LHD cars

jj · Post by jj » Fri May 04, 2007 3:50 pm

Skanky all the way

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Fri May 04, 2007 4:55 pm

jj wrote:Skanky all the way

Now if it's Ho's we're talking about here then count me in!!

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Fri May 04, 2007 5:18 pm

LHD is fine for everything 'cept a hand shandy IMHO

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Fri May 04, 2007 5:46 pm

Quite a popular debate on the Ferrari sites. General concensus seems to be that you get a lot of LHD car for a lot less money than the RHD equivelent. Most folk dont seem overly bothered by sitting on the wrong side of the road and, at the time to sell, the depreciation is in line with the original cost.

cjm · Post by **cjm** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:46 am

I had an integrale for three year and drove it every day and didnâ€™t have any issue with the lhd, I actually liked getting out on the pavement and it was fast enough that overtaking wasnâ€™t a problem.

I also thing some of the older Porsches (964, 993) and Ferraris (355, etc)are nicer to drive in lhd, better driving position, larger fuel tank and lots of other small details that they didnâ€™t bother altering for rhd.

Iâ€™m wouldnâ€™t really be bothered if people thing I couldnâ€™t afford a rhd version as I would still have a very nice car that did exactly what it was designed and bought to do. If a worried about what people thought about my cars I probably wouldnâ€™t want an elise either!;)

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat May 05, 2007 10:00 am

cjm wrote:I also thing some of the older Porsches (964, 993) and Ferraris (355, etc)are nicer to drive in lhd, better driving position, larger fuel tank and lots of other small details that they didnâ€™t bother altering for rhd.

Very valid point, which I forgot about - some of the above & other nice stuff is reputeded to steer better, change gear better, and generally have better-feeling major controls, as they were primarily designed to have the wheel on the tart's side

What model of 'grale was it you had?

cjm · Post by **cjm** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:37 am

rossybee wrote:What model of 'grale was it you had?

It was a 16v, imported from Italy. I was a great car but it always needed money spent on it and I had to buy a house so I sold it. I'm still occasionally tempted to get an evo1.

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:42 am

Cool

Mine was an early 1988 8valve, imported from Germany - cost a bomb to run, I was just a daft 21yr old laddie when I got it

Sold it 4 years later, with no MOT or tax, having been sat at the side of my folk's house for a year, for only 2 grand less than I paid for it

cjm · Post by **cjm** » Sat May 05, 2007 12:32 pm

Sounds very similar to how my time went with the 16v went, except I didnt think it was expensive enough to run so crashed it just to make things more interesting

Got it fixed and kept it for a few year after that. Who did you use to look after yours?

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat May 05, 2007 5:11 pm

cjm wrote:Who did you use to look after yours?

Arnold Clark in Dundee (this was when Lancia were still in UK but hanging on by a thread) - they were incompetent, but the parts guys knew me well...