Liked a certain car once, now not too bothered
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Corrado.
Always wanted one, never drove one.
I sat in one once in a dealer. It had so many issues (one was it not starting on the forecourt) that I got out and went home.
An XK drove past me earlier in a car park and it sounded amazing. I had an XKR a few years ago and think I would still have another. Maybe.
Or not.
Always wanted one, never drove one.
I sat in one once in a dealer. It had so many issues (one was it not starting on the forecourt) that I got out and went home.
An XK drove past me earlier in a car park and it sounded amazing. I had an XKR a few years ago and think I would still have another. Maybe.
Or not.
remedy said:
Corrado.
Always wanted one, never drove one.
I sat in one once in a dealer. It had so many issues (one was it not starting on the forecourt) that I got out and went home.
I owned a VR6 for about 3 years, and whilst it was a fantastic drivers car, it was appallingly unreliable. I’m glad I owned it, but I wish I’d known just how much of a nightmare it was going to be as an ownership prospect before buying.Always wanted one, never drove one.
I sat in one once in a dealer. It had so many issues (one was it not starting on the forecourt) that I got out and went home.
M140i, always read about the power and always went faster car everytime I traded up. Don’t believe what owners/fanboys say they are a nightmare unless in a straight line, poorly damped with terrible suspension and the handling is an under steering mess, or if on power a snappy pig. At the time my wife’s Fiesta ST would leave it for dead on any undulating or twisty A/B road.
Noble M12 GTO, but prices are still silly and are looking a bit too kit car now.
Honda NSX, but feel they'd be underwhelming power wise and just feel too dated. Also again, prices are silly.
BMW V10 M5 or M6, would have been super cool when they came out, but alas the engine is too fragile for me to feel comfortable with.
One car that shouldn't appeal but still does - a TVR cerbera. Reliability and interior build quality issues, but by god do they still look and go phenomenally well all these years after release.
Honda NSX, but feel they'd be underwhelming power wise and just feel too dated. Also again, prices are silly.
BMW V10 M5 or M6, would have been super cool when they came out, but alas the engine is too fragile for me to feel comfortable with.
One car that shouldn't appeal but still does - a TVR cerbera. Reliability and interior build quality issues, but by god do they still look and go phenomenally well all these years after release.
Semperagressus said:
M140i, always read about the power and always went faster car everytime I traded up. Don t believe what owners/fanboys say they are a nightmare unless in a straight line, poorly damped with terrible suspension and the handling is an under steering mess, or if on power a snappy pig. At the time my wife s Fiesta ST would leave it for dead on any undulating or twisty A/B road.
This for me too. I've heard owners say they're a nightmare in winter. I guess appropriate tyres would help a bit. There's also the image now. One of the chavviest cars on the road and guaranteed to attract attention from the wrong sort.
brillomaster said:
Noble M12 GTO, but prices are still silly and are looking a bit too kit car now.
Honda NSX, but feel they'd be underwhelming power wise and just feel too dated. Also again, prices are silly.
BMW V10 M5 or M6, would have been super cool when they came out, but alas the engine is too fragile for me to feel comfortable with.
One car that shouldn't appeal but still does - a TVR cerbera. Reliability and interior build quality issues, but by god do they still look and go phenomenally well all these years after release.
Agree on the Noble, spent ages researching and talking to indies about costs/servicing etc. Good ones were £50k and when I actually went to view it I was somewhat underwhelmed with everything other thsn the speed of it. Looked and felt like a kit car, albeit a factory built kit car. Saw one recently at The Motorist and it just did nothing for me anymore. Honda NSX, but feel they'd be underwhelming power wise and just feel too dated. Also again, prices are silly.
BMW V10 M5 or M6, would have been super cool when they came out, but alas the engine is too fragile for me to feel comfortable with.
One car that shouldn't appeal but still does - a TVR cerbera. Reliability and interior build quality issues, but by god do they still look and go phenomenally well all these years after release.
Very similarly and a regular at those meets is a tidy NSX, now probably worth over £100k and the proportions still look a bit awkward, my interest from 20yrs ago has clearly peaked and faded.
The other one for me was a 458 Ferrari, which to be fair I still absolutely love visually/aurally. Drove one last year and it felt disappointing after my R8 v10Plus. Since then prices have sky rocketed taking it out of my comfort zone for owning one, other than buying as an investment to store away it would be pointless if I couldn't drive /thrash it as required.
I was reading this thread and pondering on the opposite. Cars you hated but love now. I wandered around Gaydon Museum at the weekend and wished for the days of troubled BL. The Metro, Allegro, Princess, Marina, TR7 all looked fabulous. It’s just nostalgia I know but I wish cars were like that today but with the reliability. The variety from one manufacturer was great compared to the amorphous blobs covered in plastic trim we have nowadays.
I tend to find I like certain cars, then if they become really popular I go off them a bit.
Always thought the F-Type was (and still is) a great looking car but as they've aged and become that bit cheaper I have noticed how popular on car clubs they have become. It hasn't tarnished their image as they haven't become a chav wagon but their popularity has changed my want to have one.
Always thought the F-Type was (and still is) a great looking car but as they've aged and become that bit cheaper I have noticed how popular on car clubs they have become. It hasn't tarnished their image as they haven't become a chav wagon but their popularity has changed my want to have one.
brillomaster said:
One car that shouldn't appeal but still does - a TVR cerbera. Reliability and interior build quality issues, but by god do they still look and go phenomenally well all these years after release.
