Rare versions of common cars

[DoubleD]

stuckmojo said:

DoubleD said:

People said similar things when the X5 first came out. I choose cars after I have driven them.

Agreed and case in point.

So you would dismis a car that you have never driven?

[anonymous-user]

MDMA . said:

Dealer near me ( Just German ) is bringing a few in from Japan at the moment. Must have 3-4 in stock at the moment.

http://www.justgerman.co.uk/results.php?start=10&a...

Went lurking on eBay earlier and saw an import one. Clean and low miles like most of the imports.

They have 275 bhp but the stats say they’re not the quickest due to the auto.

Manual ones must be very rare?

[schmalex]

stuckmojo said:

DoubleD said:

I hadnt realised that anyone had driven one yet. Was it not nice to drive?

A FWD BMW saloon is like a woman with tits on her back. I'm not interested in driving or owning one. Again, very sad to see. No point in it whatsoever (other than selling it in China first, that is)

What poppycock. In 99% of driving, a regular driver would never know the difference between front and rear wheel drive.

[Integroo]

stuckmojo said:

DoubleD said:

I hadnt realised that anyone had driven one yet. Was it not nice to drive?

A FWD BMW saloon is like a woman with tits on her back. I'm not interested in driving or owning one. Again, very sad to see. No point in it whatsoever (other than selling it in China first, that is)

I mean, I probably would...

[gazzarose]

I've got a gen 8Honda Accord Tourer Type S 180 dtec in pearl white. Gen 8s are rare, with both the tourer and Type S spec even rarer, so a tourer type S is very rare, and the white on mine was only available on A Type S so it's pretty rare. There are only 500 Type S taxed at the moment, but I'm not sure if that's a mixture of both saloon and tourer.

[stuckmojo]

DoubleD said:

So you would dismis a car that you have never driven?

No, typically not. But I don't need to drive a chinese fwd washing machine with a BMW badge to know it will be more or less the same as all other fwd washing machines. Not for me.

[chris285]

Mk3 Leon Cupra Sub 8 with Orange pack

[MDMA .]

dazwalsh said:

The volvo s80 with the v8 engine, or infact any volvo with the v8.

Young lad at work has one. Sounds nice. Will get a pic tomorrow.

[C70R]

schmalex said:

stuckmojo said:

DoubleD said:

I hadnt realised that anyone had driven one yet. Was it not nice to drive?

A FWD BMW saloon is like a woman with tits on her back. I'm not interested in driving or owning one. Again, very sad to see. No point in it whatsoever (other than selling it in China first, that is)

What poppycock. In 99% of driving, a regular driver would never know the difference between front and rear wheel drive.

You forget that we're surrounded by driving gods...

[BenjiS]

I have a current X260 model Jaguar XF S.

So what, you say?

It’s the petrol, supercharged, 3l v6

It’s quiet, smooth, comfortable, and properly fast.

On average, for the last 2.5 years, only 25 cars have been registered per quarter. There are still only around 500 of them in the country.

[94OD]

Old chap near me is on his second W12 A8. Very cool.

[johnoz]

Ford Focus St 170 Estate is a rare thing. I had one.

[TonyG2003]

@gazzarose

8th Gen Accord S type diesels? Common as muck when you have a 2.4 vtec estate - only a few sold (super reliable in the 10yrs we have had it).

[phumy]

My old Audi 80 estate

[IntriguedUser]

Toyota Corolla T sport Compressor

500 made, 250 rhd 250 lhd

[QuartzDad]

550i GT SE

1 registered according to HMAL.

[Section 8]

Beetle RSi

[DoubleSix]

Both our dailys are relatively rare versions of very common models;

BMW 130i

Audi A4 1.8T Quattro (b7)

Edited by DoubleSix on Wednesday 17th January 23:40

[dhutch]

Username... said:

Saw a Roland Garros 206 the other day

Housemate a uni had one, nice enough. He restyled the bootlid on my other housemates Series 3, found a replacement RG bootlid half an hour up the road for sensible money and offered to fit it for free for various reasons and he still declined to fix it. Nobbin.


Daniel

[donkmeister]

csd19 said:

Another one talking about my own car, but the 2.8T Elite Auto Vectra.

I'll back that one up.
I had a 2.8T Elite Estate... Never saw another in the metal, but saw 2 VXR estates. I can only imagine the intended market was former boy racers with a pension lump sum to spend, with massive brand loyalty to Vauxhall. I had the original invoice, iirc £27k for a Vectra.
Very rare for such a common car. Tyres were a challenge due to load rating too.