Which car for you defines this decade?

[Polystratus]

 

It's the decade where car styling went wrong, with enormous lights, amorphous blobby bodywork, and gaping grills and faux air ducts stamping their 'identity'.

Peugeot is one of the worst, historically their cars were pretty.

Think someone was taking the wee when they designed that Peugeot, its even worse looking in real life.

[Stixy]

It's the decade where car styling went wrong, with enormous lights, amorphous blobby bodywork, and gaping grills and faux air ducts stamping their 'identity'.Peugeot is one of the worst, historically their cars were pretty.

Think someone was taking the wee when they designed that Peugeot, its even worse looking in real life.

White ones look bad ... then again they all look bad They look like they have a beer gut and the designer forgot about the mirrors on the final design and sombody else just macled some on off another car

[Tayne]

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[Guest]

I've only just realised how awkwardly-placed the mirrors are, it truly is a car where the more you look at it, the more awkward it looks. Funny really because the 307 previous was quite neat-looking - bit dumpy for me, but very coherent at least.

[HillmanImp]

Things like those Pugs are so fuggin poor that in 30yrs time, there will probably be a new generation of Autoshiters looking at 4d images of them, gliding along in their automated flying cars whilst jetski-ing the information superfreeway, a la Talbot Tagora.

[Richard]

I think we need to see it again.

 

[scruff]

^^ One of those, bought on finance with the aid of scrappage Cars I've liked from the past decade? Range Rover, Jag XF... probably about it. Those big V8 Rovers are quite cool though.

[Jonnyvalenta]

That bloated Pug is utterly vile.It's difficult to imagine that this company once produced cars as pretty as the 205,405 and the gorgeous 406 coupe!

[Justin Case]

The Pious, the Mini, the 500, white Audi A4s. I don't despise the cars, they are all have some merit, I just despise the people who turned them into no more than fashion accessories. Guilt by association, I'm afraid

[CIH]

I'd say any Audi in silver. Everything I hate about moderns I can pin on AUdi. They all look the bloody same, have somehow managed to be "posh" and " a bit special", despte being exactly the same as any other VAG product, and a massive reliance on techno-shite instead of sound design. I know, let's shove the engine right upagainst the front grille and feck about with 4WD and various acronyms just so the cunt can manage some turn-in.That and the fucking wheels seize on to the hubs, but that's not just an Audi thing. I still hate Audis though.

[scruff]

Audi sit the engines right back against the bulkhead these days, even on the 4x4 ones.

[Albert Ross]

Car produced in this decade, Chrysler 300Car owned in this decade:Best all rounder. M284 SWE aka "Sweaty Betty" the Isuzu Astra Estate.Best heap. PEB 861J Land Rover 109 Diesel (Current Daily Driver)Best dream realised. H96 XWR Mercedes 300SE Most sensible car. 2006 Focus Ghia with full options ticked.

[Tayne]

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[ashmicro]

Car produced in this decade, Chrysler 300Car owned in this decade:Best all rounder. M284 SWE aka "Sweaty Betty" the Isuzu Astra Estate.Best heap. PEB 861J Land Rover 109 Diesel (Current Daily Driver)Best dream realised. H96 XWR Mercedes 300SE Most sensible car. 2006 Focus Ghia with full options ticked.

Didn't know you had an S Class Albert. Noice!

[Vin]

Silver Audi A4 TDi belching black smoke.Sadly.Or perhaps a BINI painted in the livery of some wank estate agents being piloted by a smug twat in a cheap suit with directional hair or a girl who is a bit fatter and a bit uglier than they think they are. Either will obv have braying foghorn voices and drive like total plebs.

Agree with Pog on this.As regards that hideous Pug, this has surely been the design disaster decade, but that's what happens when you are having to design to an increasing number of rules and regulations. Observe that most new cars of certain sizes all have A pillars at 45 degrees, a 4 foot front overhang (I may be exagerating but you know what I mean ) That Peugeot bonnet looks like that because it is essentially designed as a trampoline.....That's progress folks

[Pete-M]

I've hated every single car to appear this decade. Take the headlights and brakelights away, and it's something else.

 

I'd say this defines it, although it was born 1998:

 

 

It inspired ever other mass produced car I reckon. Silver, fucking boring looking.

Also probably the greatest family car of the last 40 years... Brilliant things, the Mk1 Focus.

[Mr Lobster]

Also probably the greatest family car of the last 40 years... Brilliant things, the Mk1 Focus.

Indeed. I'd have another one any day. Absolutely loved the Mk1 Focii I had.

[sporty-shite]

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Agreed on that. My favourite rental firm ride, they were, over and above all the VAG kit.

 

Negative definition of the decade? "Crossover" cars a la Nissan Qashqai et al.

