whats your motoring guilty secret?
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Mazda Astina / 323F. The last one with the fixed headlights, not the quirkly looking one with the popup headlamps.
Boring, ordinary car with no particularly interesting engine options and no particularly well performing ones either to make up for the lack of handling excitement. Also, they really haven't aged well. But, when they were current, they just looked so cool to me that I was almost willing to put up with all the dreariness just to posses that frameless windowed swoopy 5 door coupe shape.
Also the Maserati Biturbo Spider. I know it's an awful car to drive, it's awfully unreliable, it tries to kill you, and it's a great engine (for the time, anyway) wrapped in a shell that looks a bit like a squared off E30... but I love the look of them, outside and inside. Always wanted one and when they were banger money I was constantly tempted.
Boring, ordinary car with no particularly interesting engine options and no particularly well performing ones either to make up for the lack of handling excitement. Also, they really haven't aged well. But, when they were current, they just looked so cool to me that I was almost willing to put up with all the dreariness just to posses that frameless windowed swoopy 5 door coupe shape.
Also the Maserati Biturbo Spider. I know it's an awful car to drive, it's awfully unreliable, it tries to kill you, and it's a great engine (for the time, anyway) wrapped in a shell that looks a bit like a squared off E30... but I love the look of them, outside and inside. Always wanted one and when they were banger money I was constantly tempted.
I car share the Renault Zoe, the BMW i3 and the Nissan Leaf quite frequently.
Oddly enough, the i3 feels the lowest rent of all, the interior is sheer plastic and feels like a container you would get a gardening tool in. It is very capable however, very very quick and handles well for what is a tall car.
The Renault ZOE is oddly very fun to drive and really comfortable, the electric motor in the i3 is lurchy unless in eco pro mode. Not much grunt though.
The Leaf is most impressive - it is very high spec, with many cameras front, sides and back, and has many many options everywhere. It is also a very capable car, and is basically a FWD version of the i3 but also quite comfortable too. Only hatchback I have seen with rear heated seats - very impressive indeed.
Basically, my guilty secret is that I am starting to really like electric cars and would seriously consider a ZOE or a Leaf as a runabout.
Oddly enough, the i3 feels the lowest rent of all, the interior is sheer plastic and feels like a container you would get a gardening tool in. It is very capable however, very very quick and handles well for what is a tall car.
The Renault ZOE is oddly very fun to drive and really comfortable, the electric motor in the i3 is lurchy unless in eco pro mode. Not much grunt though.
The Leaf is most impressive - it is very high spec, with many cameras front, sides and back, and has many many options everywhere. It is also a very capable car, and is basically a FWD version of the i3 but also quite comfortable too. Only hatchback I have seen with rear heated seats - very impressive indeed.
Basically, my guilty secret is that I am starting to really like electric cars and would seriously consider a ZOE or a Leaf as a runabout.
Triumph Man said:
My guilty motoring secret is I love the mini R50. They are so fun to drive, and I think I had more fun in that than my lardy old BMWs.
Agreed. My R50 Cooper was more fun than the R56 version I have now. The R50 was also more fun than the E36 BMW M3 it replaced - particularly as the R50 didn't try to kill me whenever the roads were wet.My own guilty motoring secret is the first car I owned - a second-hand Yugo 45A. I got it in 1991, just before Yugoslavia was broken up. A couple of years later, the car had a similar fate.
kiseca said:
Mazda Astina / 323F. The last one with the fixed headlights, not the quirkly looking one with the popup headlamps.
Boring, ordinary car with no particularly interesting engine options and no particularly well performing ones either to make up for the lack of handling excitement. Also, they really haven't aged well. But, when they were current, they just looked so cool to me that I was almost willing to put up with all the dreariness just to posses that frameless windowed swoopy 5 door coupe shape.
Thanks, that made my day! Boring, ordinary car with no particularly interesting engine options and no particularly well performing ones either to make up for the lack of handling excitement. Also, they really haven't aged well. But, when they were current, they just looked so cool to me that I was almost willing to put up with all the dreariness just to posses that frameless windowed swoopy 5 door coupe shape.
I had this for about 6 months - I thought it looked great, tax was cheap too but it drove like a barge so it went! I really wouldn't bother.
Mr Tidy said:
Thanks, that made my day!
I had this for about 6 months - I thought it looked great, tax was cheap too but it drove like a barge so it went! I really wouldn't bother.
Yeah that 's the one! Actually, I still think it looks good now, from that angle. Definitely not an itch I'm going to scratch though. Can appreciate its finer virtues without actually owning or driving one I had this for about 6 months - I thought it looked great, tax was cheap too but it drove like a barge so it went! I really wouldn't bother.
A Winner Is You said:
I do care what image a car gives off. But I think a lot of people here feel the same way, even if they don't want to admit it.
You're right, at least for me. I like to think that image doesn't sway me, but I'd have to admit, if a New Beetle was the best handling car ever made, I'd still be too embarrassed to be seen in it. I drive a Nissan Note right now, and I definitely don't feel cool turning up anywhere in that!I also have an aversion to pink..
I don't think image has a big influence on me, but it definitely has some.
Mr Tidy said:
kiseca said:
Mazda Astina / 323F. The last one with the fixed headlights, not the quirkly looking one with the popup headlamps.
Boring, ordinary car with no particularly interesting engine options and no particularly well performing ones either to make up for the lack of handling excitement. Also, they really haven't aged well. But, when they were current, they just looked so cool to me that I was almost willing to put up with all the dreariness just to posses that frameless windowed swoopy 5 door coupe shape.
Thanks, that made my day! Boring, ordinary car with no particularly interesting engine options and no particularly well performing ones either to make up for the lack of handling excitement. Also, they really haven't aged well. But, when they were current, they just looked so cool to me that I was almost willing to put up with all the dreariness just to posses that frameless windowed swoopy 5 door coupe shape.
I had this for about 6 months - I thought it looked great, tax was cheap too but it drove like a barge so it went! I really wouldn't bother.
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