Do you prefer a do it all car or more than one car?
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Composite Guru said:
stickleback123 said:
otolith said:
Maybe it's just me who doesn't see the fun in taking an oversized, slow, ugly, wallowing lump down a B-road.
and the situation got worse a couple of decades ago when manufacturers started stiffening up even their std barges to be 'sporty'. leaving you without sport or comfort. that trend may be past its peak thank god. i want my suv to be super compliant, and being 2020 that doesn't have to be 70's wallow either.
I am finding the Forester STI to be a good do-it-all car for the fellow with a family for not a load of cash.
Here is a Dan Trent review:
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-things-running-...
Here is a Dan Trent review:
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-things-running-...
For the last few years that we’ve needed 2cars we have had a family car and my Golf mk6. We briefly had an mr2 roadster as a 3rd/fun car, but it hardly got used and didn’t seem worth the agro.
So I decided that the replacement for the Golf should be something fun, but with an element of practicality as it’ll need to carry the kids occasionally. I was looking at mk7 Golf GTi with the performance pack, M235i and early 996s.
I’ve got a deposit on a 99 3.4 Carrera 2, awaiting a prepurchase inspection tomorrow. Fingers crossed there’s nothing major, I’m like a kid on Christmas Eve excitedly awaiting!
So I decided that the replacement for the Golf should be something fun, but with an element of practicality as it’ll need to carry the kids occasionally. I was looking at mk7 Golf GTi with the performance pack, M235i and early 996s.
I’ve got a deposit on a 99 3.4 Carrera 2, awaiting a prepurchase inspection tomorrow. Fingers crossed there’s nothing major, I’m like a kid on Christmas Eve excitedly awaiting!
It is to be applauded that quite a few cars these days can fulfill the role of every day carry everything including the kitchen sink but also be quick and agile enough to provide entertainment for the days when there is just the driver, and an open road ro have fun on.
My ideal set up, would be a daily driver (estate) to carry everything including messy kids, dogs, and the in laws on a long distance holiday, but also able to handle a washing machine, or fridge freezer, as well as taking by household rubbish to the dump, and risking parking it in the supermarket parking lot. Followed with a long distance coupe for cross continent mile munching, and a two seat open top screamer to scare the sh*t out of me, when I just want to blow the (lock down) cobwebs away.
Don't know of any single car that delivers all those requirements in one package.
My ideal set up, would be a daily driver (estate) to carry everything including messy kids, dogs, and the in laws on a long distance holiday, but also able to handle a washing machine, or fridge freezer, as well as taking by household rubbish to the dump, and risking parking it in the supermarket parking lot. Followed with a long distance coupe for cross continent mile munching, and a two seat open top screamer to scare the sh*t out of me, when I just want to blow the (lock down) cobwebs away.
Don't know of any single car that delivers all those requirements in one package.
otolith said:
No, it's a significant proportion of "peacocks" - probably the same demographic in the US who have sold their Boxsters and bought Wranglers. But it's a mass market 4x4 mostly bought for the kind of ordinary household duties that Americans seem to think they need a pseudo-agricultural vehicle for.
You may well enjoy posing with it (or otherwise trundling about taking up most of the road) on a B-road, but I remain unconvinced that many PH'ers (which is who I was originally talking about when I said it was probably just you) would.
Maybe it's just me who doesn't see the fun in taking an oversized, slow, ugly, wallowing lump down a B-road.
They aren't agricultural vehicles either. Haven't been since about 1948!You may well enjoy posing with it (or otherwise trundling about taking up most of the road) on a B-road, but I remain unconvinced that many PH'ers (which is who I was originally talking about when I said it was probably just you) would.
Maybe it's just me who doesn't see the fun in taking an oversized, slow, ugly, wallowing lump down a B-road.
As for posing, I think you are showing your vanity not mine here.
I personally don't think they are ugly either. And again 200,000 - 250,000 new owners a year probably don't either. As for wallowing, nope. Sorry just cannot agree on this point. Nor are they slow. The current 2.0 turbo does 0-60mph in about 7 secs.... which is still quicker than most hatchbacks manage. Even a 4.0 litre model from the mid 1990s was almost Golf GTI pace 0-60mph. In fact probably faster than the MK4 GTI's were back in the day.
And do recall. I said it was about sense of occasion and 'fun'. Just that it isn't a different kind of fun. Hence saying about a beer and milkshake. Or maybe a Cheeseburger and a Michelin star meal. All can be highly enjoyable, just for different reasons.
SidewaysSi said:
I am finding the Forester STI to be a good do-it-all car for the fellow with a family for not a load of cash.
Here is a Dan Trent review:
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-things-running-...
