lightning wrote:

Rashers wrote:

There were loads in the fleet / leasing market which means that there are probably 10’s of thousands herring bone parked on a Cold War air field somewhere rotting to bits.

We all have our niggles at JLR but I think Ford have lost their way. When I was an apprentice, company cars were a Ford, BL Rover or Vauxhall. Our company Fleet were Escort Vans, A P100, Fiesta Vans, Escorts Sierras and the MD had a Granada. Unless you lived in Luton every other car to me seemed to be a Ford. I have a Fiesta, but I hardly know anyone who owns a Ford these days. The Focus was a popular motor but I can’t remember seeing many of those about either recently. The Fiesta is still a popular motor, but Ford killed that off. I just wonder where they are going. Vivaro’s seem to outnumber the good old transit 4 to 1 as well. If they think we will all be selling our Fiesta’s and buying the electric Mustang, I think they are on a hiding to nowhere.

The Ford Puma was the best selling car in the U.K. last year. But it was the only Ford in the top 10. Second was the Nissan Qashqai and third the Vauxhall Corsa

Procta wrote:

Its been well over 5 years since i saw anything with 3 wheels on the road. Anything Reliant has practically vanished, even the proper mini seems to have gone now, which was a right common sight. I have seen one recently that looks like its got the rallying spec, but that's about it. My mate has a proper cooper on K plate 1993, and i think he has only put that on the road a couple of times in the past 10 years.

I've seen a few proper minis, but you're right, gone are the days when they were just a small car owned by someone who wanted a small car - i.e. generic run about. The few I've seen look very purposely owned.

I haven't seen a reliant in a long time, maybe 1-2 over the last 5 years.

A friend of mine owns a 3 wheeler called a Pembleton.

I don't see many of my generations first cars - 3rd generation fiestas, 1st generation clios.
An acquaintance even had a Rover Metro It got broken into one night in a retail park car park and joy ridden around the carpark then left there - After the police came and left he hopped in it to drive it home, I remember distinctly he had to turn left out the parking space, then straight, then left out onto the road, then straight up to the roundabout (which was when he was out of sight), we then heard a great orchestra roar of horns and a screech... He came walking back in a foul mood - turns out the steering was damaged and he couldn't turn right!  The Yeti - 110 Camper https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic90308.html
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Ianb wrote:

Procta wrote:

Its been well over 5 years since i saw anything with 3 wheels on the road. Anything Reliant has practically vanished, even the proper mini seems to have gone now, which was a right common sight. I have seen one recently that looks like its got the rallying spec, but that's about it. My mate has a proper cooper on K plate 1993, and i think he has only put that on the road a couple of times in the past 10 years.

I've seen a few proper minis, but you're right, gone are the days when they were just a small car owned by someone who wanted a small car - i.e. generic run about. The few I've seen look very purposely owned.

I haven't seen a reliant in a long time, maybe 1-2 over the last 5 years.

A friend of mine owns a 3 wheeler called a Pembleton.

I don't see many of my generations first cars - 3rd generation fiestas, 1st generation clios.
An acquaintance even had a Rover Metro It got broken into one night in a retail park car park and joy ridden around the carpark then left there - After the police came and left he hopped in it to drive it home, I remember distinctly he had to turn left out the parking space, then straight, then left out onto the road, then straight up to the roundabout (which was when he was out of sight), we then heard a great orchestra roar of horns and a screech... He came walking back in a foul mood - turns out the steering was damaged and he couldn't turn right!

I think most of our generation cars have practically bit the dust 10 years ago easy, Metro, mk1 clio, mk3 fiesta and the mk4, 1st gen corsas, all practically died out in the mid 2000s. When i was building my vvc metro back in 2008, i was finding some right bother getting bits for it. Due to the fact most of the metros were binned off about 4 years before hand, I had a pick of metros back in 2003 in scrap yards. A lass i went to school with max powered her mk1 clio, that will be long dead now. Saxo and the 106 has gone now too, although i still do see the odd 206 knocking about still, also today i did see another peugeot 306! it was an earlier car to mine, mine is a mk3, this one was a mk2. looked like a pov spec one. Been a good while since i saw another one, back in 2010s you still saw them. But i think the mileage has killed a lot off, when i bought mine back in 2007, some were well into the 100k marker mileage wise. I was lucky to grab a low miler at the time, which is knocking on the door of a 120k. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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Ianb wrote:

Yeh definitely Devon and Cornwall there are still a lot of the old Peugeots around.

I remember all of us youngsters comparing insurance for our 1 - 1.2l cars trying to find that sweetspot between bhp and insurance price, I suppose taking into some consideration the increase in mortality.... then one of our friends was on his Dads farms fleet insurance and he rocks up with a Peugeot 306 GTI 6

Thanks to my Dad's business policy, somehow I ended up being insured fully comprehensive on my V8 series 1 80" conversion at the ripe old age of 18 !!!! And I could drive his Porsche 911 when I was not much older

Happy days, but times change

LR90XS2011 wrote:

spotted this at the local station looked proper tidy so much so I took a photo

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