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Doesn't have to be exotic or expensive, or even what you have now, but what's the car you remember most fondly?
Mine was a mk.1 Granada 3 litre I bought over 20 years ago, because I'm a massive fan of The Sweeney 
It was a great car and would pass anything on the road, except a bloody petrol station  |
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My friend had a Lancia Delta Intergrale and it was an amazing car. The reason I mentioned his car and not mine is because I've always had bangers to run around in....  |
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I have to say my favourite cars of all time and a dream to own when I win the lotto of course has to be a Land Rover Short wheel base defender (not the new version) and a VW Devon Campervan  |
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"My friend had a Lancia Delta Intergrale and it was an amazing car. The reason I mentioned his car and not mine is because I've always had bangers to run around in.... "
Bangernomics - the best way for cheap motoring. I do it myself, although I do get pangs of jealousy sometimes looking at friends' more exotic stuff |
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"My friend had a Lancia Delta Intergrale and it was an amazing car. The reason I mentioned his car and not mine is because I've always had bangers to run around in....
Bangernomics - the best way for cheap motoring. I do it myself, although I do get pangs of jealousy sometimes looking at friends' more exotic stuff"
I've always admired nice cars, but I've never been inclined to buy one. Maybe if I was rich... |
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"Fiat 126 It felt like Mariokart driving that around
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I had one of those as my first car! Passed my test in it and everything, and agree it was like a go kart. Nippy, too, up to about 40mph
The record for me was 5 people in it.... |
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I wish I could have my black mk1 Golf GTI back... Or my Dads old vw bay window devon camper, happy memories from that, even if at the time we were a little envious of the people that flew to their holiday destination... |
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My first car was a dream! Bought it with my own money before I could even drive (at 15!). It was a 1969 Impala convertible painted blue-green with a shimmer that dazzled! Had original white leather interior.
We were a classic car family - my big sis drove a ‘72 fastback mustang and my father an old 40s Ford pickup. Was often in the garage tickling on the cars with my father and was the girl who took techy instead of home econ.
Funny thing is that in Britain I don’t drive. Nothing really gets my heart racing here! |
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"MG metro turbo love that car but it rotted away.. 
Wasn't that one of the selling points of the metro? You'll never have to get rid of it because it will just rot away to nothing  "
Lol just a better mini driver as the Metro was faster.. |
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When I lived in Australia I owned a lime green Ford Falcon XR8.
5.2 litre V8 pushing 460 horses through the back wheels. Flash tuned with cold air intake and straight through Hot Dog pipes it went and sounded like a NASCAR... |
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My favourite was my mini 1275, it was my first car. Unfortunately it got written off and the replacement mini wasn’t quite as much fun.
Mr has had a fair few cars but the only one he has ever said he regrets getting rid of was a 1989 fiat panda 750cc. It was finished in Rosso Corsa and was the closest he will get to a Ferrari.
We drive quite boring cars these days but do like the idea of a classic car for the fair weather. A Rover P6 or similar. |
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"The original of course
And definitely not the Dax kit version
Good choice, your boobs might fly about in the wind though aye? 
It would add to the experience.... "
Don't worry I'll restrain them for you, just bring Tim Tams... |
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I’ve said for years that if I ever win the lottety I’d buy a Nissan GTR simply because if anyone asked what I drive I could say ‘just a Nissan’ the fact it goes like shit off a stick is a bonus but I love the modesty of the brand. |
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"The original of course
And definitely not the Dax kit version
Good choice, your boobs might fly about in the wind though aye?
It would add to the experience....
Don't worry I'll restrain them for you, just bring Tim Tams... "
Will toffee pops do instead?
