three is adequate for now. I have a choice of daily - MX-5 if the weather's favourable, Merc if it's not - and the TVR for evening/weekend noise-making.

[rswift]

Just sold my Suzuki a Cappuccino & Trabant, however replaced it with an E Type Jag .... Which just leaves my daily Jaguar X350 (rubbish in the snow, so 3 years ago bought a cheap Jeep.....turned out to be superb & still have it). My old 2cv it's a very old one 1960.... And I've owned it for 20 years, so it's staying. Matra Murena....owned for 30 years, but now needs restoring. My wife's Citroen C5.....and I still can't help browsing the classifieds

[NiceCupOfTea]

We've got 5 at the moment

Saab 900 T16S - my long term project, just don't have time to do anything to it.
TVR S2 - bit of fun, but no time to drive it
Saab 9000 - just keeps passing the MOT. Considering breaking it for useful parts for the 900 but it has been such a faithful companion it feels wrong. Was my everyday car until...
BMW 323 convertible - new everyday car, does everything very well.
Nissan Qashqai - my wife's car

BMW and Qashqai driven every day, TVR on high days and holidays, Saab 900 doesn't have an MOT at the moment, and the 9000 is SORNed and only pressed into service if we "run out" of cars.

It's just too many for me. I don't have time to keep on top of the little things and it starts getting to me. I have thought about flogging off everything but keeping the T16S as my fun car and something like a BMW 3.0 Z4 as an everyday, with the Qashqai as family transport, but undecided...

[Harji]

Neither my wife or I drive to work (once in a blue moon maybe ) but we own an RX-8 & classic SAAB 900, no off road parking, my man maths has been working overtime to justify an B7 RS4 or the new Ford Focus RS, or the Mustang V8. The SAAB will go into hibernation this winter so that er is some justification, right?

[iain25tuscan]

Hmmnn, guilty as charged here.............. however I maintain that as there are 7 days in the week and I only have 6 then I still have some wiggle room with the better half.

Current fleet is:
2001 TVR Tuscan 4ltr Sp6
2004 Mini Cooper S
2004 BMW X3 3.0 Sport Petrol (bought for the new family addition so in my mind doesn't count)
1997 Vauxhall Vectra 1.8GLS (daily hack and not worth selling)
1979 Landrover Series 3 LWB
1976 Rover SD1 3.5 V8

need to stop speculating on V12 XJS's at the moment though............

[anonymous-user]

I have 9 cars and 2 bikes,
2012 Toyota Hilux, drove today for first time in 3 months, 3 years old last week 9,000 Km on the clock.
2012 Peradua Myvi, Daily Hake
Lotus Carlton, normally gets half way to destinations and the rest on a tow truck. But I love it.
944, 1985 with 56,000 Km on the clock mint, taxed and road legal last taken out in February
1999 Z3, 64,000 mile on the clock mint, normal weekend car
Sylva Phonix, 450 brake race car.
Locost 7, hired out as a track car, currently making a profit for me
Elan Plus 2, in bits, Chassie restored, body off and ready for restoration
1700 Caterham Super sprint, new Chassis, carbon Body, R500 suspension, upgraded brakes etc all in boxes in my garage waiting to be put together to race next year.

2009 Kawasaki Vulcan my normal transport hate it, traded in a liter sport bike for this when i got to 60
1993 750 Vulcan, just been professional restored taxed and insured and need to collect from restorer.

My 'man maths are, The Pheonix, the Carlton are the only example known in Asia, the Elan and the Locust are one of less than 6 in the Country. The Z3 and the 955 are just low millage minters, so they going up in value at more than bank interest, and were all bought for the right price.

[minipower]

I currently have four cars including:
Focus ST for my commute and general duties.
Smart ForTwo for OH's commute.
Marcos GT which I keep planning to do work on but never get round to it.
Mini for fun.

I would never sell the Marcos or Mini although I do wonder at times whether i could sell them and get a nice car to cover all duties. I keep telling myself that I would regret it.

[MiniMan64]

I thought it was a pre-requisite for being a member here!

I've got 4 in this house including the wife's Fiesta

156 V6 SW for daily
fiat coupe that either needs repairing or selling
mini that is currently garaged and SORN

I'm a lightweight though, my uncle (a member here) is one short of double figures I think. Unless he's bought something else since we last spoke!

[Dog Star]

9mm said:

Most petrolheads would have lots of cars if they had the space and money. Space is the big thing - you could have a big car collection for relative peanuts.

I'm in the annoying position of having oodles of drive space, a large double garage and a carport. But three bikes and two cars fills the covered areas and everything else is covered by a canopy of huge (protected) trees; any extra cars we have just end up getting absolutely covered in sap, leaves, seed pods, bird poo etc. Even five minutes will cover a car in spots of sap if they get left out. This really puts a brake on getting more interesting "projects". It really pisses car-proud visitors.

[anonymous-user]

I have one parking space, therefore one car. I'm not happy littering my neighbourhood with unneccesary cars, making life difficult for my neighbours.

As soon as I've got more space, I'll have more cars. The more the merrier.

[DaveOrange]

I have the same problem. I currently have 6 cars and I am the only one in the house that can drive.

Cayman R - My daily

Renault Koleos - Was my wifes but due to medical reason she can no longer drive.I now use this for family stuff and tip runs.

Renault Clio - Using this to teach the girls to drive.

964RS-NGT - When I feel masochistic. It is as hard as nails.

Jensen Interceptor - Sunday wafting

McLaren 12C Spider - Sunday blasting