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    Best car you've ever driven!

    Ok, so what's the best car you've ever driven?


    .. I was lucky enough to have a drive in one of these a few years ago. A car dealer that used to bring me MOT's sold them. I was just getting ready to fire my Escort up for the first time after building it but I needed some petrol. I went out and asked this guy if he would run me to the garage and he said 'just take that' and tossed me the keys .. moments later I was stonking up the road in one of these babies I swear the girl in the petrol station would have 'love me long time' for a ride in it The torque in them is awesome and they look like nothing else on the road. Only thing is the stupid side windows and rediculously heavy clutch. Cool car
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    i have a limited car selection to choose from as most of them have been shocking but to date the Caterham Supersport i drove at a Slalom day thing was the best... or it might have just been that i got to seriously abuse someone elses car. my face hurt from grinning so much


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    jag xkr supercharged must admit i did wet myself when i drove it

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Not including race / track cars the best thing I've driven for a while is the 6 litre W12 Audi A8 my brother in law gave me to use in the summer and for our wedding (he's an Audi salesman).

    It had awesome power, but the main thing was the sheer quality and elegance of the thing.

    I did get a little go in an R8 which is probably even better, but we didn't really get a chance to 'bond' like I did with the A8
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    the best car i have driven is my skyline





    if you have not driven one you need to before you die, they are just amazing to drive but if you like a bit of sidways action you need to go for a R32 gtr like mine but not the R33 or the R34 as on the later ones the on board computer wont let you do any

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Not really that special but I got to drive a escort cosworth earlier this year and loved it. We should'nt take for granted what we have, Mk1's and MK2's Drive great

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    A AE36 Twincam Corrolla on a slightly damp "private" road, not the fastest or coolest car I've driven but the most fun
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    Vauxhall vx220 Awesome handling, way beyond my limits.

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    This is a difficult question to answer for me. Driven lots of cars and I can't honestly say that one has really done it for me. Mind you I havent driven any supercars yet.

    I was impressed however with my bosses old M3. Not in terms of speed but smoothness for it.

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Quote Originally Posted by DaveWRC View Post
    We should'nt take for granted what we have, Mk1's and MK2's Drive great
    ...and they are great. But some cars are just either out of reach of normal plebians like me, and when you get to drive 'em they blow you away ... no way I could afford a Countach unless i prostituted the missus and sold the house Saying that, the ultimate car will obviously be different from person to person and for infinite reasons. For me I had one of those Athena posters up in my bedroom from of a Lambo - should be a memory lane for those who were a kid in the 80's If you DO own your dream car then you are a lucky git My Escort is a part of me but it's a love/hate thing. Deffo not my dream car ... apart from when it's being a complete nightmare
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    hmmm difficult one either a k reg civic vti with 180bhp mmmmm vtec ,but my car requires more torque to start thsn the civic made, or my old 1.6 fezzy SI, probs because it only cost me 200 quid and used to embarrass cars regaurded as 'fast'

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Honda NSX.

    You can only look at it from certain angles for it to look good, i thought it drove great (even if it was a bit big for my liking) but what a wail from the exhaust.

    Just makes you red-line it each time

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    either one of these 2
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Got to be this for comfort and
    quite poky for a diesel
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    When i was 18 i worked in a garage restoring classic sports cars-so it would have to be a v12 E type jag

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    Got to be my dads 996 turbo, very fun
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Gotta be my bro's Escort, was an absolute animal.
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    I love that escort! Really stunning!!!!!!
    The way to my heart: German and RWD!!

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    Has to be a bedford rascal with the back full of dickheads, in the rain!

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    My MK2 RS2000
    however my dad has just brought a ferrari 308 gt4 with a wicked v8 in it so it should be quick.
    Also my womans porsche boxster s with the aero body kit and hard top is very quick
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    So all we need to do is find out where W***J** is registered and 'ole!' we've got a Porche, an RS2 and a Ferrari if your old man is there for a visit.

    Nice collection of motors you have there. A family of Petrolheads. Like it
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    My dads old BMW 750 was a hoot to drive, like driving a house that was!

    My uncles Z3 3.0 was nice, though it wondered all over the road.

    Muy friends old mini cooper (the proper ones) and his Lotus exige was great fun too.

    I still like the 'raw feeling' you get driving an older car though. any one of my escorts I've had has been great fun driving.

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    I would have to say that my current 997 is probably the best car, not because it is the fastest I have ever driven but because it does everything SO well. Whether it be highway cruising or track fun with loads of grip. A great car!!!!!
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Actually now changing my opinion from the si to my current fiesta, threw it about the yard at work last night on nightshift, by fook does it handle, even got the hang of sideways driving now ,my mates clio and the works sherpa werent doing aswell tho

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    aston martin DB7 is the best i've drove hmmm....

    the sound, the seating position, the way it makes you feel etc just totally spot on


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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Quote Originally Posted by ANDY HARRIS View Post
    Got to be this for comfort and

    quite poky for a diesel
    I drove one of these a few weeks ago, and it was tramlining all over the place cos of ultra low profile wide tyres on motorway. Drove up M56 to the airport, and there are grooves worn into the tarmac from so many wagons using the road. Scary when its doing 70+. Very comfortable to drive though, but scary fuel consumption. 17 to the gallon cruising at 70 in supercharged model.

