The classic/fave car thread

[Thryleon]

I like cars, im not partial to any one.  My favourite to look at is the XB coupe (ford).

[LP]

I like cars, im not partial to any one.  My favourite to look at is the XB coupe (ford).

 Fastback man, orange with a GT stripe?

[Gointocarlton]

Fastback man, orange with a GT stripe?

The Chicken Coupe RPO XA GT sold for a pretty penny a few months ago. What a ripper of a car that was.

[Thryleon]

Fastback man, orange with a GT stripe?

Not really sure, just the interceptor was very cool to look at.  I think fast back. 

[capcom]

Hey, what about the Datsun Sunny. 

[Gointocarlton]

Hey, what about the Datsun Sunny. 

My BIL had one, auto. Slow as a wet week but indestructible.

[ElwoodBlues1]

LDV utes.... we have all seen them, look the part, got all the toys, and much cheaper...too good to be true, you bet.
Young bloke in Queensland buys a T60 4 x4 LDV crap box thinking all is good and takes it down the surf club where he works
and parks it in the car park for a year or two and then finds its started rusting...$49ks worth of rust in fact to fix.
LDV say its because he parked it every day in an area with high salt content, they wont pay under warranty......gets to court and LDV's defense do their thing about salt and the beach etc. Problem for LDV was that all their brochures and advertising depicted the vehicle driving up and down beaches, through streams etc and the Judge ruled in favour of the young bloke and said the LDV's were of poor quality build/materials etc.
If you want to buy cheap Chinese crap cars then beware but if you do, remember consumer law trumps car warranties and thats with any cars. I wouldnt buy anything connected to the SAIC motor group(Shanghai Automobile)  including those MG electric vehicles that have been aggressively marketed in Australia. A couple of years time you will be able to pick those up for next to nothing IMHO when they start failing and their resale value will be peanuts.

[Lods]

I'll go against the flow a bit and put in 'one for the small economical car. It's really what you look for in a car...and I've never needed more than something to get me from A to B, and the shops, so all my cars have been small/medium ones

Currently a Toyota Yaris.
Daihatsu Charade before that.
...and a couple of Corollas.
All very economical.

Each one, before the current one went the 300,000km and the Yaris is well on the way (around 100,000)
Never, ever broken down, a few strange noises from one of the Corollas, at one stage that took a bit of fixing but I've never spent more than a $1000 at any one time on repairs. Luck plays a part in that no doubt.

The downside is the space for long trips. I used to do the Sydney/Wollongong to Adelaide trip on about an annual basis. Now it's Brisbane to Wollongong (whenever). Packing needed to be a bit conservative.

I understand the need for some families to have the larger 'people mover' type vehicles but it frustrates me sometimes how poor many of them are at handling them.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I'll go against the flow a bit and put in 'one for the small economical car. It's really what you look for in a car...and I've never needed more than something to get me from A to B, and the shops, so all my cars have been small/medium ones

Currently a Toyota Yaris.
Daihatsu Charade before that.
...and a couple of Corollas.
All very economical.

Each one, before the current one went the 300,000km and the Yaris is well on the way (around 100,000)
Never, ever broken down, a few strange noises from one of the Corollas, at one stage that took a bit of fixing but I've never spent more than a $1000 at any one time on repairs. Luck plays a part in that no doubt.

The downside is the space for long trips. I used to do the Sydney/Wollongong to Adelaide trip on about an annual basis. Now it's Brisbane to Wollongong (whenever). Packing needed to be a bit conservative.

I understand the need for some families to have the larger 'people mover' type vehicles but it frustrates me sometimes how poor many of them are at handling them.

Nothing wrong with a small car especially a Corolla, ultra reliable and always with good resale value.
Couldn't agree more on the large SUV people movers either and the dual cab ute obsession.
Half the owners can't drive them especially the big SUV's and you can forget backing them in to tight spots...takes some about ten attempts.
Turning wide is another gripe, they turn into the oncoming lane in carparks so others have to learn to stop short of the corner to allow them turning room. I just naturally do it now and assume they will make the turn wide. Our new Neighbors have a new lost in space chariot and cannot back down the driveway from their hotel like home and have managed to damage the new vehicle as well as destroy part of their garden and create some new borders.
I'm old fashioned and when I park on slopes or hills I always have the wheels angled into the curb slightly so if the car rolled, handbrake failed etc the car won't run down the road and damage other cars or hit someone.
I hardly ever see anyone else park that way I was taught, a lot of people now can't jack a car up safely and change a wheel. Same with jump starting a car safely too, just no idea half the folk these days.

[northernblue]

Nothing wrong with a small car especially a Corolla, ultra reliable and always with good resale value.
Couldn't agree more on the large SUV people movers either and the dual cab ute obsession.
Half the owners can't drive them especially the big SUV's and you can forget backing them in to tight spots...takes some about ten attempts.
Turning wide is another gripe, they turn into the oncoming lane in carparks so others have to learn to stop short of the corner to allow them turning room. I just naturally do it now and assume they will make the turn wide. Our new Neighbors have a new lost in space chariot and cannot back down the driveway from their hotel like home and have managed to damage the new vehicle as well as destroy part of their garden and create some new borders.
I'm old fashioned and when I park on slopes or hills I always have the wheels angled into the curb slightly so if the car rolled, handbrake failed etc the car won't run down the road and damage other cars or hit someone.
I hardly ever see anyone else park that way I was taught, a lot of people now can't jack a car up safely and change a wheel. Same with jump starting a car safely too, just no idea half the folk these days.

Yeah, but they know how to boot it with their right foot…