second cars
Apr 20, 2014 | 10:59 AM
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From: Plymouth
second cars
Who here has a second car? Would be interesting to hear what people drive when they arnt having their subaru fix!
I have an e46 320d that I love to bits but am looking at chopping it in against a monaro on tuesday
Apr 20, 2014 | 11:05 AM
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From: North wales
Apr 20, 2014 | 11:09 AM
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From: essex
Discovery 2 shared with my wife. Dog slow, handles like a bus but its got all the whistles and bells and great for longer journey's.
Apr 20, 2014 | 11:14 AM
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From: Suntrap of the South
Galaxy 2.0TDi. Great antidote, solid workhorse.
Apr 20, 2014 | 11:14 AM
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From: Back in a Widetrack :)
Apr 20, 2014 | 11:16 AM
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From: Cornwall
Between my wife and I we have our bugeye, my wifes uk2000 and I have a 2ltr Nissan primera for work etc.
Apr 20, 2014 | 11:27 AM
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From: East Anglia
Apr 20, 2014 | 11:34 AM
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From: London
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:19 PM
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Between me and the missus, volvo v50, mk1 golf cabriolet and an mx5, and if you include bikes, an sv650, bmw r850gs and a honda vfr400.
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:26 PM
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From: Aldershot
VW Passat 54 plate Highline saloon with the bulletproof 1.9 AWX TDi 130 engine. With a very nice remap from AMD Essex lurking somewhere in the ECU. The front lifts up like a speedboat, the engine wants to get out and run down the road lol.
104k miles, playing at it! She will never die.
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:33 PM
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From: Hunting down door dinger's in south wales..
Ford Ranger and the wife has a Ford Kuga titanium
Ranger is just as bad on fuel as my Scooby..
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:35 PM
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:37 PM
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From: Filling up with V Power somewhere in South Wales
We use the Mrs Skoda Fabia VRS for day to day stuff which we're going to replace with an Octavia VRS in the not to distant future and I use a Transit Connect for work.
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:40 PM
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From: Somewhere in Kent, sniffing some V-Power
Mrs has a Peugeot 107. 50mpg all day long and handles like a mini.
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:43 PM
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From: London
Skoda cube van for commuting, Skoda Monte Carlo for comfort, and a Pinarello Dogma 2 to keep the miles down on the van.
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:46 PM
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Audi a4 2.5 tdi sport avanr
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:53 PM
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From: SOMERSET SCOOBYS
Apr 20, 2014 | 12:57 PM
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From: Kent
STI V6 is my 2nd car, UK turbo being my other.
Apr 20, 2014 | 01:13 PM
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Our first car is 07 plate 1.9CDTi Astra, 2nd car is my bugeye prodrive (just for me..)
Apr 20, 2014 | 01:17 PM
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From: Welsh Northland
Bugeye prodrive STi is my second car. Daily is a 2.0DTi Zafira. I also have a Bugeye WRX project
Wife has an Audi A3 TDi 170!
Apr 20, 2014 | 01:37 PM
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From: rotherham
wife has a megane cabriolet, horrible to drive.
Got a nice transit box van for work, twin hobs and a grill in back for when i'm stuck onsite on a job.
Apr 20, 2014 | 01:49 PM
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From: The 2dr club
Me- b8 avant 2.0TFSI quattro s-line
Wife-mini cooper
Sold my weekend toy, need to save up and buy another at some point
Apr 20, 2014 | 02:12 PM
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From: Moved to the Darkside
2012 Kuga 4x4 TDCI. I went to look at Part x'ing it today and all the dealerships were closed. I didn't realise
though there was a lot of people looking around.
Apr 20, 2014 | 02:15 PM
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From: Tyne and Wear
Apr 20, 2014 | 02:19 PM
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My daily is a Mk5 Golf GTI
Apr 20, 2014 | 03:56 PM
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From: berks
We have an A6 Avant 2.7tdi as the family car and a smart fortwo for the childminder (town) journey
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Apr 20, 2014 | 04:03 PM
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From: Cambridge
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Great car
would love one of these
Apr 20, 2014 | 04:27 PM
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From: South Wales,Swansea.
Chrysler grand voyager 3.3 v6 petrol hoping to swap for a zafira soon though.
Apr 20, 2014 | 05:19 PM
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From: Standing Up
Skoda vRS
Iveco Daily, S202 or GC8 classic
Apr 20, 2014 | 05:48 PM
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From: liverpool
this cdti