 

Neither one thing nor the other, and just there to make mollycoddling middle class parents think their kids are safe inside them.

[barrett]

Seeing that disgusting Pug made me think about probably my favourite car of the last 20 years, the 406 coupe, i know it wasn't styled in-house but to think that they could go from making something so beautiful to making something so hideous in such a short space of time is shocking.I'll have to agree about the dodgy gaffer-taped Mundano being the car that sums up the decade for me, so ubiquitous that you dont even notice them, but one day we'll wake up and they'll all have dissappeared.

[whitevanman]

Seeing that disgusting Pug made me think about probably my favourite car of the last 20 years, the 406 coupe, i know it wasn't styled in-house but to think that they could go from making something so beautiful to making something so hideous in such a short space of time is shocking.I'll have to agree about the dodgy gaffer-taped Mundano being the car that sums up the decade for me, so ubiquitous that you dont even notice them, but one day we'll wake up and they'll all have dissappeared.

Mainly because the bastard things needed a clutch changed........nobody will do them as they are a pain in the arse, so the owners have to scrap them as they cant get them fixed....

[scooters]

I'd say any Audi in silver. Everything I hate about moderns I can pin on AUdi. They all look the bloody same, have somehow managed to be "posh" and " a bit special", despte being exactly the same as any other VAG product, and a massive reliance on techno-shite instead of sound design. I know, let's shove the engine right upagainst the front grille and feck about with 4WD and various acronyms just so the cunt can manage some turn-in.That and the fucking wheels seize on to the hubs, but that's not just an Audi thing. I still hate Audis though.

indeed and it never ceases to amaze me how the more 'sanctimonious' motorway driver is more often than not driving an Audi Tdi (apologies to 4 circle shitters - I do not include them as they clearly have imaginations as they like kit)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I am not a big fan of the stereotypical A4 TDi driver, but fair play to Audi themselves, they are at the top of their game, I don't see how the company can be knocked. OK the Q7 and Q5 suck, but then all varieties of those half arsed soft roader things suck equally.

[scooters]

I am not a big fan of the stereotypical A4 TDi driver, but fair play to Audi themselves, they are at the top of their game, I don't see how the company can be knocked. OK the Q7 and Q5 suck, but then all varieties of those half arsed soft roader things suck equally.

indeed, great cars I do not dispute but I personally would not be seen dead driving an Audi that did not have at least one straight angle on the bodywork! been cut up by two many bell ends in them I'm afraid

[Milford Cubicle]

New Audis aren't that bad, as far as modern cars go they are styled quite cleanly and coherently.

[scooters]

New Audis aren't that bad, as far as modern cars go they are styled quite cleanly and coherently.

the exception being the arese end of the A6 saloon - a bit:"I do not believe it Hans! You haf not left ze room for ze clubs for golf!! Add anozer 10 centimeters to ze boot immediately"....."yawhol at once mein fuerher!"

[Guest]

The current Audi range is quite neat in terms of looks (bar the A3 Cabriolet which looks predictably dumpy).I just wish they'd get rid of that stupid "bearded" family face and go back to having a normal grille. You can even get bodykits to update the old Audis to a new front - wish they'd do kits to do the reverse.

[Mr H Sceptre]

The current Audi range is quite neat in terms of looks (bar the A3 Cabriolet which looks predictably dumpy).

 

I just wish they'd get rid of that stupid "bearded" family face and go back to having a normal grille. You can even get bodykits to update the old Audis to a new front - wish they'd do kits to do the reverse.

The radiator grilles on modern Audis remind me of the grilles on early MkII Astras

 

[Pillock]

I'll have to agree about the dodgy gaffer-taped Mundano being the car that sums up the decade for me, so ubiquitous that you dont even notice them, but one day we'll wake up and they'll all have dissappeared.

Mainly because the bastard things needed a clutch changed........

The exact reason I got rid of mine :)Although the bumpers were intact, one of the doors was the wrong shade of green.

[Mike D]

On an Audi note, I absolutely love the A5, i will be getting me some of that action when they plummet in price, preferable in lovely S5 guise. CUL8R nasty TDiI agree on the gaffer taped Mondeo, i had the misfortune to own a 1.8 auto mk1, although it was winter at the time and its single redeeming feature was the heated screen...

[pbottomley]

The current Audi range is quite neat in terms of looks (bar the A3 Cabriolet which looks predictably dumpy).

 

I just wish they'd get rid of that stupid "bearded" family face and go back to having a normal grille. You can even get bodykits to update the old Audis to a new front - wish they'd do kits to do the reverse.

The radiator grilles on modern Audis remind me of the grilles on early MkI Astras

 

even if the picture is of a Mk2 Astra