What cars have you owned ?

[Dick Sternum]

I too created a list of mine a couple of weeks ago, covers 1989 until today with most being owned for roughly 3 years with notable exceptions by the Boxster (7 years) and Audi (7 months):

Mk 1 Vauxhall Astra 1.2
Citroen AX GT
Rover 220 Coupe
Mazda 626
Alfa Romeo GTV
Lotus Elise S1 111S
BMW E39 520
BMW E46 M3
Porsche 987 Boxster S plus Fiat 500 Abarth SS
Audi S5
Porsche 997 Carrera S

DS

[IAmATeaf]

Don't have any pics but here goes:

Audi 80 Coupe - in vile light metallic green
Peugeot 205 - flat red and the lowest of the low models
Fiat Uno - it was metallic grey, that's all I remember about it
Vauxhall Astra 1.6 GL - black and super sexy, not
Ford Fiesta XR2i - I loved this car, it was red and went like the clappers
Vauxhall Astra 1.8 SRi - white and basic
Renault 19 16v Chamade - Red and a drivers car
Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 SRi - Dark metallic green, I really like this car but it was always breaking down
Vauxhall Vectra 2.0 CDi - Puke metallic green, I hated this car with a vengeance, so much so that I swore I would never ever own a Vauxhall ever again
Honda Accord 2.0 ES - Silver auto, loved this car
Honda Accord 2.4 Type-S - Blue and love and still own this car

The first and the last cars are the only 2 that I've owned and still own myself, the rest have all been company cars.

In between I had quite a few on long term rentals, so an Audi 80, Mondeo, Focus, Rover 600, Jaguar X-Type etc...

[Hammerhead]

From the beginning..

1974 MGB GT - last of the chrome bumpers.
Volvo 480 Turbo
BMW 525i SE auto (E34)
Porsche 944 2.7
Porsche 968 Coupe
Porsche Boxster 2.7
Mercedes CLK 320 (W209 - 2003 model) - 2 years old and started to rust, bits fall off. Sold back to MB after exactly a year.
BMW 525i SE manual (E34) - bought this to use whilst I battled with MB about the above.
Then back to Porsche
Porsche Boxster S 3.2

Then swapped with the Mrs in who had the sports car, me taking on the 'sensible' motor duties.

BMW 540i V8 Touring (E34) - wasn't going to give up power/speed!
BMW 540i V8 Touring (E39) - as above but more modern.
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 SE - a much better car than the E39. Marmite looks, granted.
Current Jaguar XF 3.0D S. My first diesel. All of the oomph of the V8s but double the range.

[Grandiloquence]

A short and fairly dull list from me:

Mk. I Punto 60,
Ford Puma 1.7L,
Mk. IV Golf GTi 1.8L
VW Lupo 1.4L,
Mk. I Mazda 6,
Mk. 7 Civic Type S.

Got to admit I would have the Puma back any day, very fond memories of that car!

[Tahiti]

The Puma's am interesting one. Readily mocked as being a "bird's car". It was so right in many ways though - handled well and the 1.7 was a pretty well matched engine too. You know you could pick one up cheaply now if you want a bit of nostalgia?

[RJM25R]

The Puma's am interesting one. Readily mocked as being a "bird's car". It was so right in many ways though - handled well and the 1.7 was a pretty well matched engine too. You know you could pick one up cheaply now if you want a bit of nostalgia?

[Filterlab]

The Puma's am interesting one. Readily mocked as being a "bird's car". It was so right in many ways though - handled well and the 1.7 was a pretty well matched engine too. You know you could pick one up cheaply now if you want a bit of nostalgia?

I remember Tiff Needell doing a mid-sideways slide whilst changing gear on Top Gear in one of these. Cracking cars!

____


Just in case anyone's reading (and cares)

Renault 5
Ford Sierra Ghia
Audi 200 Turbo
Rover 216 Vitesse
Rover 827 V6 Vitesse
Volvo 480 Turbo
Vauxhall Nova
Ford Escort something or other, Eclipse maybe?
Ford Sierra 2.9 V6 4x4
Saab 9000 CSE 2.3 HPT
BMW 740i V8 (I would never, ever, EVER have a BMW again. Diabolical junk.)
Saab 9000 CDE 2.0 Eco (tuned)
Ford Mondeo ST24
Volvo V40 T4
Honda Accord
Volvo S70 T5 Heico
Mazda 6 2.3
Volvo S40 Sport Lux
Volvo V90 3.0 CD 24v
Nissan Almera DCI 136

20 cars in 21 years of driving. The Nissan is WAY better than all of them.

