What car did you grow up loving and why?

My mums boyfriend had a 1989 Pug 405 1.9 GR so i grew up wanting every hot Pug there was on the market at the time my main want was a 405 MI16x4

my dad had one of these...how on earth I got into cars I will never know

For me there where 3...

Countach... (has to be the 25th with the spoiler, and only in red...)


Testarossa...


Those two are down to the fact my Mum bought me frames A1 pictures of them when i was 5-6 from a car boot, and they just stuck in my head!

And late on, the Mclaren F1, in black like the one i sat in at the 1996 Motorshow...


But more real life, my Dad's E28 5 Series... In this colour!


Swiftly followed by his Mk1 Mint Nova GTE... Again in this colour...

he had it in brown??!! the man has taste

Bronze WTF!

Had a tow bar too

that looks brown to me...tow bar though, ubber pimp!

Never had a road car favourite, but race cars it was always this one.

Wow, its bad that some of the cars from my childhood are post-2000's... I'm still growing up now

It has to be the koenigsegg cc which is the supercar I have grown up loving



and of course... my true love.



All I want is a 30 second drive in one, that will be enough passion to last me a lifetime

Bring on student loan!

Never bean keen on my Dad's cars because when I was growing up all he had was a shitty corsa, can't even remember the GTE stu posted

Ohh and a Megane of course, but i'm not gonna post french crap in this thread

Anyone watch brum?

Adam86 wrote:

Anyone watch brum?

Indeed... I had the t-shirt

Ad... You can visit Brum at the Bourton Motor Museum up the road from me... We'll go one weekend!

Same... Always remember GT2 on my PS1 in my room,

'Want a race?'
'Yeah! What cars?'
'I'll use my R34'
'Yellow Flat Copper!!!'

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Ad... You can visit Brum at the Bourton Motor Museum up the road from me... We'll go one weekend!

We got to go lol

It was filmed there too! Cheap to visit, B4T day out

Metro Turbo FTW!

Always wanted to fit the engine into one of these...

Stu you arse

Lock, Ban, Delete.

My mum had one of these for a few years when I was younger, this colour and all. Had front buckets, an insane system, and think it was a little tuned aswell - yes, my mum's awesome lol, and this is probably where my love of boost came from!



My great uncle actually had an MR2, in this colour, still does but he doesn't speak these days. Probably rusting away



Always loved Ferrari's, dream car even still is one of these:



But I'd settle for this!


Even though I've got a lot of love for Lambo's too.

Strangely, some of my best youth memories of cars also involve a rusty white 1.1 Fiesta 'Popular', a 1.2 Nova, and a Citroen ZX Volcane!

I love the 355

Unrealistically, it has to be an orange McLaren F1 LM, a red F40 and a silver 959, in that order. Still the best three cars ever in my books.

Slightly more realistically, I always wanted an NSX and I'd love to have one some day, preferably in the dark purple colour

My mum had one of these in blue..


Then went onto a BMW or some kind think it was a E36 but could be wrong.

But my life long love has to be..

Agree with Chris the f40 is pure porn I also love the veyron

My dad owned some shite tbf And then he bought one of these (same colour)

Amazing noise coming from the v8

How come everyone else's parents had something a bit cool? My dad had one of these, I was nearly born in it

Rallye James wrote:

How come everyone else's parents had something a bit cool? My dad had one of these, I was nearly born in it

Campervans are cool! We're you nearly conceived in it too?

It was the same colour as that too

Not sure about being conceived in it. I've got a late September birthday so I expect it was a boring Christmas in 1983

Any one of these....I was there !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQKKlir6sY&feature=fvwrel

Whiting wrote:

My mum had one of these in blue..


Then went onto a BMW or some kind think it was a E36 but could be wrong.

But my life long love has to be..

You forget the MK3 Astra you fool!!! Shitbox but the first car I did an (unintentional) handbrake in, come to think of it, it's the first car I drove...



beaut of a car R.I.P

I always grew up with bmw's, dad had a 7 series most of my childhood.

So I do like bm's even though no one owned them.

Due to some car films I have had a love affair with Shelby Mustang Gt500. An elanor.
Also want a Charger and a Supra Aerodeck.

But the real love is all things Porsche, bar a few select models. The 911 started it. I have an original Sales brochure from the 996. The 3 that stand out are the 911 Carrera 2 1987 Targa, 959 and the new gt3 rs.

Also due to my french things a 205.

I wasn't into car's till I passed my test at 19, even though when I left school at 15 and got a job as an apprentice mechanic I still wasn't into them, I prefered drink, drugs and burds, now it's drink, burds and cars

First car I really wanted though was an RX7, I was going to buy one just before I went to Iraq, but it sold the morning I got back from Germany so I bought an MR2

F40, nothing else even comes close! Well except the F40 LM

This is what my folks where driving when i grew up.



then one of these



I also had a RS turbo. hopefully get another

this is it

Well, my parents had some pretty bad cars back in time (due to the fact we live in the east...)

These were: Lada, Trabant, Fiat P126....

But thankfully I do not remember these cars


And then came the love of Alfa Romeos.

They had a yellow, a blue and a red Alfasud - these with the 1.2 and 1.3 boxer engines (with twin Dellorto's )



When they went to a holiday to Italy they spent their time in scrapies removing parts from Alfasuds when they wrre not on the beach



After they had a few boring cars after - Fiat Regatta, Ford Sierra diesel, two Ford Escort estates...


So it was time to return to the boxers - in form of an Alfasud 1.5 QO:



despite being 1.5 this cars was REALLY fast!!!


After that they bought the car which is still in the family - now it belongs to my grandmother, doing 100 miles a year - mk.1 Fiesta 1.1 with a silly low ratio gearbox



The driving of this small and even not that fast car puts such a huge smile on my face everytime - new high powered cars can not give such experience I say!!!


Then it was time for some hydropneumatic action in form of two Citroen BX 1.9D:

first, a series I, and then a red series II.:



it was exactly the same!

Then came a brand new Picasso in 2001, then a BX GT (which we had loads of fun in! - had a bit of tweeked engine) and then my VTS in 2004.


Ohhh... and the lovely 2CV we restored from a pretty sad condition:



to this:




And a few years ago my father bought this:



USDM Impreza WRX STI 2.5


To be honest I would love to have an Alfasud and a BX again any time! (I can't include the Fiesta and the 2CV as we still have those! )

Looking back at this list it seems like we really love boxer engines - Alfasud, 2CV, Impreza

Don't think I ever grew up loving any particular car.

But there was a period when I wanted one of these:



But with 2 VW 5.0 V10 TDI engines in it.

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Then went onto a BMW or some kind think it was a E36 but could be wrong.

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You forget the MK3 Astra you fool!!! Shitbox but the first car I did an (unintentional) handbrake in, come to think of it, it's the first car I drove...

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Haha i know but i was just putting the previous cars i actually liked up. Although that was a pritty epic car i can remember getting it, got off the drive and the engine blew up

My bro had a gti 180 and i would still like one now