Show Us Your Motors!
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Don
Right. Time for some normality. Here is our 130k mile Honda CR-V 2.0 iVTEC EX that is our family workhorse.
It comes with dents due to child opening my car doors in to it, massive scratches down the left hand side due to hedges, and filth everywhere in the interior due to my wife, my son, and our dog.
Spec is good for its age with a decent hifi, nav (that doesn't work any more but was terrible anyway), leather with electric driver's seat adjustment, parking sensors, pano roof, etc.
In the 9 years and 100k miles we've owned it, it's only needed a clutch and two front dampers. Nothing else bar the usual brakes, fuel, etc.
It's dull as ditch-water and slow as arse, but it carted me and my family across Europe to Poland and back last year without missing a beat.
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Soldato
What a beast of a machine, the stain on the rear seat *Chef's kiss*
Don
Oh yes, child puke is awesome.
Man of Honour
Did someone wet themselves on that back seat 
Soldato
I can only imagine that air freshener is putting in some hard work 
I'll join in with the Honda love!
Owned this for 11 years, put 135k miles on it (almost tripping 180k now), and absolutely love it!
Plan on keeping it as long as possible, at least another 5 years or so. Apart from always being serviced and treated to good tyres and good petrol, it's been ultra reliable.
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Owned this for 11 years, put 135k miles on it (almost tripping 180k now), and absolutely love it!
Plan on keeping it as long as possible, at least another 5 years or so. Apart from always being serviced and treated to good tyres and good petrol, it's been ultra reliable.
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Soldato
I was thinking more **** stain after picking up your sister-in-law after a night out but child puke is equally as cool
I have a mk2 Focus 1.8 Duratec which also refuses to die. Only a measly 108k on it, though. Only thing that's needed replacing (in 7 years) besides clutch and general maintenance items is front wishbones. Peak Mazda/Ford.
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Caporegime
That Honda would be ripe for one of those Youtube channels where they deep clean absolutely filthy cars. I have two kids and a dog myself but my interior doesn't look like that. I would be embarrassed tbh. 
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Don
I love Babybels!
Could not believe how good the car looks at night under the lighting so had to grab some pictures.
What a car!
Just managed to grab a spare set of wheels with semi slicks too so will be out on track soon.
kinell @Gibbo what a colour and a car keep that forever too what a motor that is.
Soldato
Love the CRV, if it wasn't for having one too many kids I would probably have one. Quite like driving my mums.
Seeing as we're posting some honest sheds, here's my temporary shed outside my temporary shed (thanks COVID, BREXIT & the general economy!)
Had it nearly to 3 years now and it's on 176k. Drives great and not really cost me that much, but eventually to be replaced by an S-Max because the teenager is still a loser and wants to travel with us. Wish I could avoid diesel but that's all that's worth buying for my modest budget.
It's safe to say if I didn't live in this shed and had some outdoor space it would be much cleaner. The inside is actually in great condition aside from the mess & dirt.
Seeing as we're posting some honest sheds, here's my temporary shed outside my temporary shed (thanks COVID, BREXIT & the general economy!)
Had it nearly to 3 years now and it's on 176k. Drives great and not really cost me that much, but eventually to be replaced by an S-Max because the teenager is still a loser and wants to travel with us. Wish I could avoid diesel but that's all that's worth buying for my modest budget.
It's safe to say if I didn't live in this shed and had some outdoor space it would be much cleaner. The inside is actually in great condition aside from the mess & dirt.
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Well, Ferrari still tucked away 90% of the time (still being used, but very rarely now) and the Evo is gone so I'll throw the normal car into the mix too
320D bought for sub £2k, 174k miles from memory. Bought purely because my work had a fit and said we'd be in the office 2 days a week going forwards which hasn't happened, or at least I've not followed it and still have a job so far... Bought from a chap that owned it from 6 months old with stacks and stacks of paperwork.
Cleans up well but the wheels have many many years worth of brake dust baked/etched in that no cleaner will shift. Due MOT soon so just deciding if to address every advisory from last time around or if to do the bare minimum and see if it fails on any of the previous advisories or if they stay as advisories Complete opposite to how I normally treat cars so struggling with that a little, but 100% won't get any of that spend back and unlikely to be hanging onto it for too long.
Also, I don't have a picture but a perfect example of how fresh plates makes a car look so much tidier. That's pretty much all I've done to the car aside from a deep clean as it was horrific when I got it - on the alcantara interior especially.
320D bought for sub £2k, 174k miles from memory. Bought purely because my work had a fit and said we'd be in the office 2 days a week going forwards which hasn't happened, or at least I've not followed it and still have a job so far... Bought from a chap that owned it from 6 months old with stacks and stacks of paperwork.
Cleans up well but the wheels have many many years worth of brake dust baked/etched in that no cleaner will shift. Due MOT soon so just deciding if to address every advisory from last time around or if to do the bare minimum and see if it fails on any of the previous advisories or if they stay as advisories
Complete opposite to how I normally treat cars so struggling with that a little, but 100% won't get any of that spend back and unlikely to be hanging onto it for too long.Also, I don't have a picture but a perfect example of how fresh plates makes a car look so much tidier. That's pretty much all I've done to the car aside from a deep clean as it was horrific when I got it - on the alcantara interior especially.
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Caporegime
I feel ashamed, can only offer 108k miles max.
Don't think I've owned anything beyond 142K, pickup is on 137K (I don't even want to think about the fuel cost), everything else has been/is sub 50K.
EDIT: Might be misremembering but think the Metro was on 99K actually when it was scrapped.
That brings back memories - can't say I miss the days of driving when you were never quite sure if the brakes were going to bring you to a stop in time, get into the middle of a corner and not quite 100% sure where the car was going, etc. hah.
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Soldato
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More family buses needed! I would post pics of my civic tourer but it's not been washed since September and I CBA