What were you driving when your car was built?

[Zedebee]

2007 - my first coupe, a 2004 Audi TT 225 Quattro which I owned for 10 years and racked up 100,000 miles. Mot history shows it’s still going. A peerless piece of engineering and compact packaging. I could ferry all three kids around, or the wife and luggage for a week, but not both. Easy to chuck a mountain bike and gear in the back. Fast, economical, reliable, great handling, never got stuck in the snow and could fit in a supermarket parking space with room to spare.

Only had two cars since, Toyota GT86 and my Z4.

[Flyingfifer]

I was driving this when my Z4MC was built, and 2 years later I swapped from the M5 to the Z4MC.

Thats lovely lad

[bigwinn]

June 2003 I was in a 51 plate Audi TT- a company car... hated it as I banged my head on the roofline!

Sacked that off (good drive as it was) for a replacement in early 2004; my best company car to date-

BMW E46 330cd- cant recall the colour but was a darker green than oxford green- proper specced up cost me a fortune in tax

Even had the electric rear blind and its still out there now on MOT checker- GL04DXV

[clarker63]

ah,, my S2000, I still miss it. beautiful car, but not as practical or as powerful as my 35is..(although now probably worth almost as much)

[Flyingfifer]

ah,, my S2000, I still miss it. beautiful car, but not as practical or as powerful as my 35is..(although now probably worth almost as much)

I almost bought one of these instead of the Coupe, beautiful things

[mmm-five]

I was driving this when my Z4MC was built, and 2 years later I swapped from the M5 to the Z4MC.

Thats lovely lad

Thanks!

I'd still have it (or one of them) but the maintenance costs were astronomical (about double that of a Z4MC).

Final nail in the coffin was when it needed £6k of engine work, £3k of bodywork, and was worth £4k in good condition...for a 160,000 mile 15 year old uber-barge!

Still have friends with 1/2/many of them - but they don't do the mileages in them that I was doing (nor do their's see the track/ring).

My Z4MC in good company...

[mmm-five]

Thats lovely lad

...and when that M5 was born, I was driving this...which was only 2 years old when I bought it.

[Flyingfifer]

Some damn fine machinery on display there

[PointedMarlin]

In 2011 I was driving a 57 plate Audi A3 Sportback

I traded this in a month ago for the Zed

[Hilly30si]

When my TR6 was built back in 1974.

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I was mainly driving a MK1 Escort with L plates

[buzyg]

I was driving this when my Z4 was designed and still driving it when it was built.

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[Doddsy]

Would have been on my school summer holidays about to go into year 10 of high school. Those were the days

[Mr Tidy]

I was driving my first BMW, a 2004 AUC E46 320td Compact I bought in January 2005 - diesel because I was doing business miles at the time.

Still it was a great car, and I have never been without a manual BMW since!

[Ed Doe]

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I was 18, so would have been driving my first car, a 106 1.5 xnd (yes that's a normally aspirated diesel, all of 54 rampant stallions...)

I don't have a picture of when I owned it but I sold it to a mate who strapped a fuel pump and turbo from a 306 dturbo onto it (all mechanical injection so comparatively easy to do), wound the fuelling right up, welded the waste gate shut and made 135bhp. It was hilariously nippy as it weighed nothing, but he did have to keep a breaker bar in the boot to periodically wind down the head bolts as it kept lifting the head on boost
Pic is from when he took it up Prescott hill climb at one of the various car meets we used to do.

[Pbondar]

2013 was when my Zed was first registered..at that time I had an all black Audi A7 3.0 bi-turbo Quattro..

An example of too much weight and too much power barely kept under control by German engineering..