My mate with the fire-breathing Scooby Imprezza (huge turbo, chipped, tuned stainless exhaust, 6 pot calipers, big drilled discs, 18" alloys etc etc) has just sold it and bought another car.
An 03 plate BMW 525d - is that an extreme change or what?
Can anybody beat that for a radical change of daily driver?
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I sold my Jaguar XJ-S V12 for a Suzuki Whizzkid.
Te drop in performance was quite noticable, but to be honest the increase in economy was more noticeable!
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The drop in performance was quite noticable
Is that an understatement Gareth?!
I sold a Peugeot 405 Mi16 and bought a Mk3 Golf 1.8 CL; 75bhp of softly sprung shopping car.
The Pug was past its best and had bled my finances dry, so I wanted something reliable and cheap to run. The Golf fulfilled the latter requirements but was dull and I did regret not buying something quicker on many occasions. Also the stereo got nicked out of it and I got done for speeding in it, something which had not happened in 2.5 years of Pug ownership.
;o)
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I went from the bus to a Mk.1 Cortina...
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I went from a '68 Beetle 1200 to a '77 Dolomite Sprint.
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I went from a Merc E320CDI Estate to a Smart 4-2 Brabus.
No prizes for guessing which was easier to park!
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Nissan Terrano 2.7 LWB to Fiat Panda 4x4. Again, what a change in parking.
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Just sold my mental V8 manual Transit and bought a 1.3 auto fiesta only as a runaround though...Cheers...Keo.
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I've gone from Honda Prelude 2.2vti to public transport :-( saving £££££'s but ho-hum something seems to be missing!! :-( and i have to retread my feet three times a year!
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I went from BMW 328 to a Ford Mondeo tdci 130 (to save cash) and then onto my current 530D.
The 530D delivers the same mpg as the Mondeo, but is so much better to drive (except in snow!).
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P Reg Saxo 1.5D , 0-60 in weeks, top speed of 84 (downhill) but economy of 60+mpg to
Fabia vrS , 0-60 sub 10sec, top speed 120ish, economy mid to late 40s
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2007 Seat Altea XL 2.0 TDI (140) Stylance
2005 Skoda Fabia vrS
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I swapped my usual German and Swedish brands for Jap.
The change to hassle free motoring was very extreme.
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I suspose this is a slight cheat, as I owned both at once, but during the late 90s the two cars on the drive were the late lamented Carlton 3.0 and a Skoda 120LSE. Both RWD at least ;-)
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17-year-old R Type Bentley (slightly foxed) to (new) Citroen Dyane 6, 1970.
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Lud - you owned am R Type - I doff my cap to you Sir.
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Pendlebury: you will find an account of how it became slightly foxed in the recent thread on rear crash protection.
Actually I wasn't really worthy of it and if you knew how insouciantly I treated the poor old thing and what a hard time I gave it you would keep your cap firmly on your head :o{
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Lud - you owned am R Type - I doff my cap to you Sir.
I think Lud "owns" everyone on here with that change!!
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That probably aces out my XJ-S to Whizzkid change, although going from 5.3 litres to just under 1 litre gets an honourable mention.
Lud, was the Dyane 602cc or the meaty 652cc? Or was that only in the aircooled Visas?
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Suprised you chose a 525d. Always struck me as a rather pointless second hand buy because tax, servicing costs, fuel consumption, etc etc are all the same as the 530d yet performance is noticeably lower.
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....but probably cheaper second hand
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Last year I went from a 1989 Range Rover 3.9 v8 to a 1996 Citroen AX 1.0. The saving on fuel was noticable ;)
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was the Dyane 602cc or the meaty 652cc? Or was that only in the aircooled Visas?
602cc, and went well enough to alarm and surprise a lot of people. It didn't really like going fast though although the engine was unburstable. I never did learn to drive it gently enough to get the best out of it. Needed to be 20 years older.
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My father went from a 1923 Rolls Royce 20 to a new Mini van in 1961.
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And mine went from a 1932 RR 20/25 limousine to a new Cortina Mk 1 1200 just about then, ly!
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And ly, I imagine your father's 20 had horizontal radiator slats, but did it have a central gear lever and 3-speed box?
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and I imagine that your Cortina was a de-luxe and not a Consul Cortina ?
