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Post by racingteatray on Feb 4, 2020 13:24:52 GMT
Thought this might be vaguely interesting...
So I've had 21 cars over 24 years and 90% have been petrol-engined, 86% have been German, 57% have been hatchbacks and 67% have been blue or black...76% have been manuals, 57% have also had 4-cylinder engines and 38% have been VWs...
They average out as a dark blue German hatchback built in 1997 with a 202bhp 2.5 5-cylinder petrol engine and a 5spd manual gearbox, and costing a whisker under £13k.
So basically a slightly bored-out and tuned Mk4 Golf V5...
You?
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 4, 2020 13:59:57 GMT
I've had 18 over 26 years.
72% Petrol
34% Japanese & British, 11% German or Swedish & 5% American or French.
45% have been SUVs.
28% blue, black or green, 11% silver and 5% Red.
So that's a 1995, British or Japanese SUV in either blue, black or green.
I'm not working out the costs, but probably equates to a Discovery or Shogun which is somewhat appropriate.
ETA rough costs average out at £8,200.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 4, 2020 14:10:48 GMT
I want to see this presented on Venn diagrams with all your workings please.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 4, 2020 14:14:38 GMT
I want to see this presented on Venn diagrams with all your workings please. Would the medium of interpretative dance do? |
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Post by johnc on Feb 4, 2020 14:41:45 GMT
Far too much time wasted if I do this properly but I have only ever had 3 road cars that were not German so that's about 90% German. My first 3 cars were white (because beggars can't be choosers and about 50% of all cars were white anyway). After that I have had a variety of blacks and silvers with 2 red cars and one blue one, so on average a dirty grey German with an average cost of maybe £15K. I have had 4 diesel powered cars (Fiesta, 320D, 335D 435D) so about 85% petrol.
In race cars I have had 5, all British and all petrol with an average cost of about £5K to buy and about the same to run annually!
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 4, 2020 14:45:32 GMT
I want to see this presented on Venn diagrams with all your workings please. Would the medium of interpretative dance do? You can leave that bit to me.  |
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Post by michael on Feb 4, 2020 14:52:00 GMT
An Italian 1875cc 4.6 cylinder hatchback in black running mainly on petrol.
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Post by PetrolEd on Feb 4, 2020 15:11:40 GMT
Er, looks like a fixed head Porsche with the engine from a Golf Gti
15 cars in 23 years not including company cars.
Awards go to
Best: Cayman Gt4
Best Value: Merc C220d that I put 30,000 miles on in just over a year and cost £7K
Kept the longest : Porsche 993
Most disappointing : Mk6 Golf Gti
Do I love it or hate it: Civic Type R
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 4, 2020 15:16:50 GMT
15 cars (not including long term hires). 73% petrol, 27% Fords, 40% UK built, 33% German built, 1.8 litre average size.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2020 16:01:59 GMT
Makes me boring I suppose.
41 years and 7 cars.
Average cost of about £6.5k
3 French, 3 UK and one German.
3 diesel remainder petrol.
Average of 1.4l
I have driven more and more exciting cars but did not buy any of them.
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Post by Tim on Feb 4, 2020 16:09:50 GMT
19 cars
25% chance of it being BMW or Fiat
30% Italian, 25% German, 25% Japanese or UK
2,298cc engine with 5 cylinders and 160BHP
60% petrol,
25% silveror red, 20% blue, 15% black, 4% each for green grey and white
Average year 1999.
EDIT I forgot the Shogun I had so that's made a small difference.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 4, 2020 16:12:31 GMT
It's a testament to how often I used to chop and change my cars when I was younger (and, crucially, not married) that, after 38 months and knocking on for 23k miles, my current car ranks 4th overall for both length of tenure and most miles covered.
Longest tenure goes to the green Z1, which managed 55 months and highest mileage went to my student-era red Mk2 Golf GL in which I racked up around 50k miles.
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Post by Tim on Feb 4, 2020 16:14:02 GMT
It's a testament to how often I used to chop and change my cars when I was younger (and, crucially, not married) that, after 38 months and knocking on for 23k miles, my current car ranks 4th overall for both length of tenure and most miles covered. Longest tenure goes to the green Z1, which managed 55 months and highest mileage went to my student-era red Mk2 Golf GL in which I racked up around 50k miles. Is it a slow day at work?  I feel some additional columns may be required in my spreadsheet. |
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 4, 2020 16:15:50 GMT
Longest tenure is the TVR at 8 years, followed by the Volvo V40 at 6 years. The Defender and Subaru are joint 3rd at 5 years so far, but I WILL NEVER sell the black Land Rover as I have come to love it far too much.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2020 16:19:07 GMT
Mine is a 2.0 with 4.2 cylinders, half a turbo and runs on an 85/15 petrol/diesel mix. It's also firmly European, unlike me!
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 4, 2020 16:38:19 GMT
It's a testament to how often I used to chop and change my cars when I was younger (and, crucially, not married) that, after 38 months and knocking on for 23k miles, my current car ranks 4th overall for both length of tenure and most miles covered. Longest tenure goes to the green Z1, which managed 55 months and highest mileage went to my student-era red Mk2 Golf GL in which I racked up around 50k miles. Is it a slow day at work? I feel some additional columns may be required in my spreadsheet. Actually not particularly! It was existing data...from a previous slow day... |
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Post by Tim on Feb 4, 2020 17:21:22 GMT
Longest period of ownership is 188 months (and counting) for the Fiat Coupe.
