hutpik:
If i had an excess of Money,a Bentley Continental and an Austin Healey 3000.Otherwise what i have now,a Mitsubishi L200 pick up,perfect for where i live.
I had to “look after” this for six months for a mate of mine who was working abroad. It made me recalibrate my brain as to what a car can do. Awesome machine but bloody expensive to hoon around in! I would post the video but as the speedo is visible I’d end up going to jail.
Edit to add; no, I didn’t crash it. Can someone put it the correct way up please?
I like simple and durable and well made, designed from scratch to be maintained (preferably in the field) not just for cheap fast profit robotic manufacture.
Therefore Landcruisers (and Hilux) and certain Subarus do it for me, but not the latest stuff mind, i’m firmly in the camp of 80’s/90’s designs were the pinnacle for many makers, so up to around mid noughties production for either make or up to around 2014 for Hilux before they saddled it with an undersized engine,again, which helpfully avoids the £500 March 06 on VED stinger too obviously Hilux gets commercial VED anyway.
Had my dream cars a few years back, two VX220, the second being the turbo version. Absolute waste of money, almost totally impractical ( did get an urgent jiffy bag to deliver one day and sent one of the lads out in it ), freezing in winter, had to be a contortionist to get in and out of it, and I absolutley adored it. Naturally I never took it over 70 coughs…
hutpik:
If i had an excess of Money,a Bentley Continental and an Austin Healey 3000.Otherwise what i have now,a Mitsubishi L200 pick up,perfect for where i live.
I had to “look after” this for six months for a mate of mine who was working abroad. It made me recalibrate my brain as to what a car can do. Awesome machine but bloody expensive to hoon around in! I would post the video but as the speedo is visible I’d end up going to jail.
Edit to add; no, I didn’t crash it. Can someone put it the correct way up please?
Love the tang shirt
Oi, the height of sartorial elegance I’ll have you know. Goes well with me dealer boots too!
OVLOV JAY:
If money was no object, I’d have a fully loaded v8 Range Rover sport for an every dayer and a mk1 ■■■■■■ Mexico in the garage as a toy
Couldn’t think of anything more obnoxious as the tw4t-mobile - but as for the Mexico- one of my childhood dreams was the Mexico and the other being the Lotus Elan Sprint (phenomenal power to weight ratio). I wonder how bad they would be to drive now, recently had a go in a mk2 Cortina, ffs the handling was seriously bad, no wonder so many cars crashed back in the 70s
robroy:
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I would love one of these classic Jags.
Nice to look at but reckon by today’s standards would be a pig to drive.
As for modern car Porsche 911, always liked them, would love to own one.
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It’s the S type with updated IRS not the live axle Mk2 which is the best of the pre XJ Jags especially a 420 with power steering.In which case it’s probably less of handful anywhere near it’s limit than the Porsche with its engine in the wrong place. While ironically it’s also more than capable of being a licence loser long before that point on today’s traffic calmed roads.In which case at these type of speeds might as well go for the more simple to work on Mk3 Zodiac or Austin Westminster for example.While the recent prices of the survivors of those seem to reflect the logic.
Anything of the 60’s era. Wooden dashboard. Jags Mk2’s or XJ’s. Triumph’s Vitesse 2L ( with overdrive ) … and even though they didn’t get fuel injection right, the TR6. Now you heard that one coming …
Twoninety88:
Three Honda cars in the household, two Civics 57 and 58 plates,and a 61 plate Jazz, all utterly reliable. We have had everything else and never been happy with paying out for them to be repaired. Apart from servicing, the Hondas have not cost us a penny.
I agree,although I put the post up I own a Honda CRV and its never let me down in 7 yrs,i was saying that if I had money to buy a new car I can think of better cars to buy than dreaming of a Honda,a few people though have said to me the new Hondas are not that reliable and would not buy one and they work at Honda,so that don’t sound good
truckman020:
seen at Honda, their slogan is HONDA, THE POWER OF DREAMS,don’t know about anyone else and no doubt some drivers own a Honda but I certainly wouldn’t dream of a Honda,i can think of better cars if I was able to dream of them, for example rolls Royce,bentley,maserati, range rovers,no lamborghinis or Ferraris though,don’t do anything for me,what cars do it for you
And this shows how little you know about cars.
show me anywhere in my post where I said I was an expert on cars,it doesn’t,it was meant as a lighthearted post so what is the point of your stupid comment,there is allways someone on here that turns a post into an argument,if you can’t see the post for what it is stay off the site,simple as that
truckman020:
I love the Mk2 ford Granada 2.8i ghia x,[owned 4 in the past 3 black,1 gold one, of the black with grey leather]
I had a rare manual option one and with hindsight I think that’s what I would have stayed with instead of getting involved with Jags.But the wimp 2.8 V6 motor has to go in favour of the 302 or 351 V8 that it should have been built with from the start and some decent brakes which they forgot all bout on the original. While rhd,rack and pinion steering and independent suspension is better than an old American.
obviously Hilux gets commercial VED anyway.
), freezing in winter, had to be a contortionist to get in and out of it, and I absolutley adored it. Naturally I never took it over 70 coughs…
… and even though they didn’t get fuel injection right, the TR6. Now you heard that one coming 
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