I see you all have owned many cars in you're day, and I want to hopefully own lots of cars when I grow up.

Right now, my collection is two:(, but i'm only 14, so i have many years to catch up!

1984 Suzuki SJ410, 1 litre 45bhp Top Speed 68mph!

SJ410 are great, but you can put a Suzuki Vitara 1.6 engine in them, straight swap from what I remember.

Do it, better than landys for getting up hills.

14years old!! I have pets older than you!

I must be getting old!

Started with a 1999 Honda Civic 1.5l LSI.

Then I had a 2006 Fabia Vrs.

Next came the 2007 Fabia Vrs se

Now I've got a 2005 Mondeo Mistral 1.8l.

I'm busy trying to work out what I'm going to buy next year as a kneejerk reaction to the Mondeo!!! It's probably time to buy the new Mk6 Golf GTI and get the GTI thing out of my system although the used prices on 350zs are very tempting!

Here Goes, sine 1992 it's been as follows. . .

Mini (T reg 1.0L)

Talbot Samba (A Reg 1.0L)

Austin Metro (F Reg 1.3L)

Ford Escort (D Reg 1.4L)

Ford Orion (E Reg 1.6 GLi)

Fiat Panda (E Reg 1.0S)

Fiat Punto (M Reg 1.2 ELX)

Seat Leon (51 plate 1.6 S)

Vauxhall Astra (K Reg 1.6 GLSi)

Fabia vRS (04 plate) + Soft Top Morris Minor (1968)

Octavia TDi (07 plate Elegance)

Comes highly recommended! Wish I'd bought the V8. Lots of them on sale now were Japanese imports (as was mine). You can tell them by extra flares on the wheelarches and a lock on the filler cap! Also have speedo in kph (although I managed to get one sent over from a scrap yard in the US and swapped it over to get MPH).

Other problem I found with the Mustang is there are no American car specialists anywhere near me (Coventry) - no one else wanted to touch it. Wasn't quite so much of a problem with the Explorer as it was sold in the UK (although the Ford dealers still hadn't heard of it!)

I've noticed quite a few Japanese import Mustangs come up for sale on the internet, usually V6s, although they are very reasonably priced - especially compared to some of the optimistic prices you sometimes see asked for Mustangs by traders in Classic American magazine ads. There seems to be an abundance of Chevrolet Astro dayvans coming in from Japan too, but I don't want a van.

My local garage just round the corner from me was happy to work on my American cars provided I supplied the necessary parts. I usually got these mail order from USAutomotive - which was usually the easiest, if not the cheapest, way.

Right now, my collection is two:(, but i'm only 14, so i have many years to catch up!

Two cars at 14 is impressive! I do like your Felicia. There's something about the Felicia - it's an interesting car, being a hybrid of 'old-skool' communist Skoda and VAG-era design.

1989 alfa romeo 75 3.0 veloce

Now that's a cool car.

I have only had 3 cars simce i passed my test in 2005,

89 mini 30 1.0 (now a 1293 with cams etc ) - still own

05 Ford fiesta ST - wrote off

07 Fabia vrs se - current car

I've noticed quite a few Japanese import Mustangs come up for sale on the internet, usually V6s, although they are very reasonably priced - especially compared to some of the optimistic prices you sometimes see asked for Mustangs by traders in Classic American magazine ads. There seems to be an abundance of Chevrolet Astro dayvans coming in from Japan too, but I don't want a van.

My local garage just round the corner from me was happy to work on my American cars provided I supplied the necessary parts. I usually got these mail order from USAutomotive - which was usually the easiest, if not the cheapest, way.

Ive always wanted an American car , I dont think a Mustang would fit inside my standard single car lock up tho....:(

Vauxhall Corsa 1lr

Vauxhall Corsa 1.2

Skoda Fabia VRS (present)

Skoda is the best by far

so far its

Ford Escort 1.8i 16v K plate

Citroen ZX Volcane 1.9td L plate

Ford Focus ST170 2002

Subaru Impreza WRX Import 1998

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 1 (yes a 1 lol) K plate

Vauxhall Vectra 1.8( worst car ever) N plate

Skoda Octavia Vrs 1.8t 2002

Abit of a mixed bag really lol

You can tell at what point i got married and had a child lol

Well here's my list (i'm 27 and have been driving for 9 years)

G Reg White Ford Fiesta Popular Plus 1.1

N Reg Blue Honda Civic 1.4 LSI

R Reg Black Honda Civic 1.6 VTI

2003 Blue Honda Accord 2.0 Executive

X Reg Blue Toyota RAV 4

L Reg Red Toyota Supra NA (loved this car and sobbed when I sold it)

N Reg Silver Subaru Impreza WRX Estate (hated it hated it hated it!!!)

