Quote: "Here's a montage of all the cars I can remember having"
Love that idea. It's cool to see the evolution from cheap cars to sports cars to sensible cars. How was the firebird?
Had to do my own for nostalgia purposes ...
Nova was my first car. Cost £1400, like a little go-kart, some nobber in a truck drove into it while it was parked outside my house and smashed it to pieces, but I got £1500 from the insurance company, so quids in. I then sold the wreck for £100.
Good first car, cheap to insure, but only 4 gears so it was a screamer on the motorway.
Replaced with the Clio. Very average, nothing special, had the stereo nicked after about a year, and the door lock remained hanging out where the guy had screwdrivered it off. I don't miss that car.
Part exchanged that for the civic when I started my first job after uni. All nice electrics that I'd not had before. Looked good, only 100bhp but was still fairly nippy. I enjoyed that car.
Then after earning some money, part exchanged that for my imported '96 Nissan Skyline GTR. 400bhp, 4 wheel driver ATTESSA, 4 wheel HICAS steering, twin turbo, 0-60 in 5 secs. Monster upgrade from the civic. Loved that car so much. Very rare in my area too, being an import. After many high speed near moments, I ended up writing it off by reversing it into a steel post that was randomly in a car park in my blind spot.
Too expensive to fix, as all the parts had to be imported.
With the insurance money, I got my Cupra R which I have now. 220BHP, lots of low down torque, nice internal build quality, and spacious with 4 doors, so a good all rounder (thats why I bought it).
Just before that I also got my full bike license and got my Suzuki SV650S. V-twin, torque everywhere, only 80bhp but that's a lot on two wheels. 0-60 in under 3.5 seconds. Enjoying it muchly, but will eventually move to a 1000cc bike.