[locolockman]

I always figured the cars would be different in the UK but I had no idea how many cars and car brands I never heard of. For what it's worth here are mine.
1967 Ford Galaxy hardtop
1967 Ford Galaxy convertible
1971 Dodge Dart 440 C.I.
1973 Ford LTD.
1972 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser (Station Wagon 455 C.I.) fastest car I ever owned.
1978 Dodge 1/2 ton van shag carpet and bed in back. Vague smell of patchouli incense always
1982 Buick Lesabre
1987 Oldsmobile Delta 88
1993 Chevrolet Caprice
1994 Nissan 300zx 2+2
1998 Chevrolet G20 work van
1998 Oldsmobile 98 Regency
2004 Acura MDX
2005 Cadillac Escalade
2007 Toyota Avalon
2009 Acura MDX
2011 Ford Edge

[Tokyo Tokei]

1970 MG Midget

Gave it to my brother. He sold it for a VW camper to go to India. He got to Basingstoke and decided to buy an air ticket instead.

No car for many years, then :

1996 Honda Civic VTi

Lovely engine ( 3 stage VTEC ) and chassis ( all round wishbones ) but dismal CVT transmission. Had an early satnav, very slow, all in Japanese. In combination with my own lack of language ability and my lovely wife's navigational excellence, resulted in the car becoming the divorce-atron. Sold it in 6 months. Kept the wife. Often wonder.

No car for many years then :

2006 Merc A class 2.1l petrol

Super car, drove exactly like an SL. Which probably says something about the SL. Sold it because I only managed 600Km in a year. The rest of the time it kept the dust off my drive, at some expense.

Paul

[gunner]

Short list for me, less of a flipper of cars than watches...

2001 Audi A3 1.9TDi
2004 Audi A3 Sportback 2.0TDi
2007 Audi A6 Avant Quattro 3.0TDi
2007 Land Rover Freelander HSE
1995 Porsche 993 Carrera 2

Been pretty happy with all of them...

[VVT]

Thought I would do this for interest sake so here's my list in chronological order:-

1972 Rover P5B coupe
1977 Austin Maxi 1750
1972 Triumph 1500TC
1975 DAF 44
1975 Ford Cortina Mk3 1.6
1977 Fiat 128
1979 Fiat 126
1979 Opel Kadett C estate
1973 SAAB 96 V4
1982 SAAB 99
1979 SAAB 900 Auto
1979 SAAB 99 Combi
1985 SAAB 90
1989 Audi 90
1952 Austin Champ
1973 Bristol 411 S4
1994 SAAB 9000 CSI
2002 Citroen C3
1995 Renault Espace
2006 Renault Modus 1.6
1977 SAAB 95 V4
2007 Volkswagen Golf+ 1.9D

[unclealec]

Yay! The plan worked! After all this time we have finally tricked the guy who bought the Daf 44 into revealing himself.

[James.uk]

I had a Daf 66. Great car!

[Andyg]

1959 Ford Popular (100E)
1979 2.0 Lanica Beta Coupe
1983 Fiat Uno 70S
1985 Citroen BX 1.9D
1990 Citroen ZX 1.9D
1995 Vauxhall Vectra (heap of crap)
1998 Peugeot 406 Coupe + 1975 SAAB V4
2000 BMW 320 + 1975 SAAB V4
2001 BMW 325 Msport + 1990 Porsche 911 964
2005 BMW 525D Msport+ 1990 Porsche 911 964
2008 BMW 325D Msport Coupe+ 1990 Porsche 911 964
2012 Mercedes 350 D AMG Conv+ 1990 Porsche 911 964

The wife's list is even stranger

1968 Ford Cortina 1500 GT (Mk2)
1982 Fiat Panda
1974 Super Beetle
1990 Citroen ZX 1.9D
1998 Mercedes C200 Estate
2005 Volvo V50 2.3 Estate
2010 Toyota Prius TSpirit


Motorbikes have been excluded.

[VVT]

Yay! The plan worked! After all this time we have finally tricked the guy who bought the Daf 44 into revealing himself.

