Favourite Cars???

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:34 pm

Mmmmm... racing flavour:

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:38 pm

Check this out http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating ... -2-car.asp

LiamD · Post by **LiamD** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:58 pm

I wish I had 170K to buy this

Just want to go down the local chav "krooze" in it and do the shopping in it. Couldn't care too much it'll do an 8 second quarter mile.

Or more realistically, probably my dad's Trans Am, with it's new exhaust it makes the sort of sound to humble a McLaren SLR.

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:07 pm

Ok, stuff I love includes:

Aston-Martin Vanquish S;

Audi Sport Quattro;

Bentley Arnage;

Dodge Challenger RT '70;

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:56 pm

LiamD wrote:I wish I had 170K to buy this

Just want to go down the local chav "krooze" in it and do the shopping in it. Couldn't care too much it'll do an 8 second quarter mile.

Or more realistically, probably my dad's Trans Am, with it's new exhaust it makes the sort of sound to humble a McLaren SLR.

Couldnt see where youre going could you with that lol.... Would be nice to shoot people that are in your way with that bazooka tho

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:58 pm

LiamD wrote:I wish I had 170K to buy this

The fire engine?

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:01 pm

hahaa

wouldnt be bad riding in the fire engine... can be lots of fun + the ladies dig it....

cyhliu · Post by **cyhliu** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:44 pm

Gents, it appears that you have covered most of the most desired cars so far, even a Fiat Panda 4x4, I guess whatever floats your boat eh?

As for me, I've always had a soft spot for those Honda Integra Type-Rs, both old and new, in fact I would have bought the old shape had it not been for the Â£3k insurance quote! The new shape just blew me away when I first saw it, shame that they don't release it over here and we have to make do with the Civic.

The Nissan Skyline GTR is also one of my alltime favourites, it just looks so right and boy must they shift.

But think something that is more affordable and staying along with my love of all things Dub would have to be a Corrado G60. Again one damn fine looking car.

GaryUK · Post by **GaryUK** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:54 pm

cyhliu wrote:But think something that is more affordable and staying along with my love of all things Dub would have to be a Corrado G60. Again one damn fine looking car.

I agree about the Corrado but wouldn't you rather have the VR6?

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:31 am

cyhliu wrote:Gents, it appears that you have covered most of the most desired cars so far, even a Fiat Panda 4x4, I guess whatever floats your boat eh?

I have weird taste in cars, I freely admit to it

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:00 pm

i'll add the audi sport quatro to my list as well! wot a sound!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:27 pm

YES!

Panda 4x4 ..... the old one, mind. For EXACTLY the same reasons. You haven't really been out driving til you've gone halfway across lanzarote on unmetalled tracks (basically just driving across a sometime-bulldozed bit of quite rocky volcanic desert) at 40mph in a Seat Marbella (underpowered panda clone), overtaking supposedly 4x4 things like Vitaras whose occupants look far less comfortable even at half your pace

Bloody hot mind, the fan's rubbish and it's really cheap greenhouse-like glass.
Also it shares a fair bit of shape and styling cues with the (mk3!) Polo, just a bit shorter and tinnier. Think of it maybe like a prototype lupo or something?
(oh yeah.... and its also the first car i remember being driven round in, and one i was regularly scared witless in by a mate who got unbeleivable cross-town times out of it... til the engine packed up from the abuse! hmm sound familiar?)

Quattro ... well heck i didnt think it needed to be said.

And was the Tuscan the one in that Swordfish film? It looks awesome but hollywood proved that it's too slow even to outrun a caddy escalade crosstown - a 4x4 so afraid of corners you cant even turn off the road onto a dirt track in order to get it dirty

Despite, yknow, the awesome engine, low/lightweight carbon fibre body and mahooooooosive tyres that cost about Â£250 a corner...

Big up the Fire engine too, but it would have to be either a modern one or a proper old green goddess

f*** it, whilst we're being silly, why not a routemaster? You'd have to sell your house to buy it but would probably end up with more floorspace! And go on holiday too.

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 8:28 pm

Tahrey1043 wrote:Panda

<snip>

Big up the Fire engine too

There is a link between the two - anyone want to take a guess?

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:14 am

fire engine = fiat

fire engine = styled by guigaro or ... ah... that other italian bloke. you know. designs ferraris. pininfarina.

panda = police car = emergency services = fire service = fire engine

pandas enjoy setting light to things?

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:12 am

Pandas were the first cars fitted with a "F.I.R.E." engine (Fully Intergrated Robotised Engine ie not touched by a human hand in the build process - usless bit of information but accounts for the fact that the little engine is close to bulletproof)