[Misc] What was your favourite car

[wunt be druv]

I have been lucky in pre-mortgage/family years to have a Lancia Delta Integrale EVO2 but always loved the Ford Escort MK.1 Mexico and am green with envy whenever I am lucky enough to glimpse one at these car run/shows.

 

[kjgood]

Hard to say really, had a few over the years that I really liked:

Triumph Vietesse
MK2 1600E
Porsche 911
Mecedes 500e (That I really regret selling)
Mercedes C43 AMG
BMW 635 CSi
BMW 325i Baur
Jag XJ6 (with pepperpots)

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I have been lucky in pre-mortgage/family years to have a Lancia Delta Integrale EVO2 but always loved the Ford Escort MK.1 Mexico and am green with envy whenever I am lucky enough to glimpse one at these car run/shows.

My Dad owned a 1973 Yellow Ford Mexico. It was his pride and joy.
So much so when I was learning to drive I had to use his old Escort van instead

 

[boik]

As if by magic The Telegraph features on the best 100 cars made (in the authors opinion of course), but there sure is some beauties included.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/guides/100-best-cars/

Golf ahead of the Citroen DS? Don't think so. Hard to think of anything the golf brought to the party that hadn't been done before.

 

[Triggaaar]

Golf ahead of the Citroen DS? Don't think so. Hard to think of anything the golf brought to the party that hadn't been done before.

The mk1 Golf GTi was bloody brilliant. I don't remember an ordinary car ever being so stupidly fast.

 

[boik]

The mk1 Golf GTi was bloody brilliant. I don't remember an ordinary car ever being so stupidly fast.

Yes, but you covered it by calling it an ordinary car, which is what it was. Well made, extremely popular, but didn't push motoring forward in any real way. The Quattro on the other hand, was a huge step forward in making 4-wheel drive efficient and reliable compared what had gone before. It was a quantum leap (even though I know a quantum is miniscule!). Don't think I saw the Quattro on the list which is ridiculous.

 

[Triggaaar]

Yes, but you covered it by calling it an ordinary car, which is what it was. Well made, extremely popular, but didn't push motoring forward in any real way.

I disagree. There were fast expensive cars before, but never something so cheap and innocent looking, that went so rapidly. It was the birth of the hot-hatch, which certainly did push motoring forward.

The Quattro on the other hand, was a huge step forward in making 4-wheel drive efficient and reliable compared what had gone before. It was a quantum leap (even though I know a quantum is miniscule!). Don't think I saw the Quattro on the list which is ridiculous.

Yes it was, quite rightly, on the list. Amazing car.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

The mk1 Golf GTi was bloody brilliant. I don't remember an ordinary car ever being so stupidly fast.

205 Peugeot 1.6 or 1.9

Renault 5 Turbo

 

[nicko31]

The mk1 Golf GTi was bloody brilliant. I don't remember an ordinary car ever being so stupidly fast.

Bloody iconic machine, good ones worth a bomb these days. So many got thrashed

 

[aberdare seagull]

Mk2 Astra gte 16v redtop. What a beast of a car. When hot hatches were fun

 

[Triggaaar]

205 Peugeot 1.6 or 1.9

Renault 5 Turbo

They came after the Golf.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

I had a Mk 1 and it handled brilliantly

But preferred my Mk 1 Scirocco because it looked like of was doing 100mph just by standing there,the Golf looked basic