Hey,it was a great little car, twin cyl boxer engine with a suspension set up that allowed you to go around corners at 40mph and a top speed of 80mph - maybe that was why I kept snapping the rubber band drive belts!!!!!!! Just because you used to see old dears doing 20mph in a DAF didn't mean to say they were slow cars. JUM537N was a great car, kermit green and a real babe magnet..rrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

[Danstone]

Vauxhall Belmont 1.6L
Chrysler Neon 2.0 SE Auto
Vauxhall Vectra 1.8
Renault Megane Coupe
Chrysler Neon 2.0 LX Auto
Citroen Xsara Picasso
Vauxhall Zafira 2.2 Auto
Toyota Prius T-Spirit

Cars really aren't my thing!

[Uriel]

Cars:

Fiat X1/9 (1984)
Fiat X1/9 (1987)
TVR Tasmin (1983)
Chevrolet Corvette (1977)
Chevrolet Corvette (1986)
Jeep Cherokee (1994)
Peugeot 205 (1995)
BMW 318i (1989)
Jeep Cherokee (1996)
Alfa Romeo 156 (2001)
Jaguar X-Type (2004)

Bikes:

Ducati Monster (2002)
BMW F800GS (2008)
Honda CB550 (1983)

[michalko82]

Lada 2107 1500 - my learner car... indestructable tank, great off road ability, hopeless in the snow (RWD), but fine with 2 bags of cement in the boot...rust killed it after 23 years (losts of salt spreading during winters in Slovakia)

M reg. E36 318i - good car for what it was
T reg. Honda Civic 1,6 Tornado (painfully slow after 2nd gear)
53 plate Toyota Celica 1.8 VVTi (likes to be revved hard, no torque whatsoever)
51 plate E46 318Ci 2L 16V (nice looking, poor(small) engine)
57 Ford Focus 1,6TDCi estate ( synonymum of a real work horse... great economy, incredibly reliable after 120K...still use it daily)
04 E46 330Ci sport (absolutely awesome engine, lovely interior, lots of electrical niggles and poor bodywork- rusty sills, wheel arches...same problems as Mercedes of this era...and the worst door closure i've ever experienced, you really have to slam it like a barn door)

on the lookout for an E90 LCI 330D estate

[chrisparker]

1971 VW Beetle
2003 Mini One
2007 BMW One Series
2011 BMW Three Touring

[Andrzej]

Not too many - my wife is more into cars than I am - and she buys new as well (currently she has a shiny white Audi TT).

So my first few cars were her cast offs, then in order, I owned

Volvo 740
Toyota Supra
Mondeo
Mercedes SL
Audi A4 convertible

And thats it.

[Glamdring]

Most of my cars have been bought new or almost new, right from the start. No, I don't have loads of money, I was a teacher after all, but my first post didn't have public transport available so a reliable car was a must and in those days cars lasted three years then rusted into small heaps on the ground.
Thus:
Reg
1978 Renault 5 1.3 Auto - sluggish to the point of being painful
1979 Renault 16 GTX Auto - Lovely comfy ride but the wings were rusting off when I traded in for:
1981 Renault 5 1.4 Auto - much better.
1983 Austin Maestro Auto - the worst car I ever owned in most respects and the one I kept the shortest
1985 Ford Escort MkIII 1.6 Auto. Enjoyed this motor.
1987 Nissan Sunny 1.6 Auto. Crashingly hard ride yet still wallowed through corners.
1990 Toyota Carina 1.6 Auto. Touch underpowered but I loved it and kept it years.
1998 Honda Civic 1.6 Auto - a bit dull
1999 Honda Civic 1.6 Auto Aerodeck - loved this. Looked good in estate form
2001 Honda Accord 2.0 Auto - great cruiser and had enough power for my needs
2003 Honda CR-V 2.0 Auto - one of my favourites but thirsty
2009 Ford C-Max 2.0 Auto - good car but ordinary
2012 Ford Grand C-Max 2.0 diesel auto. My first diesel and I love that engine. It's the first car to deliver 40mpg. Great load space which I need. Big for parking though. Rear sensors necessary. Why do the front parking sensors not come on unless I press the button?

[Jonboy]

In almost 20 years:

1997 Fiat Cinquecento Sporting (First car, bought new, still owned although no used for 10 years+ - How many people wish they still had their first car?)
Lotus Sunbeam (scared me to death as an 18 year old!)
Porsche 924 (bought for £150 with no MOT - Cost me a fiver for a windscreen washer motor and it went straight through!)
Golf GTI cab (sold within a week after exchanging for the Porsche and made a few quid)
1988 Bertone X19
1998 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo (still own)
1982 Fiat X19 (still own)

For a petrol head its a poor tally, but I have always had access to some nice cars.
I work in the used car trade now, so I get to buy and drive all sorts, some are bought with the heart, just to try them.

