What cars do you miss, I want to be back in 2006

throwaway4372 · 15 Jun 2023 at 17:51

I don't miss any previously owned cars.
But I miss a car I thought would be epic to own one day, and never owned one, and now it's not a good purchase so I'll never own one.

Chrysler Crossfire

DRZ · 15 Jun 2023 at 18:23

I massively regret selling only two of my ~20 car history - my Supercharged MX-5 and my M2.

Sure, I could buy another M2 but the prices have just gone insane - I paid ~£30k for my M2 and the prices of them have just gone totally nuts since then and so buying one now feels like a kick in the teeth. I am really tempted to build another MX-5 but I think it is probably better left as a happy memory and instead I should take on a project that's a bit different but with the same basic formula.

pugheaven · 15 Jun 2023 at 18:39

ianh said:
My Nissan Skyline R34GTT - Imported 2003 and sold 2009 - Taken from virtually stock (only a cat back exhaust) to a 450hp GTR-engined monster featured in magazines and as a "guest star" displaying at Max Power style events in Europe. Unfortunatley, due to its age I've not got many high quality pics any more so these will have to do in the mean time.

Awesome yueah my 205 was featured in REV's in 1998 think it was... awesome when your car gets a feature!

Tykey · 15 Jun 2023 at 18:43

Doobedoo said:
Great list. Lancia is the one car I would have to own if money was no object. Sadly it is well out of reach with current prices.

I sold the Lancia iirc for 3.5k in 2006 :eek:

adolf hamster · 15 Jun 2023 at 19:00

Regret selling the grand vitara, it had a character to it and surprisingly decent to drive despite the woeful lack of power.

Got rid right before covid because even then the fuel bill wasnt fun, shame had i known the following years would have meant a dramatic drop in milage i'd have kept it.

Cant say i regret any others, each had their good reasons to go when they did.

lordrobs said:
Now in 2023 cars are simply ranked by their; # inches of infotainment, range, 0-60, charge time.... ZZZzzzzzz

Amen

Drollic · 15 Jun 2023 at 20:22

Import dc2 with some modification. So much fun, affordable and fairly cheap to run. Strangely, the slightly cheap feeling interior added to the charm.

NVP · 15 Jun 2023 at 21:14

I think I'm currently already with my most favourite car, however I do genuinely miss my E46. It was my first car, and the prettiest car I've owned. Absolutely lovely to drive, the feel, sound, the smell! So many memories

Found a pic of it behind my second car

e: found this when looking through pictures, I kind of miss my e34 now, too:

Chrisc · 15 Jun 2023 at 21:14

throwaway4372 said:
I don't miss any previously owned cars.
But I miss a car I thought would be epic to own one day, and never owned one, and now it's not a good purchase so I'll never own one.

Chrysler Crossfire

Im not sure it was ever a good purchase. They're hideous and built on the SLK platform IIRC?

mikeo · 15 Jun 2023 at 21:57

My first Scooby back in 97. Very capable car.
After 18 months and almost 18k miles, pretty much got back what I paid for it.
I wonder if it's still around. No clue to what reg ended up on it, as it always had my private reg on it (still got this many cars later).

bigmike20vt · 15 Jun 2023 at 21:57

HEADRAT said:
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Fiat Couple 20v Turbo, hopeless around corners but epic in a straight line
3.0 BMW Z4, went through rear springs like sweets but so much fun!
Cheers

HEADRAT

ditto on the fiat coupe. I had a yellow 20vt. amazing car. I crashed it and bought a burgundy 20vt+. this was a bit of a money pit and not a patch on the yellow one.

also miss my 350z but not like my fiat coupe.

sandys · 15 Jun 2023 at 22:23

Unnatural attachment to all my cars, good and bad

Another Coupe lover here, one of my faves, it could handle just fine in the right hands, my Evo owning mates could never catch me

Chargecooled beastie! :cool:

circa '99/2000

I really enjoyed my Alfa GT diesel, I used to also embarrass people at track days in that, so satisfying in a slow ass diesel, unsurprisingly most things killed me on the straights

still it'd do a trackday and get me to work all week on a tank, highly tuned of course. Much LOLs when people would come and see what had been done to the V6 to be so quick to discover a 1.9 diesel

2004, I did have a V6, a 147GTA a year before but that was a bit mentalist, I was doing a couple of hundred miles a week, I was always in the petrol station, EV style range anxiety as I couldn't seem to find higher gears

the noise was too good, drove me to diesel

Amusingly my fun cars have been getting even less powerful over the years, not that my laptimes would know it

lordrobs · 15 Jun 2023 at 22:34

ianh said:
My Nissan Skyline R34GTT - Imported 2003 and sold 2009 - Taken from virtually stock (only a cat back exhaust) to a 450hp GTR-engined monster featured in magazines and as a "guest star" displaying at Max Power style events in Europe. Unfortunatley, due to its age I've not got many high quality pics any more so these will have to do in the mean time.

This post fills me with nostalgia! I used to love reading Banzai back in the day and I'm 99% sure I read that feature. Awesome car, not surprised you miss it.

tom_nieto · 15 Jun 2023 at 23:10

I have a strange affinity for all my previous cars. Even the MGTF which was a proper Friday afternoon special, but what a way to travel as a 21 year old! I do miss the S2000 even though the replacement is better in every single way and I really didn’t think I’d fall for it as much as I did.

You could call that the final straw, hence the replacement below!

throwaway4372 · 16 Jun 2023 at 06:41

Chrisc said:
Im not sure it was ever a good purchase. They're hideous and built on the SLK platform IIRC?

Yeah the looks were always marmite but I still think it's one of the best looking cars ever made.

XeNoN89 · 16 Jun 2023 at 07:50

throwaway4372 said:
Yeah the looks were always marmite but I still think it's one of the best looking cars ever made.

Isn't this the car that Clarkson described as looking like a dog taking a dump? :cry:

jaybee · 16 Jun 2023 at 08:26

Probably my Corrado G60 or MK1 Golf GTI

BigT · 16 Jun 2023 at 10:03

I really miss my Z4M that I owned in the early 2010s. Sold right at what looks to be the bottom of the market in 2014 due to the newly acquired dog not being able to fit. I know the contemporary Boxster was objectively a better car (i had owned one of those too) but I really, really enjoyed this one. Maybe its the memories with it as much as the car itself because nothing will beat the epic road trip round Europe seeing everything from the Alps and Tuscan countryside to the Route Napoleon. Thousands of miles with the top down and that wonderful straight six wailing up to the redline.

CapitalOne · 16 Jun 2023 at 10:08

Sorry I don't have any pictures, but when I was 20 I bought one of these in black with a zender body kit after starting my first job. I love(d) it.

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GhostWKD · 16 Jun 2023 at 15:08

Three cars spring to mind if I might be so bold....

My old FD RX7

My 106 Rallye (spoke to current owner a few years back, it is not in a good way, never seen such rot on a bulkhead! But I did buy it from Scotland...) and since its in the picture my Turbo'd Cinquecento too

That was featured in Fast Car & Revs magazines

140bhp odd really surprised a lot of people for what it was

And an outside favourite mention for a shed of a Manual E36 325i that I bought for £200 odd when the S2000 (in the background) went pop on a saturday and I had meetings I could not miss at work on Monday

kamdeux · 16 Jun 2023 at 16:47

I wish I had left my mk1 alone as it would have saved me a lot of drama and lost money

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