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My first car was a mk3 cortina 2 litre GXL red with a black vinyl roof I loved it But it was sadly written off in a crash, I’ve had a lot of fords through the eighties and nineties but the one I most regret selling was a Sierra sapphire 4x4 cosworth i had it for 12 years and basically wore it out then sold it for next to nothing shortly before they rocketed in price. |
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I’m never good at picking favourites but my favourite individual car is my first. Mk2 Golf, 1.6 driver. It cost an absolute fortune to insure, but my god what a car. Handled like a go kart and went like shit off a shiny shovel (well, to 19 year old me anyway). I had some fun in that car. I remember I was sitting in it one day, looking super cool, or so I believed. It was the middle of summer, so I had the window down and my arm on the sill, when something brushed my elbow, and a split second later there was a bang. Some dozy twat had just driven past too close, and ripped the mirror off his brand new Bentley Continental. Like right off, it was dangling by the wire. Mine had a teeny little scratch in the plastic.  |
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"My first car was a mk3 cortina 2 litre GXL red with a black vinyl roof I loved it But it was sadly written off in a crash, I’ve had a lot of fords through the eighties and nineties but the one I most regret selling was a Sierra sapphire 4x4 cosworth i had it for 12 years and basically wore it out then sold it for next to nothing shortly before they rocketed in price. "
Shot, that's annoying. And you can bet the guy you sold it to made back ten times what he paid for it |
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"My first car was a dream! Bought it with my own money before I could even drive (at 15!). It was a 1969 Impala convertible painted blue-green with a shimmer that dazzled! Had original white leather interior.
We were a classic car family - my big sis drove a ‘72 fastback mustang and my father an old 40s Ford pickup. Was often in the garage tickling on the cars with my father and was the girl who took techy instead of home econ.
Funny thing is that in Britain I don’t drive.
Nothing really gets my heart racing here!"
I grew up in Rhodesia my dad had a 1961 impala, it was a lovely barge of a thing,I took the AA badge off it when we left and have it on my MGB now |
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"My first car was a mk3 cortina 2 litre GXL red with a black vinyl roof I loved it But it was sadly written off in a crash, I’ve had a lot of fords through the eighties and nineties but the one I most regret selling was a Sierra sapphire 4x4 cosworth i had it for 12 years and basically wore it out then sold it for next to nothing shortly before they rocketed in price. that’s cars , it was just another old cheap car and there were plenty of them around at the time, in fact most of my old cars are worth quit a bit now
Shot, that's annoying. And you can bet the guy you sold it to made back ten times what he paid for it "
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over a year ago
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My Audi A3, what a great car! Though my civic type R was fun to drive fast!
Ive just brought my new one out for the first time today....back in the Audi gang |
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I'm quite fortunate, in I've had lots of fabulous cars...
the BMW M5 was glorious... not a pretty car, but the exhaust overrun you get from the V10 if you flipped the gears and throttle correctly almost made the 14mpg bearable...
Or the BMW 645, with every individual option. When you take your three year old son out in it for the first time, give him the full V8 experience and when you get back on the drive he asks "Why didn't you get a mini?"...
A Honda S2000... full on rear drive hooligan and one of the best cars ever to come from the land of the rising sun...
But my all time favourite car, the one I want back, is a Caterham 7. In full race prep it's a close to driving a racing car on the road as you can get. Cost bugger all to run, and doesn't depreciate. The most fun you can have with your clothes on, and even beats a few I've been with with their cloths off! |
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Subaru imprezza wrx...in blue...superb car .handled like a dream, yes they looked unusual, had a beautiful burble (not the horrid roar you hear from boy racers) A real drivers car the more you pushed it the more it gripped the road...loved it ! so did petrol garage owners lol |
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"I don't drive and never will, but my fave car is the Mk 1 Mexico "
My first car was a lovely little MK I Escort. It wasn’t a Mexico. It was an XL but specked up to “E” with the sporty wheels and what nots. But one of my favourite cars was my last one which was i Hyundai I30. I liked it so much I kept it for ten years! |
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"The original of course
And definitely not the Dax kit version
Good choice, your boobs might fly about in the wind though aye?
It would add to the experience....
Don't worry I'll restrain them for you, just bring Tim Tams...
Will toffee pops do instead?
