Cars you've owned and loved

I had a bright blue Mazda RX8. It was beautiful and incredibly powerful but hugely expensive to run. I still miss it though.

I've had hundreds of cars but my new Honda crv auto is the best ,all the toys and auto, I love it,it'll be my last car

Strangely two favourites over the years have both been Renault. Renault 4 and Renault 16 the 4 was so much fun the 16 so much comfort.

Rover. Hauls a lot, holds the road, safe as is possible.

Favourite old car? A Volvo with heated seats and a built in child seat.
Favourite present car-Clio-has lasted for ages without hassle. I bought it for the name!

My car I never had was the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire.

First white golf bought off sons friend who had lovingly looked after it. I was thrilled with it and drive it till my husband said the mileage was too high and sold it. I cried that day.🥹

Oh my Red 2 CV POPPY - such happy times with my daughter then a teenager now 50 this year jumping up and down in the back with her friends and the roof turned back.

Never had a car in my life

This was dh’s pride and joy in the early 70s - a white MGB with leather seats and wire wheels.
He had to sell it before we were married, since he’d gone to work in Oman. (Where we stayed until 1987!)

He’s never loved any other car anything like the same since.

There used to be one of me perched on the bonnet and trying to look glam, but goodness knows where that’s got to.

First car ..Fiat 124 Special..looked like the kind a car you draw when little

Second car For Capri--two colours

And many many more cars after that!!

Not sure I am able to post here becaus it says Grandads shed..sorry if I am not ..I will go away now )

My first car, a Saab 96 V4. Bright red, no power steering. I loved it.

SAABS! We are both SAAB lovers and still run them although they ceased production in 2014.

My first car was a 2 stroke SAAB. When I put petrol into it, I had first to pour a pint of oil into the fuel tank - 1 pint to 4 gallons of petrol. The number of times anxious men raced up to me to tell me I shouldn't be putting oil in the fuel tank and I would calmly explain that the car had a 2 stroke engine!

I had further SAABs, all very old and tending to look it. But, according, to DS, at a private school, my elderly SAAB gave him more street creed than did the very expensive car of the father of one of his friends, and once when I went to collect DS and his friends from a railway station to take them back to school and turned up in DH's car - Renault estate. I had to drive them back home first so that they could return to school in my old SAAB.

When DH stopped getting company cars, he started buying SAAB estates - and we still have one as our main car.

Jane43

When we first met my husband had a Ford Corsair which was his pride and joy but he sold it to enable us to buy our first house. Since then we have been very fond of an Alfa Romeo 147 and a Ford Granada.

Sold a Ford Corsair to buy a house!

Those were the days, houses much more affordable.

I loved my first Mini I don’t actually remember it breaking down, certainly got me to college and back each week, happy days.

I learnt on a Holden premier wagon. It was so huge I felt safe because of the length between me and the back and front of it. It was hideous, two colours cream and brown but I loved that baby. Vrrrm Vrrrm.

During our first couple of years in Oman, I had a white Beetle, which was of course christened Herbie by the children on the construction camp where we lived.

One very little boy (he’ll be over 50 now!) once told dh, ‘I’ve just seen your mother going to work in Herbie.’ 😂

His mum told me they’d almost give up trying to get him to differentiate between Mother and Wife!

My other personal love was a 2003 bright blue Toyota Yaris, bought when it was 6 years old. Over 13 years she never let me down, I never had one major repair nor did she ever fail her MoT except for trivial reasons. I thought I would be driving her until I wasn't fit to drive.

Except that a young idiot tried to race across a crossroads, because he thought he could get across before the car on the main road reached him. Well, he hit us amidships and as the retail value of a car now 19 years old, was so low, it was scrapped. I still mourn her and it has taken me two years to get used to not driving her, we worked as one.

My first car was a Jowett Bradford Van, bought for £12/10s in 1961, passed my test in it in 1962. Sounded like a tin box full of spanners no matter how often I adjusted the tappets, [ a swine of a job being a flat four engine] Sold it in 1963 for £15 so not a bad return for two years running. Favourite car was a BMW 700 bought in Germany in 1964 powered by a 700cc BMW motorcycle engine, dosen't sound much but could it shift, unfortunatly some swine nicked it in 1966 whilst I was serving in Aden, often wondered what happened to it as it was still regeristered in Germany.