I had an Impreza Turbo (classic). And oddly I'd say it was a poor 'daily' car. Despite its practicalities. It was simply dull to drive in traffic and sit in. It had almost no sense of occasion. As a weekend warrior it made far more sense. Illogical maybe. But it was only really fun when on quiet roads.Here is a Dan Trent review:
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-things-running-...
We've always had several very different cars on the go for different purposes - a Boxster and an old 4x4 as long term specialised cars with comfortable everyday cars changed more regularly - Passat, A6, E class, Accord Estate.
We live on a Scottish hillside with several hundred yards of rough track then a mile or two of untreated single track down to the main road.
Each of the cars were regularly used until earlier this year, when we bought a fairly new Hilux. It's a basic farmer spec Active with the slightly weedy 2.4 D4d. It's got cloth seats, black steel wheels and unpainted bumpers. Objectively the Accord Tourer is much better suited for everyday use but I haven't driven it for months. The Hilux is being used for everything, even by my girlfriend who I expected to barely drive the thing. It does 35 mpg without trying, cruises quietly at 80 and is even surprisingly fun to thrash around rural Aberdeenshire.
We live on a Scottish hillside with several hundred yards of rough track then a mile or two of untreated single track down to the main road.
Each of the cars were regularly used until earlier this year, when we bought a fairly new Hilux. It's a basic farmer spec Active with the slightly weedy 2.4 D4d. It's got cloth seats, black steel wheels and unpainted bumpers. Objectively the Accord Tourer is much better suited for everyday use but I haven't driven it for months. The Hilux is being used for everything, even by my girlfriend who I expected to barely drive the thing. It does 35 mpg without trying, cruises quietly at 80 and is even surprisingly fun to thrash around rural Aberdeenshire.
300bhp/ton said:
SidewaysSi said:
I am finding the Forester STI to be a good do-it-all car for the fellow with a family for not a load of cash.
Here is a Dan Trent review:
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-things-running-...
I had an Impreza Turbo (classic). And oddly I'd say it was a poor 'daily' car. Despite its practicalities. It was simply dull to drive in traffic and sit in. It had almost no sense of occasion. As a weekend warrior it made far more sense. Illogical maybe. But it was only really fun when on quiet roads.Here is a Dan Trent review:
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-things-running-...
The choice dilemma in this, is really for those, who for various reasons can only really have one car. It may be for reasons of space, cash, actual practicality, amount of use a car will get etc that they can only justify having one car.
Many years ago, it was the cash limitation that limited me to one car, but it was also that which made me realize how many cars were one trick ponies.
I got caught in a severe snow storm, and despite being able to make some (very slow) progress, it was a situation, I did not want to caught in again if at all possible. So the following summer I sold the `normal' car and bought a Jeep, waiting with a smug smile for the next winter to arrive The problem with this, was that we did not get severe snow again for years ( in fact almost never), and driving the Jeep around for all the rest of the year was purgatory.
Obviously we `now' have some very good 4 WD `cars', but the thought of having to use ones pride and joy, to take dirt and rubbish to the dump, or messy kids any where,( the kids of course could be sent on by public transport
or trying to shoe horn that defunct washing machine into the back of it, and parking it in a supermarket car park doesn't sit too well with me.
No single car that I know of, is as good at meeting my particular various needs (even if it just the one about keeping it looking good) so I am lucky, and pleased to have a few cars. each, of which does what the others cannot, or are not good at doing. so I am guessing that this is not so much a matter of preference (most of us would probably like to be in a position where we could have any number of cars) but more a matter of choosing a single car that ticks `most' of the boxes we personally might have.
Many years ago, it was the cash limitation that limited me to one car, but it was also that which made me realize how many cars were one trick ponies.
I got caught in a severe snow storm, and despite being able to make some (very slow) progress, it was a situation, I did not want to caught in again if at all possible. So the following summer I sold the `normal' car and bought a Jeep, waiting with a smug smile for the next winter to arrive The problem with this, was that we did not get severe snow again for years ( in fact almost never), and driving the Jeep around for all the rest of the year was purgatory.
Obviously we `now' have some very good 4 WD `cars', but the thought of having to use ones pride and joy, to take dirt and rubbish to the dump, or messy kids any where,( the kids of course could be sent on by public transport
or trying to shoe horn that defunct washing machine into the back of it, and parking it in a supermarket car park doesn't sit too well with me.No single car that I know of, is as good at meeting my particular various needs (even if it just the one about keeping it looking good) so I am lucky, and pleased to have a few cars. each, of which does what the others cannot, or are not good at doing. so I am guessing that this is not so much a matter of preference (most of us would probably like to be in a position where we could have any number of cars) but more a matter of choosing a single car that ticks `most' of the boxes we personally might have.
Edited by Pan Pan Pan on Thursday 9th July 10:14
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