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Your boobs will be distraction enough |
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"Vauxhall nova gsi"
I had a 1.2 SR when I passed my test. I would have loved a gsi though. But my absolute dream back then was a Skyline GTR R34. I’d still have one but most of them are either ragged to death or crazy expensive. |
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1964 MK11 burgundy body carpet and leather work,(same as morse's but no sun roof) as off the factory floor.
She did two weddings trips to France london to brighton photo shoots and even dogging awesome lady!! |
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My first car was a vauxhall Nova..
My dream car an Audi R8.
But i love my A5 convertible.Dint think I will have a different one unless I win the lotto or find a very rich fb  |
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"Vauxhall nova gsi
I had a 1.2 SR when I passed my test. I would have loved a gsi though. But my absolute dream back then was a Skyline GTR R34. I’d still have one but most of them are either ragged to death or crazy expensive."
did they do a 1.2 sr ? They did a 1.3 and a 1.4 sr also did a 1.4 Sri with fuel injection |
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I had a SportKa. I represented freedom and could move a bit and handle well, all for a small price. It did everything I needed it to, although having fun in the back seat was a bit tight  |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
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I had a little Fiesta when younger that took me all over the Country. It was a nippy little thing and very roomy for a small car.
Engine blew up on the M4 and I had my first experience of waiting for the AA to rescue me. All alone. Pouring with rain. Flat broke. Wobbly bottom lip.
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Done a couple of 'Supercar experiences', Ariel Atom & Lamborghini Gallardo.
When I was 17 the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth was THE car to have, my neighbours boyfriend had one and took me for a spin in it, then let me drive it back home, I still remember how nervous/excited I was getting in the drivers seat, It was just as easy to drive as my old mans Fiesta 1.1 pop+ only difference being when I thought I was doing 45 I was actually doing 90! I'd only passed my driving test 8 days previous.
Favourite car i've owned is a toss up between a VW Golf GTI 8v & a Mk3 Ford Escort 1.3 that I bought off my mate for £30 after he crashed it, Insurance would have written it off If they'd known but I rebuilt it bumper to bumper and made it look better than OEM |
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My first love affair with a car is currently sitting on the drive with a flat battery - I'm awful to her!
18yo 3 door 1.3 Toyota Yaris, still going with 160k on the clock and all the quirks under the sun, including an intermittently blocked EGR valve. Just so reliable in spite of the quirks, and nippy too, she's just so much fun! |
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"Vauxhall nova gsi
I had a 1.2 SR when I passed my test. I would have loved a gsi though. But my absolute dream back then was a Skyline GTR R34. I’d still have one but most of them are either ragged to death or crazy expensive. did they do a 1.2 sr ? They did a 1.3 and a 1.4 sr also did a 1.4 Sri with fuel injection "
Sorry yeah, 1.3. Fat fingers, small key pad! |
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"Ford Capri 2.8i special in diamond white was the best car I ever owned. Still miss the noise from those twin exhausts.
Sweet! I bet it was a handful in the wet, though? "
Had to treat it with respect...not for the faint-hearted! |
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"When I lived in Australia I owned a lime green Ford Falcon XR8.
5.2 litre V8 pushing 460 horses through the back wheels. Flash tuned with cold air intake and straight through Hot Dog pipes it went and sounded like a NASCAR... "
Nice...think the car in Mad Max 2 was a Falcon? |
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"Vauxhall nova gsi
I had a 1.2 SR when I passed my test. I would have loved a gsi though. But my absolute dream back then was a Skyline GTR R34. I’d still have one but most of them are either ragged to death or crazy expensive. did they do a 1.2 sr ? They did a 1.3 and a 1.4 sr also did a 1.4 Sri with fuel injection
Sorry yeah, 1.3. Fat fingers, small key pad!"
I had 1.3 sr f reg in white loved it |
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"Ford Capri 2.8i special in diamond white was the best car I ever owned. Still miss the noise from those twin exhausts.
