Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

saab appreciation week continues when I was rolling through Islington earlier

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This is good @amey
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202766608612

Regarding roof rack..... I used these roof bars on my panda, we very easy to fit and look neater than the other style IMO.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Genuine-Fiat-Panda-2003-2011-Roof-Rack-Bars-Carrier-System-50900983/271602767612?epid=1905484206&hash=item3f3cc956fc:g:Er4AAOSwGvhUEE5l

This is good @amey

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=­https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm­%2F202766608612

Just as long as Amey wants to make my maintenance expenditure look incredibly reasonable - which is why I support this suggestion, and of course it's very pretty - important when you are likely to be stood looking at it whilst waiting for the AA for much of the time you had been planning on driving it.

fucking hell sounds like an italian bicycle .. should've known as its Dov :'(

I want a soulless, ugly, cheap-to-run car.

get a volvo

wahey!

Going to look at a 2014 535i this afternoon. Golf club special. Anything to look out for?

Honda Jazz for £500-£1000 mainly owned by old people or people with kids. The biggest engine was a 1.4 (I think) so they are in the lower road tax bracket. Will do 50-60mpg (petrol).

The back seats fold completely flat. So can fit many bikes in. A double mattress will fit when folded. Also a fridge freezer will fit.

There is storage under the seats when they are in the normal position.

Maintenance parts are cheap, second hand doors, mirrors etc are cheap on eBay. It’s a Honda so the engine will run forever.

Honda Jazz

this is increasingly becoming the answer, I have narrowed it down to this now

now its just a question of looking for the right one :)

Shouldn't put you off, but the Honda Jazz and a few others are a specific target for catalytic converter theft. Local garage was dealing with two replacements on them when I was in recently.

good consideration for insurance! thank you.

jazz.

What's the bicycle equivalent of the Jazz?

Where's a good place to look for used campers? Conversions or purpose built.

Pinnacle Arkose

£400 hybrid

Low mileage, fsh (mostly Honda) a fart over £1k
I just found a great car on Auto Trader: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201908161222627

I resent that! My 2.4 has been spectacularly reliable!

I resent that! My 2.4 has been spectacularly reliable so far!

Edited for accuracy

Let's get to the end of the year and we can do an old estate service cost review and we'll see where we stand then ;)

this is increasingly becoming the answer, I have narrowed it down to this now

Don't do it, they're so fugly!

Get a 2006-2011 Civic instead. Much better looking, has all the practicality and advantages of a Jazz (including the fold down seats), you can have a 1.4l if you insist although the 1.8l is a lot better if the insurance is doable.

Let's get to the end of the year and we can do an old estate service cost review and we'll see where we stand then ;)

I suspect my fuel costs alone will make that rather predictable.

Get a 2006-2011 Civic instead.

If beige was a car.

I quite liked them, most of them are poverty spec, get an ES and the interior is not bad. Has a dense quality velour (wheras cheaper ones feel like they are made from primark £5 pants), enough gadgets, defo more interesting inside than a golf the same age. None of them are fast though, remember borrowing a mates type R and messaging him about 20 mins later to ask if it was a real type R, or just a type S with a badge change, utterly gutless and unrewarding.