I have a 7 year old Jaguar S-Type Sport. It's done 62k and has the 2.7 v6 diesel engine with ZF auto box.
For the £7,800 it cost, I get a gorgeous champagne leather interior with all the kit, such as heated seats, electric everything, touchscreen Sat Nav, auto lights, auto wipers... you name it.
I've had to do a little mid-life repair work on it but for less than £8k, it's a lot of luxury motor with plenty of life left.
I drove a new Jaguar XF recently and while the interior tech and styling made my S-Type seem dated, it was really no better to drive, no more refined and no more comfortable. Yet a £30k price difference.
For balance, until the Jag I had brand new mid market cars nigh on every year.
I drive a Mazda 323 GL Exec, 1989, less than 50,000 on the clock, my only car. I bought it from the guy who bought it brand new, he got too old to drive. It is in showroom condition and I often get people who come and admire it when I'm out and about in it. It is bright red (Sunrise Red) and I love it. It sailed through it's MOT last year and the engineers who service it love it as it's such a simple car to deal with, all mechanical, no computers. It's features for it's age are amazing, electric windows and sun roof, power steering, courtesy lights on the front doors and the boot.
That is superb! :cool: 1 owner elderly driven cars are good ones to go for. Really like old Japanese cars like your Mazda. High level of equipment and excellent reliability. Is it a 4 door saloon or a hatchback?
That is superb! :cool: 1 owner elderly driven cars are good ones to go for. Really like old Japanese cars like your Mazda. High level of equipment and excellent reliability. Is it a 4 door saloon or a hatchback?
It's a 4 door but funnily enough whenever I get an insurance quote it always comes up as a hatchback, don't know why.
There are cars that should be scrapped, of course there are. But it's more to do with condition (and the lack of maintenance) than age. Sorry this is going to upset quite a few folk, but there's still a lot of "mum" cars out there that were once the main car but are now cast-offs or bought as cheap runabouts. Then there's good stuff that really deserves to be kept on the road. In the last couple of weeks I've seen late 70's Ford Capri and Escort. Both brought a smile to my face.
Shocking list - so many perverts
3 Skylines!
100s of classic Land Rovers
Opel Monzas
V8 SD1s
Too many Imprezas
I did come across a scrapping pervert on a car forum, he had to quit the forum due to rightfull abuse for scrapping a car the forum was set up for owners of that model.
3 Skylines!
100s of classic Land Rovers
Opel Monzas
V8 SD1s
Too many Imprezas
I did come across a scrapping pervert on a car forum, he had to quit the forum due to rightfull abuse for scrapping a car the forum was set up for owners of that model.
It's the Lancia Delta HF Integrale that makes me sad. One of the greatest cars ever produced. Whomever scrapped that should be marched through the streets and placed in the stocks.
Quite often in the local supermarket there's an old chap with an original shape Ford Fiesta, 1979 model I think. No idea how it manages on unleaded petrol, but it looks in really good condition.
Then in Morrisons car park I saw a blue fiesta that must have been from the mid 80s. Looked in ok condition.
Just looking on wiki and it would seem to be a second generation model (83-89)
I have an immaculate 40 year old Peugeot 504 and my everyday car is an immaculate Volvo 900 turbo. Both are very low mileage. My motoring is only in the hundreds of pounds a year, notrthousands on new cars etc
I have an immaculate 40 year old Peugeot 504 and my everyday car is an immaculate Volvo 900 turbo. Both are very low mileage. My motoring is only in the hundreds of pounds a year, notrthousands on new cars etc
I have an immaculate 40 year old Peugeot 504 and my everyday car is an immaculate Volvo 900 turbo. Both are very low mileage. My motoring is only in the hundreds of pounds a year, notrthousands on new cars etc
The 504 is one of the cars I am familiar with from the old days....in 1979 to 1980 I was Foreman Mechanic in a Peugeot dealers.
It's the Lancia Delta HF Integrale that makes me sad. One of the greatest cars ever produced. Whomever scrapped that should be marched through the streets and placed in the stocks.
I think most people would just See them as old cars but they had to have an MOT if I recal so they all must have been roadworthy. It's a just a shame that for a few hundred quid off their new piece of generic perspex and tin, people handed over some beautiful heritage cars and left the enthusiasts still stuggling for those obsolete parts.
My fear for my Corrado is that one day something will break and I won't be able to replace it with something OEM standard :-(
Newest car we've ever had was a 2000 Mk2 Mondeo. Not the prettiest, but a very reliable, spacious A-B car. Main car is a 1962 Morris Minor. We also have a mid-80s Porsche 944 which is currently off the road but being worked on.
17 years here. A P reg Toyota Starlet. A brilliant little car bought from new. Obviously others think the same as you still see a fair few of them out and about, all looking pretty good still. Never broken down, and there's not a patch of rust on it anywhere and my husband says it has more poke up hills than his Merc! A few more years and it'll be vintage and tax free!
'Fraid not! The rules changed a few years ago - only cars registered before 1974 are now exempt from paying for car tax. Sorry!
Used to drive a 1956 MG Magnette. Most beautiful car we ever had, but sadly SO unreliable.
