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........"!