It's July 1992, you have £2.5k to buy a 4x4....

[rml2345]

Series Land Rover because I've always wanted one.

Yes I know it'll be crap. 

[RichardK]

The Panda was unstoppable - in snow it was better than almost any other 4x4 I've driven. But I had cheap Sierra XR4x4s later and given you were still paying £2K for good ones in 1999-2002, I dread to think what the £2K one in '92 was like.

And this was the era of clocking, ringing, newspaper stuffed in sills, forged MOTs, fake tax discs, etc.

Still loved my XR4x4s though, the last one was a panther black late 2.9 and looked fantastic.

[Peter C]

17 minutes ago, RichardK said:

And this was the era of clocking, ringing, newspaper stuffed in sills, forged MOTs, fake tax discs, etc.

Aka the good old days.

[Scruffy Bodger]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Saw one at a show a few months back - a guy had restored a Brat - he’d done a really good job at it actually. As you say I figured most would be under the manure patch on a farm. 

Must be so rare, the Brat's not quite so much. The last one I saw on the road was probably 15 years ago. I was watching the street racing round Digbeth one night, Asian lads in it, boost wound right up literally driving it like it was stolen. They were giving it absolute death and it just took it and took it.

Our C reg was used to tow a heavy trailer back from Wales with a Massey Fergy 35 tractor on it, 2 adults, two teenagers and 2 kids in the car. As soon as the tractor wheels got on the trailer it lifted the rear wheels of the car completely clear of the floor! It towed the lot up the hill past @catsinthewelder's, nearly boiling by the time it hit the top, incredible machine!

I'm guessing the Justy and Espace Quadra were over budget to make the list?

[somewhatfoolish]

There's at least one Brat on here; @Joey spud I think?

[S2000]

Audi 80 Quattro all the way….. when I was at uni (1997) a mate who was a farmers son rocked an 80 Quattro and then later had a coupe literally held together with bailer twine. I went on the piss in his village one weekend and his old man hoarded mid eighties Audi’s all generally bolloxed!
Many a time his 80 would be seen flying up Cox Street central Cov followed by a plume of blue smoke, happy days.

[brownnova]

Think I would have to Alfa 33 it…. But at 6 years old I’d likely not be allowed to drive it, and my dad would never have entertained something as unreliable as an Alfa… in fact in 1992 we had an Allegro 

[Macscrooge]

Subaru DL wagon for me!  I remember they seemed extraordinarily cheap new. Followed by the Aldi which wasn’t. 

[Asimo]

Subaru - the 3 door hatch.
Couldn’t find one back then so I tried a Tercel but it was very meh. I also didn’t buy a 4x4 Renault 21 estate, partly because the boot-floor was stupidly high, partly because the seller was stupidly drunk.

[r.welfare]

80 quattro.  I owned one identical to the picture, hubcaps and all, in 2001-2002.  Great noise and diff locks.

[RichardK]

1 hour ago, S2000 said:

Audi 80 Quattro all the way….. when I was at uni (1997) a mate who was a farmers son rocked an 80 Quattro and then later had a coupe literally held together with bailer twine. I went on the piss in his village one weekend and his old man hoarded mid eighties Audi’s all generally bolloxed!
Many a time his 80 would be seen flying up Cox Street central Cov followed by a plume of blue smoke, happy days.

I had a B2 90 quattro with locking centre and rear diff. Too nose-heavy and understeery for hot-hatch shenanigans, but brilliant on bad surfaces - I replaced it with a Jetta syncro which was abysmal.

[Ohdearme]

Where's the Mk3  Cav 4x4?

[UltraWomble]

Niva, and a big tin of Waxoil

[r.welfare]

7 minutes ago, Ohdearme said:

Where's the Mk3  Cav 4x4?

They wouldn’t have dropped to £2.5k after only 3 years.

[GeordieInExile]

I'd have the Hilux on the basis I'd probably still be running it today. 

[Joey spud]

3 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

There's at least one Brat on here; @Joey spud I think?

Yeah I've had one since 2010.

Painted it in 2013.

I took it off the road in 2018 to remove any hidden grot and correctly replace the sills and inner arches and I've got about 85%  there.

I always thought the best thing about the Subaru 4x4 system was that it had High and Low ratios in four wheel drive but in two wheel drive they drove the front wheels.

[Ohdearme]

1 hour ago, r.welfare said:

They wouldn’t have dropped to £2.5k after only 3 years.

Ah yes, I saw the XR4x4 and jumped to parallels...

[MorrisItalSLX]

Tercel for me, with the two tone paint and the tartan interior.

Otherwise, it would be one of the Subaru estates.

[Markeh]

XR4x4, the 80 Quattro or the Range - but there's very few there I'd say no to.

[Shite Ron]

In 1992 as a 23 year old I would probably have gone for the XR4x4, now I would be struggling to choose between the Range Rover and Panda.

[Wibble]

Sierra for me I think. In 1989, I was given permission to take a mate’s  Dad’s Sierra 4x4 Ghia estate for a spin. Would have been a 2.8i I think and I thought it was sublime and felt like it cornered on rails, compared to anything else I’d driven at 19. I was also allowed to drive his Capri 2.8i Special, all as a treat, as I was leaving home and moving south.

[crad]

hilux or audi for me.

[Eyersey1234]

Sierra XR4x4 or Subaru for me

[Marina door handles]

Nice selection, XR4X4 would be at the top of the list for me but wouldn't say no to the Subarus or the Patrol or the Duster..... I could go on.....