whats your motoring guilty secret?

[Mr Tidy]

My 1st car was a MK2 Cortina 1500 in billy basic spec, but with a 1600E wooden dash and a remote gearshift!

I "improved" it by fitting some GT badges I bought from a breaker's yard - but it didn't go any faster with them.

[itcaptainslow]

Digby said:

I still like to speed up for humpback bridges and get that tingling feeling in my nuts.

That's what she said.

A friend’s son described it as a “fizzy willy”.

[jakesmith]

Digby said:

We had a 453 Brabus with the dual clutch setup. Was like a comical mini F1 car

Turning circle on it was side-splittingly funny.

I have a 453 0.9 non Brabus it’s a hoot!

[swisstoni]

I like French barges.

[Cliftonite]

Gad-Westy said:

I currently have a massive want to buy a car that makes 13-17bhp in standard form. It's absolutely top of the pile of my wishlist.

Ford Model T ?

Although they are circa 20 hp

[Captainspuds]

I had a Carina E, and 9/10 times I'd drive it rather than my Cerbera. I also really like Rover 75's and Fiat 500's in girly duck egg blue. I also love Audi A2's.
I'm so ashamed.

[Davie]

I can't remember when I last exceeded 70mph... though highly likely, the wife was driving at the time.

[Thales]

I love a fwd fi hatchback. No real desire to purchase anything more than 4 cylinders.

[Brink]

I would to like to own a 1954 Hillman Minx Californian and a 1963 Humber Imperial.

[Uggers]

I think I prefer driving the Shogun more than the RS6

[CharlieAlphaMike]

I thought the Morris Marina 1.3 L 4 door saloon that my dad hired (back in the day), was a great car. In my defence, I was about 10 years old at the time and his 'normal' car was a Morris Minor

[jakesmith]

I prefer taking the Smart car to the R8 for many journeys, especially if I don’t know what the parking situation is at the other end or if it’s the morning rush hour with heavy traffic.

[AceKid]

I have a few...

I happily "sticker modded" my first car, a 1987 Ford Orion 1.4 Ghia, massive Oakley sticker in back window and "Bad to the Bone" across the top of the windscreen.....I thought i looked cool!

I drive like a tt if I listen to The Prodigy when i drive...brings out some sort of anger issues!

In my 24 years of driving, I have owned nearly 40 cars, only ever one at a time and my favourite was my 1992 Vauxhall Cavalier SRI.

I could go on....but i dont want to........maybe save it for the therapist

[blearyeyedboy]

carlove said:

I actually have an Astra, which I keep thinking of replacing this year, but having sat in a few similar cars, there's nothing I prefer. I had a new model A180 hire car a few weeks back, it was very flashy and it certainly looked the part, but for driving experience it had nothing on the Astra, it was slow, not that comfortable, not that refined and despite being covered in screens wasn't actually better for equipment. The only real advantages were the LED headlights and the speakers were better.
I was glad to be back in the Astra. So my confession is not only do I drive an Astra, I also really like it

it's also a diesel, please don't ban me .

Thank you. I feel validated in expressing my alternative lifestyle preferences without (as much) shame.

Got to say that the 1.6 turbo petrol caught my eye: 197 bhp in a light body and 0-60 in 6.6 is none too shabby (!). But even the 1.0 I drove was a really good powertrain.

Edited by blearyeyedboy on Friday 17th January 07:39

[slopes]

I'm not impressed by modern Ferarri's

[anonymous-user]

I prefer tinkering with my cars to driving them most of the time. Also my buying criteria are slightly archaic. No turbos, only Supercharged or NA, no active suspension or e diffs or any of that nonsense. Which is probably why I still own an 03 Cooper S and seem to only want to add a Landy and Elise or early 996 to the stable...

I also don't understand why anyone likes most modern cars, my chums all seem to want the latest m2/m3/m4 RS4 etc. I can't think of anything worse than some over complicated turbo nonsense with huge wheels, its not the price or the PCP that bothers me, its the needless complexity of modern cars.

[CRA1G]

I like yellow BMW's.....

[Roger Irrelevant]

I really like driving our bog standard 1.3 Yaris.

I let my wife choose her own car.

I really like modern turbo engines. Including diesels. And I like stop/start. And automatics.

[nobrakes]

Said through eyelets in a paper bag over my head, I like the look of:

Vauxhall Signum

Mercedes R class (LWB)

[Mafffew]

blearyeyedboy said:

Thank you. I feel validated in expressing my alternative lifestyle preferences without (as much) shame.

Got to say that the 1.6 turbo petrol caught my eye: 197 bhp in a light body and 0-60 in 6.6 is none too shabby (!). But even the 1.0 I drove was a really good powertrain.

Edited by blearyeyedboy on Friday 17th January 07:39

For one reason for another, I drove one daily for quite a while.

I'd describe it as being fine, in that there isn't really much wrong with it.Quick enough, comfortable, well equipped, economical and was reliable. However, the problem is I just found it dull. I am by no means suggesting I want a car that is the opposite of all these things, but it just felt like it was missing something. It was never a car that I'd park and look back on, I wouldn't have been bothered if it was stolen either (other than the financial implications obviously)...