What car do you NOW drive?

BMW Z4. 2ltr petrol; absolutely love it, especially when the roof folds into the boot. It was my retirement present (Dec 16) after driving company cars for 22 years. Went through a few - always diesel- with a 3 year lease/exchange policy.
 
A Mini Countryman, which is basically a cheaper BMW 1 series, or the wife’s VW Up which is a cracking little car. Costs about £35 to fill up with petrol and does what seems to be about 600 miles of that.
 
A big old Citroen C4 Grande Picasso diesel with 7 seats. Great for carrying the family about, knock all the seats down you basically got a van. Practicality wise I really love this car. It's part of the family. We've been all over France in it and a full tank of diesel lasts forever.
 
Lala said:
Haven’t had a car for a couple of years. Walk to work, train days out and a bit of bus wankering have made it possible.
Am looking at getting a vintage Vw Beetle circa late 60’s early 70’s in the next 12 months and incorporating it as a hobby. My son in law is a mechanic so we are looking together for a decent motor and with his support I intend to maintain and care for it like a baby 😍
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Bus wankering! Love it!
 
In the last 30 years I’ve only owned one car a Lexus IS200, all others have been company cars. The current one is a Focus 1.0 eco boost which is surprisingly nippy.
 
I have recently had to get rid of my Jeep Cherokee as it was costing too much each year to get it through the mot, I loved this car ! I now have a Kia Sportage and I like it a lot especially as I don’t have to fill it up every 3 weeks like the Jeep 😁
 
Fatboy said:
I have recently had to get rid of my Jeep Cherokee as it was costing too much each year to get it through the mot, I loved this car ! I now have a Kia Sportage and I like it a lot especially as I don’t have to fill it up every 3 weeks like the Jeep 😁
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I had a Jeep years ago and it needed its own fuel tanker following it.😩⛽️
 
Mercedes E Class Coupe. Bought second hand. Dealer showed original me the invoice with about £7k worth of extras which would have been innovative 7 years ago. 360 degree cameras, parking assistance, lane control warning etc etc. Plus somebody thought it was a good idea to spend £800 on a TV which you can only watch whilst stationary and with the engine running.
 
VW Sharan. We have two of them. Spacious, solid and ideal for our family of five. Three boys often needing to be different places at the same time.
 
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A 15 year old Honda Civic. Needs quite a bit of work doing on it at the moment. It’s also a b-st-rd to park, and it struggles to get up steep hills as the engine isn’t very powerful for the weight of the car, but it belonged to a much loved and now departed relative, so we will most probably stick with it.
 
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During the early 1950s my Dad used to drive a 1931, first series, MG Midget, registration GJ5486. My brother and I have been trying to track that car down for 30 years to see if we could buy it. The MG users club couldn't track it and thought it had been exported or scrapped. It then re-appeared on the DVLA database as being registered back on the road in 2010/11. I wrote to the DVLA to ask if they could pass on a letter to the registered owner in the hope of at least seeing it and getting a few photos if we couldn't buy it. The DVLA wouldnt even do that on data protection grounds
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Isn't there a MG owners club? Maybe you could put an ad in the magazine or website
 
I have a BMW 520 that I use for work, great car and very economical, it's my 3rd one, I've never owned any other car model more than once.
I have. BMW X5 m sport for towing my boats, that is great as well but not so economical.
I never liked BMWs until I got given one as a company car, I have had most popular makes over the years but I'm a BM convert now, great reliability, very comfortable when your clocking up the miles and fantastic residual values.

Also just brought a Ford 4600 tractor as a toy and project for launching, great fun!
 
I’m full on crisis mode. I drive an F-Type V8
It’s hardly environmentally friendly but I love it. The engine sounds amazing.
Had it 2 years now and still love it. Still feels brand new.
 
VW Phaeton 3.0 litre V6 diesel. Made by Osties in Dresden. Gorgeous limo with leather and electrical everything inside. I thought about the W12 6.0 litre petrol as that is an absolute rocket ship with 170 mph on the autobahn if you want it, but they are very rare and errr... not very planet-friendly. Nice thing is that its badge is so unfashionable compared with BMW 7-Series and Audi A8 that you get a lot of car for very little outlay.

Edit: I nearly forgot... it’s got permanent 4-wheel drive as well. Probably the safest car on the road.
 
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seasideone said:
I have not owned a car for about 8 or 9 years and do not miss driving.

I rely on Grab (Asian version of Uber), where you can get picked up in premium cars for about the same price as a taxi - unless it’s a really peak time when prices go up dramatically!!

Grab also brings you food, and will even send a moped to pick up anything you forgot when shopping from the garage or even M&S etc!!

It’s a fantastic App and service.
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If I remember correctly you live in the Little Red Dot.....hardly surprising then that you don’t own a car there😳
....despite the fact their road system is pretty impressive...
....but the costs of having a car ....that’s a totally different matter....even the Dracula Car( as my brother in law calls it) which is only licensed for night time and certain day time use is off the scale cost wise.( he lives in the Changi Area...just retired from SIA after flying the A380 for much of the past years so handy for the Airport).At one point they had two cars...clearly made good use of his “ travel allowances”😉.

Mind you some of the drivers there are truly awful....and he has just posted a photo of a crash on his Facebook page which would support this....and this was early morning with clearly not much traffic around.

Actually I think our Cousin( well the wifes) May drive for Grab....he is actually a mechanical engineer who has worked for the likes of Apple but lost his job in Ipoh when his team ( he was the senior manager) were all made redundant about 18 months ago,He actually lived in Singapore but he had to find work in Malaysia a few years back.Singapore was ,and is even more so now ,notoriously difficult for people of his age despite his skills to find a job and he has ended up doing this kind of driving.He seems content enough doing it...even posting pictures of him with Mr.Brown( you’ll probably have seen his humorous videos, especially the pandemic toilet roll one) who he has ferried around a few times...which clearly made his day.

