A car that no one here has owned or driven?

[Wack]

6 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Are they really affordable shite now? Always fancied one of those but thought it would take a bit longer

i only read the title, maybe not

[Pete-M]

On 5/1/2023 at 9:13 PM, Split_Pin said:

A Renault 12?

Alfa Romeo Gulietta from the early 1980s

Fiat 132

 

I've driven all of these. 

[castros_bro]

1 hour ago, Skut said:

I own a Y10 Turbo in many separate pieces.   Anybody driven or owned a Berkeley.

 

Many T60 and B90 and T100 engined ones,  your pic is a B95 or B105.

[Skut]

5 minutes ago, castros_bro said:

Many T60 and B90 and T100 engined ones,  your pic is a B95 or B105.

So what are they like.

[castros_bro]

1 hour ago, Skut said:

So what are they like.

Commuting along an motorway to work and back being overtaken by artics where I could have driven underneath one without taking the floppy top down was "interesting".

[Ghosty]

Cosmo anyone?

[Schaefft]

3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Cosmo anyone?

Already mentioned it myself before, apparently noone yet! I should have pulled the trigger when one was up for sale for 3.5k on eBay years ago.

[wuvvum]

On 5/14/2023 at 8:23 PM, MantaGTE85 said:

Anyone owned a 1990 to 1996 Hyundai S-Coupe? I was watching 'Car Trouble - Chris Fulke Greville', on YouTube, that featured a dodgy one of those, and thought of this thread. If so, was it any good?

Yep.

It was bland.  Not unpleasant though.

[wuvvum]

On 5/15/2023 at 8:37 PM, Ghosty said:

 @wuvvum didn't you have one of these?

I did indeed.

[warren t claim]

What about those Chinese pick ups with a fake BMW grille?

[The Vicar]

20 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I did indeed.

Wow! What was it like? 

[wuvvum]

Rusty.

[wuvvum]

It was bloody massive - made a P38 Range Rover look like a Terios.  Interior was very '80s Italian luxury car - lots of tan leather all over everything and slices of wood veneer.  Engine and 'box were from an Iveco Turbo Daily so it wasn't a fast vehicle.

[High Jetter]

On 5/16/2023 at 5:43 PM, Pete-M said:

I've driven all of these. 

Me too,  except the Alfa. Tho I did drive a 1300 junior, that went very well.

[eddyramrod]

Never driven any sort of Alfa yet.  I must try to rectify this!

[Ghosty]

Proton Satria Neo?

[MrGTI6]

12 hours ago, warren t claim said:

What about those Chinese pick ups with a fake BMW grille?

DFSK Loadhopper? I've driven one of those. It was surprisingly nippy and had no power steering. 

[Volksy]

On 5/16/2023 at 11:54 PM, wuvvum said:

I did indeed.

It was this vehicle that made me join this forum. So wanted to buy it when it came up for sale, but the galloping rot put me off.

Did it end up in Germany or somewhere?

[Conan]

On 5/15/2023 at 2:27 AM, GagaStan said:

Honda Fit Aria

JDM  saloon version of the mk1 Honda Jazz. And if anyone else thought it’d be a challenge to create a good looking saloon from a Jazz, you’d be dead right…

A few of them grey imported to NZ, I’m fascinated. Most have beige crushed velour upholstery (drool) and come with the option of a rear wiper (saloon rear wiper, double drool)

My family had one from new. First car I ever driven actually. Fun fact, even ones sold in Japan were made and exported from Thailand. In Japan only old farts bought them along with Toyota Belta. Elsewhere the market demographic were more varied.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[RichardK]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Dream car in 1994/5 when my Dyanes were slowly rusting away

[RichardK]

I don't have a picture but I know some were imported as I had a nerdy WTF meltdown seeing one in Kelso.

Fiat Palio.

[Doctormop]

No pics but had a Dacia Denem estate on an A suffix  plate in 1990,

Hearing aid beige with DENEM proudly written across both lower o/s and n/s doors.

Thought it was ok for the £300 I paid for it with a full MOT, 

Things seemed simpler then.

Sold it for£250 with 3 days MOT left, wish I hadn't as it ran perfectly and I knew I'd never find another.

[Ghosty]

Do VW SP2s count as shite, or dubber holy grails?

See also Citi Golf; Gol.

[warren t claim]

12 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Do VW SP2s count as shite, or dubber holy grails?

See also Citi Golf; Gol.

We had a Citi Golf go through the auction I drove for. 

Ford Corcel anyone?

[RichardK]

5 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Do VW SP2s count as shite, or dubber holy grails?

See also Citi Golf; Gol.

I looked at a VW Fox in the states, which is a relative of the Gol I think but not a PROPER Gol with front-mounted aircooled engine. Definitely affordable shite in US terms.

If an SP2 were affordable it'd count, surely?

[Asimo]

5 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Do VW SP2s count as shite, or dubber holy grails?

Pretty sure that they are both! In the ‘80s there was a shite-condition blue one kept on the side of a road near Symonds Yat which gave me both the obscure + the aircool-rules wants every time I saw it.

[Alan_Green]

5 hours ago, Ghosty said:

See also Citi Golf;

A Citi Golf was my daily driver (although owned by a pal).  It was the "dot com" model.  You could only order it online on the fancy new interweb, allegedly.  I've also driven loads of citi golf hire cars.  They're great but they attract hijackers.  They did a really fancy Citi Mk 1 at the end of the run.  You could buy this new in 2009:   

Anyone had a Scimitar SS1?  I was by a Scimitar garage in Kettering yesterday and thought of this thread.

[castros_bro]

Charles F Taylor's car (or his other car)

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]