What were you driving when your car was built?

Flyingfifer said:
mmm-five said:
I was driving this when my Z4MC was built, and 2 years later I swapped from the M5 to the Z4MC.

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Thats lovely lad :wub: :wub:
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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...
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When my TR6 was built back in 1974.


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I was mainly driving a MK1 Escort with L plates :thumbsup:
 
Would have been on my school summer holidays about to go into year 10 of high school. Those were the days :rofl:
 
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!
 

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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 :lol:
Pic is from when he took it up Prescott hill climb at one of the various car meets we used to do.
 
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..
 

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Zedebee said:
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.
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Zedebee, I see your post and I raise you this:
2006 - an Audi TT 225 Quattro, which I owned for five years and racked up 60,000 miles. MOT history shows it’s still going (much to my surprise). A peerless piece of shite and compact packaging. I moved a girlfriend from Edinburgh to London in it and could fit either her or all her possessions in the back, but not both. Rarely could I drive it without something breaking or falling off. Not that fast; not that economical; utterly and completely unreliable; awful handling with understeer on top of understeer; useless brakes; devoid of any feedback; rubbish in snow (on summer tyres with 2mm tread); but a really rather nice place to wait for the AA patrol tow truck!

I’ve owned many cars before and since but none have come close to being as unreliable. In my ownership, the warranty payments for repairs exceeded the purchase price of the car!
 
In 2006 I was driving a 1995 one of these. T-Top, FWD, 1.6, sub-100bhp, masses of smiles.

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BMWZ4MC said:
Zedebee said:
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.
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Zedebee, I see your post and I raise you this:
2006 - an Audi TT 225 Quattro, which I owned for five years and racked up 60,000 miles. MOT history shows it’s still going (much to my surprise). A peerless piece of shite and compact packaging. I moved a girlfriend from Edinburgh to London in it and could fit either her or all her possessions in the back, but not both. Rarely could I drive it without something breaking or falling off. Not that fast; not that economical; utterly and completely unreliable; awful handling with understeer on top of understeer; useless brakes; devoid of any feedback; rubbish in snow (on summer tyres with 2mm tread); but a really rather nice place to wait for the AA patrol tow truck!

I’ve owned many cars before and since but none have come close to being as unreliable. In my ownership, the warranty payments for repairs exceeded the purchase price of the car!
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:rofl: to be fair before that I had an Avensis estate, so the TT seemed quite outstanding to me. It was very reliable though, only went wrong once in ten years of ownership, with a failed starter motor. Apart from that, it was good. However, when I first got in a GT86 it was amazingly fun and responsive, so the Audi probably was quite wooden in comparison. :thumbsup:
 
BMWZ4MC said:
Zedebee, I see your post and I raise you this:
2006 - an Audi TT 225 Quattro, which I owned for five years and racked up 60,000 miles. MOT history shows it’s still going (much to my surprise). A peerless piece of shite and compact packaging. I moved a girlfriend from Edinburgh to London in it and could fit either her or all her possessions in the back, but not both. Rarely could I drive it without something breaking or falling off. Not that fast; not that economical; utterly and completely unreliable; awful handling with understeer on top of understeer; useless brakes; devoid of any feedback; rubbish in snow (on summer tyres with 2mm tread); but a really rather nice place to wait for the AA patrol tow truck!

I’ve owned many cars before and since but none have come close to being as unreliable. In my ownership, the warranty payments for repairs exceeded the purchase price of the car!
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Not a fan of the TT then, no? Why did you keep it for five years; are you a masochist? :D
 
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