10 Years Ago Today.....

[HMC]

Began driving- feb 2002 (passed test 1997)

Number of cars I have owned 70 ish

Pulled by Dibble - 3

Accidents (involving other cars, my fault) - 0

Accidents (no other cars, my fault) - 2

Accidents (other cars fault) - 2 -

Points currently on licence - 0

Spins - 1 saab c900 convertible on a slippery roundabout. Miraculously no damage, apart from the brown trousers!

Highest speed reached in a road car - 141mph porche 900turbo

Cost of insurance when test passed - £800 (rover 214sei)

Most economical car ever owned - peugeot 405 estate 1.9d turbo 53 mpg

Least economical car ever owned - got 9mpg out of a poorly series 3 jag xj12

Shortest period of car ownership - 3 weeks

Longest period of car ownership - 5 years. our honda civic the wife manly responsible for this restraint

Most miles covered in one 24 hr period - 600 (devon to western Germany)

Car that covered the most mileage in my ownership - 20k in the civic (over 5 years)

[ruffgeezer]

Passed my test in May of 2001;

 

Over 50 cars (nearly 30 Axs alone!)

4 Cars in the stable currently: '95 Xantia td, '95 Delica 4x4, '95 Ax/saxo shitbrick & '95 Ax VTS 5dr

3 points currently, highest at 10 (2x scatso, 1x plod on the new bit of the a120, I can only thank flip for the escort's good brakes, or I'd have been in a lot more bother!)

0 convictions

0 injuries

0 write offs (although, unrecorded, an unceremonious spin followed by a lazy roll up a tree: 1998 Xantia hdi estate)

3 Police stops (the first for being "a bit evo6" away from a roundabout)

0 minor fault accident

1 non fault accidents (rear ended by a renault 5 auto)

2 coming-togethers with inanimate objects (both pheasants, although technically not inanimate, they were afterwards.)

3 spins (see above for the worst)

A lot of breakdowns

[eddyramrod]

  MK5 Escort said:

the Escort (but it's 21 years old next month to be fair! It's not exactly ever going to win any eco-wars on that front!)

 

I disagree! How is having a new Golf Blu-Motion built for you from all-new materials any greener than simply using what you have until it breaks terminally? Keep the old stuff going, that's the true green path! Also the Autoshite path, conveniently!