Been driving 4 years:

First Car; 1998 1.1 Peugeot 106 was gutless and badly made but as it was my first car I loved it, changed it for,

1999 1.6 16v Astra Sport massive improvement over the 106 then I moved out to australia for a year and bought a

1989 2.2 Mazda 626 4speed auto, the most reliable car i have ever owned, 40,000 miles in 10 months many on dirt roads and needed nothing but servicing and tyres

and now

2003 Octavia vRS, truely awesome

Edited 5 December, 201015 yr by morrellski

In Order

(Y) Ford Fiesta mk1 supersport

(A) Ford Fiesta mk2 1.1L

(E) Peugeot 309 GTI

(M) Ford Fiesta 1.6 SI

(P) Ford Escort 1.8 SI

(02) Renault Clio Sport 172

(02) Ford Mondeo GhiaX TDCI

(02) mk1 Skoda Octavia vRS

(03) VW Bora tdi 130pd (current car)

Edited 5 December, 201015 yr by oggy

Ok These are some I can remember but had lots more.

Early Toyota Corona (think it was F reg , the first time round)

Mk 2 Escort 1600 Ghia

Mk 1 Escort 1300 Gt

Mk 1 Escort 1300 E

Mk 1 Escort Mexico

Mk 2 Escort Mexico

Mk 2 Escort RS2000

Mk 2 Escort Zakspeed RS2000(wide arch model)

Mk 3 Cortina 2000 E

Mk 5 Cortina 1600 GLS

Mk 3 Escort 1600 Ghia

Mk 1 Ford Orion 1600 Ghia

Mk 3 Escort XR3

Mk 1 Fiesta XR2

Mk 3 Escort XR3i

Mk 2 Fiesta XR2

Mk 1 Escort RS turbo

Mazda 1300 GT

Renault 5 Turbo

Peugeot 205 Gti 1600

Peugeot 309 Gti

Ford Sierra XR4i

Ford Sierra Sapphire 2000 GLS

Ford Sierra Mk 1 4x4

Ford Sierra Mk 2 4x4

Vaxhall Cavilier 4x4 2l

Peugeot 405 Mi16v

Peugeot 309 GTi (yep another one)

Vaxhaul Caviler GSi 2000 4x4

Peugeot 309 Gti Goodwood ( fitted 405 mi16v engine in it) one on the best handling and sporty cars I have owned)

Another Mk 1 Escort RS Turbo

Mk 2 Escort RS Turbo

Ford Mondeo St 24

Ford Mondeo St 2000

Subaru Impreza Wagon WRX

VW Golf Mk 4 Gti Turbo

Subaru Impreza UK Turbo Saloon

Rover MG ZS180 Saloon

Subaru Impreza WRX import Saloon

Toyota Estima Enima 2.2 4x4 (current car for family)

Mk 1 Skoda Octavia VRS - Current car fo me

can't believe how many ex scooby owners,think its a car you really need to own at least once,quite fancy another one,but running costs are just too much.

my old one which i swapped for my vrs.

I might be missing one but here goes:

Renault 9 GTL - amazing little car and ran for three years with no trouble.

Renault 11 GTX - 1.7 Twin Cam madness and a complete pain in the 4r5e but great when it worked

VW Passat 1.8CL Estate - Gold with the expensive roof bars - very good car - I still miss the fresh air vents that VW used to put in the middle of the dash???? why did they stop????

Golf Mk3 1.8 Driver - engine fell over due to **** mounts

Renault 21GTL - 2.0 savanna

Citreon CX25 Familial? - "The Creepy Coupe" 2.5 four cylinder but more electrical gremlins than all other citreons put together

VW Passat Mk2 Hatch -2.0l 5 cylinder What an Engine :D Suspension like a waterbed but I always wanted a UR Quattro after driving this one. Best £250 I ever spent

Renault Espace Mk1 2.0 GTX

Toyota Previa - a proper one not a narrow jap diesel - running on LPG

Nissan Primera new shape one as a company car

Leon Hire car for a month

Focus TDi Hire car for a week

Mondeo 2.0 TDi - very capable car but thirsty

Passat 1.9TDi estate - capable of 80MPG

Passat PD130 SE - which the wife pinched (still has)

Octavia 1.8T 4x4 - more Smiles to the gallon than any other car ever - the 5 cylinder Passat Hatch comes a close second though (still got this one and likely to keep forever )

1st: Peugeot 306 Dturbo

2nd: Peugeot 106 XSi (1600cc fast road setup)

3rd: Peugeot 306 GTI-6

4th: Octavia vRS

can't believe how many ex scooby owners,think its a car you really need to own at least once,quite fancy another one,but running costs are just too much.

my old one which i swapped for my vrs.

