[TodmordenLad]

Bit of a barge, the A6, but a lovely barge at that! Of the three German premium brands, I've always thought that Aldi makes the nicest estates. Pity the main dealers are such d*ckheads - that said, they're all pretty ghastly.

[G50]

Originally Posted by JD6

The coupe is a stunning shape.

I did my best at ‘man geometry’ (a subset of man maths) to try and make it work. You can just about squeeze 3 adults into the coupe, with the passenger seat slightly further forward than usual, but the dipping roofline in the rear makes it tricky. I’m 6 feet and you couldn’t fit anyone with legs behind the driver’s seat in the coupe.

At least they made the 8GC useful this time. The previous 6GC managed to be 5 metres long without space for adults in the back…

I don't know how they manage such lack of space with the 8 coupe. I know newer cars got bigger with better crash protection, but I'm 6'2.5" and can get average sized adults behind me in the E92 almost as easily as in the G31, leg space wise. Getting in and out is a bit trickier though because 2 door. Had my mum and her fella in the back and they're 5'9 and 6 foot, I was really surprised adults could fit.

[G50]

And this is me sat behind my driving position just now! Legs have at least an inch, though my head is on the roof liner like

[JD6]

Originally Posted by G50

I don't know how they manage such lack of space with the 8 coupe. I know newer cars got bigger with better crash protection, but I'm 6'2.5" and can get average sized adults behind me in the E92 almost as easily as in the G31, leg space wise. Getting in and out is a bit trickier though because 2 door. Had my mum and her fella in the back and they're 5'9 and 6 foot, I was really surprised adults could fit.

The 8 coupe has a really long boot - the same as the 8GC, suggesting they’ve been forced to push the rear seats forward due to the sleek roofline. Definitely a case of form over function as it makes the rear seats almost unusable.

The 8GC has excellent rear legroom, but it’s about 25cm longer (and 3cm wider) than the coupe, losing some of the style of the coupe.

[Pond]

8 series, like the F 6 series it replaced is, as someone once said, "a reverse tardis".

I have a secret crush on the F1* M6, especially as they can be had for £25k for a decent one. Sakhir Orange M6 coupe.....yum. I will never own one, though, as it is no use to me whatsoever.

So big with so little space.

[Blacktemplar]

Originally Posted by Pond

8 series, like the F 6 series it replaced is, as someone once said, "a reverse tardis".

I have a secret crush on the F1* M6, especially as they can be had for £25k for a decent one. Sakhir Orange M6 coupe.....yum. I will never own one, though, as it is no use to me whatsoever.

So big with so little space.

Here you go......

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...sort=relevance

Or maybe something a little more subtle

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...sort=relevance

[boba-fett]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

Here you go......

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...sort=relevance

Or maybe something a little more subtle

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...sort=relevance

I do like the green one !

[Blacktemplar]

Originally Posted by boba-fett

I do like the green one !

It is rather shouty but I do like it. Screams Wester Hailes drug dealer

[boba-fett]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

It is rather shouty but I do like it. Screams Wester Hailes drug dealer

I’ve only ever had one green car (280 brookland which only came in green) I’d never have another, I was brought up at a time a green car was considered bad luck!

But I do like it.

[Blacktemplar]

Originally Posted by boba-fett

I’ve only ever had one green car (280 brookland which only came in green) I’d never have another, I was brought up at a time a green car was considered bad luck!

But I do like it.

Likewise, I’m of a vintage where green cars were bad luck. My first transport was a 1973 Morris Marina in what I can only describe as ‘vomit green’ - my mates called it Fireball XL-5 on account of the rusty, leaky clamshell petrol tank that sloshed onto the exhaust on a hard right turn. Fumes in the back seat were apparently quite intoxicating

Was the Brooklands the limited edition version of the 2.8i? Looked at one of them once in metallic brown with a brownish vinyl roof - drove like a dog by modern standards, but I really wanted it. Turned out to be a rust bucket with a dodgy chassis…

[Pond]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

Was the Brooklands the limited edition version of the 2.8i?

The 'Brooklands 280' was the run out last ever version of the Capri. Only available, as Boba says, in Brooklands Green.

Have been fetching very good money at the likes of Mathewson's until recently.

I love the look of the mkIII Capri. Inside was great aswell. They felt quite 'American' and sporty all at the same time IMO.

My first car was a 1980 1600GL in glorious beige with coloured coded beige bumpers and mirrors (and knackered suspension). It was 6 years old and cost me £1,500 via a bank loan (underwritten by my Dad).
BFC 372V. I even remember the reg number!

