What's your daily driver
What's your daily driver
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Chilliman

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12,441 posts

192 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Apologies if this has been asked recently tho I did do a search and couldn't find a similar thread..

Going to be looking around soon, won't actually be a daily as I work away most of the time, more like a 4 seat (not necessarily 4 door) drive it/leave it (without Tiv type worries) come rain or snow.. Won't be driven by anyone else.. something practical and relatively cheap..

What's yours ????

bsdnazz

762 posts

284 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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My daily drive is an S reg 4.0L Chim.

Harrytsg

1,264 posts

193 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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My Chimaera 450

Alexdaredevilz

5,697 posts

210 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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My Chim 4.6

SimonBradley

63 posts

192 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Ford Fiesta zetec 1.2 1998 5 door. Got a 6 week old so had to keep the missus happy smile

Vixpy1

42,699 posts

295 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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a 20 year old rusty knackered M5

mgjc

129 posts

207 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Chim 4.0 driving

scruggs

419 posts

197 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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From about now until October a Chim 500.

As for the rest of the year......

A Chevrolet Captiva 4x4 SUV diesel. General family load lugger and worth its weight in gold last December.
A Ford Ka shopping trolley for those visits to shopping centres, easy to park, cheap to repair if vandalised.
A Rover 216 Cabriolet when 4 seats are needed in the summer months (now in need of a shed load of money being spent on it)

I think DVLA have a direct line to my bank account........

SimoV8

49 posts

208 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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BMW 520d - self financing with my mileage rate due to genuine 50mpg, leaving my cash allowance for TVR costs and now a Land Rover!

haircutmike

22,511 posts

235 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Octavia vRS, £2.3K of fun!
Can't believe the pleasure I get from embarrasing expensive so called quick cars, also does lots of running around for peanuts.

Edited by haircutmike on Wednesday 9th March 20:47

Wildfire

9,951 posts

283 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Lotus Elise

itiejim

1,822 posts

236 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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S-Max for the family stuff and Integra Type-R for knocking about / commuting.

captaintact

181 posts

192 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Alfa 156 1.6

Sadly not doing much driving in either this or my Chimaera 4.0HC

miniman

30,203 posts

293 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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MG by binaryimage, on Flickr

captaintact

181 posts

192 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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miniman said:

MG by binaryimage, on Flickr
Nice and understated. :-)

S7Paul

2,103 posts

265 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Golf 1.4 TSI SE 5-door, with the 7-speed DSG box. It hits 100 as quickly as my old Astra 2.2 Coupe, but driven fairly carefully will do over 40mpg. Unfortunately it's rarely driven carefully, so I actually get low-mid 30s most of the time.

EggsBenedict

1,796 posts

205 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Not massively economical, but didn't get stopped by recent bad weather. Can fit pretty much anything in it within reason.

We've got a couple of other cars too. The most practical is the Audi A4 Avant. It's a 2.0 turbo diesel. Goes OK, not too juicy, comfortable and not bad on space.

locodude

510 posts

226 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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1997 Jag XJ6 Sport. Best barge by far. 4.0 litres is the smallest I'll let on the driveway!


Marty V8

578 posts

217 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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We have my wifes 1.2 Clio and my 2.5 V6 Mondeo ST24. Strange coincidence but the engine sizes seem to (more-or-less) keep doubling..1.2, 2.5 and a 5 litre TVR.

CarlosV8

818 posts

203 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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I've recently bought a Rover 216 GTi because I'm a firm believer of bangeromics, and since my car is only used for driving the few miles to work and generally lugging crap about I don't see the point in spending thousands on something which will inevitably lose money. Plus it's good to have 2 British cars on the drive wink

A sensible family car is on the cards soon though and I'm thinking a Volvo 850/V70 T5 estate (unless petrol prices go really crazy).