Unusual Car Desires

greyrigg · Post by **greyrigg** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:59 pm

Fiat 130

greyrigg · Post by **greyrigg** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:08 pm

Lancia Fulvia

Stu160 · Post by **Stu160** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:10 pm

douglasgdmw wrote:
Dominic wrote:Great thread!... it's a bit like a confession of car fetishes that you can't declare elsewhere.
Well as you put it like that. I have always had a hankering after one of these as well:

George

cant help but think that Land Rover stole the design for the discovery.....

Stu

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:56 pm

Yesterday I bought a Citroen C6 V6 2.7 Exclusive with every option ticked.

Today I've been driving around with my mouth open at how good this car is.

In sport mode with the 6 speed tip selected it can be hustled along a "B" road.

In cruise mode, with double glazing, and 30 speaker stereo it's xxxxxx.

Amongst a bucket load of trick functions It has a head-up display for speed, sat-nav direction etc. and if you veer over the white line it sends a warning vibration to your backside in case your asleep from the massage function on the seats ffs!

I may well wreck this car, but I will never ever sell it.

Like a modern interpretation of the Jaguar Mk10 420G

This car is truly wonderful.

ATB

Frank

Post by **pete** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:35 am

Cisco wrote:Yesterday I bought a Citroen C6 V6 2.7 Exclusive with every option ticked.

Today I've been driving around with my mouth open at how good this car is.

In sport mode with the 6 speed tip selected it can be hustled along a "B" road.

In cruise mode, with double glazing, and 30 speaker stereo it's xxxxxx.

Amongst a bucket load of trick functions It has a head-up display for speed, sat-nav direction etc. and if you veer over the white line it sends a warning vibration to your backside in case your asleep from the massage function on the seats ffs!

I may well wreck this car, but I will never ever sell it.

Like a modern interpretation of the Jaguar Mk10 420G

This car is truly wonderful.

ATB

Frank

That's on my list too!!! Where did you get it from?

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:43 am

pete wrote: That's on my list too!!! Where did you get it from?

Mine too

Fabulous cars, love the way they look, would love to drive one, must be getting old, as comfort is high on my priority list for my next family car

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:57 am

ironside wrote:
And seriously Dom, no XJS? It would be on my list. The V12 obviously.

XJ6 not XJS

rad1cal · Post by **rad1cal** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:26 am

Can I have another go - two less exotic models than the 037, but oh how I wanted one

Stu160 · Post by **Stu160** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:20 am

rad1cal wrote:Can I have another go - two less exotic models than the 037, but oh how I wanted one

There is still a Tiger goes to Knockhill hot hatch days, has been going since I was there with the Mini, so 15 years now. Has great fun in it, alway sideways

Stu

Fluoxetine · Post by **Fluoxetine** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:22 pm

In keeping with Cisco's recent purchase... A Mk1 CX

One of these:

and one of these...

ISO Lele

Finally, a 560 SEC - I very nearly bought this one last year for £500... 8 mpg and the fact it was sat in deepest Cornwall put me off...

RE: The Avantime - I ran one for a year back in 2004 in 3.0 V6 flavour... Ruinously thirsty, but fun in a weird sort of way. (Glad I leased it for £199 pcm...

)

Here's its rump from behind the wheel of my Mk2 Golf GTi - Had a Caterham at the same time (sat in the garage)... A real mixed bag of cars!

Post by **pete** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:18 pm

rad1cal wrote:Can I have another go - two less exotic models than the 037, but oh how I wanted one

My first car was a Chevette (1.3, not 2.3)

rad1cal · Post by **rad1cal** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:28 pm

.....and I had the more humble Avenger (1.5GLS).

It suffered various mishaps including the time I put it into a field on the Northern Lights Road Rally back in the mid 70s.

My navigator was a nice chap, but sometimes forgot which way we were going relative to the map - calling out the road to me:-

" 100 yards - 90 left".....BANG...."I mean right......sorry.."

Happy Days

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:42 pm

rad1cal wrote:.....and I had the more humble Avenger (1.5GLS).

Haha... I had an Avenger.
Only memorable thing about it was that the speedo was a long rectangle and the red speed indicator moved along it.

Oh yeah, it also had windscreen washers that weren't electrical so you had to pump the stalk thing to get it to skoosh water

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:51 pm

renmure wrote:
Oh yeah, it also had windscreen washers that weren't electrical so you had to pump the stalk thing to get it to skoosh water

I had a car that had a 'foot pump' for the skooshers - think it was my Viva HB but so long ago its difficult to remember. I do remember upgrading the Viva with my first ever modification, a stick on heated rear window

Post by **Shug** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:00 pm

Thanks chaps - making me feel young and that's getting harder to do, these days

Scottish Elises