[Ventura]

Volvo 340,
Hyundai Accent,
Saab 9-3 Arc,
Saab 9-3 Vector,
BMW 320D SE,
Mitsubishi ASX4.

[unclealec]

- How many people wish they still had their first car?)

Not me. My first car was bought to fix my problem with attracting the opposite sex. Set of wheels, that's what I need, I'll be beating them away with a stick.
So I bought a 1950s Commer Cob van from the local fishmonger in Liskeard. All I could afford.
It stank. No matter what I did - repaint, fumigation, sulphur candle - it stank of fish.
To be fair, so did the girls I was trying to attract.

[JeffCansell]

This starts badly (starts in '85 until now) ...

1974 - 1.8 Morris Mariner (a collection of rust moving around together - although it only cost me £50)
1977 - 2.0 GL Cortina
1984 - 1.6 Ghia Escort (this I had stolen from a car park in Alton, Hants whilst at work one day ...)
1987 - 1.6i Ghia Orion (this was written off - truck driver on the M3/A316 - he changed his mind about a exit / lost control and turned 90 degrees across the road in front of me ... brown trousers time)
1990 - 1.6i Ghia Orion
1994 - 2.0 GLX Sierra (company car)
1996 - 1.8 LS Vectra (company car)
1994 - 1.8 L Cavalier (did 93,000 miles in this - had 54,000 when I got it - was travelling weekly Manchester > South East whilst a contractor)
2001 - Mercedes C200K (first car that I got new)
2004 - BMW E46 330Ci (best car I've had)
2006 - BMW E92 330SE Coupe
2011 - BMW E92 325 M Sport Coupe
2014 - BMW F32 428 M Sport

[vagabond]

Not much of a list for 20+ years but it doesn't help that both SWMBO's and my current DDs have been with us for the last 10 years!

Nissan Cherry (1.3?)
VW Scirocco MkII (1.8)
BMW 525i (E34)
Toyota Celica GT
BMW 535i Sport (E34)
Citroen Xantia 1.9TD Estate
Vauxhall Omega 3.0V6 Elite
Ford Mondeo TDCi Ghia X Estate
Toyota Landcruiser VX (current)
Toyota Yaris 1.3 MkI (current)
Mazda MX-5 1.8 Sport Mk2.5 (current)

[stuie-t]

Living in London I don't do a lot of miles so I keep my cars a good few years - only on my third car and I turned 40 this year!
1995 fiat punto 55s
2001 Audi a3 1.8t Quattro
2007 BMW 330d m sport touring (current)

Whilst the punto was hopelessly slow in open traffic it was pretty good fun for darting around in London traffic.

[amnesia]

An embarrassingly short list considering I've been driving since 1991...

Austin Mini [1.0 IL4]
Mazda 323F [1.8 IL4]
Peugeot 205 GTi [1.9 IL4]
Nissan 200SX S14 [2.1T IL4]
Fiat Panda [1.0 IL4]
Toyota MR2 mkii [2.0 IL4]
Ford Maverick [2.5DT IL4]
Mitsubishi Shogun [3.0 V6]
Renaultsport Clio 182 [2.0 IL4]
Lexus LS400 [4.0 V8]
Mercedes E320 CDi [3.2DT IL6] <-- current motor

Weirdly, every other car I've owned has been Japanese... wonder what will be next ??

Ha - it's not Japanese....

Now rocking around in a BMW 750i [4.8 V8]

[PDE]

I started to complete my list, but gave up as I was getting close to three figures & kept forgetting some!

All I know is that it started with an MG Metro when I passed my test in 1989, then followed a collection of both good & bad & is now an SLS.

[Andyg]

Just to follow on to the cars you have owned thread. What about cars you have crashed.


1979 - 1959 Ford Pop (100e) - T-boned a mini outside Kempton Park one very wet night - she pullout. I nailed her bang on the door pillar. The mini was a written off, the Ford Pop was slightly dented.

1980 - 1959 Ford Pop (100e) again!! Rear ended a Beetle in Raynes Park. His exhaust pipe pieced my front valance. both cars repaired (by me).

