Your 1 car for all occasions?
Discussion
Following on from my "rs6 the best all year all round car" thread, I thought I'd throw this out there.
Say you could only have one car, you had to use it for the commute, take it to the shops, the odd trackday, family holiday and the odd Sunday service, what would it be?
To make it more interesting include a picture if you can rather than links to classifieds, makes the thead look better!
Say you could only have one car, you had to use it for the commute, take it to the shops, the odd trackday, family holiday and the odd Sunday service, what would it be?
To make it more interesting include a picture if you can rather than links to classifieds, makes the thead look better!
This did everything I needed until recently:
It comfortably does the daily commute and weekly shop and will just about hold a week's worth of camping gear for two people. Unfortunately one thing it wont do is carry three people. If we had to drop to one car for the family, it'd probably be an E46 M3 but hopefully that'll never happen.
It comfortably does the daily commute and weekly shop and will just about hold a week's worth of camping gear for two people. Unfortunately one thing it wont do is carry three people. If we had to drop to one car for the family, it'd probably be an E46 M3 but hopefully that'll never happen.
C63 AMG 4Matic Estate for me.
I don't drive one now because the tax on something with an engine that big is punative here (£1,500 p.a.+) and as there are no race tracks I don't do track days so have an Evoque Si4 instead which is better than the Merc for ski trips, but doesn't sound as good or go as fast.
I don't drive one now because the tax on something with an engine that big is punative here (£1,500 p.a.+) and as there are no race tracks I don't do track days so have an Evoque Si4 instead which is better than the Merc for ski trips, but doesn't sound as good or go as fast.
This is my current do-it-all solution. I used to run a 3-car fleet but finances and practicality put a stop to that so this is the best compromise I could find to do everything.
I would never take it on a track day but for most kinds of road use it's great. It's fast, comfy, spacious, has a huge boot and fold down rear seats, sounds good, has 4wd, long fuel range and looks completely anonymous. It's great for the 99% of the time that driving is dull but also amusing to hustle along when the driving gets interesting.
I would never take it on a track day but for most kinds of road use it's great. It's fast, comfy, spacious, has a huge boot and fold down rear seats, sounds good, has 4wd, long fuel range and looks completely anonymous. It's great for the 99% of the time that driving is dull but also amusing to hustle along when the driving gets interesting.
I ran this a few years ago as my only car.
As per the OP's requirement i did the commute, weekly shopping, trackdays, and various holidays including camping trips and the odd Sunday service. As with the other lotus above though, only two seats so not really family-capable.
.. with 2 kids and less money, this is now the "1 car".
huge boot, seats 5, quick enough, reliable, cheap to buy and run, handles pretty well after some minor mods
Yes i'd swap it for an RS6 if i had the cash, but that would be circa three times the list price of the vRS and probably at least double the running costs.. Audi is a couple of seconds quicker to 60 but the vRS has the bigger boot.
As per the OP's requirement i did the commute, weekly shopping, trackdays, and various holidays including camping trips and the odd Sunday service. As with the other lotus above though, only two seats so not really family-capable.
.. with 2 kids and less money, this is now the "1 car".
huge boot, seats 5, quick enough, reliable, cheap to buy and run, handles pretty well after some minor mods
Yes i'd swap it for an RS6 if i had the cash, but that would be circa three times the list price of the vRS and probably at least double the running costs.. Audi is a couple of seconds quicker to 60 but the vRS has the bigger boot.
A Supercharged Range Rover would do it for me, and does, as the picture below is my own.
This does the everyday commute into London, goes to the shops, takes us all effortlessly on holiday and shrugs off weather conditions with ease. She may not be small, nimble or 'chuckable', but she's still great to drive and to be driven in.
They're rather interesting on a bendy road, but that makes them rather fun in an odd way. Loads of straight-line urge, though, and a pleasing but discreet old-school V8 burble. OK, so she weighs a lot and doesn't exactly cut through the air so much as bludgeon it, but she's immensely quiet inside.
OK, so she would be pretty useless as a track-day car, but she'd still manage it and be rather fun trying. Not that one does such things too often in a Range Rover, so her perceived weakness in this area is shadowed by her prowess in the others.
A supercharger pulley upgrade makes this one noticeably quicker than a standard 4.2, and purchase prices are pretty reasonable these days.
Can't see her generating much conversation at a PH meet, though, but the L322 shape is a pleasing one with hardly a bad line anywhere and is probably more 'PH Sunday Service 20 years from now' material.
This does the everyday commute into London, goes to the shops, takes us all effortlessly on holiday and shrugs off weather conditions with ease. She may not be small, nimble or 'chuckable', but she's still great to drive and to be driven in.
They're rather interesting on a bendy road, but that makes them rather fun in an odd way. Loads of straight-line urge, though, and a pleasing but discreet old-school V8 burble. OK, so she weighs a lot and doesn't exactly cut through the air so much as bludgeon it, but she's immensely quiet inside.
OK, so she would be pretty useless as a track-day car, but she'd still manage it and be rather fun trying. Not that one does such things too often in a Range Rover, so her perceived weakness in this area is shadowed by her prowess in the others.
A supercharger pulley upgrade makes this one noticeably quicker than a standard 4.2, and purchase prices are pretty reasonable these days.
Can't see her generating much conversation at a PH meet, though, but the L322 shape is a pleasing one with hardly a bad line anywhere and is probably more 'PH Sunday Service 20 years from now' material.
How big is this family?
If just the two of you then I'm going to have to be very predictable and say 968 Club Sport.
Holds a stupidly massive amount of stuff behind the seats and in the boot, especially if like me you have removed the MDF 'boot extender' Will get you to the 'ring in comfort and then will take you around there indecently quickly.
Then on the way back would not look out of place at the Sunday Service and the following morning is ready for the commute to work.
If you have to do more than check the oil level and tyre pressures whilst combining all of these then you are doing it all wrong.
ETA if we really have to spawn then the CS would have to become a Sport.
If just the two of you then I'm going to have to be very predictable and say 968 Club Sport.
Holds a stupidly massive amount of stuff behind the seats and in the boot, especially if like me you have removed the MDF 'boot extender' Will get you to the 'ring in comfort and then will take you around there indecently quickly.
Then on the way back would not look out of place at the Sunday Service and the following morning is ready for the commute to work.
If you have to do more than check the oil level and tyre pressures whilst combining all of these then you are doing it all wrong.
ETA if we really have to spawn then the CS would have to become a Sport.
Edited by Rude-boy on Monday 12th January 16:00
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