Cars you never see anymore

[puggy]

They've all gone South.....

(while I was on holiday in Dorset recently, I saw an original looking A40, a mildly tatty 'J' reg. Morris Oxford and a shiny FB Victor, all in the space of 2 days)

You no doubt had plenty of time for the detailed observation whilst they were overtaking you

What about Maestro's , had many happy hours tinkering with mine , very very rare to see one now , a bloke
near to where i live own's a MG one , doesn't drive it stuck in his garage , asked him if he would sell it but
no go

[CalamityJames]

That wee Micra camper is an extremely cool wee car.

Did it have a wee cooker in?

Aye

[sirwiggum]

Bluebirds, they were a great old wagon none about now at all, what size of diesel were they i remember my grampas one it had a slow lazy engine, didnt do great mpgs or make the car go fast.

Peugeot 305, once most farmers round here drove a 305 van, now its a treat to see a 305. The 309 even the 405. As for the 605 did peugeot actually make them?

Used to see them all the time, Newtownabbey council had a fleet of 305 vans. Me dad had a 305 diesel. Was a good looking car, the D9 has hints of the grille and lights about it.

Did see a 605 once in Broxburn, Scotland.

Rover metro, the rover 800 which i liked, and the wedge rover 216 with the honda engine which was the one to go for and the rover 220 coupe, even the 75 is getting a bit rare. Im not sad to see the 25, 45 and cityrover numbers drop they were crap.

There is a Rover 100 I see all the time on the Cregagh Road

Range rover classic, and P38

Saw a Classic down the country at the weekend. Thought in your neck of the woods the local landowners would have fleets of them?

Vw golf mk3, the 306 seems to have outlived it.

Rust, and supposed "VW Quality"

Renault 19 and 21

Good call, even the mk1 Megane (pre grille-halfway-up-the-bonnet) and Laguna are thin on the ground!

Audi 80, my dad had one, my grampa had one great tank of a car, havent seen one in a few years

Ah the Audi 80, one of their proper cars before Audi went all trendy.

Mate had an 80 1.6 turbo diesel, was a cracking big motor, old school clattery diesel. The ZX was a more comfortable car though.

[FarmerPug]

Theres some new range rovers but round here they are not as popular as the toyota or mitsubishi jeeps.
The 1.6 TD was what my grampa had, the car was very underpowered even opening the engine bay you could see there was room for a bit more.

Saab 900 and 9000's never actually seen to many to begin with but now you dont see any.

[CalamityJames]

Saab 900 and 9000's never actually seen to many to begin with but now you dont see any.

Funnily enough, I saw a 9000 Aero yesterday, still looks the business and I'd quite like one!

[Welly]

What about Maestro's

Don't be sad puggy, here's a T5 maestro...........http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=90135

Have a click on the nissan forum link on page 2, that is an amazing project, but you'll need about eleventy days to read the thread

[DiscoPol]

we have all the aforementioned vehicles living on over here, but the Poles have a different view of cars, a car is for life here not just until you want something else, when my students ask me how many cars i have had over my life so far they are all amazed when i say its at least 20 including company cars, most men around the age of say 35 have had on average 4 cars here there aren't many of us on here that can say that

The little fiat cinquento (sp?) is still a very popular car out in the sticks, in the city you see lots of rovers in various guises right back to the 216 boxy type(honda partnership time) old Peugeots on the other hand are rare as they have a saying here that you dont buy a car with "F" in the name Ford, Fiat or French, BMWs are seen as Gangstar cars as back in the old communist era if you saw a BMW it really was a gangstar but funnily enough the old mercs are still popular with the village folk, more a testament to the fixability of them over anything else im sure.

i would say the most popular old car here i see the most of is the old "Polski Fiat Maluch" a Polish built Fiat 126, it has beefed up suspension and heaters to cope with the bad roads and the winters respectively, they were considered a family car back in the day and it wasnt uncommon to see them with two adults three children and a roof rack with all the baggage needed for a family holiday by the sea, only a mere 9 hour drive from Warsaw

there are lots of Dacias too, they didnt pull out of this market as they did with the British market so still plenty of old and new ones still on the road.

[sirwiggum]

That's the way motoring should be.

Over here, these days a couple has a baby, they run out and buy an urban assault vehicle like a Toyota Land Cruiser with full bullbars to at child's head level.

The new Dacias look good in a Skoda-basic/honest-motoring kind of way, from the Logan onwards.

Unfortunately the only one they're going to sell here is the SUV Duster.

[steve_earwig]

Dacias - recycled Renault 12s and Astras.

My sis-in-law has a fairly new Dacia - dunno what it's called, Dacia Dustbin? It says "made by Renault" on the boot lid anyway, I guess that's on a Monday morning when they're too hung over to make proper ones.

[CalamityJames]

My sis-in-law has a fairly new Dacia - dunno what it's called, Dacia Dustbin? It says "made by Renault" on the boot lid anyway, I guess that's on a Monday morning when they're too hung over to make proper ones.

Good news! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1BvawAtAG8

[Welly]

Over here, these days a couple has a baby, they run out and buy an urban assault vehicle like a Toyota Land Cruiser with full bullbars to at child's head level.

We ran our two kids around in the early years in a Citroen AX, a Purple one at that!

The trouble now is you're kinda left out if you haven't got something of equal size/weight when it comes to colliding bumpers out there

My Volvo is becoming distinctly cramped when I ferry the two kids about now as they're 15 and 13 and bloody tall. I can almost see the attraction of these big-bruiser motors for the extra space and perception of 'being safe' but mostly the ability to mash over pot holes and poor roads

[sirwiggum]

You have a point, the roads are such a disgrace.

Take Japan, the noble nation was hit by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

Yet according to the Accord forums, Honda didn't have a bad enough road for testing, they had to *build* a UK road!!

Hopefully complete with dug-up sections from various utility companies who poorly retarmac it, throw some chippings down to wreck your paintwork, don't level off the sewer gratings and manholes such that they are a foot below the ground, then cooled with liquid nitrogen until alloy-breaking potholes are created.

[benczuk]

Lada Riva - used to be loads of the little buggers around, but I can't honestly remember having seen one for a very long time.

Didn't the Russians come over and buy em all up to ship back?

[sirwiggum]

Lada Riva - used to be loads of the little buggers around, but I can't honestly remember having seen one for a very long time.

Didn't the Russians come over and buy em all up to ship back?

I think the UK spec cars had better seats, grilles, electrics etc. so they bought them up and retrofitted them.

Never see any "communist" cars anymore - Lada Samaras, Skoda Estelles / Favorits, FSOs

[FarmerPug]

Lada Riva - used to be loads of the little buggers around, but I can't honestly remember having seen one for a very long time.

Didn't the Russians come over and buy em all up to ship back?

I think the UK spec cars had better seats, grilles, electrics etc. so they bought them up and retrofitted them.

Never see any "communist" cars anymore - Lada Samaras, Skoda Estelles / Favorits, FSOs

My mum had a favorit, and i was the one who actually bought it for her, £375 20,000 miles on the clock an eccentric old ballymena man who sold me the car, he wrote every single item down in the tidiest writing i ever seen in the notes section of the haynes manual which was stored inside a sealed bag, even air freshners were detailed the date, the price and location it was purchased.
The thing is though although he looked after the favorit and when we got it, it was like brand new it didnt take too long before we started to dislike it, it was very poorly equipped communist spec no power steering or central locking. It was reliable enough bar buttons just falling off the dash but it drank petrol and i got a bit of stick at school for having a skoda, the micra was a better car.

My uncle then my dad owned a citroen visa, bar it that has been the only visa i ever saw, and it was a nice car.