Design your perfect shite.

[Barry Cade]

Having seen all the concept cars at Frankfurt, it got me thinking, instead of looking to the future, look to the past. Design your perfect car from shite, which you must keep,be your sole transport, and be satisfied with for the next 10 years. Choose a bodyshell, engine, gearbox, suspension, wheels and interior. 10000 extra points for a photoshop.

 

Cars must be mainstream models sold to the public, and made between 1970-1995.

[Albert Ross]

Mk3 Astra Estate.

Holley carb fed Rover P5B 10.5:1CR V8 mated to RR 3 speed Autobox (Chrysler torqueflite)

Disc braked Discovery axles with fiddle brakes and ARB diff locks. Wheels... standard steels, part number 569203, shod with Michelin 900x16 XCL.

 

All mounted on a Land Rover Series LWB chassis

Interior would be a pair of bucket seats from a Nova (Apparently really easy to remove if I need to clean the floors)

[Micrashed]

Hmmm.

 

I'd like a fully galvanised Discovery 2 please in Rover Nightfire, with the PSA 2.1 XUD donkey running a garrett turbo and Bosch injection system with 7 seats in leather and no carpets, just wall to wall Pirelli rubber flooring like they have in the Preston Bus Station.

 

DVD screens in the back, air conditioning and a DAB wireless. 

 

Electricals by Norweb please too rather than the froggies / LR.

[Jim Bell]

Isuzu 1.9td.

Stock Volvo 360 running gear, shell, interior, brakes and suspension.

 

Probably wouldnt take a great deal of endevour to achieve..................... And i would certainly purchase the result.

[skattrd]

Mk2 Scirocco with 110bhp VAG tdi engine. Subaru impreza front seats, nowt in rear and aircon.

I know ... haters hate all ya want, but I think the engine in my Bora is gr9. Easily tunable with better torque & economy than the PSA 2.1TD, plus it's simpler under the bonnet.

 

I may actually do this one day, but probably with the slightly earlier 90bhp engine as it's not ecu controlled.

[vulgalour]

British Leyland sorted this out for me YEARS ago.

[Barry Cade]

Mine would be a Passat GL5 estate with a UR Quattro drivetrain, Lancia Trevi dashboard and RS2000 fishnet recaro interior. BBScross spoke alloys. Volvo 850R brakes. Xantia Activa suspension.

[Pete-M]

Mk2 Escort 2dr, 2.0 Focus ST170 Zetec engine, Caterham 6 speed Type 9 box, sorted RS2000 suspension, early RS Custom (Scheel seats) black interior, black headlining, orange needle RS clocks, export spec heater, opening 1/4 lights, 7x13" Minilites, Cibiés, Mexico spoilers, vastly uprated brakes, quietish exhaust.

Ford very nearly made my ideal car. 

 

If that's too obvious, I'd like a Rover P5B Coupé in black with red leather, TVR Griffith 500 engine, air conditioning, Becker stereo - one of those ones with navigation etc that looks olde worlde, Harvey Bailey suspension, modern auto transmission and brakes and proper wood replacing the fablon looking shite they got as standard.

They'd do me, but ideally I'd like a supercharged MG ZT-T 260 as well.

[Junkman]

Spen King did an excellent job designing the shite I would have designed had he not done it.

[ProgRocker]

Hmmm....maybe a Vauxhall Astra Belmont 1.8 CDi in metallic blue I suppose.

Possibly replace the engine for a 2.5 V6 from the mark 3 Cavalier if it'll fit and uprate the brakes and suspension accordingly.

The only other mod would be a CD player to replace the stock Philips cassette player so I can listen to my tasteful* choice of music & maybe a fresh set of speakers too.

[willswitchengage]

Range Rover Classic (3dr) with a non-turbo banana engine. You've gotta have aspirations, y'know.

[dollywobbler]

A Citroen BX turbo diesel with a turbo that kicks in below 2000rpm, and a proper number of windscreen wipers. One is rubbish. Also, I would like it to have a sweet, light clutch operation and a pleasant gearchange. I'd definitely have another if it could have those things. 

[Lacquer Peel]

Mk2 Scirocco with 110bhp VAG tdi engine. Subaru impreza front seats, nowt in rear and aircon.

I know ... haters hate all ya want, but I think the engine in my Bora is gr9. Easily tunable with better torque & economy than the PSA 2.1TD, plus it's simpler under the bonnet.

 

I may actually do this one day, but probably with the slightly earlier 90bhp engine as it's not ecu controlled.

 

The 90bhp version is ECU controlled as well.

 

I'm a bit UPSET with VAG TDIs because the head gasket on my Skoda started leaking. I haven't got around to fixing it yet. Meh. It's such a dull car.

 

The VAG TD in my Volvo is great though - despite my VAG TDI woes, a Volvo 940 diesel with the 5 pot TDI, LSD and IRS would be nice.

