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Post by Andy C on Feb 21, 2022 10:57:03 GMT
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Post by PetrolEd on Feb 21, 2022 11:03:21 GMT
Keep it long enough and it'll be another £100k fast ford. Hears to many more happy years.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 21, 2022 11:56:43 GMT
10 years to the day I picked this up.  A keeper is a strong claim but it’s going that way. I still love it after a decade, and the mileage is kept low. In 2020 I did about 800 miles, and last year I did about 1200. Here’s to another 10, maybe more years of 5 pot goodness Bloody hell, it's so old the photos are sepia toned! |
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Post by Blarno on Feb 21, 2022 12:11:57 GMT
Christ, that makes it 12 years from when I sold the Clio to you!
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Post by Roadrunner on Feb 21, 2022 12:14:31 GMT
The thing is, without spending silly money, it would be such a tough act to follow. Definitely a keeper.
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Post by Martin on Feb 21, 2022 12:34:58 GMT
I think 10 years makes it a keeper! Although with 2,000 miles in 2 years, 'Garage Queen' might be more appropriate!  Great to hear you still love it! |
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Post by Blarno on Feb 21, 2022 13:31:19 GMT
Christ, that makes it 12 years from when I sold the Clio to you!
And also 15 years since I bought the Clio.
Fuck, I'm old.
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Post by Boxer6 on Feb 21, 2022 14:05:18 GMT
Christ, that makes it 12 years from when I sold the Clio to you!
And also 15 years since I bought the Clio.
Fuck, I'm old.
Join the club Iain! Nice one Andy, and I think 10 years qualifies it as a keeper.  |
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Post by Martin on Feb 21, 2022 14:21:14 GMT
No need to start thinking about how old we are!  I had the 520d 10 years ago and Lindsay had a Daewoo Lanos! It would be great to love a car enough to want to keep it 10+ years. The Boxster is the longest I've owned a car at 4.5 years, but we'd have been happy to keep it longer and often wish we had been able to afford to do so. |
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 21, 2022 14:51:16 GMT
10 years ago I had the Legacy which I part exchanged for the E500 and I had just bought the TVR.
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Post by Andy C on Feb 21, 2022 14:52:16 GMT
I think 10 years makes it a keeper! Although with 2,000 miles in 2 years, 'Garage Queen' might be more appropriate! Great to hear you still love it! It lives on the drive ! There’s times where it can sit for 2 weeks solid. But the pace, noise, handling mean I do try and take it out once a week at least for a good blast. |
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Post by Andy C on Feb 21, 2022 14:54:30 GMT
Christ, that makes it 12 years from when I sold the Clio to you! Really Wish I kept it and turned it into a road legal track day toy , I just couldn’t justify it at the time . |
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Post by Martin on Feb 21, 2022 15:01:09 GMT
I think 10 years makes it a keeper! Although with 2,000 miles in 2 years, 'Garage Queen' might be more appropriate! Great to hear you still love it! It lives on the drive ! There’s times where it can sit for 2 weeks solid. But the pace, noise, handling mean I do try and take it out once a week at least for a good blast. Drive Queen doesn't quite have the same ring to it! |
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Post by Andy C on Feb 21, 2022 15:14:26 GMT
The thing is, without spending silly money, it would be such a tough act to follow. Definitely a keeper. Exactly - the engine really is special and it just has something most modern stuff is lacking |
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Post by Tim on Feb 21, 2022 15:30:27 GMT
I occasionally look at these as a way of ensuring I have something with 5 cylinders when the Fiat is dead.
After 10 years it's not really costing you anything when you don't use it and if you have the space to keep it then it'd be mad not to, what could possibly replace it without spending a fortune.
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Post by Stuntman on Feb 21, 2022 21:53:27 GMT
Excellent, Andy (and of course I love the first picture in the thread).
You have a special car there, with a really nice combination of qualities. It sounds great, it has some actual feel, it rides well, it handles well and it goes properly fast in the real world. Keep enjoying it and keeping it.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 22, 2022 9:34:43 GMT
I had not realised it had been that long!
When a car hits a sweet spot for you, it's hard to replace.
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Post by PetrolEd on Feb 22, 2022 9:53:02 GMT
10 years is a long time for the same car. I was in the 993 which was either partnered with a Class estate or a Golf Gti mk6. The missus was in an Alfa Mito which is a bit different to her XC90 shes currently in.
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Post by Andy C on Feb 22, 2022 10:19:05 GMT
Apart from a GR Yaris there isn’t anything modern hot hatch wise that appeals to me . Civic type r in grey maybe but it would no doubt be about £400 a month which is a lot of money to do max 2k miles a year .
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Post by PG on Feb 22, 2022 11:23:53 GMT
10 years. In one way, but the blink of an eye. In the other way, 10 years, OMFG, we're all so old.....
Love that sepia tone photo.
These days I can't actually remember what car(s) I had 10 years ago. I know it was one of the X Types, but I'm honestly not sure which.
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Post by rodge on Feb 22, 2022 12:02:28 GMT
Good car to hold on to for 10 years.
The engine in them is great although it’s a while since I’ve driven one.
Looks really well and hasn’t aged at all.
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Post by Alex on Feb 22, 2022 21:08:11 GMT
Still looks good Andy, especially in that blue. The asbo orange examples haven't aged as well but yours still looks good and all the better for having been kept cosmetically standard. Too many have had body kits and blacked out Ford badges added. That engine under the bonnet of my estate one would have been a great car.
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 22, 2022 22:04:03 GMT
10 years ago I had the Scenic and the Galaxy, younger daughter had recently passed her test and was driving her sister's 1st-gen Ka
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 22, 2022 23:32:57 GMT
Great to see a loved car. Keep it until retirement then sell it to fund the retirement.
10 years ago we were just mortgaging for this house and I had the A8, with T4 about four months old. This week I ripped out the Kährs walnut flooring I put down in the now-old dressing room, having now built a walk in closet and tomorrow the fitter comes to put the new furniture in it. Last week I drove Eva and the Mini several times a day in turn to Sutton High school where the now 10 year old T4 was in her first Gang Show.
Tempus fugit
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Post by Roadrunner on Feb 23, 2022 11:54:59 GMT
Yes, 10 years, it makes you think. Back then we had the Skoda Superb company car, the older shape Mini Clubman and I was just about to buy the Standard. Since then we have had the Benz E320, The Audi A4 company car, the newer Mini Clubman, the Benz E350 and the Alvis. Back then, W was in Reception class at school and E was still in my ball sack. Now W is upstairs revising for his Latin and Greek exams next week and E is enjoying half term, playing the piano.
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Post by Blarno on Feb 23, 2022 12:17:59 GMT
10 years ago, I still had the Primera and only one child.
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Post by Grampa on Feb 23, 2022 12:26:51 GMT
Coming up to 12 years since I bought the Scirocco with no intentions to get rid. I'm in favour of keepers!
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Post by Stuntman on Feb 23, 2022 19:41:36 GMT
On the subject of keepers, my E90 M3 will be 13 on 10 April. I will write up a 'teenager' thread when the time comes.
Ten years ago I had the silver Cayman S (kept for 12 years until it threw me a catastrophic bill) and the M3.
In ten years time I may well still have the M3, the blue Cayman GTS 4.0 and the black GR Yaris.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Feb 28, 2022 9:44:46 GMT
10 years ago I had a ZT260. Now I have a ZT260. Just a different one.
Also, the fact it has survived for 10 years on a driveway in Cov is newsworthy in itself!
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Post by chipbutty on Feb 28, 2022 11:21:51 GMT
Mine lasted 6 months
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