That looks just like my old Scooby UK verison, same colour, spoiler and all other bits except only i had gold speedlines. I really do miss the scooby more than any other car accept the VRS, as they are hard to fault, four wheel drive great performance and unique sound. I will defo own another one one day, just right now the VRS ticks more boxes.

In no particular order, and in the last 11 years.

Sierra Sapphire 2.0

Sierra XR4x4 2.9 x3

Sierra XR4i 2.8

Fiesta Diesel Van

Maestro Diesel

Escort Diesel

Peugeot 405 TD

Peugeot 605 TD

Astra Diesel

Peugeot 205 1.9 GTi

Granada Cosworth

Sapphire Cosworth 2wd

Sapphire Cosworth 4x4

Rover 825SD

Rover 820 Vitesse Sport Turbo

Rover 620Ti

Omega 3.0 V6

Omega 2.5TD

Vectra 3.2 V6 Elite

Skoda Octavia vRS

Subaru Impreza WRX STi V1

Some I miss, some I dont lol.

That looks just like my old Scooby UK verison, same colour, spoiler and all other bits except only i had gold speedlines. I really do miss the scooby more than any other car accept the VRS, as they are hard to fault, four wheel drive great performance and unique sound. I will defo own another one one day, just right now the VRS ticks more boxes.

Echo that, i really miss my P1, it was an awesome drivers car. They give alot of performance for the money and make an average driver look very good indeed. Its just the running costs and the 7.5k servicing on the classics, plus group 20 insurance doesnt help.

The vrs is a great all rounder and is alot of car for the money.

Echo that, i really miss my P1, it was an awesome drivers car. They give alot of performance for the money and make an average driver look very good indeed. Its just the running costs and the 7.5k servicing on the classics, plus group 20 insurance doesnt help.

The vrs is a great all rounder and is alot of car for the money.

insurance aint too bad on a uk classic,i was only paying £20 more to insure it than the vrs.

As I like tuning cars the Scooby hit my wallet harder than the VRS to a certain extent, the running costs are also just way higher than a VRS.

Someone please agree as I am running out of negatives to now go and buy one....................

Edited 6 December, 201015 yr by Bowders1

insurance aint too bad on a uk classic,i was only paying £20 more to insure it than the vrs.

There only group 17 which isnt that bad really, mine jumped when i went from a UK turbo to the P1 but not by much.

As I like tuning cars the Scooby hit my wallet harder than the VRS to a certain extent, the running costs are also just way higher than a VRS.

Someone please agree as I am running out of negatives to now go and buy one....................

And once you start it's hard to stop on a scooby, bought my one of my classics for £4k spent about £5-6k on it and only got £3k for it, wish I had kept it but the 18 mpg was doing my head in and my wallet lol.

The vRS is a much better compromise :-)

As I like tuning cars the Scooby hit my wallet harder than the VRS to a certain extent, the running costs are also just way higher than a VRS.

Someone please agree as I am running out of negatives to now go and buy one....................

LOL!!! Thats the thing with a scooby, the UK turbo would hit 0-60 in 5.4 and 0-100 in 14.6 out of the box, so even with an exhaust change and a remap you can see 250 bhp as i did. But with only a small TD04 turbo you can only do so much,thats why i got the P1,mine with a VF28 turbo and remap etc saw 326bhp on the rollers Obviously you can go much bigger and better on the turbo side,I think they are a good platform to mod and in a different league to the vrs, the vrs excels in areas the scoobies cant compete with, such as mpg lol!

Depends what you need your car for, my P1 was a weekend toy, i couldnt have used it as a daily car, not like the vrs.

Edited 6 December, 201015 yr by K7 VRS

As I like tuning cars the Scooby hit my wallet harder than the VRS to a certain extent, the running costs are also just way higher than a VRS.

Someone please agree as I am running out of negatives to now go and buy one....................

I don't think the VRS attracts too much of the wrong type of attention, is much quieter (in standard form), has a bigger boot, and is cheaper to run. The main reasons i have one, rather than a Scooby. I really like some of the JDM cars you can get, but you're back with the issues already highlighted, running costs and the desire to just keep on spending.

Thanks you 3, brought me back to reality.........

All those reasons you mentioned are exactley why i keep the VRS for this period of time.

Now when the kids grow up / leave and my money is my own again, that's a different matter....