Cracking looking car, but if I remember correctly it was terrifying to drive due to the drum brakes and thin tyres. It also had a live rear axle and leaf springs too which didn't help things.
Yep. We drive a 1997 MX5 Mk1 with the pop up headlights in cherry red. I love it, and last year we spent quite a few pennies on getting the wheel arches re done and resprayed. We also bought a hardtop for the winter months.
I have the Skodas from the 80's - you know the ones with the radiator in the front and the engine in the back. Since I passed my test that is all I have ever driven. 105, 130, 136 Rapid - all good cars with nice view and handling. I also sadly remember the days around 1999 when even mint ones with less than 30K on the clock were being scrapped.
I have the Skodas from the 80's - you know the ones with the radiator in the front and the engine in the back. Since I passed my test that is all I have ever driven. 105, 130, 136 Rapid - all good cars with nice view and handling. I also sadly remember the days around 1999 when even mint ones with less than 30K on the clock were being scrapped.
I certainly remember them, rear engined design. That was when skoda's were skods's and not modified vw cars.
I bet many posters are too young to know what old skodas were like.
I certainly remember them, rear engined design. That was when skoda's were skods's and not modified vw cars.
I bet many posters are too young to know what old skodas were like.
Glad someone remembers them:).
These old Skodas have had a bit of a turn around and the one I got for my Mum as a birthday present in 1999 (it was on a garage forcourt, unsold at £50, scrapman coming for it in two days) is still running now for her, better than in 1999 in fact - real solidly made cars without obselecence planned in. Now it keeps getting stickered - by the original owner's family and by strangers wanting it. Here is my actual car - I made a short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyceLZbv5sE
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For the £7,800 it cost, I get a gorgeous champagne leather interior with all the kit, such as heated seats, electric everything, touchscreen Sat Nav, auto lights, auto wipers... you name it.
I've had to do a little mid-life repair work on it but for less than £8k, it's a lot of luxury motor with plenty of life left.
I drove a new Jaguar XF recently and while the interior tech and styling made my S-Type seem dated, it was really no better to drive, no more refined and no more comfortable. Yet a £30k price difference.
For balance, until the Jag I had brand new mid market cars nigh on every year.
The car is currently having a brief rest from my commute as I'm at home suffering with 'man flu'.
That is superb! :cool: 1 owner elderly driven cars are good ones to go for. Really like old Japanese cars like your Mazda. High level of equipment and excellent reliability. Is it a 4 door saloon or a hatchback?
It's a 4 door but funnily enough whenever I get an insurance quote it always comes up as a hatchback, don't know why.
Shocking list - so many perverts
3 Skylines!
100s of classic Land Rovers
Opel Monzas
V8 SD1s
Too many Imprezas
I did come across a scrapping pervert on a car forum, he had to quit the forum due to rightfull abuse for scrapping a car the forum was set up for owners of that model.
Nice solid off roader, the chassis is solid, everything currently works, and I can repair it,
And the Corrados, don't forget the Corrados
(I may be bias)
It's the Lancia Delta HF Integrale that makes me sad. One of the greatest cars ever produced. Whomever scrapped that should be marched through the streets and placed in the stocks.
http://www.craigmcalpine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_2830.jpg
Your Volvo has no doors and no engine?
I quite liked the 504s
The 504 is one of the cars I am familiar with from the old days....in 1979 to 1980 I was Foreman Mechanic in a Peugeot dealers.
Nice old bus
I think most people would just See them as old cars but they had to have an MOT if I recal so they all must have been roadworthy. It's a just a shame that for a few hundred quid off their new piece of generic perspex and tin, people handed over some beautiful heritage cars and left the enthusiasts still stuggling for those obsolete parts.
My fear for my Corrado is that one day something will break and I won't be able to replace it with something OEM standard :-(
When I started the thread I was thinking mid 80s, maybe some from the 70s.
I'd count anything earlier as classic cars that wouldn't be considered just an old everyday run about
'Fraid not! The rules changed a few years ago - only cars registered before 1974 are now exempt from paying for car tax. Sorry!
Cracking looking car, but if I remember correctly it was terrifying to drive due to the drum brakes and thin tyres. It also had a live rear axle and leaf springs too which didn't help things.
I believe these top spec saloons had a rear wiper.
We bought it 9yrs ago now.
That's the 2nd generation fiesta, a horrid thing like the one I learned to drive in. Less than a 1 litre engine, very noisy and difficult to drive.
This is the first gen fiesta
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fiesta#/image/File:Ford_Fiesta_MK1_front_20071023.jpg
I certainly remember them, rear engined design. That was when skoda's were skods's and not modified vw cars.
I bet many posters are too young to know what old skodas were like.
Glad someone remembers them:).
These old Skodas have had a bit of a turn around and the one I got for my Mum as a birthday present in 1999 (it was on a garage forcourt, unsold at £50, scrapman coming for it in two days) is still running now for her, better than in 1999 in fact - real solidly made cars without obselecence planned in. Now it keeps getting stickered - by the original owner's family and by strangers wanting it. Here is my actual car - I made a short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyceLZbv5sE