[isleaiw1]

Originally Posted by Pond

The 'Brooklands 280' was the run out last ever version of the Capri. Only available, as Boba says, in Brooklands Green.

Have been fetching very good money at the likes of Mathewson's until recently.

I love the look of the mkIII Capri. Inside was great aswell. They felt quite 'American' and sporty all at the same time IMO.

My first car was a 1980 1600GL in glorious beige with coloured coded beige bumpers and mirrors (and knackered suspension). It was 6 years old and cost me £1,500 via a bank loan (underwritten by my Dad).
BFC 372V. I even remember the reg number!

You were clearly posh then, my first car was a 1.6GL Mk 1 Cavalier, bought with a loan from the bank of dad (who had just retired so had a bit of cash - and it was interest free, the interest free bit being my 21st birthday present!)

AOX291T, 1200 quid. White with a red velour interior and rostyle rims with trim rings...

[Bryans69]

Originally Posted by isleaiw1

You were clearly posh then, my first car was a 1.6GL Mk 1 Cavalier, bought with a loan from the bank of dad (who had just retired so had a bit of cash - and it was interest free, the interest free bit being my 21st birthday present!)

AOX291T, 1200 quid. White with a red velour interior and rostyle rims with trim rings...

Luxury

Mine was a white Hillman Imp. Paid £20 as it had been standing in someone's garden and used as spare storage. My Dad was mechanic, so helped me get it running. Decided after a while it was a bit under powered, especially with 7 teens in (and yes, it wasn't a 7 seater....), so splashed out £50 and bought a MK2 Escort.

I got through quite a few cars during that period (although nothing on boba-fett scale), and a gold MK1 Cavalier was among them.

[Blacktemplar]

My Marina was £750 if I remember rightly, paid for myself. It was acquired from a mate of my dads who had some kind of dodgy garage. I had a choice of a mustard Vauxhall Viva or the Marina. I needed it to learn in because my dad had an automatic Rover SD1 and he wouldn’t let me drive it.

It was a total lemon, sills were rusted away to nothing, as was most of the undercarriage and the gearbox needed stripping & rebuilding it was so worn. Bear in mind this was a 6 year old car…. good old British Leyland

OHS 380L was the reg. I checked the DVLA records and it was last taxed in 1985 (I sold it for £500 in 1984 when I left Uni & moved to London) so it was probably scrapped/fell apart soon after

Nostalgia’s not what it used to be…

Anyway, back on topic, and 30 years later I found myself the owner of a nice A6 Avant oil burner. Great family wagon and a decent driver if a tad portly. I’ve always hankered after an S/RS and if money was no object I’d have the RS6 in a flash.

[C320]

Originally Posted by Pond

Just to confirm the stereotype, I have been looking at these aswell.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...%201XN&fromsra

First car I can remember really desiring as a child was a 911 Turbo. Yes they have been making them that long!

Love that RS6 you posted, stunning interior and with the exception of the matt paint, close to how I'd spec it. I hadn't realised they dropped in value that much. I'd really like to tick the RS6 Avant box some time. In fact, if funds allowed, it would make the perfect 2 car garage for me as I went for a 911 Turbo S about a year and a half ago.

Best thing I ever did - it's been epic and love every moment I'm out in it. I like going into the garage occasionally to look at it, I also have a CCTV camera covering it in the garage, so I can check up on it from anywhere. My wife & kids think I'm mad as we they call it my baby monitor!

[TurboWeasel]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

My Marina was £750 if I remember rightly, paid for myself. It was acquired from a mate of my dads who had some kind of dodgy garage. I had a choice of a mustard Vauxhall Viva or the Marina. I needed it to learn in because my dad had an automatic Rover SD1 and he wouldn’t let me drive it.

It was a total lemon, sills were rusted away to nothing, as was most of the undercarriage and the gearbox needed stripping & rebuilding it was so worn. Bear in mind this was a 6 year old car…. good old British Leyland

OHS 380L was the reg. I checked the DVLA records and it was last taxed in 1985 (I sold it for £500 in 1984 when I left Uni & moved to London) so it was probably scrapped/fell apart soon after

Nostalgia’s not what it used to be…

Anyway, back on topic, and 30 years later I found myself the owner of a nice A6 Avant oil burner. Great family wagon and a decent driver if a tad portly. I’ve always hankered after an S/RS and if money was no object I’d have the RS6 in a flash.

