So what do you drive ? - Page 11

**touringlegend** · 19 Oct 2007, 12:05 (Ref:2044469)

My first car was 3rd Party - it was a £1400 Escort which I was prepared to lose. My first insurance on that (when I was 19) was just under £1k TPFT...now thankfully less than half that FC these days!

Rockmunky · 19 Oct 2007, 13:50 (Ref:2044560)

Yep, i'm going to go for TPFT, since i won't spend much more than £800 or so on the car anyway. If i went fully comp it'd be through the roof.

Cryos · 21 Oct 2007, 14:38 (Ref:2046143)

on my 06 jetta when i first got it my insurance was €2900 with 2 years company driving experience, its now €2100

nickyf1 · 8 Nov 2007, 21:21 (Ref:2063368)

I may get the family Punto passed onto me (if it is still running.... 98 Model..) which is okay i guess...

DAVID PATERSON · 10 Nov 2007, 04:56 (Ref:2064141)

A free car is a good car!

Matt · 10 Nov 2007, 05:15 (Ref:2064145)

Quote:

Originally Posted by nickyf1

I may get the family Punto passed onto me (if it is still running.... 98 Model..) which is okay i guess...

You act as if a 9 year old car is old.

garcon · 14 Nov 2007, 10:32 (Ref:2067173)

When it's a Fiat Punto it is old.

(But don't knock it if it's free... and at least you know where it's been/what it's done).

Matt · 21 Nov 2007, 19:10 (Ref:2072693)

I love how flash totally obscured my plate on its own, haha.

Chatters · 22 Nov 2007, 01:02 (Ref:2073070)

What happened to the Opel?

Matt · 22 Nov 2007, 03:42 (Ref:2073149)

Sold it for $300. That was a $300 profit, haha. Some guy really wanted it, and my mom wanted me to get rid of it, soo, yeah.

DAVID PATERSON · 22 Nov 2007, 03:59 (Ref:2073152)

Looks very tidy Matt.

Burnsie · 13 Dec 2007, 19:06 (Ref:2088150)

BMW 316i Sport Edition (2000 E46 model) 1.9L 114bhp

And if you're thinking of buying one.......... don't, it's a disaster!

garcon · 13 Dec 2007, 22:08 (Ref:2088248)

OK Matt you win - that IS old!

Looks good though! Would have rusted to nothing by now in the UK.

stradlin21 · 14 Dec 2007, 00:24 (Ref:2088316)

took my ST in for a service the other day

got a courtesy car for the day

thinking it could be another ST or even Fiesta ST would be ok.....

but no! it was a 05 Ka which didn't have an engine

or least it didn't appear to have one when I put my foot down

Matt · 14 Dec 2007, 03:06 (Ref:2088388)

Quote:

Originally Posted by garcon

OK Matt you win - that IS old!

Looks good though! Would have rusted to nothing by now in the UK.

Should have rusted to nothing over here as well, haha. Some elderly woman owned it before my friend. My friend had it for a month before I bought it. Only 74k miles. :P

**touringlegend** · 14 Dec 2007, 19:10 (Ref:2088981)

Quote:

Originally Posted by stradlin21

took my ST in for a service the other day

got a courtesy car for the day

thinking it could be another ST or even Fiesta ST would be ok.....

but no! it was a 05 Ka which didn't have an engine

or least it didn't appear to have one when I put my foot down

I've had a courtesy KA before, to be honest I thought it was pretty nippy for the size of engine, but then I aint driving 200 odd horsepower each day!

I did have to have a courtesy car for a week or two when my car broke down a day old, but I struggle to fit in a KA, so demanded a Fiesta and it was luxury compared to the tiny motor!

**bella** · 14 Dec 2007, 22:04 (Ref:2089079)

i firebombed the wiring in my car so i'm driving....

a renault kangoo.

go for a walk. you'll be travelling faster than i ever will in that pile of rubbish

Matt · 15 Dec 2007, 03:15 (Ref:2089284)

Well, I've had one 'accident,' one near accident, one near-stuck, and one stuck in the past 48 hours, haha. Got a nasty snowstorm, almost wrecked right in front of my friends house. Attacked the curb in front of my house..and won. Almost got stuck at a stop sign on the way to school this morning, and finally got stuck after dropping my friend off from school, haha. Liberal amounts of throttle, and multiple reverse-drive attempts finally got me out, haha.

Splendid Cat · 15 Dec 2007, 10:39 (Ref:2089376)

I just got new company car - Toyota Prius. Usual stuff on the list: Vectra, Signum, Mondeo, 9-3.
I am from the camp that says mother earth is seriously on the wane.
Also, we get business mileage reimbursed at a notional MPG figure. Given that I will do 30k business miles per annum, if I achieve 55mpg (so far at 57) I will make £3k on this reimbursement. Tax is only £80 per month too - £150 (ish) for all the others. I really like this car.

Bluebottle · 15 Dec 2007, 10:53 (Ref:2089384)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Splendid Cat

I am from the camp that says mother earth is seriously on the wane.

...so you have a car with a 4 x greater dust-to-dust carbon footprint than a similar conventional car??

callumw · 15 Dec 2007, 15:31 (Ref:2089534)

Here's my car

Jap import Impreza Spec-C with Litchfield Type20 conversion (Milltek exhaust, AST suspention + a few other power/handling bits)

When I used it for a Charity event:

I get the train to work and my car is for fun only.
But I still did 15k miles in a year

Some videos of it in youtube....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QP8hOEDKgIg

Splendid Cat · 15 Dec 2007, 17:13 (Ref:2089590)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bluebottle

...so you have a car with a 4 x greater dust-to-dust carbon footprint than a similar conventional car??

Whilst interesting, I don't subscribe to all the points raised in the CNW paper. So in answer to your question, no.

Nice try though.

btcckid · 15 Dec 2007, 18:44 (Ref:2089630)

nice video of impreza!

garcon · 15 Dec 2007, 18:53 (Ref:2089637)

Nice Impreza Callum.

Truckosaurus · 16 Dec 2007, 08:47 (Ref:2089824)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Splendid Cat

if I achieve 55mpg (so far at 57)

I'm impressed by your 57mpg, as I've always been sceptical that the Prius could achieve such figures as it is a fairly large car by Euro standards and runs a petrol engine which most people would consider 'large'.

I'm sure around town whilst in milkfloat mode it would work as advertised, but I can't see it working as a 30k motorway mile muncher.

I'd love to be proved wrong though.

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