RA40tony
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Ok, after selling the 160hp Starlet GT daily  cos its fuel consumption was bankrupting me, i'm looking for another daily driver so i can give the sleeka the love and attention it deserves. Any ideas? It has to be very reliable, resonably entertaining, quirky and practical... but most importantly cheap to run. Contenders so far are: Base Model Fiat Panda (light blue, smoothed and slammed on wide black steels ;D) Standard Fiat Panda 100hp Standard Mitsubishi Colt 1.3 Standard Suzuki Swift Anyone driven any of the above/got any comments suggestions? Cheers |
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1979 Toyota Celica GT. Currently Gone.
1975 Toyota Celica ST. 13x7 Allycats, "the stick" applied. 100kW 4AGE... Sold
1963 Karmann Ghia - Lo & Slo, Sold.
1965 VW Fastback - cruising
1953 Oval Ragtop, work in progress...
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I don't know about the cars you've mentioned but i could recomened my own car a peugeot 306 Dturbo reasonably nippy very fun handling and 540 miles to a full tank its not realy quirky but very practical ;D
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Standard Fiat Panda 100hp as in one of these?? Fiat Panda 100HP  |
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 I would say get a Skoda, but that would just be too predictable coming from me!!  Get one anyway though! ;D
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qwerty
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What daily driver?qwerty
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I quite like the new Panda and your plans sound good
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RA40tony
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No die-sels in Greece :-(
Yeah thats the Panda, they look quite cool and they seem pretty good. Thing is apart from buying the car, i want to spend the least money on it possible and concentrate the fund on the sleeka.
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1979 Toyota Celica GT. Currently Gone.
1975 Toyota Celica ST. 13x7 Allycats, "the stick" applied. 100kW 4AGE... Sold
1963 Karmann Ghia - Lo & Slo, Sold.
1965 VW Fastback - cruising
1953 Oval Ragtop, work in progress...
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Why? Are they not allowed?  |
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RA40tony
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Yeah something to do with micro particulate pollution if the diesel is low quality and the engines are not serviced and tuned properly. + something to do with more fuel economy, less tax for government.
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1979 Toyota Celica GT. Currently Gone.
1975 Toyota Celica ST. 13x7 Allycats, "the stick" applied. 100kW 4AGE... Sold
1963 Karmann Ghia - Lo & Slo, Sold.
1965 VW Fastback - cruising
1953 Oval Ragtop, work in progress...
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In that case i would'nt recomend any peugeot with a petrol engine ;D
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RA40tony
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lol
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1979 Toyota Celica GT. Currently Gone.
1975 Toyota Celica ST. 13x7 Allycats, "the stick" applied. 100kW 4AGE... Sold
1963 Karmann Ghia - Lo & Slo, Sold.
1965 VW Fastback - cruising
1953 Oval Ragtop, work in progress...
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RA40tony
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Hyundai Trajet!!! Fook thats big!! ;-D
Still thinking bout base model Panda done in the "slater metro style"
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1979 Toyota Celica GT. Currently Gone.
1975 Toyota Celica ST. 13x7 Allycats, "the stick" applied. 100kW 4AGE... Sold
1963 Karmann Ghia - Lo & Slo, Sold.
1965 VW Fastback - cruising
1953 Oval Ragtop, work in progress...
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Those old 4WD Suzy Swifts look a bit of a laff. My mate at univrsity had one. Rare but would go anywhere like the 4WD Pandas
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Odin
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Still thinking bout base model Panda done in the "slater metro style" You're in my head, stealin' my ideaz. Readers Rides thread to follow after imminent MOT.  |
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What daily driver?BenzBoy
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I take it we're talking about the new Panda? I've driven a handful of them and found them to be... OK. Like all new Fiats they seem to have an air of lightness (and possibly flimsyness). Like driving a Big Mac carton. Not bad cars but their equivalents just felt a lot weightier and more solid. They seemed pretty nippy though.
I think a smoothed one slammed over black steels would be a laugh!
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Odin
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Oh, are we talking new stuff here? :-\
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I'd be quite tempted with that Rover 216 in the for sale ads, *cough* or my sierra!  |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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RA40tony
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Sorry i was talking about the new Panda. Just want something that is not gonna occupy any valuable time or money that I could be spending on the Celica.
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1979 Toyota Celica GT. Currently Gone.
1975 Toyota Celica ST. 13x7 Allycats, "the stick" applied. 100kW 4AGE... Sold
1963 Karmann Ghia - Lo & Slo, Sold.
1965 VW Fastback - cruising
1953 Oval Ragtop, work in progress...
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cos its fuel consumption was bankrupting me, i'm looking for another daily driver so i can give the sleeka the love and attention it deserves. Any ideas?
I would say get a Skoda, but that would just be too predictable coming from me!! 
Get one anyway though! ;D