An Allegro 1.3 was my first car. It burned more oil than it did petrol. A gallon of Duckhams Hypergrade 20W50 a week if my memory serves, which was just the 8 mile round trip to and from college.

British Leyland caused me blue smoke PTSD. Even to this today I still look in the rear view mirror on overrun and acceleration for smoke.

You can't claim to have owned a crap car until you've owned an Allegro. Literally everything else in the world, ever, is better than an Allegro.
Apart from Johnny Smith's VTEC turbo restomod one.

Favourite Audi has to be my mate's old Audi 90. Back then that thing felt like a budget rocket ship. As nice as an RS6 is, it can never beat 80s Audi velour seats with the metal frame poking through a hole whilst cornering flat out.

[Blacktemplar]

Originally Posted by TurboWeasel

An Allegro 1.3 was my first car. It burned more oil than it did petrol. A gallon of Duckhams Hypergrade 20W50 a week if my memory serves, which was just the 8 mile round trip to and from college.

British Leyland caused me blue smoke PTSD. Even to this today I still look in the rear view mirror on overrun and acceleration for smoke.

You can't claim to have owned a crap car until you've owned an Allegro. Literally everything else in the world, ever, is better than an Allegro.
Apart from Johnny Smith's VTEC turbo restomod one.

Favourite Audi has to be my mate's old Audi 90. Back then that thing felt like a budget rocket ship. As nice as an RS6 is, it can never beat 80s Audi velour seats with the metal frame poking through a hole whilst cornering flat out.

Was that the one with the square steering wheel? My sister in law had a beige one and it was truly awful - almost as bad as the Austin Princess.

Have to say it must be a close-run thing between the Allegro, the Marina and the Viva for 'most crap car of the 70's' - even after they renamed it the Ital it was awful

[M80]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

Was that the one with the square steering wheel? My sister in law had a beige one and it was truly awful - almost as bad as the Austin Princess.

Have to say it must be a close-run thing between the Allegro, the Marina and the Viva for 'most crap car of the 70's' - even after they renamed it the Ital it was awful

I had the 'privilege' to own both a Marina and a Rustin Allegro.
The Marina was ok (it was better than taking the bus. Just.) but the All Agro was the biggest pile of poop ever.
You could stand 10 feet away from it and literally hear it corroding.

[JD6]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

Was that the one with the square steering wheel? My sister in law had a beige one and it was truly awful - almost as bad as the Austin Princess.

Have to say it must be a close-run thing between the Allegro, the Marina and the Viva for 'most crap car of the 70's' - even after they renamed it the Ital it was awful

My first car was an Austin Princess 1700L (the base model) in appliance white with brown vinyl seats to match the rust on the doors. It was a total PoS, enough to put me off British cars for life. I make an exception for Mini, as that’s a German car in a British costume…

[isleaiw1]

Originally Posted by JD6

My first car was an Austin Princess 1700L (the base model) in appliance white with brown vinyl seats to match the rust on the doors. It was a total PoS, enough to put me off British cars for life. I make an exception for Mini, as that’s a German car in a British costume…

As a 1700, didnt that make it the improved Princess 2.... sorry, that was the improved version so be thankful you didnt have an 1800 OHV job!

[JD6]

Originally Posted by isleaiw1

As a 1700, didnt that make it the improved Princess 2.... sorry, that was the improved version so be thankful you didnt have an 1800 OHV job!

Sounds like the 4 Yorkshiremen sketch!

You’re probably right. My dad had a couple of base model 1800s (1975 and 1977 I think) before the (1979) 1700L - these were all ex-fleet cars from his work, offered cheaply to employees. I do have an early childhood memory of being stuck in the middle lane of a busy 3 lane road in Paris while the Princess boiled over. That was probably the 1800…

[Alscoob]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

Have to say it must be a close-run thing between the Allegro, the Marina and the Viva for 'most crap car of the 70's' - even after they renamed it the Ital it was awful

Where I worked there was a company Marina TC so that was the twin carb 2 door version in a light beige / fawn sort of colour , lethal that was, went quicker than the others didn't go round corners and awful brakes... looked better than the Aggro that were also company cars.

Still it wasn't as bad as the reliant robin the boss bought for a pool car in the height of the '70 fuesl crisis He was surprised that no one drove it and preferred to walk, we all told him it would fall over and would kill you, but he wouldn't have it. He gave it to his son who started with the company, he went over a small B road bridge... he rolled it and turned it into a heap of fibreglass and dust!! Fortunatey he was okay and the bonus was we all got away with not driving it