The image that made you want it

[R9UKE]

Not sure if this has been done before?

 

Thought we could share some pictures that made you want that particular shite. Perhaps a launch or borchure shot? The one image that sticks in your mind when you think of that car.

 

As a kid, I grew up with dad owning a Mondeo LX. There was always a Mondeo brochure around and it was this picture that made me NEED a Ghia X. It made the LX look like pure poverty. Such a seductive photo, the hours I spent looking at that!!

 

 

Then as a 10 year old, I remember this appearing on the Renault website. Such an ugly front end, I knew I had to have a few.

 

 

I look forward to seeing what you guys have. I'm sensing a mirage of 80s hair, lots of brown and various cardigans.

[tonedepear]

I always wanted a saab from the day my dad bought one (a 9000 in 1992) and the dashboard looked amazing in the dark. It was jaw-dropping with the orange needles and green back-lit illumination. We'd been spoilt with 80s VAG dashboards up to that point and it was a different world.

 

 

 

I'll be honest, the dash in my new'un last night had an almost similarly pant-wetting effect.

[chaseracer]

 

Series 1, black/black leather, aircon/no sunroof. Please.

 

I'm still looking...

[M'coli]

I learnt to drive in my dad's Cortina Estate. It's not a picture, but I still have the mental image of the fit lass who was driving the 1 litre Metro that fucked off through the twisties at a speed the Cortina couldn't possibly follow. It might have been my dad's shit choice of ultra cheap remoulds, or her expert driving, but I thought: by crikey, those Metros are good in the corners.

[doug]

Sadly sold ages ago, same colour as well.(the bike not the bint)

 

[Cavcraft]

Not so much the picture as such, but seeing one of these for the first time made me lust after one. In fact every time I saw one it made me want to own one more and more.

A bit sad I suppose but I always promised myself I'd own one day and eventually I did, E258 AUX iirc...

 

[AnthonyG]

The Pug 504s being used as chase cars in the Bond film 'For your eyes only' made me want one, but I didn't ram any yellow 2CVs off the road in mine though.

[Albert Ross]

Not a picture but the noise of crossplies on concrete motorways in the 1970s, Military Land Rovers with Sankey Trailers. All full of smoking squaddies. YEAH!

[Mad Cyril]

This page of this brochure.

 

 

That birds semi visible arse crack did wonders for me as an impressionable eight year old and is singularly responsible for me driving a variety of draughty, rusty Citroens later in life.