Pics of your Fast Estate...

[cat220]

Welshbeef said:

cat220 said:

Is that an E55 non supercharged?

Yes, still goes well!

[anonymous-user]

RowntreesCabana said:

Awesome cars. There's one for sale on torque GT for 8990 at the moment. Now slightly regretting not having a look at torque GT before buying a slow estate recently...

[Crosswise]

[Welshbeef]

Crosswise said:

Now that is holding it sideways

[AC43]

derin100 said:

It's a few years ago now but here's a pic of the fastest estate that I've owned:



C55 Estate

Love that. Super-rare too.

[AC43]

Carlson W6 said:

Very hard to know what i could replace it with........

It is fast as f*ck.

Awsome. Muscular but subtle. Best colour too. Love the muffled booming noise they make from 100 yards.

[defblade]

Welshbeef said:

RDB said:

Nice to see a few other Subarus in this thread. Here's mine...

Is it fast?

To answer this question (mine was posted near the top of the thread ) :

They are 260 (auto) / 280 (manual) BHP and easily tune-able, and not very heavy. So they're pretty quick to start with.
Then there's the Bilstein suspension and proper AWD, which means they corner flat as anything and hardly notice what the weather's like.

So in test conditions, you might only label them quick... but in the real world, they're fast

[99t]

Got bored with doing subtle, see how long the novelty takes to wear off!!

[Zippee]

Here's mine. 2016 rs6 performance;

[Leins]

Carlson W6 said:

That is lovely especially in that colour, such a fan of these

[Mark83]

Welshbeef said:

You’ve done well - fair play

Fast estates are cool. The C63 saloons and coupes are also driven by a certain stereotype I'd rather distance myself from too.

[donkmeister]

SL22 said:

Not that fast really, but had a 4.6 V8 under the bonnet - MG ZT-T.

Love it, plus being a Ford yank v8 tuning options are cheap and plentiful!

[mikey k]

ninepoint2 said:

Second Best said:

Does anybody know where this photo was taken? Somewhere in Wales, perchance?

It's the Cockbridge to Tomintoul road also known as The Lecht, The Old Military Road or the boring A939

Oh and it's in Scotland not Wales

The Lecht
That's what I was trying to remember

[GravelBen]

Crosswise said:

That photo looks very NZ?

[AC43]

cat220 said:

Welshbeef said:

cat220 said:

Is that an E55 non supercharged?

Yes, still goes well!

The first AMG i ever drove. Barrel chested. Absolutely loved it

[ruggedscotty]

mikey k said:

ninepoint2 said:

Second Best said:

Does anybody know where this photo was taken? Somewhere in Wales, perchance?

It's the Cockbridge to Tomintoul road also known as The Lecht, The Old Military Road or the boring A939

Oh and it's in Scotland not Wales

The Lecht
That's what I was trying to remember

https://goo.gl/maps/27umUbqMPnp3PXdA8 <= what did we do before google maps

[oilydan]

MiniMan64 said:

oilydan said:

5.0 V10 Twin Turbo

735 BHP 1021 Nm

I’m usually not a fan of the German ‘big three’ but that thing looks like an absolutely missile!

It once absolutely destroyed a GT2RS on a closed dual carriageway. As we approached the roundabout at the end of the closed road the look of utter bemusement of the Pork pilot when I wound down all the windows to reveal Mother in the passenger seat, wife and teenagers in the back, and a 50kg dog in the boot, was very satisfying.

Welshbeef said:

What were the running costs of that beast?

I could get 6MPG on a spirited drive between petrol stations. I work abroad so it was the wife's school-run car. She averaged 18MPG. Front brakes were about a grand, and it liked to consume them.

ninepoint2 said:

That must be very quick

I believe, at that level of tune is was good for somewhere close to 200, not that I ever tried it. It was the overtaking that I liked the most. You could come up behind a car pottering along at 40 on an NSL, hold it in 4th until you see an opportunity, and spend very little time on the wrong side of the road. Very safe.

The wife said it was too much for the Devon countryside, so I changed it out for a 1993 200Tdi Defender 90. Not quite as quick.

[MrVert]

Another fast BMW...
335d M Sport X Drive....massively fast

[Graveworm]

[R12many]

265Hp, 0 to 60 sub 6 seconds and cost peanuts!
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Edited by R12many on Sunday 19th May 18:42