[Parky]

Renault 5 TL with the 1108 cc engine and five speed box. Three door resprayed French blue, GT turbo wheels, suspension and brakes, and a Monaco interior. All the MPG coupled with limpet handling with a bit of leathery luxury inside!

[Wilko220]

Can I just have an old Bristol?

[mercrocker]

Morris Oxford Series IV Traveller (the Hindustan shape but 4 door tin bodied estate car).   Fully updated/leadfree MGB engine with overdrive box, front discs.  I would sacrifice the front bench seat for something out of a Mk 1 Jag maybe with the rest of the car trimmed to match.  No carpets, just thick rubber mats, steel external sunvisor, Styla wheeltrims (with "M" spinners) and a nice radio as mentioned by Pete-M.  But not a Becker, it would have to be a 3-band Philips or something.  With an Ipod - not that I am a poddy but it saves having cd/tape chod all around the interior.   Paint it two shades of green with red leather and I'm a happy bunny, well until I spec the ideal Farina or cold-war Mercedes that is.....

[John F]

[John F]

Can I just have an old Bristol?

 

You can have a pair of them...

 

[AndyW201]

I'll have a 190 please (if I had to be predictable). Add a 2.5 turbo diesel from an early C Class C250d, slightly tweaked to give about 200 BHP, 5 speed manual, ASD diff from a 2.6 190, full suspension refurb using MB sportline parts throughout, 17" AMG monoblock alloys, 190 Cosworth half leather, Cosworth boot spoiler. Finished in my car's Nutria brown, Blauschwarz, or Astral silver.

[Partridge]

Citroen XM estate, in dark green

Jag V8, running on LPG

standard sespension, running gear and wheels

Full leather/peeled mole interior

 

OR

 

Leyland P76

4.0 XUD engine

Weirdo French suspension

Velour interior

Slusher box

Rostyle wheels

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[cms206]

A prefacelift 2.0 8v Mk3 Cavalier SRi130, haze blue, six speed gearbox for added economy, a DAB radio, aircon, heated windscreen, a CD multichanger and MP3 connectivity.

 

Ideally all of these things in a Mk3 Cavalier shell made of something tinworms dislike meaning it'll still have a boot floor, sills and a bulkhead when the statuory ten years is up.

 

 

If that's not doable I'll have the Council Estate with jacked up suspension, 5-spoke 240-style steel wheels, roofrack with jerrycans and spotlights, ideally with a 24v Cummins 6BT diesel.

[londonm]

My dream car is a Proton Saga Aeroback, packing a bored out Boxter 2.5 litre engine running on a set of Halfords Ripspeed 17' alloys. Probably put some serious ice in it as well, from Halfords also.

[oman5]

A rover sd1.

standard suspension but lowered and uprated. Lexus 4.0 V8 and box, lexus ls400 interior. 

 

longevity, total reliability, more power and better economy.

 

d'ya know, this sounds vaguely feasible?

[Junkman]

After you've ripped all that dreary computer shit out of the Lexus, can I have it to drop a Rover V8 with two SUs and a BW65 in it? Maybe the interior from the SD1 too? That way I'd still drive a big bloody V8 when the old Lexus engine, wires and seats are surrounded by a pile of brown dust.

[forddeliveryboy]

I am satisfied with what I have and have had - an 80TDi Avant for quick cross country, back-road day-to-day stuff, a S124 for long distance and towing heavy stuff, a seventies 2cv for de-escalation and general joie de vie and appreciation of boxer engines, CX 2.5 Turbo for alacrity, other-worldliness and for smart, Saab 900 T16 for Scandinavian intrigue and fun, Clio 1.9D for big-engine-small-car smiles, Alfa SudSprint 1.3 for sweetness, GS 1222 like a university lecture on how it should be done, Rover P6 for quaint Englishness, '91 XJ6 4.0 for pleasure, Peugeot 406 2.1 for boredom.

[oman5]

After you've ripped all that dreary computer shit out of the Lexus, can I have it to drop a Rover V8 with two SUs and a BW65 in it? Maybe the interior from the SD1 too? That way I'd still drive a big bloody V8 when the old Lexus engine, wires and seats are surrounded by a pile of brown dust.

why? do you have a rover v8 and bw available/already surrounded by brown dust? *chuckle*

[Junkman]

why? do you have a rover v8 and bw available/already surrounded by brown dust? *chuckle*

Actually, the brown dust has meanwhile been swept away.

[Angrydicky]

Post 1975 you say? I'll have an Austin Ambassador then please, 2.0 HL spec (I don't like the HLS/VDP grille). Finished in Champagne Beige or Targa Red, with the brown, cream or Paprika cloth interior. Also I'd have a five speed gearbox from a Montego, and the optional power steering. I'd spend the surplus cash on rustproofing, a vast supply of spares and rent on a garage to keep it in.

 

Or an early Rover SD1 3500 Auto in Tumeric Yellow, White or Brown, also with the rustproofing, spare parts and garage included.

[Grundig]

Lada Riva ????