1982 - Lancia beta Couple - rear ended (again) a Mk3 Cortina on a roundabout in Clapham. Minor damage.

1986 - Lancia beta Coupe - Side swiped by a Coach in Epsom. Destroyed the front, then took out the drivers side before knocking me into the curb and smashing the rear suspension. Gutted!!

1997 - Vauxhall Vectra (utter crap) - reversed on to (not into) by an Army Land Rover 110 in Earlstoke. No damage to the landy, but completely **** the front end of the Vectra. Very scary seeing another car try to mount yours.

2001 - Peugeot 406 (coupe) - A36. Head on with the Seat Toledo, who decided to turn right in front of me whilst I was traveling at about 40 mph. After which I cannoned in to the wall of a pub. Driver of the other car taken to hospital, while I had to be extracted from the car . Both cars went to the scape yard. Her fault and she was prosecuted for driving without due care.

2006 - Porsche 964 - reared by a Brand New BMW 750, on route to Le Mans. Damaged the rear bumper and an excellent excuse to replace it with an RS rear bumper.

2007 - Porsche 964 - a Dyson Cleaner fell off the wall in my garage and put a dent in the bonnet of the Porsche. Dent needed to be pulled and re-painted (along with the bumper to match :) )

Actually this was much better than expected - no accidents caused by me since 1982, and more importantly accident free (touch wood) since 2007.

You can see why young drivers get hammered on insurance

[Tenko]

Right this is quite embarrassing. I've owned loads ! However, I did work in the car industry so I have an excuse..

So from 1882 - 1998
Mark 1 escort (banana yellow)
Mini Clubman
TR7 (worst car ever)
BMW 2002
MGB GT
Morris 1000 (never really drove this, it just stayed in the garage)
VW Scirroco (Mum's old car)
Honda Prelude
XR3i
XR3i Cab
VW Golf GTI Mk 2 16v
VW Karman Ghia (Beetle)
TVR S3C
VW Karman Ghia (Real one)
BMW 325i Cab
BMW 320i
VW Golf GTI Mk3 16v
VW Golf VR6

Then from 99-2013. I got a new car every year through my wife's job at Toyota.
2 x MR2 (1x coupe 1 x roadster)
2 x Celica
2 x Rav 4
3 x Lexus Is200/250
Prius (just to try it)
Lexus CT200h
Lexus CT200h F Sport
GT 86

I've just realised that I have had a different car every year since I passed my driving test, albeit for the last 14 years I didn't technically own them !! I've never owned an Audi or Merc, not sure why? Don't have pics of many but one that sticks in my mind was this. Slow, noisy, cold, wet, unreliable....but an absolute CHICK MAGNET.

[watchcollector1]

Small list for me:

- Fiat Punto 1.2 Sporting - yellow. Only 80 bhp but surprisingly fun. Questionable reliability.
- Toyota Yaris T Sport - Dependable and with a bit more poke than the Fiat.
- Hyundai Coupe V6 - Looked great but thirsty and a bit gutless above 60. Heavy depreciation.
- BMW 325i (E46) - Auto and gutless. I now think it had been clocked. The handling was shot.
- Skoda Octavia VRS Estate - Peviously an Auto Express long term test car. Great TFSI engine and felt like it would have gone on forever. Bit of a Plain Jane though.
- BMW 330d Msport Touring (E91) - Looks great (IMO) & I'm loving the torque!

[Enoch]

Started driving in 1979.....

Hillman imp
Escort 1100 Mk1 2 Door
Hillman Avenger 1500 GT
Cortina Mk2 1600
Fiat Mirrafiori 1600 TC
Fiesta Ghia 1100 Mk2
Fiesta XR2 mk2
Astra GTE mk2 1800
Lancia Prisma 1600 TC
Golf GTi 1800
Astra GTE mk2 2000
Astra GTE mk2 16v
Celica
Astra GTE mk2 16v
Rover 220 SDi
Astra mk3 sport
Tvr 350
CRX
Tvr griffith 400
Corrola GTi
TVR griffith 500
Bmw 3 touring
Jeep Cherokee 4.0
Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7
Aston Martin vantage
TVR griffith
Jeep 5.7 Hemi

Probably missed a few..

[EtherealShade]

1999 Ford Taurus
1987 Audi 4000CS Quattro
1991 Dodge Dakota
1996 Honda Civic

Then I moved to the UK at 21. Still getting around to getting a UK license and first car 7 years later.

