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diggers road test - Mole - 7th June 2005
An old Fiat Ono - travelled from Scotland to London several times. Worked better than the unit landy off road on site, could carry full site equipment for 3 people (and 3 people),cost ?50 and was traded in for ?600 several years and many miles later- can't do better than that!
diggers road test - drpeterwardle - 7th June 2005
I had a volkswaqen polo that I did 215,000 miles in. My current car a Honda Civic - I have done 112000 trouble free miles in apart from knocking off an exhaust.
Peter
diggers road test - Moley - 7th June 2005
Quote:quote:well its a nissan, probably around 1990- 1994, probably a micra or a bluebird. petrol or diesel these cars just deliver the goods on a daily basis, they dont let you down and just go on and on and on.
I have to agree, the Nissan may not be flash, cool, or even that fast but they live forever and are cheap on fuel. Also, unlike a lot of other cars which tend to have ?white goods syndrome? i.e. a series of expensive parts that wear out one-by-one causing an 18 month cash-haemorrhage, (at the end of which the car finally packs in and you realise you?ve spent more money on parts than it cost in the first place) the Nissan Bluebird will continue to go on way beyond expectations. Eventually, it will simply and unfussedly fail to wake up one morning and never go again. At which point you pat it on the bonnet for a job well done and go and buy another one.
Oh, I have a tear in my eye?
diggers road test - mercenary - 7th June 2005
My Polo coupe has just passed 140,000 as well! This week! I think our cars must be twins Troll. Mine is definitely the evil one though.
diggers road test - the invisible man - 7th June 2005
I know I don't count for this survey but I'm going to tell you about my beautiful car anyway. It's a big white Series 2 Discovery. No I should not have spent all my money on it and no I can't really afford to run it but I don't care.
Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.
diggers road test - deepdigger - 8th June 2005
Yeah but you're just spoilt invissy baby!!
deep
diggers road test - Beki - 8th June 2005
I just bought myself a new rover and its going well so far! (and twas cheap as rover are no more!)
diggers road test - deepdigger - 8th June 2005
What? Brand new? oh dear someones earning too much.
Still, nice motor Beki!!
deep
diggers road test - destroyer - 9th June 2005
Sigh...
Forget about the ancient cars we drive, what about the knackered old vans our employers expect us to drive around fields in. In the very first week that I was entrusted in driving the team out to site in the old sherpa the bloody engine caught fire. 5 years on and they still blame me.
diggers road test - Beki - 9th June 2005
yeah..we were once driving one of the unit vans down the motor way with a broken prop shaft (we didn't know this at the time), illegally bald tires and a dadgy gear box....and still no one fixed the damn thing (or sent it to van heaven...which would have been easier)