Everyday cars which are already starting to disappear

[matrignano]

Is the focus mk2 the most extinct common car ever?

[Leptons]

Vauxhall Corsa “limited edition”, saw one yesterday for the first time in ages. They used to be Everywhere!

The Renault espace above is a good suggestion. I hadn’t seen one of those for ages until one crashed into me a few weeks ago.

The First generation Transit connect used to be everywhere, I had one. Mostly all rusted away by now.

[colin79666]

Fiat Punto. Ten years ago they were quite common (Grande Punto/Evo anyway). I had a couple myself on 56 and 08 plates. The 08 still appears to be getting MOTs but the 56 disappeared a few years ago along with just about every one on the road it seems. Odd as the FIRE engines are pretty reliable and wouldn’t have though rust would be such an issue yet. Of course doesn’t help that Fiat never really replaced it and kept it on the market past it’s sell by date.

Edited by colin79666 on Thursday 30th September 22:58

[Sebring440]

matrignano said:

Is the focus mk2 the most extinct common car ever?

I don't think so.

They're all over the place.

[Tuvra]

blue_haddock said:

I wonder what Ronnie Pickering is now driving......

Who?!?

[gazza285]

Leptons said:

The First generation Transit connect used to be everywhere, I had one. Mostly all rusted away by now.

Really? I see thousands of the bloody things, we still have an '08 at work that we abuse, and there's no rust.

[njw1]

gazza285 said:

Leptons said:

The First generation Transit connect used to be everywhere, I had one. Mostly all rusted away by now.

Really? I see thousands of the bloody things, we still have an '08 at work that we abuse, and there's no rust.

The mk1 Connect seems to be the builders van of choice around this way and the more beat up and rusty it is the better by the look of things!

[Davie]

Leptons said:

Vauxhall Corsa “limited edition”, saw one yesterday for the first time in ages. They used to be Everywhere!

Yes, but driven by a certain demographic who seemed more concerned with ragging the tits of them, rolling joints in them and transporting the slaggy young team around rather than any element of maintenance and care. So they were probably abused badly and thus had a very short shelf life once in these hands. Makes you wonder if the likes of the Mk7 Fiesta ST-Line or whatever the yoof are thrashing around today will suffer a similar fate. The first gen Ibiza Cupra used to be pretty common, it was cheap and quick they're almost extinct now. See the above.

[e600]

Speaking of Fords, anyone seen a Scorpio lately?

[gazza285]

e600 said:

Speaking of Fords, anyone seen a Scorpio lately?

No.

There’s 51 still running though.

[Mr Tidy]

e600 said:

Speaking of Fords, anyone seen a Scorpio lately?

No, not since I sold my 1985 Scorpio in 1991!

Anyone seen a Sierra Sapphire lately?

Or a Vauxhall Nova like my late Mum bought in 1992?

Cars just seem to disappear!

[njw1]

e600 said:

Speaking of Fords, anyone seen a Scorpio lately?

If you mean one of those horrible bug eyed things, then no, thankfully, I was offered one for scrap value quite a few years ago as the guy needed it gone and got my hopes up thinking it was a mk3 Scorpio, the disappointment when I arrived and saw that it wasn't a mk3 was immense, I told the guy to scrap it..

[njw1]

Mr Tidy said:

No, not since I sold my 1985 Scorpio in 1991!

Ford didn't discontinue the Scorpio until 1998 yet you haven't seen one since 1991?

[bristolracer]

Mr Tidy said:

Cars just seem to disappear!

And the passing of time also fades from PH'ers brains
A 1995 car would now be 26 years old. Is it surprising they are all gone?

[bennno]

I just got a cheap one owner rx8 to use and stick away, used to be lots on road. Guessing engine maladies have culled numbers

[Levin]

Mr Tidy said:

Anyone seen a Sierra Sapphire lately?

Yesterday! I saw about 40+ in August... mind you, that was a Sierra Owners' Club day out.

[s m]

Levin said:

Mr Tidy said:

Anyone seen a Sierra Sapphire lately?

Yesterday! I saw about 40+ in August... mind you, that was a Sierra Owners' Club day out.

Haha! Was passed by a fair few a month or so back obviously late for a show.

Still see a fair few old Sierras and Mk2/3 Cavaliers locally
Mk1 Punto is something that seems to have disappeared from round here though

[finlo]

Mr Tidy said:

e600 said:

Speaking of Fords, anyone seen a Scorpio lately?

No, not since I sold my 1985 Scorpio in 1991!

Anyone seen a Sierra Sapphire lately?

Or a Vauxhall Nova like my late Mum bought in 1992?

Cars just seem to disappear!

Yep, chap in my town has a gold Sapphire Ghia used as a daily.

[donkmeister]

bristolracer said:

Mr Tidy said:

Cars just seem to disappear!

And the passing of time also fades from PH'ers brains
A 1995 car would now be 26 years old. Is it surprising they are all gone?

The scrappage schemes (government backed and manufacturer-backed) since then haven't helped. Someone, possibly on PH, had been at one of the storage sites and seen some pretty nice cars that were being scrapped and it wasn't legal to buy them back.

[aka_kerrly]

neutral 3 said:

Early KAs used to be everywhere, but Rot has killed them !

I was only saying this the other day. They used to be everywhere.

A lad I work with has a ridiculously clean 2003 model in a kind of burnt orange with colour coded bumpers and the 70hp duratec. It's strangely pleasing to see how well it's surviving.