Hopefully we will get back to see our many family members there again...it’s been 4 years almost to the day we were there on our way back from Australia.

oh and our current car( it is my wife’s name) is a VWGolf TDI 2.0 blue motion automatic which was ex Demo but only had 700 miles on the clock when we got it in early 2014....still only has 28000 on the clock but that’s mainly because of the boycott years and now Covid😤
...would never go back to a manual gearbox...probably forgotten how to do it now😀😉
 
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bleach51 said:
If I remember correctly you live in the Little Red Dot.....hardly surprising then that you don’t own a car there😳
....despite the fact their road system is pretty impressive...
....but the costs of having a car ....that’s a totally different matter....even the Dracula Car( as my brother in law calls it) which is only licensed for night time and certain day time use is off the scale cost wise.( he lives in the Changi Area...just retired from SIA after flying the A380 for much of the past years so handy for the Airport).At one point they had two cars...clearly made good use of his “ travel allowances”😉.

Mind you some of the drivers there are truly awful....and he has just posted a photo of a crash on his Facebook page which would support this....and this was early morning with clearly not much traffic around.

Actually I think our Cousin( well the wifes) May drive for Grab....he is actually a mechanical engineer who has worked for the likes of Apple but lost his job in Ipoh when his team ( he was the senior manager) were all made redundant about 18 months ago,He actually lived in Singapore but he had to find work in Malaysia a few years back.Singapore was ,and is even more so now ,notoriously difficult for people of his age despite his skills to find a job and he has ended up doing this kind of driving.He seems content enough doing it...even posting pictures of him with Mr.Brown( you’ll probably have seen his humorous videos, especially the pandemic toilet roll one) who he has ferried around a few times...which clearly made his day.

Hopefully we will get back to see our many family members there again...it’s been 4 years almost to the day we were there on our way back from Australia.
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Yeh motoring here is astronomical and to be honest not worth it with Grab.

We live near Siglap on the East Coast which you will know is about 10 mins drive from Changi.

if you are ever over I would happily buy you a pint and discuss anything Tangerine with you. 👍
 
Stanah said:
I have a BMW 520 that I use for work, great car and very economical, it's my 3rd one, I've never owned any other car model more than once.
I have. BMW X5 m sport for towing my boats, that is great as well but not so economical.
I never liked BMWs until I got given one as a company car, I have had most popular makes over the years but I'm a BM convert now, great reliability, very comfortable when your clocking up the miles and fantastic residual values.

Also just brought a Ford 4600 tractor as a toy and project for launching, great fun!
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Same
Had one ‘ way back when ‘ - a 320i and now had GT’s for last 6 years
Currently 630dGT
The room in the back seats is unbelievable and laden with gadgets
Decent drive as well
 
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seasideone said:
Yeh motoring here is astronomical and to be honest not worth it with Grab.

We live near Siglap on the East Coast which you will know is about 10 mins drive from Changi.

if you are ever over I would happily buy you a pint and discuss anything Tangerine with you. 👍
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Would love too....i even still have some Singapore dollars left over to buy you a pint Or two back.

No immediate plans partly due to you know what but we have plenty of reasons to go with so many family members,not least my brother in law, his wife and daughter( the famous SKLO or perhaps infamous😉) my sister in law and 7 cousins and their partners and offsprings and one surviving Aunt ,making 23 I can think of ,19 of whom we saw on our last visit.The majority live in the Bedok, Tampines and Changi though some are In the north of the Island in the Woodlands area and one nearer the west coast side.

I don’t have that many relatives here !! and they are not the only ones, as there are several more in Penang, Ipoh and KL .but thanks to Facebook and WhatsApp we can at least stay in touch with many of them.

Not many footie fans amongst them except for two Man U( including the sister in law😳)one Spurs, one Newcastle and one Derby County though I like to think they have us as their second team and at least one has been to Bloomfield Road with me ( an Fa cup tie vTorquay in our then 2 sided ground..unless you counted the unused east.) so I know he does have tangerine bear in his flat similar to the one in my icon though he does have to sit next to “Fred the Red bear”😳
 
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A BMW 330d MSport, a great drivers car, fast, direct, big enough yet nimble, in metalic grey so undemonstrative whilst smart enough.
 
Mercedes SLK with matching picnic basket - roof down, tunes on, bit of hairspray on the barnet and I'm away!
 
Kia Sportage GTLine (2020). Very nice, just traded in my Ford Kuga which was also very nice but was diesel so now switched to petrol.
I’m similar to the O/P with the number of cars I’ve had over the years, but too numerous to remember them all. Should have kept photos of them all.
The worst car by far was a Vauxhall Viva HC.
The best was an Austin Montego 2 litre Avantage. Racing green with white wheels. Leather seats and trim.
Sounds corny now and no doubt would look weird but it really was a good car.
 
BMW 320 M Sport. My fifth 3 series on the bounce so you know where my loyalties lie, I always purchase one with a couple of thousand miles on the clock and keep them 3-5 years. However I am getting on a bit so this might be my last one before I get an old mans car. I don't find BMW as expensive to purchase or run as their reputation suggests. Very reliable overall. As for the indicators, I will give them a try one day to see if they work.
 
This is like the old school reunion where the smart arse kid you always hated tries to look superior by having the best car in the room.

Well I'm not playing, so there.
 
Had a run in my Hyundai i20 yesterday. From Poulton to Dobbies past Kirkham, about 24 miles all together.
My car tells me the average fuel used as soon as I stopped.
Reaching home it said 54.9 MPG for the round trip. Not bad. 😀
P.S. I don't flog it these days.
 
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