[frp422]

Here we go...

Fiesta 1.6S - looked nice, but that was it. Vibrated like mad over 4000 rpm and really quite slow
Escort RS Turbo - characterful, rapid money pit. Over 200 genuine bhp after £3.5k of tuning and the rest of the car couldn't handle it...
Ford KA - asthmatic engine, amazing handling on tuned suspension and 15" wheels. Cost me less on PCP than the insurance on the RS Turbo - and it had free insurance!
Volvo 440 - a hand-me-down after returning to the UK from travelling
Focus 2.0 ESP - good on roundabouts but very lacklustre engine
Ford Racing Puma - wow, what a drive! Unfortunately the engine was too wimpy for the rest of the car which was really very well engineered imo
VW Golf GT Tdi 130 - opened my eyes to a performance diesel, but really floaty handling
Mercedes 300ce-24 - an appreciating classic that was absolutely mint, but 19mpg did it for me as a daily driver. Sold to a trader for £4.5k who sold to a London buyer for £9k!
Skoda Fabia VRS - felt quick, didn't handle. Traded at a dealer for the price I paid (discounted) new, a very slow depreciator!
Smart Brabus Roadster Coupe - great car if ignoring the slow steering and gearbox. Sounded fantastic, never felt slow, real character and no doubt a future classic. 50mpg!
MINI Cooper S (supercharged, immense screaming sound from some fancy induction kit but otherwise felt slow due to long gearing)
BMW 330d E46 - great car, great engine, but early onset of rust put me off
Mercedes E320 CDI - Great car for putting in the miles, fantastic Harmon/Kardon hifi. Sold only due to compulsory company car...
Ford Focus 2.0 TDCi - joining a contractor to the public sector meant a compulsory "modest" company car. I picked the Focus over the typical Mondeo as thought it'd be more fun. Not a bad car, but interior did feel a step down from the German cars I'd had
BMW 135i coupe - great engine but didn't feel fast (until you saw the speedo!). Truly awful ride on run-flats. The least reliable car I've owned too, broke down the day after buying it - had turbo issues, fuel pump, fuel pipes, new camshafts, seat adjustment broke, numerous electrical gremlins. Supplying dealer bought it back after BMW UK intervened
Mercedes CLS - stunning looker, airmatic suspension good on Sport, but made me feel seasick in Comfort mode. On owning it a few weeks and washing it by hand I determined it had had a full respray. This put me off and it had to go after never being fully sure of its history from that point on
BMW M135i - much improved over the last 135 in almost every respect. This time the 8-speed auto. Very quick AND efficient (40mpg on a steady motorway run). But it felt seriously under-damped for back road fun, so much so that I drove it slower than the diesel Focus owned a few years ago. Limited opportunities to use the performance and the jiggly ride even on motorways meant the novelty wore off faster than expected. A great 30min car, but not so good for 8 hours of driving in a day.
Mercedes E250 Cdi - early days, picked it up last week. Noisy under hard acceleration, but swift on part throttle, very relaxing demeanour and plenty of toys. Achieves 50+mpg on a run and rides excellently. For long days in the saddle (seat) it seems to fit the bill. For now...

But since I vacillate between fun and relaxing cars I really think I need a weekend toy for blasts when in the mood. I'll see what I can talk the missus into driving daily ;-)

Ant

[David r]

Afraid it's not an adrenaline charged list......

Ford Ka - fantastic little run about, dirt cheap to run and service. Great for parking and just like driving a dodgem car. Still miss it
Ford Focus - boring as hell but reliable
BMw 520d - like driving an aircraft carrier but I love it. a really great drive and very economical

[alex]

Mines a bloody boring list. 8 years of driving.

R reg Ford Fiesta
55 Renault Clio
12 Vauxhall Astra

Currently

13 Vauxhall Adam
64 Astra GTC LE (next week)

[L8_M8]

There is an interesting cars in some of those lists. Here is mine

Ford Fiesta 950cc mk 2 f reg
Ford Fiesta 1300 mk 3 h reg
Ford Fiesta 1300 mk 2 d reg - had this two weeks after coming back from travelling for a year. It spent more time on the side of the road broken down than it did going.
Fiat Punto mk 2 x reg - my first new car.
Renault Megane 1.9 diesel x reg - company car and a hand me down.
Renault Megane 1.5 diesel 54 plate - company car
Golf mk6 1.4 tsi - company car
Saab 93 1.8 vector sport 06 plate
Saab 93 1.9 ttid (twin turbo) 11 plate

Like the saabs and really wanted they new 95 but suspect they will not be possible to get part freely.

