Name The Car That Broke Your Heart To Get Rid Of .

[Mal X]

A friend has a Primera GT in black. Had it years, but he's having to get rid of it because it's starting to fall to bits.

Old cars felt better to drive tbh. They had much more feel to them. Very few modern cars are like that

modern cars are almost too good, too technical, but in the old days engines were so much easier to work on and tune.

you just adjusted the timing, the air/ fuel mixture, the idle etc and as long as it wasn't burning oil it was ok.

 

[The Running Man]

Nissan Primera GT in Nordic Blue. Was my 2nd car to own and the one I kept the longest. Sold it due to age and it was about to cost me a fair bit in maintenance, but god I loved it. First car that I truly looked after and kept as clean as I could. Wasn't the fastest, about 8.5sec to 60, but was so smooth doing it and always felt like it was in control. I had plans to swap the engine from an SR20VE rather than the DE it can with, which would have given it around 200bhp, but the costs were too high. If I could find another in the condition of mine now, I would probably buy as a project car.

Had a Primera GT LE in black, I added an SS exhaust header, powerflow exhaust and apexi air filter and ratcheted the timing up to 17" .
Was a lovely car but sadly I crashed it and it was never the same

Nice car though...

 

[adam cool dude]

A friend has a Primera GT in black. Had it years, but he's having to get rid of it because it's starting to fall to bits.

Old cars felt better to drive tbh. They had much more feel to them. Very few modern cars are like that

I had my Primera GT for 7 years. It's the car my mrs missed the most. She loved driving it. As with most jap cars from the 90's they just rusted to pieces even though everything else worked like a charm!

Should not have sold it, got itchy based on the mileage I was doing in it. I still recall the new owner dropping me off at Milton Keynes station after we had spent 3 hours at a Porsche specialist (Fearnsport) having it checked over and them confirming it was one of the finest GT3's they had seen, which just made it worse. I had an itchy eye as I watched the new owner drive off....though that might have been because I was about to board a train.

Hasn't been M.O.T'ed for 3 years so most likely sitting in a lock up somewhere and not being driven

 

[shadow_boxer]

Will have had my E46 coupe 10 years later this year! Will be sad to see it replaced but needs must with a growing family.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Probably my green 96 Ford Scorpio, lovely beast that, apart from a leaky transmission fluid cooler and a rear wheel bearing, never let me down in 8 years.

While the universal criticism of the design pi**ed off Ford Europe and probably meant the death knell for big luxury saloons I liked it sexy curviness and distinctive rear end and boot lid.

Funnily enough, I sold my green '98 Ford Scorpio Cosworth in the summer. Still regretting it - best car I've ever owned and I think it's actually better than the '11 2.0 Ecoboost Mondeo Titanium X we replaced it with.

Mine:-

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[paradigm]

Probably my E46 330d, as high-mileage as it was when I got rid (166k) I had done most of the work it would have needed in the next 2-3 years anyway. In hindsight I should have kept it for at least another 12 months rather than move on to my A6 Avant, but that said I did like the A6 too.

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I likely should have kept my E36 325i too, given how values of those have climbed, but I owned 3 cars at the time and did a friend a favor who needed a cheap motor... he then proceeded to total it

Spoiler

 

[ZG002]

My 1992 Toyota Celica GT.

My mum even reminds me it was my nicest car lol.

 

[Howard]

My MX5. I loved it and spent a fortune on it, but my life kinda moved on and it wasn't getting as much use as it should in the end, so I sold it. I can't believe it was nearly 6 years ago that I sold it, but I still miss it and if sensibly-priced mk1s weren't such rust buckets these days, I'd have another one. Sorely tempted by something different and cheap though, maybe a mk3 MR2.

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

I was sad to see my first car leave the family.

Mk2 Ph2 1.2 16v Clio, I owned it for 5 years before I gave it to my mother for the remaining 2 years, Then Nissan took it off our hands in september during the whole scrapage scheme thing, which my mother now owns a brand new Nissan Micra Tekna 0.9T 3cyl.

It's a lovely little car which is suprisingly big and looks nothing like the Micra's of old which is a great move, engine is very perky and the tech it comes with is very impressive.....But its certainly no Clio :'(

 

[MouthBoy]

Had a Primera GT LE in black, I added an SS exhaust header, powerflow exhaust and apexi air filter and ratcheted the timing up to 17" .
Was a lovely car but sadly I crashed it and it was never the same

Nice car though...

Yea mine was the LE too. All I did was put a CAI on it, change the wheels for some OZ ones and kept it looking standard. I was going to do the exhaust when I changed the engine, but I didn't actually want to draw attention to myself. If I drove normally the CAI was not any louder than a standard cars intake, but when the foot was down it sounded special.

 

[panthro]

Subaru Impreza STI and more recently my Z4 35i. Probably the latter more.

 

[bainbridge]

None because I run them into the ground.

 

[Lowe]

Both my silly Clios. Both were ruined by their new owners.

 

[Glanza]

My 236bhp Glanza V:



Dirty engine bay pic:

 

[inflames]

2010 i sold my Toyota MR2 MK1 (1989) what me and my dad restored when i was living at home. When i sold it, it only had 79k miles on the clock. Only sold it after i moved in wife my now wife, as it was not the most practical car in the world, with i had keep it as toy, specially when i look at the price of them these days.

 

[The Running Man]

Yea mine was the LE too. All I did was put a CAI on it, change the wheels for some OZ ones and kept it looking standard. I was going to do the exhaust when I changed the engine, but I didn't actually want to draw attention to myself. If I drove normally the CAI was not any louder than a standard cars intake, but when the foot was down it sounded special.

Yes they were great cars. I got forced into doing something with the exhaust as the original one let go and basically snapped just before the back box on my way to work one day so I thought easier to get a new one.

With apexi cone filter, and the exhaust header it sounded amazing. Real angry bees in there not just a fart cannon.

 

[wedrum]

F40
mum said it was about time i grew up

 

[RenoRanes007]

1985 Audi ur quattro Turbo

 

[tiffanys]

None really. There are cars that if I had kept, I would have made some money on. But none that have broken my heart to get rid of.

A car is a car. Kind of. I mean, I like cars, and my opinions on cars are life is too short to drive the same car for a decade.

same

 

[Stringy]

I have rose tinted specs about my Clio 197 (but the gearbox had just eaten itself and been repaired, it rattled like nobodies business and had a melting steering wheel)
And about my Mk6 Golf 160 GT (but my usage profile at the time of nearly 20,000 miles per year really didn't match the car!)

But neither broke my heart to get rid of, just wish I could take them for a spin again as they were pretty nice cars!