Had a E34 525d with a few schnitzer bits & bobs on it
Slow as f**k but i'm sure it was indestructible !!!
Slow as f**k but i'm sure it was indestructible !!!
What was your best built car....?
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firebobby said:SeanConnor said:
Still got mine
21 years old and is still very solid to drive, it wraps around you when you sit in it. I do love my Z too, it's a weekend car and it gives me plenty of smiles
Wow - I'm loving your MR2 Fred
I nearly bought a black one a few years back, spoke to the owner but it turned out to be an automatic (the ad. said manual). Got any more pics and some of the interior, whats the engine spec and performance figures?
Best built car for me was probably my Mk1 Mondeo Si24v. Lovely Motorway car. Mechanically it was crap though. Thus far my Z4///M is the most reliable mechanicaly. Interesting that one was built in Germany and had a American designed Engine. The other was built in America and has a German Designed Engine. If Only the Mondeo had an S54 it could have been the perfect car. :lol:
firebobby said:SeanConnor said:
Still got mine
21 years old and is still very solid to drive, it wraps around you when you sit in it. I do love my Z too, it's a weekend car and it gives me plenty of smiles
Love a red MR2. I had 6 and still got a black Rev 5 SW20 N/A t bar. I was going to post MR2 for the best built car I've had, over engineered in lots of ways, utterly reliable, fun, sharp handling, but bloody noisy with the roof glass out... :lol: I'll never sell it.
Marlon said:firebobby said:SeanConnor said:
Still got mine
21 years old and is still very solid to drive, it wraps around you when you sit in it. I do love my Z too, it's a weekend car and it gives me plenty of smiles
Wow - I'm loving your MR2 Fred
Thanks Collin, I got it a couple of years ago, it was going to be scrapped so I saved it from being broken up and crushed. It's a 95 2.0 NA engine, 173 BHP ,not the fire breathing turbo, but plenty quick enough for me. I have fitted black leather seats and door trim, the car is very planted when you drive it.
Old seats
I need to get a few shots of the new seats in it
So many german cars for me it would be hard to pick out a particular one 
going on for 40/45 VW , Audi , Bmw, Mercedes & Porsche so for that reason I would throw up a Lexus Is300 Sportcross I had for 6 months , 53 plate with 60k on it was all & more that you hear about the brand , it really was a cracking motor I passed on to the father in law who had 4 years fault free motoring
going on for 40/45 VW , Audi , Bmw, Mercedes & Porsche so for that reason I would throw up a Lexus Is300 Sportcross I had for 6 months , 53 plate with 60k on it was all & more that you hear about the brand , it really was a cracking motor I passed on to the father in law who had 4 years fault free motoring
south yorkshire
Mk IV Golf GTTDI- great car- put a stack of miles on it in my 2.5 years ownership and it never missed a beat or creaked.
Loved it- but must admit when I picked my Z up in 07 I didn't look back, this was the day I picked the Z up- golf is hiding in the background.
Loved it- but must admit when I picked my Z up in 07 I didn't look back, this was the day I picked the Z up- golf is hiding in the background.
Pastry said:firebobby said:Still got mine
21 years old and is still very solid to drive, it wraps around you when you sit in it. I do love my Z too, it's a weekend car and it gives me plenty of smiles
I bet you only bought it because you like big aerials
Electric and very long
My wife had an MR2 when we met. It was a really cracking little car, looked and felt really sporty.firebobby said:Pastry said:firebobby said:Still got mine
21 years old and is still very solid to drive, it wraps around you when you sit in it. I do love my Z too, it's a weekend car and it gives me plenty of smiles
I bet you only bought it because you like big aerials
Electric and very long
It was a black 1990 G-LTD T-Bar non-turbo.
Wheels were swapped out for 17" which made the car look even smaller.
Really only got rid of it as it failed one of its MOTs and needed welding on the sills. After welding was done it looked crap and it was time for it to go. There were no replacement sills available to do the job properly.
At the time it was 18 years old and we got £2300 for it trading it in!
I guess depends what is meant by best built, whether a feeling of solidity or continued reliability? or both.
Probably for me a 1996 and then a 1999 Audi A3 for overal quality and build but then we had a 1985 Mazda 323 from new and I sold it in 2005 and not one thing went wrong with it, funnily enough I checked its MOT history out on the DVLA website recently and it kept going until 2010 when it failed on corroded chassis outriggers and then I'm guessing it was resided to the scrap heap as the MOTs stopped, felt kinda sad really as I must have polished that car a zillion times.
Pics taken in 2005 just before I sold it,
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I had a Mk1 MR2 which wasn't bad. Worst was probebly a MINI Cooper S.
My Z3 still feels well screwed together at 15 years, better than the E89 I had.
Strangely my M140i feels slightly better built than my previous M135i but might be because its a new car.
Tim.
Probably for me a 1996 and then a 1999 Audi A3 for overal quality and build but then we had a 1985 Mazda 323 from new and I sold it in 2005 and not one thing went wrong with it, funnily enough I checked its MOT history out on the DVLA website recently and it kept going until 2010 when it failed on corroded chassis outriggers and then I'm guessing it was resided to the scrap heap as the MOTs stopped, felt kinda sad really as I must have polished that car a zillion times.
Pics taken in 2005 just before I sold it,
image hosting without registration upload photosI had a Mk1 MR2 which wasn't bad. Worst was probebly a MINI Cooper S.
My Z3 still feels well screwed together at 15 years, better than the E89 I had.
Strangely my M140i feels slightly better built than my previous M135i but might be because its a new car.
Tim.
Not mines but my Dad had a E34 5 Series from new and recently it was traded in for an UP! For my Mum. That was a very well built car. I named it the 'green goddess' I never thought I'd see the day he got rid of it. I can't even remember it having a sqeak or niggle from the trim like you seem to get these days.
Nictrix said:My wife had an MR2 when we met. It was a really cracking little car, looked and felt really sporty.firebobby said:Pastry said:I bet you only bought it because you like big aerials
Electric and very long
It was a black 1990 G-LTD T-Bar non-turbo.
Wheels were swapped out for 17" which made the car look even smaller.
Really only got rid of it as it failed one of its MOTs and needed welding on the sills. After welding was done it looked crap and it was time for it to go. There were no replacement sills available to do the job properly.
At the time it was 18 years old and we got £2300 for it trading it in!
My one's a G-LTD too. The sills are good apart from a bit of rust at the rear which I intend doing. I got this one for £150
In 43 years of car ownership I have never had one let me down - I have always got to where I am going and back again. By no means have I always had new or newish cars.
I had a 2.5 litre Volvo 850 Estate new in 1996 (company car). It was very tightly built, never rattled and travelled fast and safe over any road for any distance. I once drove non-stop (except for a petrol stop) from Essex to Le Mans, having done a full day at work. Still felt fresh when we got there and just folded down the rear seats to have a flat 6 foot long bed. If it had been my car I would have been disappointed at the rate it got through front tyres, but the company never queried an average of 10k miles per pair.
The current Discovery 3 comes close. Hoping to change it for a newish Discovery 4 later in the year/early next.
I had a 2.5 litre Volvo 850 Estate new in 1996 (company car). It was very tightly built, never rattled and travelled fast and safe over any road for any distance. I once drove non-stop (except for a petrol stop) from Essex to Le Mans, having done a full day at work. Still felt fresh when we got there and just folded down the rear seats to have a flat 6 foot long bed. If it had been my car I would have been disappointed at the rate it got through front tyres, but the company never queried an average of 10k miles per pair.
The current Discovery 3 comes close. Hoping to change it for a newish Discovery 4 later in the year/early next.