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

B'Twin branded tektro brakes

Sora so perfect for you

Microshift

I no way lust for one. I’m just being realistic about my disposable income.

each man according to his needs and all that ;)

I would not get a Dacia. Poor NCAP safety score, tin can build quality, nothing much to like about them at all.

I drove one as a hire car in Mallorca and best I could say was it was adequate, to pootle around an island for a week.

It's the Halford's Apollo of the car world.

Back to the £4k Honda then

£50/week:

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130bhp & £20k retail gonna cost a bomb in insurance.

Amey is literally a 17 year old in this context.

I'd be trying to get first years insurance thrown in to sign before the end of the quarter. You can but ask!

I haz one too

I think Amey should get 90% of the way through ordering a hybrid Golf, then abandon that and order a C63 Estate.

Which dacia?

I quite fancy a Dacia Duster popular in the hilly/snowy areas of France.

Quite fancy the renault 12 copies to make in to a alpina copy.

Duster, 2WD one.

It would be ok for semi agricultural transport
and popping to the village shops but I wouldn't want one for motorways or journeys of longer than an hour or so.

My car shopping has reached a conclusion.

I wanted a noisy wanna be sensible jap wagon. My wife wanted a defender, so we went shopping for defenders, and ended up buying a noisy wanna be sensible jap wagon...

Ultimately the more i sat in and drove defenders, the more I realised we liked the image more than the reality of landy ownership, so i got the approval to buy a forester sti that torque-gt have making its way over from Japan. Deposit just put down. Due in some time this month.

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result. but could you not have just got a jazz?

Seems like the right choice on numerous levels.

Or a dacia!

Right now I miss rep. :)

Great success!

Much want. Very money. Wow. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F113862188301

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wow. +£££ssss

There used to be one of these round the corner from me as a kid. Always loved it.

Must have sounded awesome. Guy over the road from me when I was growing up in East Dulwich had a white Sierra Cosworth. He kept that car spotless. I'd love to find out what happened to it. Had it stolen a couple of times but saved by an immobilizer, which was very hi-tech at the time. I'm always watching them on eBay so I can pounce as soon as I win the Euro Millions.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123856326001

The problem with that stuff is the look incredible from the outside, but the inside looks like a cheap taxi. Many otherwise desirable Japanese cars suffer from this as well. For this reason they look a lot better as track cars, which are meant to be naked paint and riveted panels.

Very true.

Many otherwise desirable Japanese cars suffer from this as well.

Which ones are you thinking?

There's a bit of a squishy velour trend to a lot of the soft furnishings of things like Toyotas, but I always thought the plastics in most Jap cars aged quite well.

@J0nathan it did, although tbh I hardly ever saw it driven.

Part of the appeal is that sleeper idea. And that they looked rude as fuck at the time.