New Here, What is Everyone Driving These Days
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Hey everyone,
I am new to PistonHeads and just finding my way around the forum. Thought I do kick things off with a simple question:
What are you currently driving and what do you love or hate about it?
Daily driver, weekend toy, project car.
Looking forward to getting to know some of you and reading about the variety of machines out there.
Cheers,
Moe
moe313 said:
Daily driver, weekend toy, project car.
Daily 2010 635DWeekend Car 2005 645 convertible
Project car (they sort of all are on rotation but currently) 2004 645 Coupe
I like their value for money, fast enough, 1 frugal, 1 noisy, 1 wafty.
What I don't like? Not exactly nimble, some repair/electric issue fears (nothing too bad as yet) pita to work on but rewarding 'if' you can get them back to 100% working!
Daily is a Macan Turbo. High spec, carbon ceramic brakes, CarPlay etc. Decent enough for an SUV.
Fun car is a GT-R LM20. Not had it long so honeymoon period but so far it's amazing. Brought it into work today.
Try to cover off most other bases too so also:
Discovery 5 (7 seater and great for daily life). Good for trailer towing etc.
Passat Estate - perfect dog wagon and 800 miles to a tank. Surpisingly nice to drive. Leather, CarPlay etc even if it is a 1.6 Diesel..
Transporter T5 camper. Nice to drive and perfect for the occasional overnight stay.
Horse Lorry. Great 'living' so ideal for longer stays away, ferrying horses about of course but also any bigger stuff
Quad - for farm duties and generally whizzing about. Really fun. Road legal but you just wouldn't want to
Tractor - road legal too so i'm counting it. Great for topping fields, moving stuff about in the bucket, climbing on to reach things etc.
Missing a convertible but woudl likely only get used for an evening pub run and when we do that we want to take the dogs. Probs swap the T5 for a bigger campervan as the lorry is too big to use regularly for that.
Nothing super new so fairly stable and low depreciation which makes it easier for me to justify more vehicles than I otherwise could. Nothing irreplaceable too so they feel like 'savings' although that really is man maths at work with tax, insurance and maintenance costs!
Fun car is a GT-R LM20. Not had it long so honeymoon period but so far it's amazing. Brought it into work today.
Try to cover off most other bases too so also:
Discovery 5 (7 seater and great for daily life). Good for trailer towing etc.
Passat Estate - perfect dog wagon and 800 miles to a tank. Surpisingly nice to drive. Leather, CarPlay etc even if it is a 1.6 Diesel..
Transporter T5 camper. Nice to drive and perfect for the occasional overnight stay.
Horse Lorry. Great 'living' so ideal for longer stays away, ferrying horses about of course but also any bigger stuff
Quad - for farm duties and generally whizzing about. Really fun. Road legal but you just wouldn't want to
Tractor - road legal too so i'm counting it. Great for topping fields, moving stuff about in the bucket, climbing on to reach things etc.
Missing a convertible but woudl likely only get used for an evening pub run and when we do that we want to take the dogs. Probs swap the T5 for a bigger campervan as the lorry is too big to use regularly for that.
Nothing super new so fairly stable and low depreciation which makes it easier for me to justify more vehicles than I otherwise could. Nothing irreplaceable too so they feel like 'savings' although that really is man maths at work with tax, insurance and maintenance costs!
moe313 said:
Hey everyone,
I am new to PistonHeads and just finding my way around the forum. Thought I do kick things off with a simple question:
What are you currently driving and what do you love or hate about it?
Daily driver, weekend toy, project car.
Looking forward to getting to know some of you and reading about the variety of machines out there.
Cheers,
Moe
Welcome to this generally (!) very informed and friendly thread. I drive nothing very interesting unlike Riley Blue with his classic 1.5 or maybe it should read One Point Five. Notice that pedantry is encouraged. We have a few moderniish cars in the extended family but I must admit that my wife s basic Panda can be good fun. No gimmicks what you see is what you get.
I am new to PistonHeads and just finding my way around the forum. Thought I do kick things off with a simple question:
What are you currently driving and what do you love or hate about it?
Daily driver, weekend toy, project car.
Looking forward to getting to know some of you and reading about the variety of machines out there.
Cheers,
Moe
Welcome to this generally (!) very informed and friendly thread. I drive nothing very interesting unlike Riley Blue with his classic 1.5 or maybe it should read One Point Five. Notice that pedantry is encouraged. We have a few moderniish cars in the extended family but I must admit that my wife s basic Panda can be good fun. No gimmicks what you see is what you get.
Edited by Lester H on Thursday 19th June 14:50
Edited by Lester H on Thursday 19th June 15:49
Welcome!
Sadly due to saving for a house I don't own anything remotely interesting
Daily work van provided by the company to commute to the office and back, free fuel is a bonus
Car for weekend use and Mrs commute is an old Fiesta Diesel, costs nothing to run so struggling to justify upgrading it atm
Weekend vehicle is a Caddy van I'm slowly (very slowly it seems) building into a camper
Sadly due to saving for a house I don't own anything remotely interesting
Daily work van provided by the company to commute to the office and back, free fuel is a bonus
Car for weekend use and Mrs commute is an old Fiesta Diesel, costs nothing to run so struggling to justify upgrading it atm
Weekend vehicle is a Caddy van I'm slowly (very slowly it seems) building into a camper
I'm fortunate enough to be putting together a little 'end of days' collection of what I consider the ones worth keeping. Obviously I'd love other stuff too, but I think the wife's getting sick of cars turning up.
I think there's 11 in total but highlights include:
Alpina B5 (Cruiser)
Lotus Elise 250 Cup (Track)
Evora GT410 (Tourer)
GR Yaris (Track)
2 X RX8s (Scabby one for track and mincing about in, nice one to keep for best)
Up! GTI (Wife's daily - some modifications)
Reliant Robin (Seriously
)
Got a Leaf for the local crap I don't want to start a decent car for, too.
I think there's 11 in total but highlights include:
Alpina B5 (Cruiser)
Lotus Elise 250 Cup (Track)
Evora GT410 (Tourer)
GR Yaris (Track)
2 X RX8s (Scabby one for track and mincing about in, nice one to keep for best)
Up! GTI (Wife's daily - some modifications)
Reliant Robin (Seriously
)Got a Leaf for the local crap I don't want to start a decent car for, too.
Welcome.
Moving stuff and/ or people: E63 estate, I like the noise it makes, also stupid fast, spacious and comfortable, and debadged so it looks like any other grey German estate.
Moving just me over long distances: 640d. I don't exactly like it, but it's phenomenally good for long boring journeys and great value for the economy/ performance tradeoff.
Moving around locally in dry weather: E46 330Ci convertible. I like: Roof comes off, great looking car, makes a nice noise and drives pretty well.
Moving around locally in wet weather: Mk1 Audi TT 225. Happy little car, good fun especially in snow.
Moving stuff and/ or people: E63 estate, I like the noise it makes, also stupid fast, spacious and comfortable, and debadged so it looks like any other grey German estate.
Moving just me over long distances: 640d. I don't exactly like it, but it's phenomenally good for long boring journeys and great value for the economy/ performance tradeoff.
Moving around locally in dry weather: E46 330Ci convertible. I like: Roof comes off, great looking car, makes a nice noise and drives pretty well.
Moving around locally in wet weather: Mk1 Audi TT 225. Happy little car, good fun especially in snow.
Another Civic, my 7th!
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Edited by Super Sonic on Thursday 19th June 22:44
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