I promise this is going to be the last "What's car X like?" thread from me until I'm actively out buying a car. It's only because you're all so knowledgable that I ask! Thanks to you, I've discounted endless cars!

I was doing my monthly habit of thinking the other day and I realised, I'm going to have to modify my car critera a bit rather than settle for something because it's a saloon. I'd still have a Ghia X V6 Mondeo with the kit on but at the moment the cloest one is 250 miles away. Assuming things don't change in between now and September (if they do I'll start looking at them again) I've changed my mind slightly.

Of course, being me it has to be off the wall. And we've gone from Ford Mondeo to...


...Honda Accord.....Coupe?


They seem to have the power I need (3.0) and I've always liked the look of them. The back is very NSX looking (always a good thing) but obviously it's only 2 doors. The only thing is, I love the look of them as they're quite big but they're perhaps a little girly. I wouldn't really care if you all said "They're superb cars". I have a horrible feeling that they'd be rather sterile to drive despite having a big block and I realise that this is more than likely unfair.

So, thoughts?

Next thought was....and you're going to laugh here. Mitsubishi FTO. I know! These are 2.0 V6's and I'm sure I read a while ago Aprilia praising the MIVAC engines. They're fairly small and I realise I've gone from family car to fun car but I'm just weighing up all the options. I don't have kids or anything so I don't NEED so many doors and I'm just wondering whether it's best I get the silly car business out of my system before I turn 30, have a house, wife, kids, dogs etc etc.

So - advice please!

I'd like to extend a further apology at keep flitting from car to car and asking all these questions but I seriously have discounted cars from my list because of what people have said on here so you'd be doing me a massive favour!

Thanks again,

Adam
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Just been given a delivery date of 12th April for my

CRD version and have started the 'countdown'. You are right about

the resemblance to the Rover P5 Commerdriver, thats one of the

unique aspects about the 300C...it has the ability to be brash

American 'bling' or sedate British exec depending on what mods etc

you carry out.

Hi Geordie1

I bet that you're really excited to have got a delivery date for your car, as you say counting down the days.

You mention making "mods" to your car. Have you considered changing the grill ? Whilst the original one looks very very good, there are some American aftermarket grills available to pesonalise your car. One of the best available is called the T-Rex, and is apparently the dogs dangly bits.

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Morning all,

This is something that has been bugging me for a quite a while now. I though the idea of having the letter at the beginning of the enumber plate to identify where you were from was a really good idea, but since it is actually relevant to where the car was registered and not where you live seems to defeat the object. I live in Sheffield, but my registration in AX, which is from East Anglia where my parents live and bought the car, and in Sheffield there is a huge number of cars that don't have the local YS or YP prefix. Whay also did they decide to go with some obscure method of assigning letter to counties?


In Germany, each city/landkreis has a logical prefix letter assigned to it (Frankfurt is F, Wurzburg is WU etc)cars are registered to where you live not where the car is from, so it is immediately obvious where someone is from. If you move, you have to re-register your car. The British version just seems overly complicated! Read more

My son was trying to sell his car through the usual papers, Autotrader etc but after 2 weeks no luck - of course one the car matching people called and he cold shouldered them.

However yesterday they called again and he said that if they were that good he would give them £500 instead of £89 if "their match" bought the car. This of course was refused by them but soon after they called back - made remarks that were wholly inappropriate, swore and then rung off. The "agent" then phoned his home and was "less than polite" to my son's girlfriend.

The website looks professional but the employees are obviously not. Read more

The saga of my daughter's driving continues. She failed her second driving test this week. Going forward, she's a competent enough driver to pass. But her reversing isn't good. As this saga has been going on through 18 months of lessons it's becoming an expensive problem and living in Northern Scotland, with its dearth of public transport, we really need her to be able to drive.

Can anyone recommend a good teaching method for reversing ? Read more