Sweet! I bet it was a handful in the wet, though?
Had to treat it with respect...not for the faint-hearted!"
I almost had a 2.8 special as my first car! Couldn’t find a tidy one though |
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My lexus is300. Was owned by the one and only steve Coogan (Alan partridge) as featured in his TV show.
I am now the owner of this and yes it has been repaired |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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for sheer bonkers fun fast driving my ex skip brown group 4 sunbeam lotus rallycar 240bhp rear wheel drive madness
for pure driving pleasure
jaguar s type ttdi a gentlemans club on wheels you didnt go for a drive you went for a waft |
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"My lexus is300. Was owned by the one and only steve Coogan (Alan partridge) as featured in his TV show.
I am now the owner of this and yes it has been repaired "
The Japanese Mercedes |
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Wasn’t mine but my Dad had a Corvette Stingray in red when I was young. It was gorgeousness and gorgeousity, sex before I knew what sex was. I’ll never forget it and the sound....oh my |
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1986 Audi Quattro in Lagos blue... not the fastest or technically 'best' car Ive ever owned but it looked and sounded awesome and had character - frequently regret selling it.
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By *im himCouple (MM)
over a year ago
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"My friend had a Lancia Delta Intergrale and it was an amazing car. The reason I mentioned his car and not mine is because I've always had bangers to run around in.... "
Love mine, will never sell it . Was always an ambition to own one . Had it nearly 20 years now |
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My favourite car ever was my first one, an Austin Metro. Loved that car so much!
Got an Audi S6 at the moment but I'm bored with it now I've played with all the buttons!!
Someone buy me an Audi R8, please?! |
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"My dream car would be at 930 Flatnose"
We just bought last week a 911 GTS, we toyed with the idea of a vintage one but for driving often they just aren’t practical we think. Maybe one day if we have a huge garage and too much spare cash |
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"Either of my current cars, speed, noise, both put massive smile on my face when I drive them."
Come on then what are they, I’m intrigued. I started to write which of my previous cars I liked the most but realized it sounded a bit crass so deleted it. Private message us if your uncomfortable to say |
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My dad had a number of vehicles over the years they could all play up but had a lovely character about them being british was one.. The toyota cressida a 90,s car probabily stole the show after that along with a volvo for performance levels. |
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"Datsun 120A loved it"
I never did pass my test but some of the lessons I took were either in a datsun 120A or 120y I thought it was the latter one around 1977/8 It was a nifty little motor and smart but took the corners to fast I thought but I probabily would think that in those times. |
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"A wee red volvo 480, loved the pop up lights "
I had the 460 turbo intercooler same engine the tablier almost same also , really lovely car to drive ,the all cars i had from Ford Escort cosworth to my now Audi TT the Volvo 460 was the car i most have looked after and more money i ever have invested |
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" I almost had a 2.8 special as my first car! Couldn’t find a tidy one though
Luckily mine was ok. Agree you had to be careful at the time, lots had been used/abused/accident damaged."
Oh for sure, this was only 12 years ago when I was 17, so many of them had years to Rot or get manhandled, looking back it probably would of ended badly LOL, but my dad growing up on 3 litre capris thought it wasn’t a bad idea |
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For the adrenalin rush my Mk1 Twin Cam Lotus Cortina
For fun my 1959 Austin Healey "Frog Eye" Sprite;
For novelty a Fiat 600 with a 1600 cc Twin Cam Lotus engine shoehorned in the back, this car was never road legal but great on the track.
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By *andy 1Couple
over a year ago
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my wife bought a Toyota mr2 it was a little cheep car and I dident like it she got sick of it after 2 years so I bougt it off her u carnt get me out of it now love it we have a pic on hear of her with it  |
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Peugeot 206. I'm not a very girlie girl but in that car I felt feminine and flirty.
Sadly I'm convinced they were trying to kill me. I had three, wrote two off within 12 months and had the side bashed in on the third, when I went for #4 they'd stopped making them and I didn't like the replacement model. |
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