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    I have been driven round Brands Hatch sideways in a Ferrari 355F1 in the wet by a test driver from Radical, truly awesome! I have driven a Punto race car at Brands Hatch, pretty amazing for a punto, also drove a seicento 600M at Brands that was awesome.
    Drove a 600M sei at cadwell with 16 valve engine on throttle bodies, that would do 0 to 60 quicker than a ferrari, that has to be one of the best cars ever for blasting round a race track.

    I have been given hot laps at Oulton park in a ferrari Maranello 575 F1, & Porsche GT3 that was out of this world for handling.

    I've also been driven round the rally school in a RS200 at this years gold cup meeting. Bloody awesome!

    I had a day at Phil price rally school with the marshals and BTRDA and was taken round the stage in a Mk2 escort with VX engine in it, and an Opel Manta 400,both mind blowing. Being totally sideways looking at the trees at flat out in wet mud is better than any fairground ride!

    I've also been at a track day at Oulton Park in a 6R4 that belonged to a friend about 18 years ago and was also driven round the track in a Hartge BMW 325 being driven by a race instructor. Another awesome day.

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Quote Originally Posted by x-pack View Post
    Ok, so what's the best car you've ever driven?


    .. I was lucky enough to have a drive in one of these a few years ago. A car dealer that used to bring me MOT's sold them. I was just getting ready to fire my Escort up for the first time after building it but I needed some petrol. I went out and asked this guy if he would run me to the garage and he said 'just take that' and tossed me the keys .. moments later I was stonking up the road in one of these babies I swear the girl in the petrol station would have 'love me long time' for a ride in it The torque in them is awesome and they look like nothing else on the road. Only thing is the stupid side windows and rediculously heavy clutch. Cool car
    are we talkin most posh/ expensive? or most fun/entertaining?

    Most posh cars cars i've driven are a brand new porsche cayenne turbo, and a Merc cls AMG. Both i got to drive through work.

    But most enjoyable/fun (what id consider the actual best) cars ive driven would be a really lovely capri 3.0S x pack with triple webers and lots of other goodies, or the 326hp @wheels 2wd saff cosworth i got to take for a spin a few weeks back.

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Best car i ever drove hmm there is too much to list best car i ever drove is my friends 1998 Skyline GTR R33 420bhp didnt get to take a picture i only got to drive it when he was passing through from out of town

    second best car i ever drove in is my cousins Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 390whp very good handling in Miami Florida Picture was taken from my cell phone so quality is poor




    Now i know this doesn't count because i didn't actually drive it my self but the Best car i driven in was my Friends 2004 Porsche Carerra GT he took me for a drive in it in January 2006 in Miami Florida took me up to 170mph

    the car is alot smaller inside that i though it would have been and im not even that tall 5ft 10"



    Notice the shock on my face i was like the whole night



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    can one of the admins edit the size of my pictures? there that big in my photobucket


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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    That is my number one dream car man, you're a lucky fella to have been taken out in that. I have a big Porsche dealer right near me, and it's painful every time I drive past!

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Quote Originally Posted by mervhill View Post
    That is my number one dream car man, you're a lucky fella to have been taken out in that. I have a big Porsche dealer right near me, and it's painful every time I drive past!

    yea i know the feeling i use to go to miami all the time and use to go to dealers to look at some of the exotic cars i couldnt have it is a pain

    you know the funny thing is i didnt go there to see or drive in the Porsche when he was in jamaica he told me he just got a Ford GT40 i was like holy shit ill be in Miami for new year so he told me to come by and he will take me out in it we reach his house and i go in the garage and i see this black magestic beautiful Carerra GT and was like MOTHER OF GOD!!! didnt even remember there was a Ford GT40 infact i didnt even know it was there till he emailed me the pictures and i saw it in the background
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    sorry boys ,i work on cars every day rangeing from bmw csl, aston martins to new golfs and passats i hate them all, plasticie and shit ,the only cars i really enjoy and get a kick out of is old ford mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    This



    latest model slk 55 AMG N/A 5.5L V8

    All things considered its the most completely satisfying drive ive ever had, power/power delivery, comfort, ride, noise, build quality. Drove it while holidaying recently in south africa, girlfreinds uncles car, we went out in it and took it up to (gps indicated ) 268 KMph

    also drove the 318i ( nice enough car considering the 430000 k on the clock ) and the 450 slc ( v8 tank ) pictured, not pictured but drove was a bmw 540i v8 beauitful car also, i could get used to one of those.



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    I got to drive a formula renualt, Not bad considering i dont have a drivinglicence
    Also a XE power grass tracker, beasty, scary bit of scaffolding.

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    i had a go in this lambo it was cool but just didnt turn heads like my RS2K
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    i liked them both the pair of them drive very well
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Quote Originally Posted by DENZIL View Post
    i had a go in this lambo it was cool but just didnt turn heads like my RS2K
    Lightening looks the nuts on 7s Dal, loads of lambos and furry aris about. Nots so many rs2000s, Tell Christie looks like a footballers wife

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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Best car iv driven to date has to be my old boss's 996 carrera 4,he asked me to go somewhere for him one day so i said 'only if i can take the porsche' so he tossed me the keys used to take it everywhere after that,he also had a 1983 911 targa tucked away in the garage that he had owned since new but he wouldnt let me take that out
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    Re: Best car you've ever driven!

    Quote Originally Posted by rs2000_gb View Post
    Lightening looks the nuts on 7s Dal, loads of lambos and furry aris about. Nots so many rs2000s, Tell Christie looks like a footballers wife
    i told her guess what she said?.......... we didnt go sideways in the lambo dad

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