Unpopular cars you have a soft spot for

[LuS1fer]

The Mazda 5 - essentially based on an extended Focus C-Max so it handled well. 2 foldaway seats in the back.
The only failing was that the 7th "seat" in the middle row was only a fold out padded ledge.
Sliding rear doors made getting kids in and out a total breeze which also blew through, with the doors slid open in the summer.
A million times better than the Zafira (a new model of which we hired in the summer which was woeful and handled like a blancmange).
Still miss it for the practicality as all the seats folded flat to create a cavernous load bed.

[stevensdrs]

randomeddy said:

awg454 said:

What can I say !

I was gutted when my Dad would not lend me the money to buy one of these many years ago. White one with black vinyl roof. (Random memory that jumped into my head).

Your Dad saved you from much heartache and woe. I had one and it was a hateful thing. Chopped it in for a new escort sport which in comparison was utopia.

[vincegail]

Gillet Vertigo

[Sa Calobra]

Ved said:

Any warm to hot MK4 Golf. Had several and find them great cars to own, if a little fragile nowadays. V6 4motion didn’t sell too well but I really enjoyed mine.

I enjoyed the V6 but it didn't like corners. Very nose heavy. So it was really a motorway/straightline car imo.

[shakotan]

The Yugo hatchback.

I've owned 6 so far...

[Stick Legs]

Renault 30.

I have no honest idea why?

The styling is ok but it's a horrid FWD French hatch with an asthmatic V6 and probably drives like a warm blamange.

Holidays in France as a child? Old French films where they would have been driven by an elegant woman?

[LuS1fer]

Stick Legs said:

Renault 30.

I have no honest idea why?

The styling is ok but it's a horrid FWD French hatch with an asthmatic V6 and probably drives like a warm blamange.

Holidays in France as a child? Old French films where they would have been driven by an elegant woman?

True (and I like the 30 too) but Renault have always been pretty good at designs you like without really knowing why like the 17, the 25 and the 16TX




The TX had a warmer engine, 5 speed tranny, power windows and central locking - possibly the first inkling of a "hot hatch" back in 1973, even though a very unlikely one.

[Johnnyboylard]

I just bought a 2016 peugeot 308 gti. Weird iCockpit, dodgy touchscreen, it's not a golf gti/r or focus rs, not many about due to high list price vs depreciation. It is however brilliant. Does that fit the bill?

[caelite]

shakotan said:

The Yugo hatchback.

I've owned 6 so far...

Hah, how are they for parts availability out of curiosity? I've always had a notion for an old Lada or something similar but the scarcity of parts for them nowadays in the UK is a bit prohibitive.

[johnxjsc1985]

MTech535 said:

These looked so much sportier when I was a kid.

and they had "Twin Carbs" !!!
Much maligned but ....nope that's all I have got

[mp3manager]

[mizx]

LuS1fer said:

Anyway, my nomination is unusual but these are not popular with the Corvette cognoscenti but I loved the C4

I get where you're coming from with that too.

I don't mind the look of the C5 despite the odd wheel gaps, nor the C6 or C7, but I'm not sure if I'd want any of them. The latest is the best looking, but there was a '94 targa for sale here a few years ago with those same wheels. Under £6k and looked very tidy, newly resprayed in dark purple metalic, modified exhaust system two central pipes.The interior isn't too bad and the auto box was probably ste (means I can drive it), but I was really tempted by that. I bet it sounded bloody good; there's a red Vette or Camaro around Taunton, I believe I have heard from the office on occasion, I've been driving under the railway bridge at the same time a few times .

I'm not sure if my nomination is that unpopular, as the 'JDM' fans will go crazy for the Skyline 2000 Turbo RS-X, but I have a soft spot for 80s Japanese cars in all their boxy, hilariously period interior and crappy auto boxed glory; I'd really like an R30 or particularly an R31, even the four doors, or something like the Nissan Leopard of the same generation.

Edited by mizx on Sunday 24th September 15:25

[Sa Calobra]

mp3manager said:

Legends are sublime

[SidewaysSi]

I have a Caterham, Elise and old E36 coupe which has had a few modifications so like my cars quite focused.

But I have a real hankering for one of these:

[minimax]

I am very fond of the mk2 cavalier in all its forms...

[shakotan]

caelite said:

shakotan said:

The Yugo hatchback.

I've owned 6 so far...

Hah, how are they for parts availability out of curiosity? I've always had a notion for an old Lada or something similar but the scarcity of parts for them nowadays in the UK is a bit prohibitive.

The oily parts are almost entirely shared with the Fiat 127/128 and Fiat Uno, so easy to find.

Specific Yugo parts like interior and body parts are well supported in Serbia, and there are always people there willing to ship parts to the UK.

[Peanut130]

have fond memory's of this one my first win at banger racing 40,000 mile 1 owner 7 year old at the time

[ian2144]

Peanut130 said:

have fond memory's of this one my first win at banger racing 40,000 mile 1 owner 7 year old at the time

Had a Zastuva 311 - 3 door, a hatch version of the Fiat 128. It did the job of daily workhorse, in two years the only thing that failed was the alternator.....cheap motoring back in the early 90's

[Jeenyus161]

I saw a Honda Concerto today. Nothing particularly special, but the owner had clearly cherished it - it was absolutely immaculate and it just made me think how much smaller it was than a modern equivalent. It also had a whiff of Rover at the back



(this obviously isn't the one from today...!)

[h3nde]

I'd like to think one day I can have the pleasure of driving if not owning a Honda Logo



What a machine