97-98 - '86 Austin Maestro 1.3 (68bhp) - My first car at 17!
98-00 - '92 Pug 106 xsi (100bhp) - What a sweet little car
00-02 - '94 BMW 318ti (140 bhp) - A great car that my dad now drives
02- - '98 Audi A3 1.8T Sport (200bhp) - My first quick and modified car and will soon be sold
08- - '08 LR2 HSE (233bhp) - Love the luxury
08- - '06 Porsche Cayman S (320bhp) - My weekend toy

Every car I have had has always had more bhp than the last, so i guess in a few years time I'll need to be looking at a Veyron

I have never had a major crash or failure in any of the cars I've owned. Once you've tasted GREY you'll never go back!

My vehicle history - does anyone now own or have any information about these vehicles?

DKG 89W - Series 111 Station wagon 2.6 petrol - what an engine, uneconomic and lacking power!
M211 MKM - Disco 1 Mpi - better than most people reckon!
N580 FKE - Disco 1 300Tdi Auto - Beautiful vehicle!
FA02 RYC - Disco 2 Td5 - Put me off Disco 2's for life!
BV55 ZBX - Defender 110 G4 - Sell this? - NEVER!
MOL 3S - Freelander 2 HSE Auto - Sell this? - Only if I could own a Range Rover TDV8 and could not afford to keep three vehicles! mole

Mole you truely are a LR die hard it seems  Once you've tasted GREY you'll never go back!

These are the ones I can remember in rough chronological order .... that's 1973 through to today ...

Morris Minor 1000
Austin A35
VW Beetle
Austin A35
Bedford HA Van
Vauxhall Viva Estate
Morris Marina
VW Type 3 Fastback
VW Type 3 Estate
VW Polo
Audi 80
Vauxhall Nova
Citroen Dyane
Ford Fiesta XR2
Ford Granada Ghia
Ford Escort Estate
Seat Terra van
Ford Escort
Ford Fiesta
VW Santana
Citroen 2CV
Vauxhall Cavalier
Ford Windstar (USA)
Ford Windstar (USA)
Deawoo Lanos
Skoda Octavia Estate
Peugeot 406
Mazda 6 Estate
Land Rover LR2 Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
Company cars ... a thing of the past - May 2013.

WOW avtur - thats about all the cars I have stayed well away from
At least now we have the best car on the matket  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

Some real dodgy cars in that lot Avtur!!!

Your list shows that not so long ago there was plenty of British (Styling, design and build) cars to choose from....oh how the times change, and not always for the better. Once you've tasted GREY you'll never go back!

ALL the cars on avtur's list are terrible rusters - so maybe thats why he has now gone upmarket  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

My list is nearly as long as avturs....

From 1997 - 2009

MK1 Golf GTi
MG Metro
Escort LX
Audi 80CD
Corsa GSi
Baleno
MK1 Golf Convertible
Colt GTi
MX-3 (with a 2.5 V6 lump) -still have
Freelander 2 HSE

Have not crashed any of them (not badly ) HSE, Auto, Colour - Yes

right that's taken up a few hours, I need to get some work done!

1986 – ‘72 Saab 96 V4 with a bench seat & a column shift it was the best 1st car while at school !!! ( beige)
1988 - ‘82 MG Metro (red)
1990 - ’90 Vauxhall Nova SR (black) 1st new car & my mates aunt reversed into it after a week.
1992 – ‘82 Alfasud 1.5 Ti Cloverleaf ( the best car I’ve ever owned & still have somewhere) ( red)
1994 – '79 Landrover S2 3.9 petrol ( the most expensive car to run I’ve ever owned) (white)
1993-2001 – ex-perk cars supplied to me by fleet boss to kill off, 2x sierra sapphires, 2x mondeos & a vectra. Mission accomplished ( blue & red mainly)
2000 – ’00 golf gttdi mk4 - the dullest car I ever owned ( even the sierras were fun ) (Black)
2001 – 01 Disco S2 gs & a oh & 90 diesel (silver)
2003 - 03 Disco S2 es (facelift) (silver)
2004 - 04 Disco 3 s & all the snagging that goes with a new model ( bonatti grey)
2007 – 07 Freelander 2 SE manual & again all the snagging that goes with a new model ( Black)
2009 – 09 Freelander 2 hse auto & they seam to have sorted out all the wee niggles & it’s Black too

still saving for my quattroporte !

1975 Citroen GS Pallas bought S/H in 1978 my first car and maybe the most comfortable ride.
1982 MG Metro
1984 MG Metro Turbo
1983 MG Maestro 2.0 EFi
1986 Rover 820 Si
1988 MG Montego EFi
1989 Rover 820 Si
1991 Rover 216 Gti
1993 Ford (!!!!!) Mondeo Ghia
1995 Rover 620 Sli
1997 Vauxhall Vectra SRi V6
1999 Freelander 1 1.8Xei
2002 Freelander 1 TD4 ES Auto
2004 Peugeot 307 CC
2006 VW Golf Mk5 GTi DSG (last go at boy racering)
2008 Freelander 2 TD4 SE auto

You can see a Rover bias here - I daren't put the all the cars my dad had when I was a kid - just to mention they were all BL stuff ( most were surprisingly and definitely not crap) 1100/1300's, Allegro ,Marina/Ital

It's good to see the last 2 guys had MG Metro's I have also been down that sorry route, did your's rust away to nothing as well?!!

I also has a 307CC and no I'm not proud of it!

Mk 3 Ford Escort 1.3
Vauxhall Nova 1.2
Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9
Subaru Impreza Turbo
Honda Civic 2.2 Diesel (New Shape)
FL2 TD4 GS

From what I can remember!

1972 - 1975 1965 Morris Oxford Mk6
1975 - 1976 1968 Morris 1100 - Complete rust bucket
1976 - 1979 1973 Escort 1100 - Ex police panda car.
1978 - 1980 1971 MininClubman estate ( Wife's Car) - Toured Norway in this
1979 - Stilll owned 1968 Lotus Elan Plus 2 Rebuilt 1980-1982 used as everyday car until 1996. Toured France and Italy on a couple of occasions .Will find the time to rebuild it again one day
1980 - 1985 Mk2 Escort ( Wife's car)
1982 - 1982 Ancient Triumph 1300 - A real banger used while rebuiding the plus 2. Fell apart on way home from work. Limped straight to scrapyard
1985 - 1990 MK1 Fiesta (Wife's car)
1990 - Still Owned 1985 Lotus Excel 2.2 Wife's car - she thought we were going out to buy a peugeot. Brilliant car and really reliable. Finally died in 2001. I doubt I will ever get round to rebuilding this so should get rid of it.
1994 - 1994 Volvo 360 -Our first tow car. Awful but built like a tank
1994 - 1996 Citreon XM 2.0 Looney car. A complete nightmare
1996 - 1999 Citreon Xantia
1999 - 2003 Freelander 50th Aniversary - 1st new car
2001 - 2004 Fiesta 1100 - Wife's 1st new car
2003 - 2007 Freelander XEDI
2004 - present Fiesta 1.2 Ghia ( Wife's car)
2007 - Present Freelander 2 HSE


Add to this collection two Mk 3 Fiestas used by my son and a third that he and a friend used on the 2007 Mongol Rally. What's left of it is somewhere in Ulan Bataar. Will soon be looking for another to prepare (Overstatement or what) for the Africa Rally - Hyde Park to Cameroon via the western sahara ! He who dies with the most tools wins!

is the Mongol rally the one that Jack Osbourne did in a fiat panda

Looked fun Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis