It's my car and I like it.

[Schaefft]

6 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

It is….. and not as expensive as you might think…

I shouldn't really ask but feel free to keep me in mind should you get tired of it!

[bezzabsa]

5 hours ago, dave j said:

Here is my camper, bought for £300 in 2007 and restored over the years. Still not finished but it's been used every year for camping since 2009. 

gotta ask, how much was left for £300???????????

[Asimo]

21 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

There are cars all the car sages “know” why you have it. Then there are the cars very few people understand why you have it. Perhaps more people understand in this group the odd choices I have made than in the general classic car world.

I think top of my current cars for not being understanding why I have had it 16 years is my Citroen Visa Diesel?

A car I wish I had bought new as they were such good value. I didn't because the job bought me a BX, also registered C451 (+YDD)

[UltraWomble]

Polo 1.4TDi SE

Bought by my father 6 months before he died and he ticked a few options boxes (heated seats, washer jets, mirrors, headlamp washers & some other bits) because it was going to end up living outdoors after he died (mother would not put it in the garage). He also had it "undersealed" and the paint / upholstery treated with some guard or other that was supposed to keep it looking good.

Mother Womble drove it between 2008 and late 2023 when eventually after many years of trying to convince her to try a badermatic, she bought a Corsa E with slush box. Since then she has driven more than she did in the years after dad died. The Polo has been in the wars, it has parking scuffs front & rear NS. Its done a fairly low mileage - most of which has been put on by me. My daughters and wife dislike driving it, yet I have no issues with it.
Im debating parting with it and buying something auto at the moment for my daughters to learn/drive with - both are nervous drivers and both struggle with the manual, both have been learning for some considerable time, hence why I keep looking at @Kiltox's offerings - but since the other week my daily commute is a smidge over 50 miles round trip (and that doesnt include any additional trips between sites or to chemists or home detox visits I might have to make, though these are infrequent) so that puts me off a used Leaf a bit.

Its the only car Ive ever had that Im slightly sentimental over - though Ive actually taken the plate off it as Im realistic that I probably wont keep it indefinitely, and as a 19YO daily driver at some point its going to become uneconomical to fix or run any longer. Until that happens, or until I decide to get an auto for the girls this is my car, and possibly aside from a Mk2 Fester I once owned the only car I actually have any "feelings" for.

 

[Kiltox]

I have a 30kWh Leaf in that would ease those worries…. 

[morrisoxide]

My cars make me smile too. Probably in this order.

I love driving this you feel like a F1 driver going around a corner at 35ish mph.

Mercury is the one that gives me a real buzz. But can be a pain being so bloody big, but funny too looking back getting stuck. 

The Panda was supposed to be a winter hack but I like driving it and care too much for it.

[stuboy]

It's fast... crap on fuel.. loud.. brash ... a bit marmite for some but it's mines ..

[hairnet]

omg oxide does modern

can we send bools round to laugh on our behalf

(theyre ace)

[PhilA]

Far from perfect but I like it.

[dave j]

16 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

gotta ask, how much was left for £300???????????

It was complete, but needed everything doing to it! Been off the road for 13 years and badly brush painted but it was still a bargain!I had to learn to weld as had never done it before. Luckily the chassis was sound but it needed all of the bodywork doing

[Missy Charm]

Don't really know what I'd do without it, especially given that replacing it with another one in similar condition would either be prohibitively expensive or very difficult.  Has been mine for a very long time, now, and does everything a car needs to do.  Modern, too, and can be fun to drive.  

[morrisoxide]

20 hours ago, hairnet said:

omg oxide does modern

can we send bools round to laugh on our behalf

(theyre ace)

Aye it used to be a Austin and Morris set up but I've gone to the dark side and bought a Fiat.😄

Mr Bools is amassing quite a collection of JDM mini vans.

[Matty]

🤤

[Pauly.22]

Don’t know why but I like my daily more than I thought,

funny looking thing but you never seem them much as they never sold well in the uk. 

[Dobloseven]

I've had this well over a year now and getting on for 12k miles.I'd looked into buying an almost new one not long before the COVID years.But other things got in the way.Really would be sad if anything happened to it.Still only on 43k so should have some left life in it.Really is a good all round "Swiss Army Knife" car.3000kg towing,with 140kg noseweight,seven seats if needed,4wd with low ratio transfer box.Good flat load platform with easy to fold seats.7 speed auto is very smooth.Potholes,speed bumps etc. just don't matter anymore.MrsD seems to like it as well and finds excuses to borrow it.Not even that thirsty,no different really to the petrol Zafira it replaced and with an 80 litre tank, it's worth going the three miles to Costco to save 5p per litre.There, I've jinxed it now,and it'll soon be in the "Shite for sale","just needing........"!

