God... you people make my list look like I've never been anywhere... And I know that not all of you are "that" old...
"My" Cars
1990 Jeep Cherokee Laredo 4WD (first car, paid for by parents - hand-me-down, died at 70MPH when the U-joint at the back of the transmission let go and took the transmission and clutch with it).
1996 Izuzu Trooper 4WD (parents made me take it to college, hated the thing - body roll, not enough leg room even for the driver - I'm 6 foot 1 inch)
1996 Chevy Blazer LS 4WD (first car on my name, traded in at 125,000 miles when the clutch gave out)
2001 Chevy Blazer LS 2WD (hey, I liked the first one)
Note: I lived in Colorado when I drove the first 3, so 4 Wheel Drive was definitely a must.
"Company" Vehicles
2000 Ford Exploder (whoops - Explorer)
2009 Ford F350 Tool Truck (turn radius of a poorly maintained tank)
My own cars
Ford Fiesta 950 Popular
Nissan Cherry 1300
Vauxhall Nova GTE
Ford Escort 1.6
Volvo 440 Turbo
Ford Focus 1.8
Renault 19 16V
Citroen Saxo VTS
Daihatsu YRV 130 Turbo
Seat Toledo 20V Turbo
Ford Fiesta 1.2
Peugeot 207 1.6GT
Current car - Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 Turbo(Best car I have ever owned!)
Works cars
Vauxhall Astra 1.6 diesel
Ford Focus 1.8 diesel
Land Rover Discovery 2.7TD
Range Rover 3.0D
Volvo V70 T5
Volvo S60 T5
Vauxhall Vectra 2.8 V6 turbo
Vauxhall Omega 3.0
Ford Mondeo 2.5 V6
Absolutely loads more but these are the main ones I have used over the years.
Current vehicle at work is the Disco&Rangey's. Lovely lovely cars.
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
DaveB wrote:Not seen anyone mention a Mini Moke yet. Spent many an hour in the hot rain of the Seychelles in one of these many moons ago
Yet another shared experience, Dave! I wonder if we were ever in the same bar at the same time drinking the same awful beer?
I haven't got the energy to try and remember everything I've driven but I'd like to mention the two most iconic.
I went to hire a modest car in Seattle but all they had left was a Cadillac Eldorado convertible in white with red leather seats and whitewall tyres. The then Mrs Speedbird and I cruised up into the mountains to the town where they filmed Twin Peaks and had lunch at a roadside bar with a bunch of Hell's Angels. You couldn't make it up! (Well, you could, but I didn't )
And I had a mate with a Honda CBX straight six that I rode on several occasions. Totally off the wall, but definitely iconic. Not many of them survived - they were only for the insane - and not many of them survived, either.
There's a lot of classic cars in some of these lists - goes with the classic ages perhaps? I must admit I like the look of Eddie's work cars, beats my motly collection of "company" cars hands down.
Of all the cars I owned the one that gave a lot of pleasure but even more frustration was the Stag - lovely car and very comfortable (dog sh!t brown but didn't matter from the inside!) but lots of hard work to keep in any kind of running order. In the year or so that we owned it I think the only book I ever read was the Haynes Manual
My first car was a VW Beetle on which the heat exchanger (which basically piped air around a box on the exahust to heat the car) had rotted through giving you the choice of ice on the inside or carbon monoxide poisoning, had two different keys, and was missing the cover to the battery which was under the back seat so one day the inevitable happened, I hit a pothole with someone on the back seat, the springs shorted the battery, caused a spark which set the underside of the seat smouldering - but thanks to the legendary air-tight Beetle construction, only burst into flames when we opened the doors fifty miles later. Great car, needed an anchor and chain to stop though.
My second car was a red Vauxhall Viva HC, a cracking little car but with the usual 1970's interior design features like cack brown plastic sweaty-bum seating and spike through the heart in a crash steering wheel.
The third car was a Hillman Avenger in faded maroon with black plastic roof and interior. Vile, hateful crate in a miserable Gothic colour scheme that was more temperamental and about as attractive as an X Factor contestant.
From the terminally crap to the why the hell did I buy that, my fourth car was a Peugeot-Talbot Horizon, which single handedly put me off French cars for life. The engine not only ran like a bag of nails but sounded like it with a clattery camshaft (which all contemporary Simca-Talbots had) and typically French in character, smoked heavily, worked when it wanted to and eventually collapsed into a pile of metal oxide when the neighbour's dog pissed up it. Proved to me the French should stick to wine and whining.
Fifth car was a virtually indestructable Ford Escort Mk3. It was in Popular trim, so had seats and a steering wheel and that was about it, and the 1100 engine but it went on for over 200,000 miles until the metal moth and a faulty carburettor saw it off. Apart from the rust I have to say I was impressed with the Ford.
Next one was a Vauxahll Corsa 1.5TD in LS trim. Another fairly basic car, it was one of only the second batch of Corsa LS turbodiesels to be landed in the UK after they went on sale. Absolutely brilliant little car, brilliant engine, crashy suspension but corners like it was on rails, only downside was typical Vauxhall high cost parts and a duff design for the alternator which put it low down on the nearside where it could get soaked by puddles. As it also included the brake servo in the same unit, and I went through three of them in the time I had it, this was an expensive piece of cack-handed design which was sorted in later models by fitting the unit with a cover. Nevertheless went on to do 205,000 miles on original shocks, half the original exhaust and three of the original four wheels (one came off in Cambridgeshire when I was driving along the A14...)
Current car is a Vauxhall Vectra LS 1.8. Another good car which so far has done 150,000 miles and is still reasonably OK. First car I've ever had with airbags, ABS power steering, air-con and cd player, and I've been driving since 1980. Never been one for big or luxury cars but the Vectra has turned my head and I'm seriously considering replacing it with another Vectra when it's time to let it go.
Basically I'm not someone who sees cars as an extension of their anatomy or an object of desire, they are a convenient way of getting around and a hard wearing interior, cost of running and repair and a bodywork capable of taking neglect are more important to me, plus any passive safety kit which might be useful when the other f-wit aims their car at mine as has happened a few times, rather than "bird appeal" or top speed.
From the terminally crap to the why the hell did I buy that, my fourth car was a Peugeot-Talbot Horizon, which single handedly put me off French cars for life. The engine not only ran like a bag of nails but sounded like it with a clattery camshaft (which all contemporary Simca-Talbots had) and typically French in character, smoked heavily, worked when it wanted to and eventually collapsed into a pile of metal oxide when the neighbour's dog pissed up it. Proved to me the French should stick to wine and whining.
I think things have moved on a little since then. My last 3 cars have been Peugeots and I don't recognise any of those symptoms The Talbot Horizon was a dog from day one in every sense of the word and I know few people who parted with money for one. As the old saying goes.. there's always one.. that goes for buyer as well as seller
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
but I'd like to mention the two most iconic.
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The Talbot Horizon was a dog from day one in every sense of the word and I know few people who parted with money for one. As the old saying goes.. there's always one.. that goes for buyer as well as seller 
