dream machine - a different slant

prospect

Inspired by the dream machine thread.

If you could get any car, ever made, for free. But you are never allowed to sell it or lease it etc, and you have to suffer the tax, insurance, fuel and maintenance costs personally. Also, it has to replace your current daily driver (i.e. if you have 3 kids a 2 door roadster is not going to be ideal, or if you require a commercial as a daily driver, then so be it), what would it be?


I have not decided yet.......

P.S. - Also, explain your selection.

Lemo

Well, this has 4 doors so could probably take the two child seats. Those girls will have to get the bus, I suppose :-)



Aston Martin Rapide

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Spacious, comfortable and luxurious

peasant

Any car ever made?

in that case I'd get the Jaguar E-class hearse from the Harold and Maude movie



As a classic car insurance and tax should be small enough to pay for the maintenance for a while.

And I can't think of a classier vehicle to transport myself, the wife and three dogs


If you're thinking real life vehicles ...Id' have the highest spec A6 avant with the tax friendly 1.9 diesel and quattro, of course

AsphaltRisin'

Ford Capri 3.0S

-Rebore and long stroke steel crank to increase capacity to 3.2litres
-Triple Weber Carbs
-Full Race spec steel engine internals
-Race heads
-Direct port Nitrous
-Full straight through dual exhaust
-Race camshaft
-Custom Coilover suspension lowered 2.5inches
-Series X widearch Kit
-7.5x13 RS alloys.
-Ford red paint

That's my ultimate spec car, would be nightmareish to drive in town, get about 10mpg (you could probably see the needle moving down), but that is my ultimate dream car, i've wanted one with that spec since i was 10 years old, would be fully prepared to put up with the insurance/fuel/tax bill for the awesone sound and the unparalleled driving experience of a fully race tuned capri 3litre S.

OfflerCrocGod

A reasonable family car with enough boot space for one bag of shopping and kitten in the back seats.

What else could you want?

rowanh

There is no car that i would want to have if i could never have any other car. That would not be good. Maybe i have a ferarri f40 and drive it for a few days till it falls apart then leave it. That could work, though a few days would probably cost an insane amount to run and would have to drive it with no insurance..

PaddyFagan

peasant wrote:

If you're thinking real life vehicles ...Id' have the highest spec A6 avant with the tax friendly 1.9 diesel and quattro, of course

I don't think they do a 1.9 TDI with quattro anymore - I'd push it out to the 3.0 TDI myself (I'll manage the road tax as long as someone else is pickup the purchase cost!)

Why: I drove an A4 2.0TDI avant recently and really liked it, but felt the back seat was a bit tight... A small child and a busy life mean that a two seater/no boot is out as a daily drive.

Paddy

JHMEG

Maybe this.

JHMEG

Altho I like the look of this too:

smash

M6 Cabrio
style, comfort, power, 4 seats, open or closed top, room in the boot..

Tabnabs

Bradidup wrote:

Cant go wrong with one of these.

My grand dad had one of those. Horrible car. It eventually fell apart on him even though he kept it in a garage all it's life when not in use...

A different slant to the title, but I had a dream last week that I owned Knight Rider, fookin deadly fun it was too!

Bradidup

As the add said for those that remembered.......they were one heck of a tough car!!!

prospect

Lemo wrote:

Well, this has 4 doors so could probably take the two child seats. Those girls will have to get the bus, I suppose :-)



Aston Martin Rapide

It would only take two child seats, as the back seats in the rapide are actually two seperate chairs, like the driver & passanger seats..