Good Cars Spoiled by the Types who Drive Them!

[MisterP007]

This came up in another thread so I thought I would start a list of Cars that are good cars but you probably do not want one because of the type of people (in general) who drive them.

Z3 based Ferrari 250 Replicas - great car driven by idiots (oh no! that is me!!!!!)

Modern Fiat 500 - pretty little fun car ruined by 17-year-old schoolgirls whose parents have too much money (loads of them around here, it is like a uniform), city estate agents, and boy racers who think the Abarth version is a proper sports car. The original Fiat 500 would turn in it's Italian grave.

Mini - decent car again ruined by estate agents in cities with the agents name emblazoned down the side of the car. Again the Isigonis original would feel sick at what it has become.

BMW M3 - Fantastic car driven by boy-racers and drug dealers.

Mercedes AMG Models - As above, particularly drug dealers (mine has an AMG ML), did I say that out loud?

Honda Civic Type R - Old ladies car (my 84-year-old aunty has a 1.6) turned into something that looks like it is made from Lego and driven by the same types (but with less money) as the M3 people.

Subaru WRX, Mitsubishi EVO - Fantastic to drive but mainly driven by boy racers with baseball caps the wrong way round and trainee drug dealers.

Nissan GTR - if you have not driven one, hire one for the day - astonishing car in every way - driven by knobs

Big 4x4's in cities - I have an ML320 (no I am not a drug dealer, you need the AMG model for that), but I live in the middle of nowhere in 22 Acres of fields - As a city car, what are they thinking. Having said that mostly driven by very "yummy mummies"

Any Supercar in the Countryside - there are a few around here as there is a lot of money about but the roads are very narrow, covered in horse s***/mud, and full of potholes that are so deep you can see Australia at the other side. Why would you do it?

Do not get me started on Caravans, whatever great car is pulling them!

I am sure there are loads more, please feel free to add.

Sandy

 

[Mr H]

Any Hyundai SUV or Kia SUV - drivers all seem to have a chip on their shoulder (their fault for choosing that vehicle ) and insist on barging past regardless of what I'm driving (and how) or road conditions ...........

 

[Mazza]

Anyone want to buy a Kia Sportage


Good Cars Spoiled by the Types who Drive Them!

Z3. Old gits that have too much money and think they are 25 again

Z4. Old gits that have too much money and think they are 25 again but their aching bones need a more comfortable ride

 

[MisterP007]

Any Hyundai SUV or Kia SUV - drivers all seem to have a chip on their shoulder (their fault for choosing that vehicle ) and insist on barging past regardless of what I'm driving (and how) or road conditions ...........

True this one, 4x4 brakes work the same as 2wd brakes on snow and ice (not at all).

 

[Mike Fishwick]

SUV drivers of any make usually cannot drive - and they think their car is some kind of urban battleship! To be fair, most Mercedes drivers are just as bad . . .

 

[MisterP007]

SUV drivers of any make usually cannot drive - and they think their car is some kind of urban battleship! To be fair, most Mercedes drivers are just as bad . . .

That will be me then Mike! An ML for lugging rubbish about in the countryside, and the Mrs has a CLK Cabriolet to pose in.

Damn! I new I would regret starting this thread.

 

[andyglym]

Just to flip this round 180°, anybody that drives any of the below used to be boy racers back in the day;

1. Escort RS Cosworth (big and small turbo)
2. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and
a. RS500
b. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth rear wheel drive
c. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth 4x4
3. Fiesta RS Turbo
4. Escort RS Turbo Custom
5. RS200
6. Escort RS2000 (MK 1 & 2)
7. Escort RS1600i
8. Focus RS MK1

Now sitting on a gold mine and are driving Royalty

 

[spurs fan in a coupe]

Just to flip this round 180°, anybody that drives any of the below used to be boy racers back in the day;

1. Escort RS Cosworth (big and small turbo)
2. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and
a. RS500
b. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth rear wheel drive
c. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth 4x4
3. Fiesta RS Turbo
4. Escort RS Turbo Custom
5. RS200
6. Escort RS2000 (MK 1 & 2)
7. Escort RS1600i
8. Focus RS MK1

Now sitting on a gold mine and are driving Royalty

What about my 1998 fiesta 1.25? Surely I should have kept that?

 

[MisterP007]

Just to flip this round 180°, anybody that drives any of the below used to be boy racers back in the day;

1. Escort RS Cosworth (big and small turbo)
2. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and
a. RS500
b. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth rear wheel drive
c. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth 4x4
3. Fiesta RS Turbo
4. Escort RS Turbo Custom
5. RS200
6. Escort RS2000 (MK 1 & 2)
7. Escort RS1600i
8. Focus RS MK1

Now sitting on a gold mine and are driving Royalty

I had a 1.6 MK1 Mexico, an XR4x4 Sierra, 2 Lotus Cortinas (mk1 and mk2). All in the boy racer category and as you say all gold mines now.

