Show us your classic/retro cars

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Lots of awesome cars! Would love to see more of the beetle with 2.3 engine!

Heres my 1988 mercedes.

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Also have a 1990 mx5 buried in the garage
 
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1993 MR2 Turbo, looking at over 450bhp now

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Pretty sure I asked the same thing before.

Axeboy have a legnum before??

Only met Mark once but he's pretty well spoken about in the skyline side of things.

Yeah, had a Legnum vr4 and a few Galants as well in the past. Mark has looked after all of the projects Ive had, camper vans, the Suzuki Alto Works, etc etc
 
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Not what I'd call "retro" but, since I've had it, it's the one descriptive term I've been told about it by most who've seen it, I suppose compared to a current 7 series, it's very retro!
 
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Retro always feels like a term given to something that is old, runs on carbs and stinks of petrol. My GT-Four is coming up to it's 23rd birthday yet it still feels modern and tight as a drum. Did 400 miles last weekend without breaking a sweat.

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My earliest picture when I picked it up 5 years ago.
 
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Not what I'd call "retro" but, since I've had it, it's the one descriptive term I've been told about it by most who've seen it, I suppose compared to a current 7 series, it's very retro!


Beautiful, a design masterpiece, from an era when BMW were actually good cars. Love it :cool:
 
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Beautiful, a design masterpiece, from an era when BMW were actually good cars. Love it :cool:

BMWs still are actually good cars. I have a modern one and one from the same era is that 7 Series and both are great.

What is it about them you feel means they are no longer good cars?
 
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I find it a real sign of my age that BMWs such as the E30, E34 & E38 are considered classics, they were new cars when I was in primary school. My neighbour has quite a few E34 5 series (M5(several), 525i, 540), and it only dawned on me a couple of weeks ago just how old an R-reg car actually is.
 
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BMWs still are actually good cars. I have a modern one and one from the same era is that 7 Series and both are great.

What is it about them you feel means they are no longer good cars?


Their propensity to be as reliable as a hungarian brass, throw £lol bills, too complicated for their own good which is more stuff to break, etc.

They're great cars in terms of performance and gadgets, but that's it. I have also gone off BMW and Audi due to their incessant need to create niche after niche. It waters down the brand and no car signifies this quite as much as the Zafira 2 series Tourer. They've watered themselves down so much that they're not even calling themselves the ultimate driving machine any more.
 
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Their propensity to be as reliable as a hungarian brass, throw £lol bills, too complicated for their own good which is more stuff to break, etc.

That is absolutely no different to the era from which you claim BMW's were a design masterpiece and great cars. The E38/E39 generation were no more reliable than the current cars really, comparatively speaking and for their time were just as bewilderingly complex as modern cars. I have run modern generation BMW's for 3 years now without a single major issue - my E39 went wrong multiple times a year from the day I bought it. They've never been 'super reliable' cars.

They're great cars in terms of performance and gadgets, but that's it. I have also gone off BMW and Audi due to their incessant need to create niche after niche. It waters down the brand and no car signifies this quite as much as the Zafira 2 series Tourer. They've watered themselves down so much that they're not even calling themselves the ultimate driving machine any more.

The existence of niche models doesn't stop the main range being good. I don't care how good the 2 Series Active Tourer is or isn't because it doesn't interest me. The fact it exists doesn't stop the 5 Series being great, etc.
 
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