Show Us Your Motors!

Jono8 · 4 Jun 2017 at 08:52

Hyburnate said:
Private plate on

And I await the questions "what does it mean?", oh and yes, I park like this all the time, my neighbours have two young children and a Shogun, I give them as much room as possible (The Up! is a visitor)

I like these. Test drove a facelift 1.4 150 DSG recently and thought it was very nice. Went for something else in the end but this was high up my list.

What sort of real world economy do you get with this engine ( as even though i didn't get one, my partner needs a new car soon and this could be one of the options for her)?

dacads · 4 Jun 2017 at 09:41

Acme said:
FR 1.4 TSI 150

Previous car was a Zetec S 1.6

/hyburnate

Hyburnate · 4 Jun 2017 at 11:53

Acme said:
FR 1.4 TSI 150

Previous car was a Zetec S 1.6

/hyburnate

It's quicker and I didn't want to wait for a stupid amount of time to get a car

Sure slightly wish I got the 1.8TSI now but I didn't, I drive to work and back and to see the other half that's it

Jono8 said:
I like these. Test drove a facelift 1.4 150 DSG recently and thought it was very nice. Went for something else in the end but this was high up my list.

What sort of real world economy do you get with this engine ( as even though i didn't get one, my partner needs a new car soon and this could be one of the options for her)?

It depends on how you drive, driving to work I can get 45MPG is standard rush how traffic, on the motorway if I whack on the cruise control easily 55MPG. It is a lovely car, this thing is essentially fully loaded and it's just perfect, I drove to a customer in North London the other week on the motorway and it's just bliss, will get an auto next but at the time of purchasing this I had little experience with them and they didn't have one to test drive.

Once to warranty expires I'm going to work out if I want to keep the car or get something a bit quicker, I may keep it and put the REVO Stage 1 on it, I may get an older S3 or something - Depends on my priorities with moving out etc

A friend of mine at 24 just blew out on a new A45 AMG as he's decided he doesn't want to move out, I'm not sure I feel like that

Warranty_V0id · 4 Jun 2017 at 21:31

On my way to GTI International this morning

agw_01 · 4 Jun 2017 at 21:46

TTRS? Had a ride in one a few years back and thought it went very well! Sounded great too!

sigma · 4 Jun 2017 at 22:11

Just in case you hadn't noticed, somebody has stolen your number plate.

Akagi · 4 Jun 2017 at 22:31

Never gets old.

I'm a bit jealous to be honest. I've had a couple of cars which look ace with no plate, but theres no way I'd get away with it round here... I got fined for having an incorrect size front plate!

theNude · 4 Jun 2017 at 23:29

156k just ticked over.

gave the car a good clean and replaced a few bulbs as a treat.

Fitted a New stereo, rewired it and put im 4 x new speakers and dynamat . A bit too modern but i was able to change the colours to match and now have spotify and it sounds acceptable.

Not to gaudy even at night.

Looks nice when clean although the wheels let it down as they need a refurbishment.

rodenal · 5 Jun 2017 at 06:22

Lovely old barge, classic shape

Dav4 · 5 Jun 2017 at 10:34

That old Merc just oozes class. The interior and shape still look quality even now. Such a shame Merc and BMW churn such lower spec chav wagons out now in all the POV spec 1/3 series and A/C class diesels with cloth seats and a stupid iPad stuck to the dash

wingman · 5 Jun 2017 at 10:56

Dav4 said:
That old Merc just oozes class. The interior and shape still look quality even now. Such a shame Merc and BMW churn such lower spec chav wagons out now in all the POV spec 1/3 series and A/C class diesels with cloth seats and a stupid iPad stuck to the dash

Blame society and their (lack of) expectations

Dav4 · 5 Jun 2017 at 11:08

wingman said:
Blame society and their (lack of) expectations

Yeh lack of expectations and finance. When I was young You had to be fairly well off to buy and maintain a premium German car and you stood out from the crowd. In the 90's My uncle always had a new top spec E class every few years and the amount of attention it would receive was crazy because it was just not available to everyone on easy pay monthly deals back then. Fast forward to now and I know people who work in retail on minimum wage that drive new German cars that they can't really afford.
When ever you see and old classic German car or Jag etc it's always driven by an elderly gent that has wealth and refuses to buy today's diesel crap they churn out.

MrKnifey · 5 Jun 2017 at 11:15

Housey said:
I have a load of Team Dynamic Pro Race wheels if you wanted a set there is a proper deal to be done. Bought them for the race car, think they are 15" could be 16" would need to double check. All have tyres too

Frankly they are taking up space.

Id also be interested if you want to Trust me as well

MX5 Friends

[TW]Fox · 5 Jun 2017 at 11:21

Dav4 said:
That old Merc just oozes class. The interior and shape still look quality even now. Such a shame Merc and BMW churn such lower spec chav wagons out now in all the POV spec 1/3 series and A/C class diesels with cloth seats and a stupid iPad stuck to the dash

Yea back in the 80s you never got 4 cylinder BMW's and Mercedes with windup windows, tiny engines and zero spec.

Wait, what?

Howard · 5 Jun 2017 at 11:24

Was gonna say, the bottom-of-the-range E30 316 or old Merc 190s for example were very spartan inside. A radio as standard was about your lot I think!

theNude · 5 Jun 2017 at 11:28

A car radio was actually an extra on the 190s

They came with nothing as standard. They were still built well though

Dav4 · 5 Jun 2017 at 11:56

[TW]Fox said:
Yea back in the 80s you never got 4 cylinder BMW's and Mercedes with windup windows, tiny engines and zero spec.

Wait, what?

Sorry forgot it was against the rules to say anything remotely bad about German cars on this forum.
Yes but you are referring to the 80's didn't 99% of cars still have wind up windows back then?
What I was getting at is at least they still mostly made solid reliable well built cars that would do Volvo mileage without breaking and were a cut above everything else on the road in terms of quality. That is no longer the case you only have to look at the reliability from the last 10 years of some of the 116-120i, 316-320i engines and internals or the 320d from the last gen 3 series. And in terms of build quality and materials some of the cheaper models are laughable for supposed premium cars.
Granted the higher spec cars and more expensive models/M cars etc are all fantastic machines but the German manufacturers have lost there sense of premium that they had in the 80's,90's and even early 00's imo

[TW]Fox · 5 Jun 2017 at 12:15

My point is that you are selling a nostalgic view that doesn't match reality. There have always been zero spec tiny engined models in the BMW and the mercedes range.

Dav4 · 5 Jun 2017 at 12:25

[TW]Fox said:
My point is that you are selling a nostalgic view that doesn't match reality. There have always been zero spec tiny engined models in the BMW and the mercedes range.

Yes you are correct.

I am being nostalgic from my childhood when every German car just seemed classy compared to all the other cars on the road.
But you did see more higher spec models on the road with leather etc because people could actually afford a good example rather than getting the cheapest POV spec because that is all they can afford on the monthly

grudas · 5 Jun 2017 at 12:32

Dav4 said:
Yes you are correct.
I am being nostalgic from my childhood when every German car just seemed classy compared to all the other cars on the road.
But you did see more higher spec models on the road with leather etc because people could actually afford a good example rather than getting the cheapest POV spec because that is all they can afford on the monthly

More to do with company cars, leases etc.. back then it was different. I do agree that some cars feel like they lack class compared to classics but then again, maybe it's just the fact that they're classics..