Best car you have ever driven and why?

[ArnoldArmChewer]

Bentley GTC, not mine but enough said.

Best car I have ever been in was the Ford GT40, simply unreal!!

 

[DCB]

An original Mini Cooper S - went like stink and held the road like nothing I've ever seen since.

Can remember trying to get insurance and one broker eventually told me I'd be cheaper trying to insure a light aircraft than one of those cars at my age.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

I've been lucky enough to drive a few 'special' cars including DB9, DB2/4, Ferrari 512, 450SEL 6.9, Formula Ford race car, but, of the cars I've actually owned four come to mind...................no laughter please ;
3. TR6 had one for 4½ years, absolutely stunning,


Still yearn for a decent TR6, is this mid-life crisis.

 

[One Planer]

Best car I've owned: Ford Escort MkII RS Turbo that had seen more performance work than Dwayne Chambers

Best car I've driven is my bosses Brand Spankin new Jaguar XJ.

5.0ltr, V8, Supercharged, 510BHP monster. More kit on it than a branch or Toys 'R' Us and faster than anything I've driven

Comfortable too!

 

[Val]

Best - Merc S320 - Solid on the road with plenty guts.

Fastest - Porsche Boxster S

Best owned has to the Mondeo in it's many guises, an absolute reliable workhorse of a car.

 

[Lump]

A Z cars mini. Out of this world quick. Scary infact. It gripped right until the point it tried to murder you. Thats with toyo R888's on. The noise it made was unreal too but I suppose thats what you get with a turbo hayabusa engine pushing 400bhp

 

[CMAC]

Triumph Spitfire, open top.
The name, the looks, the feel.....fantastic!

Also drove the car from Clockwork Orange (10yds) as it was so low to the ground it couldn't get over the entrance to a petrol station!!

Sierra RSCosworth, friend had it as 165mph on the Edin road until we realised how totally stupid we were being, scary stuff many years ago. Took it to knock hill after that.

Best 'ordinary' production cars have to have been the 3 Audi's I've had over the years.

 

[GreiginFife]

Best car driven - My 320 coupe, just comfy and a drivers car (none of these toys and aids).
Most fun car - I rebuilt a Mk4 Astra with a 3.0 V6 from an Omega uprated most of the engine to 250HP, quadrametric suspension and had 167MPH out of it up Knockhill.

Fastest car - Until I met the Mrs and had a kid, I had a E46 M3 and my mate removed the limiter for me. That was scary quick, 411HP 4.2 V8.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Vauxhall Astra estate. 1.8
Fantastic car for dogs, golf clubs, holidays, bikes etc.
Never gave me any trouble in the 8 years I owned it.

 

[ADB]

I had a 1974 MG BGT. When it worked it was great fun :lol:

 

[Hobbit]

Best car driven is my Audi A6 - love it.

The car I'd like to drive/own, a DB9

 

[gripitripit]

About 14 years ago I had a Bedford Midi van with column shift...never missed a beat and when empty on wet roads it was great fun going sideways around roundabouts.

 

[tagnut69]

My best car would be my series 3 lwb land rover, it is slow, does 15 mpg on a good day, noisey, but every time I take her out it puts a smile on my face, everything else on the road gets out of the way when they see me chugging towards them, simply majical

 

[Alex1975]

Ferrari 355... no why needed!

 

[DaveM]

The most fun car was a Lotus cortina Mk1 in full rally spec I had. Fun but a pig to drive on roads. The best alround car a Volvo 144. Had it from new got rid with 150,000 on the clock. Never had one break down.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Best cars...

1. My MX5 1.8iS - enough power to be entertaining, great handling, not too much grip, power oversteer in the wet, roof comes down in the dry, big enough boot for a weeks shopping or a weekends luggage.

2. Honda Accord Type R - best handling saloon car I've driven and the last of the great Type R cars before the EP3 Civic polluted the blood line.

3. S2 Range Rover - 3.9 litre RV8 engine which made a great noise. Comical handling, I assume it was broken.

Worst cars (in no particular order)...

Kia Rio - Horrid inside, rubbish Halfords plastic silver stereo, brake pedal hit the floor with no appreciable retardation, wheezy performance, noisy.

Vauxhall Insignia - grip, grip, grip with no appreciable sense of what's happening. It's like the steering wheel is loosely connected to the front wheels with a slack elastic band. Good stereo though.

Vauxhall Meriva - Tried to spit me into the central reservation of the M6 when I had to carry out an emergency stop because of an accident that occured just in front of me. Plasticy interior.

 

[munro007]

The Fastest car i have ever owned was my Subaru Impreza Wagon 500 BHP. The Scariest car i have ever driven was a Ferrari F40. But the Best Every day car i have driven, is my mates Nissan GTR R35 OMG what a car. I do like my cars

 

[NWJocko]

Most fun car was a Renaultsport Clio 182 I had back in the mists of time. Like an absolute rocket, had some great fun driving that across the Moffat/Biggar roads about 10 years ago

Best car I've owned is the current Mondeo Titanium X. Just a superb car all round. I have another, older, Mondeo that does the job but they took a quantum leap forward with the current model.

 

[Crawfy]

Metallic Green Volvo 240GLE.....I was 14

Black Toyota Supra 2.8 (Pop up headlights and digital Knight Rider dashboard)....I was 16

Lets just say that my boyhood summer holidays were a mix of golf and convincing my Uncle & Grandpa to let me drive (sometimes when they were not passenders)

Donegal Gardai were not super-efficent back in the 80's

 

[RGDave]

All of them that were not VW Golfs.



Dave dives for cover....



Supra?