Cars you secretly like, but are embarrassed to admit it.

[Super Sonic]

[quote=XR]Another excuse for a pic of the Aventime

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[Super Sonic]

Dave Hedgehog said:

audis red aero rims

i love them, i bought them

everybody else seams to hate them ...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33054985622.html

I quite like those

[Super Sonic]

Speed Badger said:

Proton Satria GTi.

I had one and it was crap, my mates all took the piss. But I liked it and I don't really know why.

Quite like those. Was one at the dealers near where I worked. Saw it being ragged up the road frequently!

[apx7]

Chevy SSR

[austinsmirk]

You don’t see many about but the Vauxhall cascada, I’ve thought has always looked really stylish.

[LosingGrip]

Jim on the hill said:

Yeti's and Cube's. I love them.

We have a Yeti at work. I love it. Sticks to the road like glue. Much better than the Astras that we have.

Not sure what engine we have but is pretty good on a blue light run as well.

[biggbn]

I feel zero embarrassment at drivmg what I want, when I want. Some great suggestions on this thread for left field motors. Owned and loved a Daihatsu move, the forerunner to the Perodua mentioned elsewhere, loved my beetle convertible, adored all my smart 450 and my streetka, but am all grown up now and drive a mini!!

[flying-banana]

loskie said:

I quite like the "new" Beetle

Over the last few days I've seen these everywhere...never thought they sold that many

[flying-banana]

757 said:

CoreyDog said:

Renault Laguna 94 - 98, especially if it happened to be the 3.0 V6 Turbo.



Mainly because I was a huge BTCC fan when I was younger and Plato drove this.

wow actually forgot about this model, loved that shape!....creeping off to eBay see if any are about

Unlikely if Plato got anywhere near them!

[flying-banana]

Super Sonic said:

Accord is a cool car, especially in type R

I still regret not buying one in the early 2000s

[GolfDragon]

Would have to be the Audi A2.

If I ever had to buy a cheap used hatchback it would be one of these. Not a pretty thing but it has a weird shape to it and reminds me of when Audi’s were more exclusive as opposed to mainstream cars now.

[T1berious]

My guilty secret. The Mini Countryman. Considering I hated this thing (SWMBO has a mate that had one and it was my "ugliest car winner") from the off.

Got one as a rental in Switzerland for a ski trip. The drive to Val D'Isere was really heavy snow late in the journey. The resort saw the heaviest snow in a decade and our trip back to Geneva was way before the snowplows started and the snow was really heavy over night, easily a 40cm dump.

This little Mini was just all over it. Took all our stuff and had no issues getting out of the resort and down the mountain and out to Switzerland.

Just Incredible considering at one point we thought we were going to be snowed in.

[Trahison]

Yes please. Not necessarily in red.

[SpudLink]

cerb4.5lee said:

LuS1fer said:

cerb4.5lee said:

LimaDelta said:

colin79666 said:

Quite fancy one of these:



Rapid by name only. Pretty lively though being rear engined, rear wheel drive with rather basic underpinnings.

I can highly recommend it. I had one and it was never one pointing in the direction of travel.

I used to enjoy looking around brand new ones of these too...when I used to take my Estelle in for a service at my local Skoda main dealer.

I was properly envious because these had a rev counter and mine didn't!

I went to see one, a long time ago, after Press reports of a mini-911 but the appalling cooker knobs and the sharp edged metal under the dash made me feel it would kill me, sooner rather than later.

I did drive it. It was pretty awful.

I remember the gearbox being absolutely hateful to use in mine. Plus the steering took a bit of getting used to, because it was mega light on the front end with very little weight over the front wheels.

It did like to oversteer in less than ideal conditions too, and I remember spinning mine a full 360 degrees on black ice. Luckily I was only going really slow, and thankfully I didn't hit anything.

For all the ribbing I got for having one, I do still have fond memories of it though.

Had a 136 Rapid for a few months in the early 90s. I’d been intrigued by them for a while. By any measure it was dreadful, but there was something about the shape and the rear-engined drive that made it interesting.

[spreadsheet monkey]

ajprice said:

The Mini Paceman was posted earlier, I'll add in the Coupe with its backwards baseball cap roof.

I think it's cool as well. Looks like a concept car, but BMW/Mini actually went ahead and made it as a production car.

Ford made a Puma as well as a Fiesta, which was basically the same car but with a lower roof and less practicality. What's wrong with Mini doing the same?

[LuS1fer]

spreadsheet monkey said:

What's wrong with Mini doing the same?

The way it looks - like it's really trying to hard.
I think the sales figures told the story.

[Honeywell]

I quite like the idea of a Vauxhall Calibre Turbo.

There. I've said it.

[valiant]

SpudLink said:

cerb4.5lee said:

LuS1fer said:

cerb4.5lee said:

LimaDelta said:

colin79666 said:

Quite fancy one of these:



Rapid by name only. Pretty lively though being rear engined, rear wheel drive with rather basic underpinnings.

I can highly recommend it. I had one and it was never one pointing in the direction of travel.

I used to enjoy looking around brand new ones of these too...when I used to take my Estelle in for a service at my local Skoda main dealer.

I was properly envious because these had a rev counter and mine didn't!

I went to see one, a long time ago, after Press reports of a mini-911 but the appalling cooker knobs and the sharp edged metal under the dash made me feel it would kill me, sooner rather than later.

I did drive it. It was pretty awful.

I remember the gearbox being absolutely hateful to use in mine. Plus the steering took a bit of getting used to, because it was mega light on the front end with very little weight over the front wheels.

It did like to oversteer in less than ideal conditions too, and I remember spinning mine a full 360 degrees on black ice. Luckily I was only going really slow, and thankfully I didn't hit anything.

For all the ribbing I got for having one, I do still have fond memories of it though.

Had a 136 Rapid for a few months in the early 90s. I’d been intrigued by them for a while. By any measure it was dreadful, but there was something about the shape and the rear-engined drive that made it interesting.

Always liked these. Just think it’s a pretty smart design (just with terrible execution of build ).

Mind you I think the Lada Riva was a handsome thing in a certain way…

[QuattroDave]

Honeywell said:

I quite like the idea of a Vauxhall Calibre Turbo.

There. I've said it.

But not enough to call it by its real name

[spreadsheet monkey]

LuS1fer said:

I think the sales figures told the story.

If manufacturers only made cars that sold in big volumes, the automotive landscape would be a much duller place. There'd be no Multipla, no Audi A2, no Avantime, no Citroen C6.

The Autocar review of the Mini Coupe mentioned that Mini expected the car to account for less than 5% of total Mini sales. It probably didn't even make 1% of the total, but I'm still glad that it existed. Some people liked the chop top look, and used values seem strong today (although the used car market is crazy at the moment)
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/mini/coupe-20...