[Alex L]

A few that I've owned, excluded the not so exciting company cars

Westfield Zetec
BMW Z3M (M Roadster)
Vauxhall VX220
Honda S2000
TVR Chimaera 450
Lotus Exige
Porsche Boxster
Mercedes C63 AMG Estate

[Backward point]

VW Beetle 1300 (modified)
VW Passat (not modified)
VW Beetle 1600 (much modified)
VW Golf GTI (Mark 1 - modified)
VW Beetle Cabriolet (not modified)
VW Beetle (Cal-looker. 1900cc, twin Weber IDF's, barely a standard mechanical part left by the time I'd finished. Sold to a record producer who travelled from Scotland to buy it)
VW Scirocco Storm (much modified - previously the property of LJK Setright)
VW Golf GTI (Mark 1 - you've guessed it)
VW Golf GTI (Mark 2 - hardly modified at all)
VW Golf GTI (Mark 1 - put together using the knowledge gained from all the previous ones that I'd modified!)
Honda Civic VTi (1.6 Vtec, wishbones all round. Fantastic car)
Caterham 7 Supersprint (Oselli engine, trailing arm suspension at the rear)
Honda Civic VTI (the 1.8 version)
Company cars: Honda Civic 1.6, Honda Accord 2.2 diesel, Ford Focus diesel (the least worst option when our car scheme took a turn for the worse)
VW Golf 2.0 TDI

You may have spotted a theme or two.

[Pubdweller]

1979 saab 900 gls auto ..white with green velour seats
1973 vw beetle 1200
1985 fiesta xr2
1985 escort rs turbo custom. .This became known as the fanny magnet
1987 escort 1.6 gl estate
1988 mini city
1996 vw polo 1.4l
2003 smart 42 passion (remapped)
2004 smart 42 brabus 101 wide star
2001 mercedes slk 32 amg
2005 mercedes slk 55 amg

[Tahiti]

Short and sweet list (and partly a reflection of not being single at any stage of my driving history - a few of the guys I hung around with in my teens/early 20s had Cosworths/GTiR's/MR2 turbos etc and it was a choice between cars and my - still to this day - wife).

Prior to buying my own car, I had access to numerous cars with my first job (everything from an 1100cc Saxo to a modified Saab 900 Turbo).

1996 Rover 214Si 16v (bubble shape - and fitted with an open air air filter for a bit of nuisance value - it was also a bit Halfords-ised inside) bought in 1999 - sold to buy
1999 Rover 200 BRM (really loved this car - with the standard orange grille - standard bar a bigger throttle body, air filter and exhaust) bought in 2001 - written off (Category C) while parked up
1999 Peugeot 206 Grand Tourisme (bought with less than 5k on the clock, added a custom/quiet exhaust and some later spec lights and sold it when I realised I was doing less than 600 miles between MOT's) bought in 2003. A car bought on the spur of the moment to fill a gap, and one I was surprised to find I actually liked - bar the long shift on the gearbox and offset pedals. Sold with very low miles and possibly something I should have kept as an investment.

The wife and I then moved to one car...
1998 Starlet SR (an absolutely cracking little car and a car my wife would still have now if we hadn't had kids) that she bought in 2001 (it had the interior retrimmed, a decent sound system and I changed the lights over to bring it up to date). Replaced with...
2004 Golf GT TDi 140 5 door (the perfect first family car and not a bad drive) bought in 2009. The first car to remain completely standard (standard bar BBS wheels I bought for it). We owned that for 5 years before selling recently to buy
2014 (64) Golf GTD 184 (first car bought new and a car that we are running it at the mo but that does so many things so well). This one's likely to be a keeper - the wife's thinking 10 years and it will probably be the first car to remain completely standard.

