What are your 'weird' likes in cars?

[inconsistant]

You don't seem to see it on modern cars because they're so hard sprung and planted and awesome at everything, but I really really like seeing the front of a car lift up under hard acceleration. Especially if it dips during gear changes and then rears up again.

 

Also handbrakes between drivers seat and door.

[Taff]

Big 2-door saloons,4 headlights,hot hatches with no power steering(Metro GTI particularly)

 

two out of three ain't bad

 

[DSdriver]

Big windows all around, its nice to be able to have an unobstructed view of where you are going, where you have been, and who's coming at you out of a side turning. Modern stuff is so claustrophobic and difficult to reverse.

[cms206]

Volvo estates...

[New POD]

4x4's and Vauxhalls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Runs and hides

 

 

Vauxhall Cavalier 4x4 (130BHP SEH8V, 150BHP 16VGsi and 208BHPTurbo) . Want one. Any of them would do. Actually when Cavweb.co.uk was still cavalier orientated someone had built a V6 4X4 from a GSi 4X4 with no engine. That might be my dream car.  

[chaseracer]

Steel wheels without trims on cars that should have alloys.

 

Yes.

[catsinthewelder]

Do these float your boat?

 

They do but not as much as these

[John F]

Vauxhall Cavalier 4x4 (130BHP SEH8V, 150BHP 16VGsi and 208BHPTurbo) . Want one. Any of them would do. Actually when Cavweb.co.uk was still cavalier orientated someone had built a V6 4X4 from a GSi 4X4 with no engine. That might be my dream car.  

 

Aha... are you another CavWeb expatriate? That makes four of us on here that I know about

[Lacquer Peel]

[AnthonyG]

 

Oh, back on topic, I like Avengers. Apparently that's weird.

Hillman/Chrysler/Talbot Avengers = not weird

1990s Dodge Avengers = slightly weird

2000s Dodge Avengers = you sir, are one sick puppy

[Lacquer Peel]

[Lacquer Peel]

Basically, jacked up off road 4x4 cars.

[steve_earwig]

Hillman/Chrysler/Talbot Avengers = not weird

1990s Dodge Avengers = slightly weird

2000s Dodge Avengers = you sir, are one sick puppy

I'd forgotten the Dodgy ones even existed

[chaseracer]

It's better that way, Steve...

[Justin Case]

I like the first cars to use a new technology, before the  original concept gets bastardised by the marketers and becomes diluted. Enter stage left the original Honda Insight and Toyota Prius, both on my bucket list.

[kinkersaab]

V 8 rocking when revved eg. Range rover

 

Old volvo 240 viscous fan noise and that sound ypu could here when out side one and the drived took it out of reverse, very distinctive noise.

 

80s ford central locking noise. Like a drrzzzzzzzzzrrrr

 

Metal exterior door handles, door handles should feel cold, not painted plastic.

 

Saab interior smell

 

Mercedes w123 w126 dash light rheostat. It made a noise like it was doing something mechanically.

 

Saab 900 exhaust barble, also subaru...

 

Flat 4 engines in general

 

I like lhd, no idea why, just do,

 

also anything that should be an auto, but is a manual...

[Timewaster]

I like the angle of that Dangle

[Noel Tidybeard]

ok, ok its not a car so sue me

but this sounds awsome and reminds me of youth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdc6U_Jccs&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688

[chodweaver]

Indicator stalks on the right, so I can change gear and indicate at the same time. The smell of the velour cloth they put in late BXs when they were new. Newly painted brake calipers in fluorescent colours. Directional headlamps. The shove from a supercharger, an early Saab turbo or a trick inlet valve or cam system. Hooning in new snow in otherwise docile cars.

And +1 for the handbrake to the right of the drivers seat in early LTs.

 

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[Justin Case]

ok, ok its not a car so sue me

but this sounds awsome and reminds me of youth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdc6U_Jccs&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688

I had a ride on this at the AMRTM open day last October; it really sounded tremendous with a full load and the driver giving it some stick so the turbo was whistling away nearly all the time

[Junkman]

'Warm' hatches (and saloons) like 205 XSs, nova SRs etc. somehow cooler than the quickest versions

 

There is a lot of truth in this.

I would extend it to the so-called Muscle Cars.

 

A friend of mine had a 1969 Dodge Coronet with the Magnum 383 OMGNOTR/T440SIXPACKHEMI.

It was police/taxi/export specced, so it had cop everything and the ultra high geared 2.41:1 rear axle.

The result: we once clocked it at 156 mph on a runway and it did 12 second quarter miles with silencers and street tyres.

On the other hand, you could cruise it in town all hot Summer day long with the aircon switched on.

Add to this that it was utterly bullet proof and never needed any major repairs, much unlike its high performance siblings.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I had a ride on this at the AMRTM open day last October; it really sounded tremendous with a full load and the driver giving it some stick so the turbo was whistling away nearly all the time

yes it does go somewhat like a scalded cat

my uncle Roger used to drive them- maybe even that one

[oman5]

Old volvo 240 viscous fan noise and that sound ypu could here when out side one and the drived took it out of reverse, very distinctive noise.

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Yes! On a cold start the fan goes WHOOOOOM!

 

Reverse noise...like really loud CLACK!

[cort1977]

You, sir, are ready for a 1961 Imperial.

 

 

Ernest Hemingway drove a convertible one of those in Cuba I believe.

Edit : it was a 55 New Yorker convertible my memory is shite.

[twosmoke300]

Another weird tractor one - the noise that the cooling fans make when you reverse them to clean the radiators

[Inspector Morose]

I had a ride on this at the AMRTM open day last October; it really sounded tremendous with a full load and the driver giving it some stick so the turbo was whistling away nearly all the time

It's not the turbo. It's the alternator belt.

[MarvinsMom]

 

 

 

 

this is fab...... and unless i'm mistaken, this is just like a QUARTIC steering wheel.... i thought that only the allegro came with a square steering wheel!!

 

i'm amazed that more than one manufacturer thought that was a good idea. i like it though, lots, and lots.

[steve_earwig]

My god, it even has tail fins on the dash

[xtriple]

Just thought of another one - rev counters (okay pedants, tachometers!). Can't have a car without one. Also not keen on this modern fad for not putting temp gauges on cars. I know that for years they have lied (ecu controlled so as to NOT scare the punters...until there really is a problem and it suddenly goes from 'normal' to OMFG that's HOT, in a nano-second!) but at least it's some kind of indication... Lights that are blue when cold and then go out only to be replaced with blazing red when it's all gone tits up, just not the thing old chap!

[steve_earwig]

Oil pressure warning lights seem to have gone the same way. No light, nothing, all you get is a bong from the computer and a warning, followed by a con rod exiting the bonnet.