[Carl1981]

Been with me since 2009, still in love with it. Really must use it more…

[Tenmil Socket]

1 hour ago, Carl1981 said:

Been with me since 2009, still in love with it. Really must use it more…

That looks brand new!

 

[sam99t]

Looks better from a distance

[Imhotep]

Do like this far more than I intended to like it and I may keep it on fleet for a long time now.

[Carl1981]

2 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

That looks brand new!

 

Thank you! It’s not perfect but It’s never been restored nor welded. I have had the boot lid and rear quarter painted as it was vandalised outside our old house, many moons ago.
 

I think it looks even better from the rear…

And the engine bay is glorious, no plastic covers or decoration, just a massive six cylinder lump…

[AnnoyingPentium]

Four and a half years, ish. Even crashed it, but yet it perseveres. Out-stayed the car that was meant to replace it as well.

It's really showing its age in the flesh now, so not sure what the future will hold, but provided it keeps doing what it's doing, it can stay.

[EyesWeldedShut]

I guess, for us, it's this 2008 Diseasel Bini. "Lemmie" is the youngest car in the fleet. Also most economical at about 55-60mpg.
Owned it since 2018 when it arrived to become my wife's daily commuta-car, Trigger's Broom ever since but it is The Devil I Know.  FTP'd only once (quite recently) with dead starter motor at 146,000 miles.
Most major job was a front subframe fixup in 2021 and that's looking crispy again. New turbo, new discs/calipers all round, remap, blah blah. It weighs nothing and can really go if you boot it and keep the revs up around 3,000.
Also has pink trimmed leather seats to go with the tasteful* wheels. I look great* driving it.
Now relegated to Depot Spare as the ride is too harsh for my wife's crumbling neck joints - the ride is, well, feckin' hard. I just drive it about once a week so it does not totally rust solid. MOT in October - I think it'll have done 1500 miles tops. As with @AnnoyingPentium's Labia it is starting to show it's age - we'll just keep running it until it gets an official Red card and ticket to the bridge. It owes us nothing.

Picture taken this morning to prove that it does not always rain in Wales.

 

[motorpunk]

@SiC - your description is great. Many things you say are the same for me about my Fiat.

 

[carlo]

On 07/06/2025 at 21:47, Pauly.22 said:

Don’t know why but I like my daily more than I thought,

funny looking thing but you never seem them much as they never sold well in the uk. 

I can't work out what this is!  Doesn't seem to be a Modus, Scenic or Megane estate.  Can someone enlighten me?

[MorrisItalSLX]

I’ve had it for six years, I’ve spent far too much repairing it and it needs more. Anyone else would have scrapped it or run it into the ground.

It’s old, rusty, undesirable, tired and brown.

But most importantly, it’s mine and I like it.

(Pictured on the right)

[Matty]

On 06/06/2025 at 22:53, morrisoxide said:

My cars make me smile too. Probably in this order.

I love driving this you feel like a F1 driver going around a corner at 35ish mph.

Mercury is the one that gives me a real buzz. But can be a pain being so bloody big, but funny too looking back getting stuck. 

The Panda was supposed to be a winter hack but I like driving it and care too much for it.

If you're attending something around Yorkshire before the seasons out you must give me a shout and I'll try to get over. I'd love to meet the big Farina in the flesh!

(You too obvs pal 😄)

[MrGTI6]

1 hour ago, carlo said:

I can't work out what this is!  Doesn't seem to be a Modus, Scenic or Megane estate.  Can someone enlighten me?

I believe that's a Koleos.

[Rocket88]

Newly arrived… need a stop gap estate, preferably with tow bar….

[Zelandeth]

This little buzz box makes me grin like an idiot every time I drive it.  An incredibly basic car which is bouncy, cramped and unfeasibly noisy, but makes me happy.

As a result, has become my default choice for local trips.

Also on the subject of largely unloved by the masses and something I wouldn't want as my sole transport, but makes me smile now and then is this tripod.

Really need to get the garage in order so I can actually get her out again without it being such a huge ordeal, though I've no idea when that's likely to happen.

A recent arrival on fleet, but something I'm very much looking forward to spending more time wafting around in.

The contrast between this and the Trabant on fleet makes me smile as well as the cars themselves.

This also makes me smile, but without being in any way in your face about it.  Just blends into the background and gets on with any task thrown at it.

Definitely ticks the "only car you ever need" box and I've not the foggiest idea what I'll eventually replace it with.  The only forces pushing towards that really are the £500/a year tax and moreso the ever increasing number of low emission zones I can't take it - especially as we're looking to relocate to Scotland at some point in the future.

[bezzabsa]

after reading this thread again I realise I don't have any pics of the Mondog...can't even find the ones from the original advert  😮