[subchris]

Mini Metro 1.3
Ford Orion Ghia Diesel
Renault Megane(new)
Peugeot 306(new)
Ford Fiesta Van(new)
Suzuki Jeep(cant remember the name? tiny thing)
VW Golf 1.3 petrol
Lotus Elise(metallic orange)
Landrover Defender 90
Suzuki Jimmy
Audi A4 Diesel
Honda Civic
SWB Mitsubishi Pajero(auto diesel)
Subaru Impreza WRX Wagon
Mitsubishi Shogun Sport Warrior V6(new)
Renault Scenic Diesel
Renault Scenic Diesel(newer)
LWB Mitsubishi Pajero(auto diesel)
Renault Scenic Diesel(older one again as new digital dash was crap on new one!)
Range Rover P46(auto diesel)
Mercedes A140
Ford Focus C MAX Diesel
Volvo V40 Turbo
Peugeot 807 Diesel
SWB Mitsubishi Pajero(auto diesel)
Renault Scenic Diesel RX4(4x4)
Renault Grand Scenic Diesel
LWB Mitsubishi Pajero(auto diesel)
Rover P4 100(Classic)
Citroen Xsara Picasso Diesel
Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian Auto Diesel(new)

Not the best collection of cars I know but I did have a period of buying everything at auction before the bottom dropped out of it!! thats why ive had a few random cars!!!
This is also the reason I had upto 4 cars at a time!!
Some cars I have kept for a few months with the exception of the Elise S1 and the Mitsubishi's which I have kept as others have come and gone!!!
I have definately missed a few out but if I remember any I will add them!!
Still no Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini Im afraid

Chris

[acour_jeroen]

1. MG Metro with a drain pipe as (loud) exhaust
2. Volvo 340/360 (about 12 of them, as I bought them cheap from a dealer (they were traded in by the truckload for 440's) and sold them ASAP for a little more to fellow students, which kept me mobile during school years)
3. Volvo 360 GLE
4. (lease) Ford Mondeo station DIESEL (crappy car, sluggish as well)
5. (lease) Volvo V40 1.9D - Yellow
6. (lease) Volvo S60 D5 - Baby blue
7. (lease) Volvo V50 D5 - gecko green
8. (lease) Lexus CT200h

[oldandgrumpy]

1999 Rover 200 BRM (really loved this car - with the standard orange grille

Well blow me, is that they were ? BRM. I've always wondered what that particular paint job was about. I'd have got it if they'd painted London Rowing colours on the roof or a pencil moustache on the grill

[ism123]

Oooh mine's a mainly teutonic list

Golf 1.4CL 4 speed 0-60 in.....zzzzzzz
VW Golf TD red I
VW Passat in british green with grey leather (what was I thinking?)
E46 330D saloon manual
E46 M3
Mondeo 1.8LX ex-pool car what a wreck, salesman must have driven slouched with one arm on dash as driver's seat was at 30 degrees
E46 330D touring manual
E90 320D touring manual
993 manual
996 Turbo manual
E60 520D saloon auto
986 Boxster S
F10 520d saloon auto

I have also bought my good wife the following teutonic chariots

Polo 1.4CL, her 1st car when she moved over from the Fatherland, she bumped most of the panels
Golf GTI the 18v one, rubbish
A3 Td red I, alcantara seats, missed this one
E46 325i touring - the dog car. Bought unseen from BMW dealer returned it 3 months later as it stank of dog.
E90 320i touring. Nice car but worst engine ever.
E70 X5. Current family bus can't think what to replace it with or why to bother tbh

[GIB984]

From the top....

Austin 1100
Toyota Corolla
Xr2
Astra GTE
Toyota MR2
Toyota MR2 t bar
BMW 325i sport
BMW 325i convertible
Porsche 911SC
BMW 323i
Audi TT convertible
BMW 320i sport convertible
Range Rover Sport 2.7HSE
Range Rover Sport 3.0 SDV HSE
BMW 530D SE

[Breeze]

A very short list for me:

Mark One Xr2
Mini
Fiat Bravo
Porsche Boxter
BMW 320 (Current)

[Bradt Pitt]

2000 Peugeot 306 1.9 Diesel
2005 Golf 1.9 TDI
2006 Golf 1.9 TDI
2001 Renault Megane 1.4 Petrol (utter junk)
2003 Golf 1.9 TDI
2011 Golf 1.6 TDI
2006 Nissan Almera 1.5 Petrol (current - reliable, fairly cheap to run/tax/insure - and I intend to run it into the ground)

[Tahiti]

Well blow me, is that they were ? BRM. I've always wondered what that particular paint job was about. I'd have got it if they'd painted London Rowing colours on the roof or a pencil moustache on the grill

An acquired taste for sure. Loved mine.