What if we don't own our favourite car?
I think few people actually do unf.

I have a diesel Renault Megane 1.9tdi but its hardly a *favourite* - cars are just transport for me. Years ago before I had kiddywinks and a mortgage round my neck, the last *play* car I had was an Audi 2.8i Quattro Coupé but that was a long long time ago.

in the current climate (no pun) of global warming and spiralling fuel costs, I think its hard to justify 4x4/SUVs and performance cars. yeh ok I'd love a Humvee, who wouldn't, but with fuel at £5 a gallon, roads backed up with traffic and roadworks, speed cameras every few hundred yards, and insurance going through the roof, what would be the point?

still, that is a nice motor, Richard; I have considered getting one meself in the recent past (but the fuel consumption put me off and I couldn't fit one in my garage, which was designed for pre-war cars)

cars i would own if Mrs Taw would let me, and are eminently affordable, are classic British saloons from the 50s and 60s - Morris Oxford, Austin Cambridge, Ford Anglia, and the like; the Oxfords and Cambridges are still in production I beleive in India, by Hindustani Motors. You used to be able to buy them as new imports, although the Indians would put a heater in for export - obv you don't neeed a heater in Bombay! £2500 for a brand new one, i heard.

however my passion for old cars (or a boat) is offset by Mrs Taw's demands for a caravan - so nobody gets anything, as I refuse to have a caravan.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 11/19/2005 11:45:11 PM

yeah i understand about the price of gas and all but i live in new jersey warren county tp be percise.this is really my third car my first car was a ford tures i really cant spell. that was about 4 years ago the car fell apart is was a 1986 and lasted 9 months. my second for was a jeep cherrekee sport i bought with my retirement money from a previous job from my wifes uncle for 7,500.00 a bargin.i accidentally skidded on black ice and smaked it into a telephone pole the insurance company gave me 10,000 for it so i picked up that one.its a great car for the area i live in with all the north easters and teerible snow and ice. every year someone dies on the local routes cause of thr bad ice conditions.anyway before i got married i used to comute to manhatten and didnt need a car so never got a licence. i got my licence at 38 years old a week after i got married.

$7500 for a Cherokee Sport?

<fumes>

they're over £20,000 this side of the water

Taw he bought it second hand for that price...you're talking new


I don't really have a favourite car...not yet in anyway...a car is a car is a method of transport.

theyre still 3 times the US price even when they're used they;re seen as a luxury car in direct competition with Range Rovers and the like.

and I wouldn't get in a car with you; the charging rhinos would put me off

Edited by - Tawakalna on 11/20/2005 8:12:25 AM

I would still wager that it costs 35% more to buy in the UK than in the US though...

that is why I'm considering one of these Taw
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a Pzkpfw VI Tiger 1? I know you need a big gun to go game-hunting but a Flak 88's a bit much! rotten fuel economy btw and the spares are very expensive, you'd have to take it to your local Porsche dealer.... they designed the thing in the first place!

(isn't that the Royal Armoured Corps' Tank Museum at Bovingdon?)

Edited by - Tawakalna on 11/20/2005 8:30:27 AM

This one is my fav -

No wait a moment, that one is in the shop, lets see , the ranger then.

Oh I only used the pics, could be any variety tank actually, as long as it's big and heavy.
And some farmers over here are making their own replacement feul, which is much cheaper than the normal.

There's another car I want, but I cant think a pic now, Its a BMW I think, but I have no idea what kind

please, that's not Airwolf is it? I keep forgetting that you two are trapped in 80s series. Next you'll be showing KITT and Streethawk and (so help me) Macguyver's rides made out of tin foil and duct tape.

Always said I want a tank of a copter, but since others steal my thunder:



yeah baby! Practical - it can carry the whole family, allows for transport of large goods - AND has enough space to combat roll from the drivers door in the event of being caught in imaginery gunfire!

is this thread about our favourite cars, or about our favourite anything? what *exactly* is this thread about??!! (is it me or are threads and titles getting more and more vague?!)