Show Your Car and Car Discussion Thread

[Fluxmaven]

Walked out this morning and it was too nice out to not take the Miata. Stopped at the grocery store to pick up some snacks along the way

 

I wish this thing actually got 35+ MPG... Maybe if it spent less time sideways at 7000RPM  

[The Pook]

with no tickets and no claims my car insurance went up for the 4th time in 2 years 

 

time to go shopping 

[Fluxmaven]

Mine will probably be going up soon... I just remembered to pay the speeding ticket I got recently. First one in probably 5+ years... Considering how I typically drive is honestly amazing. 

[J7SC_Orion]

...washed it for the 2nd time this year, but dirt and road grime never sleep  

 

[waffl3ninja]

2015 GT500 and 2014 Montero Sport 2.5L diesel daily driver. 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2023 by waffl3ninja

[The Pook]

don't @ me

 

[Fluxmaven]

Took a little trip over to the new Microcenter in Indianapolis. So far I'm really liking the Mustang. 

[Andrew]

General Motors are cowards.

 

In 2001, they were going to make a 450hp V8 hatchback for the road. This is because at the time, they were racing in DTM and wanted to have a road version of their DTM car. It would have had a 4L V8, front engine, rear wheel drive based on this.

 

 

Instead, they decided against it for whatever reason and the best version of this car available to the public is a front wheel drive 2L turbo making 160hp. The V8 version would have looked like this

 

 

They didn't even have to make it mass production. Mercedes did that exact same thing except actually made the thing. This is what it looks like

 

 

So did BMW with the M3 GTR Strassenversion

 

[Andrew]

Some personal news:

 

You can call me Chains, because I'm in a pickle right now. I do need a car kind of soonish, and one that both works and won't cost me £8000 a day in fuel. Fortunately, I have found someone who is selling a 2009 Ford Focus for £300, which in the current climate is an absolute bargain. There's nothing wrong with it, but he's willing to sell it to me for that price. However, I just got some insurance quotes. Because of the way insurance works here for some reason that makes absolutely not sense, other than a great way to get more money from someone, no claims bonus discounts are only "active" for 2 years. If you don't have an insurance policy for 2 years, you lose that bonus. Because of this, I'm effectively a new driver as far as insurance companies are concerned.

 

The insurance quotes I got for that Focus starts at £400 a month and goes up to £750 a month. The insurance companies are effectively telling me, even though I've never made a claim in over 10 years, I will completely write this car off 16-30 times in my "first" year driving, or an average of 1.3 to 2.5 times a month. At the prices they're quoting, and I've looked this up. I will be financially better off financing a £28,000 car than outright buying a £300 car.

 

I'm not going to do that though, I have got quotes for cars that no one wants because of the brands history of unreliability and rust which hasn't been true for over 20 years. Insurance companies don't really have that much data on this one specific car I'm looking at, and I can buy it for £1500. I'm getting insurance quotes on that car ranging from £150 a month to £250 a month, so I'll likely end up with one of those. I'm not saying what it is right now :3

[speed_demon]

 

I don't see how that's even legal. Sheesh.

[Andrew]

Mandatory insurance. What really made it worse, was there was an official petition to the government to cap insurance costs to people without a NCB and they haven't made a claim. The government officially discussed it and said no. Since then, insurance has been slowly creeping up in price, especially for new drivers. Including people who have been driving for many years, have never made a claim but lost their NCB due to them not having an insurance policy for 2 years.

[J7SC_Orion]

34 minutes ago, Andrew said:

Mandatory insurance. What really made it worse, was there was an official petition to the government to cap insurance costs to people without a NCB and they haven't made a claim. The government officially discussed it and said no. Since then, insurance has been slowly creeping up in price, especially for new drivers. Including people who have been driving for many years, have never made a claim but lost their NCB due to them not having an insurance policy for 2 years.

 

That's even crazier than some of the insurance snags I see here 

[Alex]

1 hour ago, J7SC_Orion said:

 

That's even crazier than some of the insurance snags I see here 

Yeah insurance is turning into more of a scam world-wide. What's funny is it's usually better in third world countries where it's often needed more.

