Sure there was a similar thread on this a few months ago. My list:
Passed my test in '93, but didn't own my first car until I'd left Uni 3 years later, and boy, did I buy a cracker:
1985 Vauxhal Nova 1.2 (Saloon, with Burgundy interior - arrgh! Cost me £150), then I realized what I wanted in a car:
1990 Pug 205 XS (brilliant)
1991 Pug 205 1.6 GTi (even better)
1996 Pug 306 XSi 8v (much more grown up and tourqey, but cracking to drive)
1999 Pug 306 Rallye (utterly, completely brilliant)
2000 Pug 306 GTi 6 (as most of you know, essentially the same car as the Rallye, but I was getting old and needing aircon etc), and now:
2002 Audi S3 (no mods)
It's interesting to see that quite a few of us are ex-Peugeot hot hatch owners(maybe not quite so dedicated as me). It's such a shame that Pug have completely and utterly lost the plot and squandered their hot hatch heritage. They've lost me as loyal customer, and how many others - numptys.
Had the Pug 307 looked nothing like it does, and had they bothered making it a decent successor to the 306 GTi 6 ( sounds a bit like Trigger's broom), I would still be driving them now, even if the Audi is light years ahead in build quality, and the S3 is faster than even the Rallye, it's not just as involving or as much fun to drive. I know if I spent £4k on modding the S3 it would be better, but other than chipping it, I might as well buy something else. Still, I've had the S3 for almost 2 years and love it.
Next car? Def an 8P S3, but am waiting until they reach 3 years old and loose the worst of their depreciation. So I'm either after a last of the line 8L S3 with low miles or maybe a Golf GTi MkV to keep me tided over until the 8P S3's come in range....