2002 White Honda Integra Type R (DC5)

2003 Oyster Silver Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCI

2002 Yellow Skoda Octavia VRS

Here goes;

A reg Talbot Samba 18th birthday presant (1988) from mum+dad, sold 1990 back to dad £1000 Deprciation + £1000.

D reg Renault 11 Turbo (1990)-(1992)did 17857 miles, cost per mile 20.8p

H reg Renault 5 Campus (1992)-(1993)did 7923 miles, CPM 30.5p

K reg Renault Clio RL D 1.9 New (1993)-(1997)did 55772 miles, CPM 13.8p

N reg Fiat Cinquecento s (1997)-(1998) did 7883 miles,CPM 18.5p

P reg Nissan Almera 1.6 SLX (1998)-(2002) did 32615 miles, CPM 32.9p

X reg Nissan Primera 2.0 S Auto (2002)-(2004)did 12130 miles, CPM39.3p

04 Reg Skoda Fabia 1.9 Elegance new (2004)-(2005) did 7214 miles, CPM 53.4p

N reg Skoda Felicia 1.3 LX (2004)- (2006) did 2731 miles, CPM 36.2p

05 reg Skoda Octavia 2.0Tdi Ambiente (2005)- (2007) did 17757 miles, CPM 42.3p

51 reg Land Rover Discovery2 TD5 GS Auto 7 seats (2007)- (2008) did 6545 miles, CPM 73.4p

02 reg Skoda Fabia 2.0 Elegance (2006)- Presant.

57 reg Skoda Roomster 3 1.9 TDI (2008)- Presant.

All cost's per mile (cpm) inc serviceing, sundries and depreciation.

Used to be a farmer. Now working with as a farm management/rural business consultant. Was in Dumfries but moved to our Haddington office in August. 50 Minute commute instead of 1 hr 20min:)

Just being nosey sorry. I work at Animal Health/ State veterinary service/defra (call it what you will) at Dumfries as an Animal Health Officer thought I may have bumped into you.

How do you find the BMW is it big enough. I was tempted to buy one due to performance and low running costs but thought the space may be too limited.

Here's my contribution....

Mine....

Austin Maestro HLE 1300 - rolled it

Toyota 1000 - Blew a spark out of the engine

Mini 1000 - sold to buy an apartment

Another Mini 1000 - bag of nails

Citroen Visa Diesel 17RD - Mum's cast off, brilliant car

Vauxhall Corsa 1.7D Merit - First new car, handled awfully, great engine

Skoda Fabia 1.4MPI - Was wifes from new, I had it after 3 years

Skoda Fabia VRS (Current) - Current, and best car ever owned

My bikes ...

Honda CB500 (95) - brilliant, sold as needed car for job

Yamaha Fazer 1000 - brilliant, sold for next bike after 3 years 30K

Yamaha R6 - even more brilliant, sold after 3 years 30K

Suzuki GSXR 1000 (Current) - can it get any better ? had 12 months 12K

SWMBO ...

Ford Fiesta 950 Popular

Vauxhall Nova 1.2 2 door saloon

Vauxhall Astra Merit 1.4 (92)

Vauxhall Astra GLS 1.6 (95)

Skoda Fabia 1.4mpi - Handed 'down' to me

Mini Cooper

Mini Cooper S (Current) - This car is great fun

1979 Chrysler Horizon in green

1976 BMW 320i in silver

1974 VW Beetle in Black

1967 VW Beetle in Black/brown

1981 Toyota Corolla in brown

1976 VW Beetle in yellow

1983 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi in red/black

1988 Peugeot 309 in white

1985 VW Golf in burgundy

1989 Volvo 440 in white

1987 Fiesta XR2 in grey

1989 Fiesta XR2i in black

1990 Cavalier SRi in white

1987 Fiesta XR2 in red

1991 Fiesta XR2i in white

1992 Cavalier SRi in red

1993 Nissan Skyline in grey

1965 VW Beetle in grey/black/orange/green/rust

1990 Nissan 300ZX in silver

1998 Mondeo estate in purple (the "hearse")

1999 VW Golf GTi in black

2000 Vectra SRi V6 in silver

2000 Vectra GSi V6 in black

2002 Mondeo Zetec in black

1965 Mustang V8 Saloon

2003 Seat Leon Cupra in silver

2002 Mini One in black

1999 Lotus Elise in grey

2005 Peugeot 206 Hdi in silver

2005 Peugeot 206 Sport in black

2004 Skoda Octavia vRS in black (current)

1983 Porsche 944 in white (current)

I'm sure I've forgotten loads though... and I've got pictures of all of them - how sad is that??!?