 

[Nodzed]

I had a Marina 1.8 TC Fast Back in burnt orange. Should I have kept it, it may have been worth £25 by now?

BTW the only thing fast about it was its ability to lose oil.

NB: not my actual car, that never looked like that, no where near enough rust.

 

[Mazza]

When I passed my test , I have a choice of two ‘supercars’.......Mum’s yellow Datsun Cherry ( original shape) or Dad’s sh*t coloured Allegro...............I used the bus !!!!!

 

[Ian&Sue]

I had a Marina 1.8 TC Fast Back in burnt orange. Should I have kept it, it may have been worth £25 by now?

BTW the only thing fast about it was its ability to lose oil.

NB: not my actual car, that never looked like that, no where near enough rust.
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We had a Marina but could only aspire to a TC. Ours was a 1.8 HL saloon & used about half a gallon of oil a week. On the plus side cheap oil was only about a pound a gallon, it was cheap to run easy to work on & you could get spare parts for next to nothing from any scrap dealer probably due to the Marinas "interesting" handling characteristics & propensity to turn to rust in front of your eyes! Should we have kept it? Definitely not!

 

[Mr H]

Just to flip this round 180°, anybody that drives any of the below used to be boy racers back in the day;

1. Escort RS Cosworth (big and small turbo)
2. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and
a. RS500
b. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth rear wheel drive
c. Sierra Saphire RS Cosworth 4x4
3. Fiesta RS Turbo
4. Escort RS Turbo Custom
5. RS200
6. Escort RS2000 (MK 1 & 2)
7. Escort RS1600i
8. Focus RS MK1

Now sitting on a gold mine and are driving Royalty

You've left off my Ford Corsair 2000

 

[MisterP007]

I had a Marina 1.8 TC Fast Back in burnt orange. Should I have kept it, it may have been worth £25 by now?

BTW the only thing fast about it was its ability to lose oil.

NB: not my actual car, that never looked like that, no where near enough rust.
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Eek! Orange Marina, nearly choked on my coffee.

Makes you wonder what pile of poo / common car we are driving around in now that will be a future classic? There may not be so many of these "modern classics" in future as rust tends not to be such an issue as the old Fords/Vauxhall/BL stuff, so more of the modern cars will remain on the road reducing rarity. Can you picture a Focus ST as a future classic?

Might have to start another "Future Classics" thread:

Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo - had one of these, hand-built by Pininfarina, superb car and went like a rocket.
Z3 - M version for sure, breadvan if you like the shape, other models maybe.
Alfa GTV 3.0 if they have not all rusted away.
Honda S2000

We are keeping hold of SWMBO's 2006 Mercedes CLK280 Cabriolet (80k miles) as pretty much all of it's predecessors have become collectible classics, worth about £4000 max at the moment on a good day. A lot of car for that money.

Difficult to think of many "Future Classics" excluding the exotica.

 

[MisterP007]

When I passed my test , I have a choice of two ‘supercars’.......Mum’s yellow Datsun Cherry ( original shape) or Dad’s sh*t coloured Allegro...............I used the bus !!!!!

I had a girlfriend with a Red Cherry, it did not last long...... Bad Santa!

 

[black fingernail]

I have just acquired a very low mileage Saab 9-3 convertible as my hack, is this a contender ?

 

[Davil]

I have just acquired a very low mileage Saab 9-3 convertible as my hack, is this a contender ?

Only if you are an architect wearing a black polo neck.

 

[MisterP007]

I have just acquired a very low mileage Saab 9-3 convertible as my hack, is this a contender ?

All SAAB's are contenders, some of the older 99, 900, 9000 models are already fetching good money. I wish I had kept my 2001 9-5 HOT Aero, great car, very quick and never let me down. Sold it 3-years ago with 600000 (yes 600k) miles and still looked and ran like new. The guy who bought it is local and it still looks new.

 

[MisterP007]

Only if you are an architect wearing a black polo neck.

And Titanium framed glasses!

 

[Iamjonw]

Future Classics, now there is an interesting proposition. For me there are a few contenders, from current(ish) vehicles here are a couple:
Toyota GT86 or better still the Subaru BRZ equivalent
VW Up GTI
Abarth 500
Suzuki Jimny
Porsche Caymen (6 cylinder boxter models)

Slightly older cars
Jaguar XJ8
Jaguar XK8

Just some ideas of mine, so my starter for 10 - ready for the abuse now ;-)