What's your perfect Saturday car?
Discussion
By way of an explanation, a Saturday car is not the daily hack (Mondeo, BMW 318i or Scenic with baby seats), nor is it Sunday best (your polished, low mileage classic with matching numbers). No, a Saturday car is that car you've always hankered after, but couldn't find a good reason to get. To fully qualify, it can't be too good and must be cheap (otherwise you'll use it as the daily hack or Sunday best).
My first Saturday car was a very old, rusty, smokey, oily, fast MG Maestro Turbo...
My first Saturday car was a very old, rusty, smokey, oily, fast MG Maestro Turbo...
So something inbetween... Hmmm. 
Well, much as I'd love one, I can't see me owning a mk1 MX5 again. It's not practical enough for a weekday utility and not extreme enough - in standard trim at least - for a 2nd car that's reserved for sunny Sunday afternoons.
I could probably live with a 944 or Corrado ever day in theory. In reality, the cost of doing so would probably put me off running of the two as a daily driver, so they might fall into the same category I guess.
That's at the affordable end of the scale. In an ideal world I'd have a premium small car like a Mini Cooper for a weekday city runaround, a Caterham R500 for Sunday best and something like a Ferrari FF or an Aston Martin Virage for long distance touring. I think there definitely is a call for two extreme cars - fun and functional respectively - and then a third that sits in between.
Well, much as I'd love one, I can't see me owning a mk1 MX5 again. It's not practical enough for a weekday utility and not extreme enough - in standard trim at least - for a 2nd car that's reserved for sunny Sunday afternoons.
I could probably live with a 944 or Corrado ever day in theory. In reality, the cost of doing so would probably put me off running of the two as a daily driver, so they might fall into the same category I guess.
That's at the affordable end of the scale. In an ideal world I'd have a premium small car like a Mini Cooper for a weekday city runaround, a Caterham R500 for Sunday best and something like a Ferrari FF or an Aston Martin Virage for long distance touring. I think there definitely is a call for two extreme cars - fun and functional respectively - and then a third that sits in between.
the one that goes to her new keeper tomorrow It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I'd love to purchase a brand new Fiat Panda 1.1 or Kia Picanto 1.0 and thrash the absolute nuts off it around a track. I think it would be more fun than driving a focused track car. Giggles per mile would be an excellent measure of this!
It would be by no means quick, but you sure would feel like a racing driver for the day and brand new could cost under £6000. Wicked fun!
It would be by no means quick, but you sure would feel like a racing driver for the day and brand new could cost under £6000. Wicked fun!
jsg612 said:
It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I'd love to purchase a brand new Fiat Panda 1.1 or Kia Picanto 1.0 and thrash the absolute nuts off it around a track. I think it would be more fun than driving a focused track car. Giggles per mile would be an excellent measure of this!
Cinquencento Sporting... 
Chris71 said:
jsg612 said:
It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I'd love to purchase a brand new Fiat Panda 1.1 or Kia Picanto 1.0 and thrash the absolute nuts off it around a track. I think it would be more fun than driving a focused track car. Giggles per mile would be an excellent measure of this!
Cinquencento Sporting... 
Loaded up for a run to the tip, then back to the Pondarossa and and reload with either, Scrambler, Fishing Tackle or Rifles, spend several hours with Jr Cookster doing fun stuff that would make Mrs C ground us both for life then nip to Tesco and on the way home, taking the long way and finding as much mud, water and mischeif as possible.
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