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PU, my father never bought a new car that wasn't in austerity trim, seeing anything optional as mere flimflam. The Cortina was the base model in base trim, but not a bad car for all that.
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My colleague at work from 02 Galaxy 115 bhp TDi to new Impreza GB270 today. Last I heard from hs was a text message at lunch time that simply read "wicked!!!!!!"
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There was, I recall correctly a totally austere version of the Cortina de-chromed with no heater wasn't there ?
//www.mk1cortina.com/php/Lots of Cortina images!!.php
Picture here about a quarter of the way down bearing the VRM of CMX etc.
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i can't beat some of the above...but at 21 had a funny five minutes and bought a 6 year old V12 XJS.......then had an injection of common sense and swapped it for a 1.6 Ghia mk2 Escort
if i'd kept the Jag, i'd have had no money, no licence and no job
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Had a 1 year old Merc CLK, which I'd got from new.
Inherited my late father's VW Polo, N Reg. (11 yrs old?)
Drove the Polo home (300 miles) with a view to selling it.
After the first 100 miles with white knuckles, gradually relaxing a little, I realised that I actually preferred it to the Merc.
Got rid of the Merc, and kept the Polo.
That's about £30,000 difference.
The blokes at work think I'm a nut case!
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The blokes at work think I'm a nut case!
you must be.... :-)
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>> The blokes at work think I'm a nut case! >> you must be.... :-)
Probbly am, a bit: One other conclusion might be that the Merc wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be, and the Polo was much better than anyone has a right to expect!
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DrS. That is a genuine coincedence. My late father's Polo is also an N reg!!!! It was actually an Irish car, I brought it over to East Devon via Holyhead HSS. When it was reregistered in England it was a genuine N reg. The car still goes strongly as my father-in-law in Harwich drives it. I drive it on my Harwich visits, it is still in excellent condition.Those Polos were made really heavily.
I admit I would almost kill for the CLK !!!! A lovely car.
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LUD
You did better than me - I went from Ford Zodiac Auto to Diane 6 - LHD and early heater from air cooling -- by heck you couldn't half get some bricks in back when you took out back seat - tail pipe scraping the ground.
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At the height of the fuel shortage in the early '70s I sold a Renault 4 SWY 606F which was good for 55mpg on a good day and bought a Jag 3.4 S-type auto MAL 400E which normally did about 18mpg. Folk thought I had finally gone over the edge but I was single, well paid and I really, truly wanted that Jag. Tried unsuccessfully to conceal my desire during price negotiations. I queued for ages to fill it up and the damn garage attendant wouldn't let me put anything in the second tank.
Hawkeye
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MK2 Honda CRX (I loved that car !) to 2.0 Volvo 940 Estate, to accomadate an increasing family !
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1973 Hawkeye.
You should have been a South London minicab driver. We had a special garage where we could jump the queue and buy (at an inflated price) all the fuel we wanted.
The only good thing about the fuel shortage was the effect it had on the depressed, very butch women who used to run the forecourt, who suddenly all had massive wads of cash in their back pockets. Did one's heart good to see them almost not scowling for once. :o)
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When i'm home i run about in my Series 3 landy.... Then i have either our diesel Rover 75 or Mrs mm's Scirroco..... BUT even a ride on mower is probably more pleasent to drive than a S3 Landy! I still love it to bits though
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I am in the throws of selling my E46 M3 which will leave me with the wife's Ford Ka as my sole motorised transport. That means 60bhp instead of 343.
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I used to go from a Gazelle (590 shaft hp) to a Morris 1100 (48 bhp) on a daily basis...
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"Gazelle (590 shaft hp)"
That's the helicopter, not the Singer, I take it?
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I went from a turbo scooby to a Mazda 626 diesel. The scoob was fun but I have no regrets. Now I don't need to worry if it will still be there when I return and twice the mpg helps a lot too.
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In 1984 I sold a Fiat Strada 130tc Abarth and bought a Citroen 2cv. The performance drop was pretty noticeable.......
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Are 2CVs really that fast??
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Mini 1.0 39bhp to a Sierra XR4i with 150bhp
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Wolseley 6/80 to a Mk 1 Mini.
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Isn't it curious that most people traded down - not up?
in 1996 went from six months overseas with no car to a BMW 730i. I liked that car!