Ive always wanted an American car , I dont think a Mustang would fit inside my standard single car lock up tho....:(

Mustangs aren't as big as you might think. Certainly a lot smaller than the Camaro/Firebird.

e.g. '96 Mustang: length 4610mm, width 1824mm (same length and one inch wider than a Vectra).

1976 VW Beetle in yellow

1983 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi in red/black

1988 Peugeot 309 in white(with optional pedestrian squirting rear wash jet):rofl:

I think I vaguely remember beetle and the SRi now you mention them

Just being nosey sorry. I work at Animal Health/ State veterinary service/defra (call it what you will) at Dumfries as an Animal Health Officer thought I may have bumped into you.

How do you find the BMW is it big enough. I was tempted to buy one due to performance and low running costs but thought the space may be too limited.

Love the BMW but it is a LOT shorter on boot space than the Octy. as our family are now grown up we don't need as much space but I can imagine you will have to carry a fair bit of gear about with you.

Economy and performance are what attacked me to the car - the 143 BHP BMW is about 7-8 mpg better of on average than the 105 BHP Octy. You wont get the 62 mpg claimed by bmw but I am please with what I get considering the roads i drive over.

The smallest of niggles is bugging me just now - as a 3 door (frame less windows)the window drops slightly when you open the door, and automatically goew back up when it shuts. But when its frosty (which has been a lot recently) it doesn't drop, meaning the glass catches the door door seal/body and wont shut until you defrost the window - pain in the A**e.

Starting in 1983 when I passed my test.

Mini 1000 (N reg)

Simca 1000 (L reg)

Ford Escort 1300L (T reg)

Vauxhall Cavalier Sportshatch (V reg)

Ford Fiesta XR2 (X reg)

BMW 323i (X reg)

Morris Marina estate (after the above was written off)

Datsun Cherry

MG Metro Turbo (B reg)

BMW 320 (X reg)

Citroen BX 16v (E reg)

Citroen BX 16v (G reg)

Rover 820SE (F reg)

Vauxhall Cavalier (1st new car, M reg)

Ford Mondeo (P reg)

Volvo V40 1.6 (T reg)

Volvo V40 1.6 (replacement for above, dealer made muck up ordering and got me a new one)

Volvo V40 1.8 Sport (51 reg)

Citroen Picasso:eek::eek: (03 reg)

Skoda Octavia vRS (05 reg)

Skoda Octavia vRS (08 reg)

Impressive mix of cars in this thread - Tfp that Polo is pretty wild, must have been a fun ride

here's my list:

R reg VW Scirocco mk1 1.6GLS

X reg Lancia Delta

Fiat 128

X reg Audi 80CD

Y reg Vauxhall Cavalier mk2 1.6L

C reg Lancia Prisma 1.6LX

B reg Ford Orion 1.6LX

C reg Vauxhall Belmont 1.6

F reg Vauxhall Cavalier mk3 2.0GL

R reg Citroen Saxo VTR

T reg Seat Ibiza 1.4S

J reg Fiat Tempra 1.6S

P reg Mitsubishi Carisma 1.6 GLX

V reg Mitsubishi Space Star 1.8 GLS

X reg Skoda Fabia mk1 1.4 Comfort

07 Skoda Octavia mk2 1.9 tdi L&K

Cars:

J reg Mini 850

K reg Escort 1300XL

L reg Escort 1300 Sport (great car)

K reg Rover 3500 (had a thirst I've not seen since - ran out of fuel more times in this car than every other car before or since combined!)

C reg Viva HA (owned by my Grandfather since new (1965) - had done 28,000 miles when I got it in 1981)

F reg Mini Traveller

N reg Alfasud Ti (just about as rotten as a road legal car could be)

R reg Cortina 1600GL (lent it to a friend and a piston went )

T reg Fiesta 1300 Ghia (Mums since new)

K reg Mini Sprite (won in a competition and sold straight away)

D reg Fiesta 1400 Ghia (Mums since new)

C reg Escort XR3i

D reg BMW 320i

P reg Fiat Bravo 1.8 HLX (first new car apart from Mini)

V reg Golf GTi 1.8T (new)

03 reg Audi A4 Cabriolet 2.4 Sport (new - lovely car)

02 reg Renault Scenic 1.8 (wifes old car)

07 reg Octavia VRs TDi Combi (new)

Bikes:

Yamaha FS1E dx

Yamaha RD 125 air-cooled

Kawasaki KH250B

Considering I've held a licence for over 40 years, I've not had many cars compared to most, but they're a fairly mixed bunch!