I saw one the other day, and it brought some good memories back. You just don't seem to see them anymore though, but I guess they're pretty rare anyway though. I was used to seeing them at the TVRCC meets etc years back, but obviously that doesn't happen now though. When I was a teenager, I had a poster of a F355.on my wall. I kept promising myself that one day I'd own one.
Fast forward to the point in time where I could have bought one if I'd wanted to, and I didn't bother. It's not just the F355 - supercars just leave me cold nowadays. I wouldn't even have one in a Euromillions garage.
It's not like the F355 is even an option any more given the way that prices have gone.
Fast forward to the point in time where I could have bought one if I'd wanted to, and I didn't bother. It's not just the F355 - supercars just leave me cold nowadays. I wouldn't even have one in a Euromillions garage.
It's not like the F355 is even an option any more given the way that prices have gone.
Semperagressus said:
M140i, always read about the power and always went faster car everytime I traded up. Don t believe what owners/fanboys say they are a nightmare unless in a straight line, poorly damped with terrible suspension and the handling is an under steering mess, or if on power a snappy pig. At the time my wife s Fiesta ST would leave it for dead on any undulating or twisty A/B road.
Exactly my experience, my son had an ST and I loved that, I had lusted after the M135i since it came out but hadnt been in a position to buy one and through getting a redundancy payout I had 20 odd grand burning a hole in my pocket.Scuttled off to Halliwell Jones BMW, paid 22 grand for a year and a bit old 2016 11k mile M135i 5 door in Estoril Blue, initially very impressed with it, nice daily, fast etc.
But, something was missing, used to nick my lads Fiesta and wonder why I was having more fun, just not a dialed in drivers car, not a package.
Anyway, he decides to trade up to a Golf R, I say I will buy the ST and then sell it so he has the money for the new car.
Woke up one morning and thought "sod it, I am selling the BMW, not the Fiesta", which is what I did, out of the box it is just a better package and I swear I could carry more speed down the local lanes, the Fiesta got better the faster you went, the BMW felt like it fell apart and was a few bumps behind what was happening. Still got the ST.
M135i was exactly how you said, snappy being turbocharged, RWD with no LSD and automatic, it would slide but it never felt natural or graceful, no finesse to it, like driving through a greasy window, there is a good car in there but they, I think, hamstrung it on purpose so as not to challenge actual the M cars.
Classed as a hot hatch, more a fast, downsized luxo barge. I should have got a manual M140i and done the LSD and suspension stuff it needs, suspect would still have it, so many just seem to spend 2 grand on tuning for 500 odd bhp and wonder why they are in a hedge/ditch/oncoming traffic, mental as its a liability on standard power if you arent wary.
J4CKO said:
Semperagressus said:
M140i, always read about the power and always went faster car everytime I traded up. Don t believe what owners/fanboys say they are a nightmare unless in a straight line, poorly damped with terrible suspension and the handling is an under steering mess, or if on power a snappy pig. At the time my wife s Fiesta ST would leave it for dead on any undulating or twisty A/B road.
Exactly my experience, my son had an ST and I loved that, I had lusted after the M135i since it came out but hadnt been in a position to buy one and through getting a redundancy payout I had 20 odd grand burning a hole in my pocket.Scuttled off to Halliwell Jones BMW, paid 22 grand for a year and a bit old 2016 11k mile M135i 5 door in Estoril Blue, initially very impressed with it, nice daily, fast etc.
But, something was missing, used to nick my lads Fiesta and wonder why I was having more fun, just not a dialed in drivers car, not a package.
Anyway, he decides to trade up to a Golf R, I say I will buy the ST and then sell it so he has the money for the new car.
Woke up one morning and thought "sod it, I am selling the BMW, not the Fiesta", which is what I did, out of the box it is just a better package and I swear I could carry more speed down the local lanes, the Fiesta got better the faster you went, the BMW felt like it fell apart and was a few bumps behind what was happening. Still got the ST.
M135i was exactly how you said, snappy being turbocharged, RWD with no LSD and automatic, it would slide but it never felt natural or graceful, no finesse to it, like driving through a greasy window, there is a good car in there but they, I think, hamstrung it on purpose so as not to challenge actual the M cars.
Classed as a hot hatch, more a fast, downsized luxo barge. I should have got a manual M140i and done the LSD and suspension stuff it needs, suspect would still have it, so many just seem to spend 2 grand on tuning for 500 odd bhp and wonder why they are in a hedge/ditch/oncoming traffic, mental as its a liability on standard power if you arent wary.
The M LSD diff on my F82 M4 makes a big difference I think, it makes the car come alive at the higher speeds, and you can really feel what the car is doing on the rearend(in ideal dry conditions anyway). It will still punish/scare you over the winter on summer tyres occasionally though I've found. But then most RWD cars will do that anyway in those conditions to be fair.
Full size Range Rover for me, more so the L322 than the L405 (though I'd have been happy with either).
Still like them and appreciate their abilities, but nowadays I just don't need a big, complex 4x4 in my life, my needs have changed.
Also, having spent some time in them, the perceived luxury didn't quite live up to (my admittedly high and possibly unrealistic) expectations.
The moment to own one has passed, and I'm OK with that.
Still like them and appreciate their abilities, but nowadays I just don't need a big, complex 4x4 in my life, my needs have changed.
Also, having spent some time in them, the perceived luxury didn't quite live up to (my admittedly high and possibly unrealistic) expectations.
The moment to own one has passed, and I'm OK with that.
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