[EHW Ai]

2022 Forester after I sadly hit a deer. Looks to be about $22000 in damages. One of the few times in my life I feel insurance was worth it. 

 

[Andrew]

I went on the internet and made a list of potential cars that I can go with. I did remove the secret one in case I do end up actually buying it because I want to make a funny meme joke but it won't work if you know what it is.

(year, make, model, engine/spec, purchase price, estimated insurance costs, annual tax)

 

3 hours ago, TonyBombassolo said:

2022 Forester after I sadly hit a deer. Looks to be about $22000 in damages. One of the few times in my life I feel insurance was worth it. 

 

Oofies. Also yeah, if the airbags go off, that's pretty much a guaranteed total. Airbags only go off in a crash if there's chassis damage.

[speed_demon]

7 hours ago, Andrew said:

I went on the internet and made a list of potential cars that I can go with. I did remove the secret one in case I do end up actually buying it because I want to make a funny meme joke but it won't work if you know what it is.

(year, make, model, engine/spec, purchase price, estimated insurance costs, annual tax)

 

Oofies. Also yeah, if the airbags go off, that's pretty much a guaranteed total. Airbags only go off in a crash if there's chassis damage.

2001 MX5 gets my vote - nice cars that are as fun to drive as they are mechanically dependable. Cheap to maintain and decent on fuel as well.

[Fluxmaven]

+1 Miata is always the answer

 

I also owned an R53 Cooper S and it was a fun car, but harder to work on. Also, maybe it was because I just couldn't stop giving it the beans to hear the supercharger, but it got terrible fuel economy for such a small car. 

 

By comparison I can absolutely flog my 1.8 Miata all day and it always gets better than the Mini did and doesn't require premium. It's a touch less practical, but I think it's more fun to drive.

[The Pook]

8 hours ago, speed_demon said:

2001 MX5 gets my vote

 

1 hour ago, Fluxmaven said:

+1 Miata is always the answer

 

[EHW Ai]

35 minutes ago, The Pook said:

 

 

 

Somebody besides me who might send a 4090 your way...?

 

[The Pook]

starting to think I'm never going to get that 4090 

 

[Andrew]

hopefully going to go look at a car next weekend

[The Pook]

6 minutes ago, Andrew said:

hopefully going to go look at a car next weekend

 

[SoloCamo]

Rolled with a Subaru group tonight for a dinner/cruise.  Vaping confirmed on their end so as an Infiniti owner with a rattling exhaust, fading paint and a drivers door that won't open from the outside  I just put on my monocle and top hat than proceeded to remind them that aside of the modded (& tuned) 2020 STi in the group, they were all slow.  Yes, even the 2023 WRX owners felt the shame.

 

In all seriousness it was a good time and the jabs were all in fun.   Too bad it started raining of course so my open diff RWD wasn't exactly going anywhere except spinsville if I gave it more than half throttle even on a roll.

[Andrew]

On 30/09/2023 at 20:15, Andrew said:

hopefully going to go look at a car next weekend

Not going now. Something came up with the person who was supposed to take me and no one else is available today. I can't really go on public transport either because it's a 3 hour trip one way on public transport, but a 35-40 minute drive.

 

I just hope that car is still for sale next weekend. The one I'm looking at getting has to be a very specific trim level and that trim level is pretty rare. To make it worse, the car itself is actually pretty rare as well. There's only about 6000 on the roads with that trim level only having 177 left on the road with a total of 255 being sold.

[Andrew]

On 07/10/2023 at 10:55, Andrew said:

Not going now. Something came up with the person who was supposed to take me and no one else is available today. I can't really go on public transport either because it's a 3 hour trip one way on public transport, but a 35-40 minute drive.

 

I just hope that car is still for sale next weekend. The one I'm looking at getting has to be a very specific trim level and that trim level is pretty rare. To make it worse, the car itself is actually pretty rare as well. There's only about 6000 on the roads with that trim level only having 177 left on the road with a total of 255 being sold.

Update: This one sold, but I found another one that was actually closer. I've put down a deposit and I'm going to go see it in person tomorrow and hopefully end up buying something red and Italian.