The best car in the world game

[They_all_do_that_sir]

The rules are simple. I post a car, the next poster either agrees with my choice or gives a reason for my wrongness and offers an alternative. The next poster then agrees or disagrees with the alternative, and so on and so on.

 

So to start things rolling, the best car ever was the mk1 Ford Focus

[vulgalour]

The Mondeo is a better car than the Focus and the Mondeo is not the best car in the world.  In fact, there are many Fords that are better than the Focus for a number of reasons and while the estate version is a contender for Best Compromise it will certainly never achieve best car status.

 

No, the best car in the world is the Citroen CX estate with lots of seats.  Practical, comfortable, stylish, French.  Junkman will disagree.

 

[Cheggers]

Practical, stylish and brutally overcomplicated...unlike my choice, the Series II Land Rover

[320touring]

The CX estate is too large for hooring down single track roads up North.

 

The e30 touring is the best car in the world- simple to work on, reliable(ish) a good steer, yet vaguely frugal when not being sprinted

[vulgalour]

French is how I choose to spell "brutally overcomplicated".

[They_all_do_that_sir]

The focus was a shyte but easy first choice.

 

The Land Rover is wrong because it's useless on Tarmac. The CX is too french. The E30 is too hyped and has lots of scene.

 

No, the best has to be the humble peugeot 205

[vulgalour]

The 205 which is French but not "French".  I'm finding it difficult to disagree with your new choice, the 205 is a bloody excellent car!

[DVee8]

Game over then.

The 205 is the best car in the world next thread.

[2MB]

+2 on the 205. I've just taken my e30 out down a few lanes but from memory the 205 was even more hilarious

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Well that ended quicker than expected.

 

Off to look at 205s on ebay

[pshome]

Did I mention the Tagora? 20000 buyer's can't be wrong!

[Doctormop]

Volvo V70 Diesel,

Like a 205 that has aged and expanded in middle age and has grown comfortable in its cardigan

[fred]

Nope for versatility and all round fineness - Subaru Forester - This is the best car in the world 

All wheel drive - Turbo version goes like a scalded cat - Reliable as Radio 2

and plenty of room for shite

[skattrd]

205 isn't big or fast enough

[Sloth in a bowl]

Much as I like many of your opinions, you are all wrong.

 

The best car in the world is the Nissan Primera GT

• Room for 4 proper adults plus luggage
• Reliable for the first 200k miles
• Sensible when you want to be sensible
• A good steer and a nice motor when you encounter a fun B road
• No badge premium or old skool tax
• Not overly complex on the tech to go wrong

 

Please somebody prove to me that I'm wrong before I start looking for one on MongTree

[320touring]

Much as I like many of your opinions, you are all wrong.

 

The best car in the world is the Nissan Primera GT

• Room for 4 proper adults plus luggage
• Reliable for the first 200k miles
• Sensible when you want to be sensible
• A good steer and a nice motor when you encounter a fun B road
• No badge premium or old skool tax
• Not overly complex on the tech to go wrong

 

Please somebody prove to me that I'm wrong before I start looking for one on MongTree

FWD 4banger.. AHHHM OOOOT!

 

And I put forward the xj40 as an alternative

[skattrd]

Nissan Primera fails for 2 obvious reasons 1. It's a Nissan and 2. It's not a Lancia.

[mercrocker]

Here is my vote for what should have been the best car in the world EVAH.....Citroen GSA.   Bags of fun to drive, econonomonomical if that mattered, could get a Fifties gents wardrobe and an oak dining table in the back of it (OK I had to make two trips...)  bloody comfortable, GR9 on M-ways, easy to clean (cos it low).  Also you could drive like a real Frenchman with Gauloise between lips and finger on horn stalk.   Such a damn shame they were built out of Guyere. 

[cros]

 You're wrong cos Rover P4 pisses all over these including my own 205. I don't want it to- its shite with an especially silly engine and twatty gear change but you get the same feeling as when you first drive a CX but with simple-as-a-series Landrover running gear.

[doobietoo]

You are all wrong.... the best car in the world is the description we give to SWMBO about the next pile of shite we are going to waste money on...

[Albert Ross]

Rover P4 has a dreadfully awkward parking brake mechanism and the chassis rots.

 

I propose the VW Beetle for the fact it remobilised an entire Country after being devastated, and with the fact that Hitler had a hand in it, we all know that I have won the internet.

[anonymous user]

A Rover P4 is nice, but, you can't get a wardrobe in it.

 

So my vote goes to RWD Volvo Estates, millions of Scotsmen can't be wrong

[cros]

When will it be rotten then?

[Asimo]

All the qualities ofa Volvo Estate plus a lot more:

 

Early Range Rover: Enough space, enough cylinders, enough simplicity, enough comfort. One door each side and another at the back. Classless, smart, useful and welcome everywhere. Copied badly by many but never bettered.

[Justin Case]

The early Range Rover rots for fun and only has three doors. The best car in the world is the Mercedes W116 S Class. Over-engineered to the extent it makes a Volvo 740 look like a cornflakes packet, every luxury, but straightforward enough to be kept on the road with a hammer, a screwdriver and a length of string.

[panhard65]

Sorry there can only be one best car in the world

[155V6]

Has it got 4 gauges in the centre console & a sloping dashboard?,the best car in the world is a pre-facelift MK 3 Cortina GT 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

The early Range Rover rots for fun and only has three doors. The best car in the world is the Mercedes W116 S Class. Over-engineered to the extent it makes a Volvo 740 look like a cornflakes packet, every luxury, but straightforward enough to be kept on the road with a hammer, a screwdriver and a length of string.

 

 

The W116 rots for fun. A Volvo 740 makes them look like a packet of rustflakes!

[DS20]

My vote  

 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

The landlord at the Dodgy Partridge told me with a misty tear in his one good eye the XJ40 is the best car in the world. 

 

He said, "The boot's perfik fer a keg and it's dead smooth, keeps the beer happy so it don't explode and take my eye out when I'm waterin it down."

 

He liked the look of that Roller though.