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My old man bought a 740 around then - that was a very nice car as well. BMW at their peak maybe ?
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Quite - there was something about that car that made it seem to shrink as it went faster, especially on winding roads.
That engine as well! None of my later 6-cyl cars inc Volvo or Subaru have the same purr or quality of noise.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 V6 SE to P reg Polo 1.4
Still miss the Jag but not the cost of running it - 28mpg if lucky and expensive servicing.
Loved the auto box though & the leather. Just felt like a million dollars driving it.
Polo a good car though - 11 years old and I've done 35k miles in the past 2.5 years - never missed a beat.
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First motor was a 2 litre Capri, a gift from me mams bloke, next was a Nissan 120Y, this lasted for about a fortnight. after this I went onto the heady heights of an Austin Metro City X.
Loved them all though (OK, not the 120, it was a piece of carp)
CBG
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Drink Lager, Talk Piffle,
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1.0l Cosra to Honda Civic Type r - VERY Scary at first!
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Moggie Minor convertible to E-type
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Peugeot 309 XLD (non-turbo!) to Impreza Turbo 2000, in 1999.
I noticed a slight difference in both performance and economy!
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must be something in the water up here. Another colleague has just sold his BMW M5 and bought a '93 1.3 Fiesta auto!!! It's nice and shiny, (if you ignore the two dented doors) and only 28k miles but I still can't believe he actually paid £450 for it...
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We and another couple went from Toyota Corolla GT (us) and MR2 + Honda Civic S (them) to Vauxhall Cavalier, Montego estate and Toyota Corolla 5-door. Kids!
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Brand new 52 plate S2000 to an 02 1.6 Focus
From best car I've ever had to the worst in one go.
L
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I once had a Rover P6 2000 and after it gave up the ghost I did without a car for a while. Does that count?
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As the cold mornings are coming in, thinking of hanging the Muddy Fox up on the garage wall and using the Veyron. I wish !!!
Does going from a diesel Volvo with 140bhp/tonne to a bike with 950bhp/tonne count ?
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not really in the spirit of things, now if you'd gone from the Veyron to the Volvo that would have been acceptable if a bit mad...
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I went from a Mini to a Citroen CX familial 7 seater. I parked them side by side and realised that the drivers seat in the Citroen was as far from the front of the car as the back seat was from the front of the Mini.
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When I married SWMBO she had never driven anything but her mothers 1971 Mini: only took her a short time to get used to my Peugeot 504 7-seat estate, except for the difference in petrol costs.
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MGB soft top with wire wheels to my fist company car 1.3 Morris Marina.
I know which car I wish I still had.
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Fiat Uno 1.0 FIRE to Granada 2.0 Ghia Auto. Guess which I preferred!
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Ford Cortina 2l. GT for a Citroen Dyane!
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Motorcycles: Honda 350 twin to a Kawasaki Mach IV H2 750cc triple 2-stroke.
I think I said something like "Crikey!"
Jaguar MkVII to Austin A30 going the other way.
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Ford 100E van to Triumph Spitfire mk2.The extreme part was the cost, £25 motor to a £350 motor when I was earning about £25 per week!
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Leon cupra R to a £300 h reg 1.4 astra. I took reduncancy so had to give co car back. Was quite a culture shock.
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When my ex brother in law lost his job in the early 90s he and my sister swapped 2 older but more plush cars for one newer more basic one.
They had a Citroen BX 1.9 GTI on an F and a Golf GTI convertable on an A
They traded them both in for a very low mileage G or H reg Citroen AX base model. Apparently no money changed hands, they just swapped the cars.
However, in their defence they did keep the Pug 505, so they went from 3 cars down to 2. I think they liked their cars and realised that they had to trim the fleet when they fell on potentially hard times.
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More recently about 6 years ago I went from a Pug 309SRi D reg (written off) to a Lada Riva.
Everything was more noticable, especially the cornish roads!
About 6 months later this was sold and I got my first van. Renault Trafic N Reg, 187k and every part of it told a story.
That was eventually changed for the brand new Nissan Primastar in 2004.
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I went from a Moggy Minor to a Renault 11 turbo... on the test drive I simply couldn't believe that the car had got up 90mph that quickly. Gave ample opportunity to test the brakes.
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