Highest mileage is 69k in a Fiat Punto HGT over a period of 3 years.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2020 17:24:16 GMT
Longest period of ownership is about 32 years so very boring.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 4, 2020 18:49:17 GMT
I dare say if it hadn't come to an untimely end, I'd have kept the green Z1 for much longer. Between the two of them, I had a Z1 for nearly nine years. I still deeply regret selling it, although now, with the impending ULEZ restrictions coming into force where we live next year, I'd have probably had to sell anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2020 20:30:17 GMT
I had a chance to bring a Porsche 914 back from Germany but decided against it being LHD and an unknown quantity insurance and servicing wise. I forgot one too. A Ford Taunus MKIII, a yellow 2 litre 4 cylinder.
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Post by Stuntman on Feb 4, 2020 20:43:44 GMT
My average car is blue and black, with hints of silver, green and white.
It has 4.83 cylinders and 5.42 forward gears in its exclusively manual box.
It has a 201 BHP 2.3 cylinder engine, which sits in the front but has moved a quarter of the way to the middle.
The driven wheels are ever-so-slightly biased to the front.
It has 3.6 seats and 2.6 doors, costs £26,350 and has covered 29,800 miles.
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Post by chipbutty on Feb 4, 2020 22:02:33 GMT
My average car has exactly 3.0 litres spread over 5.68 cylinders producing 262 bhp
It is 4% Italian, 4% Swedish, 8% Belgian, 20% German and 64% British.
40% of my cars had a V6
20% of my cars had a V8
20% of my cars had a straight 4
12% of my cars had a straight 6
8% of my cars had a straight 5
52% have been turbocharged
12% have been supercharged
56% had a petrol engine
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Post by PG on Feb 4, 2020 23:24:11 GMT
As I've read down this thread I've kept having to go back and add more columns to my spreadsheet. :-)
It's been 47 years since I passed my test and in that time, including our two farm trucks and our shared Mini, I've had 20 cars.
Most popular colours are Blue at 6 and Red at 5.
75% have been petrol
25% have had a V8
85% have been British or British brands (i.e including Vauxhall, Ford)
70% were definitely built in the UK
The average engine size is 2.7L.
Longest tenure is our trucks - the Defender at 12 years closely followed by our Shogun at 10 and still here.
Amongst the cars, longest tenure and I think biggest mileage was my Range Rover V8 that was 6 years and just about 100k mls.
Looking back amongst cars sold on, I miss the Range Rover and XK8 in about equal measure.
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Post by Blarno on Feb 5, 2020 9:40:59 GMT
Jesus!
Do you have a spare week for me to work it all out?
I can hazard a guess at it being a French/British mostly 4 cylinder car with about 1800cc.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 12:12:51 GMT
A sort of amalgam blue, with purple and hint of green, sounds rather flip I fear.
Average mileage at a guess is 33k, average cost of £19k, all manual, all petrol.
182 bhp from 2.3l and 5.17 cylinders, with 5.33 forward gears. Current car is by far and away the longest-owned.
Given that I have owned a car since 1992, my average tenure is 6 cars over 28 years - not very impressive but explained largely by The Teenager.
Edit: It's also half saloon and half hatch, so a sort of fastback, I guess.
Weighted by miles covered, it becomes a bit more interesting:
It becomes a 280 bhp, 3.1l car with just over 5.5 gears, 6.23cyl and a price of just over £31k. |
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Post by grampa on Feb 5, 2020 14:34:21 GMT
Recent slow down in changing cars (last MINI kept for 12 years, previous MINI kept for 5 years, Scirocco kept for 10 years) mean I have had 14 main cars and 5 second cars in 42 years of driving.
Slowest has been a 38bhp Morris Minor (now about 60 bhp, which relegates a Hilman Imp to slowest spot - oldest was a 1958 Thames 300E van with a 1500GT Cortina engine, with the 1962 Morris Minor (still owned) being second and definitely longest owned at 34 years, shortest owned was an Astra 1.3 kept for just 9 months before it was unexpectedly swapped for a 1.8 Sri version of the same car. Most powerful and also fastest was Astra VXR. With such an eclectic mix I don't really know where to start with an average!
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Post by Ben on Feb 6, 2020 11:15:40 GMT
I've only ever had 3 cars.
All Japanese
All petrol (well, one hybrid)
All automatics (CVTs count as automatics I guess)
Prius was 1.8, the other two 1.6s
Saloon (Lancer), hatch (SX4), and Prius is kinda in between? I'm gonna count it as a hatchback
Green, white and black
So I guess my average car is a 1.6 Japanese automatic petrol hatchback. Which is what I'm driving now...
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 6, 2020 11:42:51 GMT
71.43% German
5.57 Cylinder average
£11,286 average (2 were free so kind of distorted)
64.28% Manual (although if we looked at time owned auto would romp this)
92.86% petrol
Red is the most prevalent colour.
60% RWD
So based on today's prices my average car is probably an E46 M3 manual in red with a dodgy spark plug cap on one cylinder.
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