What is special about your normal car

[CraigyMc]

This is my BMW. There are many like it, but this one is mine.



My BMW is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

My BMW, without me, is useless. Without my BMW, I am useless. I must drive my BMW true. I must drive straighter than my enemy who is trying to overtake me. I must overtake him before he overtakes me. I will...

My BMW and myself know that what counts in this race is not the fuel we burn, the noise of our exhaust, or the smoke we make. We know that it is the overtakes that count. We will overtake...

My BMW is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its wheels and its engine. I will keep my BMW clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...

Before Bob, I swear this creed. My BMW and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.

So be it, until victory is ours and there is no enemy, but peace!

Of course...

[Contigo]

I like to add that it will do 200mph+ delimited and will easily challenge most ferrari's but look any other family estate car. Usually in interesting talking point down the pub.

[Twincam16]

Noesph said:

Twincam16 said:

Noesph said:

A fully standard (i.e not chaved up) peugeot 106

weird spec though, I think it might be one of the first mpi (silver top) tu engines, but its got 3 stud wheels, with a 21mm diameter anti roll bar on the front, and 19mm on the back. But it hasn't got powersteering, electric windows, sunroof, 4 stud wheels etc that they all got 6 months later.

What colour and spec is it? A mate of mine had a BRG 106 Independence in exactly the same spec. Created problems when he came to service it and found the engine under the bonnet didn't resemble the one in the owner's manual. He always felt it had an awful lot more power than it was supposed to as well.

Independence (with a silver plague on the doors, not stickered on like later models). Gris lceland.

Mine is the same, the engine in the manual and the engine in the car don't look like each other at all. It's the 1.1 (tu1jp) that started off in the 206. I worked out over the years that early Independences in the uk are Sinsiba's in Europe, while the later indys are euro "move" or "pop art" models.

Yep, sounds identical to his (although his was green). He did wonder whether his had a GTI engine in it as it really did shift like poo off the proverbial. Horrid seats though - a repeated scrawled-on red, orange and yellow Eiffel Tower motif.

[s m]

davidcharles said:

my old R33 GTR was a uk car and was originally plated as "R1 GTR" and was used a lot in press shots and magazine reviews...!!!!

its such a shame i blew it up 18months ago and had to sell it....

I've been sideways in your old car

Chris Goodwin was driving it ( the GT car driver )

[g3org3y]

Special...not sure...

I suppose the fact that it's a 26 year old car that gets used every day on the daily grind. I don't know anyone else round here with a daily runner that old.

It's special because in the three years I've owned it, it has made the trip up to Scotland 6-7 times. It has also been around France, Italy and Switzerland. Particular highlights include full throttle through the Monaco tunnel and doing the Petit St Bernard.

[Backtobasics]

I was surprised that there are only 30 odd uk registered 159 3.2 Q4's.

[Kitchski]

vetrof said:

My car was once owned by Tom Jones.

Kirk280 said:

That's quite unusual!

It's not unusual!

[chrisxr2]

Therer were only about 80 officialy brought into the country (christ knows how many left, turbo japanese kei car)

[so called]

My lovely 2006 Tuscan is 1 of only about 83 Convertibles made and one of the last made

Edited by so called on Friday 3rd August 22:13

[scarble]

CraigyMc said:

This is my BMW. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

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[richard300]

My SAAB is a normal car for sure, it's certainly not something you would look twice at. But i think its special because i have never seen another 9-5 with flappy paddle auto box (which actually works well), factory Sat Nav, and the whole host of other equipment it seems to have been bestowed with. And its relentles surge on fast roads its something you wouldnt imagine possible from such a dull grey box.

[otolith]

I always like cars to have at least one party trick, even dailies. I think something merely omnicompetent would bore me.

The Saab is really very comfortable. The very obviously turbocharged power delivery isn't really my cup of tea, but it does suit the car and is something Saab have been doing since long before everybody else joined in. It makes it easy to drive it fairly quickly without requiring much involvement, which kind of suits the brief for our car (and seems to be all a lot of people want).

[Stinkfoot]

My old TR7 (XHP 275X) was bulit in the last week of production and was only 73 chassis numbers away from the last ever one made which is at Gaydon.

Never seen a later one. It also came with electric windows which I think were installed by the factory and I have never seen another one.

[Defcon5]

My Lupo was the subject of a buyers guide on Practical Performance Car

[Bohally]

It gets driven hard, day in, day out, and never complains. It's comfy, reasonably brisk, and half decent on fuel.

[mister.t]

My old Land Rover Ninety 2.5 Petrol (fairly scarce on it's own) was an ex-coastguard car (where the white roof was peeling, you could see the old yellow paint underneath it).

My current TD5 Discovery was originally registered in Germany (tax free) via Land Rover, so must have belonged to someone in the Army/SAS or similar

[AdvanceRoadcraft]

Bohally said:

It gets driven hard, day in, day out, and never complains. It's comfy, reasonably brisk, and half decent on fuel.

We've both got Saabs, haven't we?