Cars

[100milesaway]

What do you drive?     It's coming winter and some of us will be tucking our bikes up in the garage with the life support (optimate) connected.  Then what!   Which four wheeled greenhouse on wheels do you choose to get you and yours  from a to b? Me !!! Well my good lady does a lot of clay pigeon shooting so often has to go down rough tracks and also ends up in muddy fields so we have a 4x4  Suzuki grand vitara. Good car, shocking fuel economy.    What you got?

[Kwikasfuki]

Wife drives a Volvo XC90. Perfect in snow, but drinks diesel.

I have a Audi A6 which doesn't get much use. Parked up most of the year and gets driven when its snow or risk of black ice on roads.

I reckon the GTR will get 10 months use, car two months

[mecki]

No car for me!
I haven't had one ever since I came back from NZ in 2000 and am not tempted to get one again either.
If it's too slippery to ride my GTR I use public transport, walk or hitch a ride with my friends. ;D

[Rusty]

Ford Fiesta 1.4 TDCi .. 03 plate, 88000 miles, had it nearly from new and it's great ! Last Christmas we stayed overnight at a Country Hotel when that awful snow came down .... small tyres and low gears got us home .... passed a few stranded 4x4's and a Jag that was spinning allover the place ... LOL  ;D

[Cartman]

No car for me, borrow my wife's Suzuki Swift if I really have to. If it snows proper I work from home. Only really snow that bothers me, and no point going out in it unless you REALLY have to.

[patrick]

I've a Pasatt Slowmotion  (ooooop, Bluemotion).  1.6d, 90 bhp and have upto 900 miles on a tank.  Standard company issue so all I got to choose was the estate body and the silver colour.

It's a good car once you get used the lack of performance comapred to the previosu 2litre 140bhp car!

And of course on Monday mornings I have to re-adapt down from the  overtaking abilities of the bike!

P

[1ka]

Peugeot 406 with 157K on the clock.  Use the bike all year unless it's too icy or snowy.

Was going to replace it this year but got the GTR instead  ;D

[Therenback]

honda civic 03 plate 50k on clock 0-60 approx 4 wks  8) but lean runner. bumper sticker would read "this car is constipated, it never passes anything" in 7 years its never let me down though

[Therenback]

have been eyeballing honda agricultral quads for shite weather but they chingching even second hand. anyone use em in snow ??

[Winston Smith]

Ford Focus CC.  Replaced the Jaguar earlier this year.  Love it!



And my two babes together

[Lonewolf]

I have a Ford Mondeo Titanium X diesel which I've had a for almost two years. Bought it cheap and it's the best car I've ever owned, love it to bits. Not a very good picture of it but it's all I can find. It's crap in the snow.



My wife has a Ford Fiesta Ghia X on a P index, yes P and it's only got just over 20k on it genuine mileage. We bought it off her Dad when he'd had it for three years and it averages 300 miles a year!!

[Martin#30]

I have a 24 year old 3 series soft top that was a great car until I decided I could better the billions of DeutschMarks BMW R&D spend and showhorn a 7 series engine into it. It has hardly worked since  ::)

Still, like others here, I use the bike every day sun, rain or snow. I still love it, even in January.

I must say that since riding bikes, cars have lost their shine for me. Comparable thrills involve either spending fortunes, or getting something impractical like a Caterham in which case you may as well stick to the bike.

Martin.

[Ziderman]

Citroen c4 Picasso people carrier size ( for Kite surf Kit , not Kids) Automatic or manual all on Paddle shift leavers on steering coulm . Auto hand brake system too . Cruise control too. Love it.
Have Suzuki Jimny I use for work as do lot work in countryside , tracks fields mud...Had all the 4x4s there are & this one is by far the best . There not flash or big. So up to the job unlike many of them.

[Boomer]

1998 Honda Legend with 132K on the clock. Nothing special to look at so no pics.
Does 20Mpg :o but is a dream in snow etc. as it's front wheel drive and an auto.
That big heavy 3.5litre V6 motor over the drive wheels means it has traction and the auto box means smoothness.
My previous Vauxhall Carlton 2.6 Diplomat was more fun to drive but this is way quieter and smoother and apart from the brakes more reliable too.

[Lonewolf]

Boomer, you dont see many Honda Legends on the roads these days. Big thirsty cars.