1955 Morris Minor OBC 507 - 4 door deluxe split screen - cost £75! Deluxe model had heater and passenger windscreen wiper! Also had semaphore arms for indicators - hard to imagine them as being safe on a busy motorway nowadays!

1970 Mini 1000 WUT 495 J - First car I took abroad - went to Switzerland in 1971.

1972 Wartburg Knight UVV 596 L - Went all over Europe - furthest was Romania and Poland in 1974

1975 Polski-Fiat 125P KNV 570 P

1977 Fiat 128 3P TUT 4 S

1971 Alfa Romeo Alfasud 1.3Ti TJF 993 X

1984 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 GL Automatic C 304 TJU

1987 Peugeot 205 1.9 GTi E 997 KKV

1991 Vauxhall Calibra 16 valve 2.0 4x4 J 304 DUY

1996 Vauxhall Calibra 16 valve 4x4 turbo N 867 AOG

2002 Skoda Octavia 1.8 Elegance 4x4 KU 02 NGO

2007 Skoda Superb 2.5 Eegance Automatic KM 07 LAO

Edited 30 December, 200817 yr by Penpusher

Hillman Imp J reg

Morris Marina 1.3L N reg

Mini Clubman Estate S reg

Vauxhall Cavalier Mk1 1.6L S reg (Had for 12 years)

Ford Orion 1.4LX E reg

Vauxhall Cavalier 1.8 LS L reg

Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 16v GLS N reg

Vauxhall Astra 1.6 SXi X reg

Skoda Octavia vRS 54 reg

Have also had as second cars/run arounds,

Austin Metro 1.3 Vanden Plas

Vauxhall Nova 1.2 L J reg

Vauxhall Nova 1.2 Swing K reg

Vauxhall Nova 1.2 Trip J reg

Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 Elegance 03 reg

Suzuki Swift 1.5 GLX 08 reg

Austin Maestro HLE 1300 - rolled it

I remember those,

How on earth did you get it to go fast enough to roll it?

I had the MG version with the digital display and the talking computer

Fear this may be a bit of a Sage

Wolseley 1500( more slid round corners than went )

Austin A40 MK2 Farina

Mini van by BMC (first with the MINI badge) (banjoed by a banana salesman

Renault 4(complete with dash mounted gear lever)

in meantime had useof FIL Reliant Robin

Vauxhall Victor FD 2000

Austin Maxi MK 2 1750 ( like a cat in snow and ice )

Abroad ,as runaround –Fiat 500 + various firms vans –mostly 4x4

Marina 1.8( cornering on par with wolesley)

Sierra 1.6 Est

Firms Sierra hatch 1.6

( and whilst it was getting the parkers out of the boot )

Firms CAVALIER x 2

Firms (unknown to them ,till MD found out)XR2i :(:(:(

Firms Sierra (returned repaired with no parked cars)

Firms Astra

Cavalier 1.6 mk2

Firms Astra van

Firms Astra estate

Firms mk3 Cavalier 1.6

Firms Golf Caddy

Cavalier 2.0GLI MK3

Astra estate

And finally Furby

No pics - but if some of the older ones can't be visualised shout and I'll find a pic

Looking back on the list -only FOUR had more BHP than Furby - (Maxi -72,Marina 85 and Cav 2.0 -115, Vauxhall victor FD -104)) -yet Furby seems more lively .

Here goes:

In 1985 bought clapped out 1978 Cortina MKIV 1.3

In 1996 bought new Skoda Estelle 105 Lux

In 1998 bought s/h 1998 Skoda Estelle 130 GL

In 1990 got 1990 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L as a company car (sold Estelle to ex wife!)

In 1992 got 1990 Ford Orion 1.6i GLS

In 1993 got new Skoda Favorit 136 LS

In 1993 got s/h 1990 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.8 GL

In 1994 got new Nissan Micra 1.3 SLX

In 1995 got s/h 1992 Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 CD

In 1997 got s/h 1991 BMW 318i

In 1999 got 1996 Ford Mondeo 2.0 Ghia

In 2001 got 1995 BMW 328i SE

In 2002 got 2000 Ford Mondeo 2.5 Ghia X

In 2003 got new Ford Fiesta 1.6 Ghia

In 2004 got new BMW 320d SE

In 2007 got new Skoda Octavia 2.0TD Elegance (current car)

In 2008 got 2005 Ford Mondeo ST220 (currrent car)

... the shortest time I kept a car was 1 month (the Favorit) and the longest (so far) has been the 320D which lasted until August 2008 when it was traded for the ST220.

Happy New Year to one and all!