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Re: whats your daily driver

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Abarth 595 for local runs, although there are complaints that I drive it like I did my Cooper S back in the day and a Range Rover Velar for longer journeys
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Darren65 wrote:
KS wrote:
smallspeed wrote:have you tried the new up gti? i feel like im too old to have one, but my god i want one! :)
ridiculous waiting list though i think..
My neighbour's just got one after a six-month wait. Looks lovely in black. Must try to steal the keys sometime...
....the only modern I actually lust after! 8)
Got to love a GTI! I'm running about in this at the moment, apart from a noisy wheel bearing its an absolute delight to drive.

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Love that Mk2 GTi, looks great with the big bumpers in white.
I often think about my old black Mk1 which I sold for £400 some time near the end of the 90s. Looked it up the other day and it's still on the road!!!


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DarthMJH wrote:2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. We do very little miles in it. Charge it every night and hardly use any petrol. But when the engine does cut it, it’s not the quietest.
I agree there! I live at the top of a hill and seem to always run out of electric at the foot of the hill so the Outlander revs its nuts off both providing leccy to the motors and good old fashioned torque to the front axle. Makes me want to change up but obviously I cant as there's no gears! :lol:
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jevvy wrote:Got to love a GTI! I'm running about in this at the moment, apart from a noisy wheel bearing its an absolute delight to drive.

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Love that, makes me want to find my black, 3 door, big bumper 16 valve I used as a daily driver for 10 years.
Wish I still had it. :(
Daily driver now is a 2007 Audi A3 sport 2 litre diesel.
Looks like everything else on the road so I can park it anywhere as well as being pretty fast and economical. (How boring).
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20K miles a year in this little beauty
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Hendrik Moulds wrote:
jevvy wrote:Got to love a GTI! I'm running about in this at the moment, apart from a noisy wheel bearing its an absolute delight to drive.

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Love that, makes me want to find my black, 3 door, big bumper 16 valve I used as a daily driver for 10 years.
Wish I still had it. :(
Daily driver now is a 2007 Audi A3 sport 2 litre diesel.
Looks like everything else on the road so I can park it anywhere as well as being pretty fast and economical. (How boring).
When they were new my then boss had one and I had a Citroen BX 19GTI, which was a a better car, faster and similar running costs.

I remember driving it from the Dordogne to Calais with the family and flat out the whole way. It did 125mph, but we had to back off on the motorways, there weren’t that many then nor speed traps, because the oil pressure started to drop. I drove it mercilessly for 60,000 miles and wish I had one now. An amazing Citroen before they lost the plot.
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Ashley James wrote: - I had a Citroen BX 19GTI ...
I had one of those too - an all-black one - great cars 8)

If I remember correctly, they had a plastic bonnet & tailgate (& possibly roof ?).

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That made me think!

I had the Citroen model just after the 'classic' CS latest incarnation, the XM model suffix, all angular but unmistakably a Citroen.

It was the Group Mule for all the CDL/locks/window systems and sun roof systems we made, around 1987.

A really nice car despite all the butchery under the trim.

As a last gasp, didn't they do a 'DS GTi'?

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Old transit is my daily, keep saying one more year, but it refuses to die.

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BMW M135i, 3 dr auto. 320 bhp. Almost the perfect car.
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At the other end of the spectrum this is mine - tdi 130 auto
However as my wife keeps telling me it is killing people especially kids with its noxious exhaust
Hence I am thinking of a Yaris hybrid to replace it as a lot of its use is in London traffic jams
I drove a friends recently but only up to about 50 and would like to see what it would be like at 80 assuming it will go that fast

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just traded a nissan navarra in for this.

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Anyway, i took the plunge as we needed something to tow a flail around the horse paddock and this bit of kit is awesome...! permanent 4x4,Stronger chassis and axles, disc brakes all round. Dispatched one field in no time.

It's now also my station car. Only thing i miss is radio 4 on the way to the station.
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911hillclimber wrote:That made me think!

I had the Citroen model just after the 'classic' CS latest incarnation, the XM model suffix, all angular but unmistakably a Citroen.

It was the Group Mule for all the CDL/locks/window systems and sun roof systems we made, around 1987.

A really nice car despite all the butchery under the trim.

As a last gasp, didn't they do a 'DS GTi'?

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Fabulous cars, I had two, one new, an everything on it job, turbo petrol, sun roof leather everywhere, you name it and it went like stink. I drove it all over France and the UK.
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