Yeah my mum has a duke. It’s tiny. She also used to have a bmw mini and that is the worst car I’ve ever driven. Every time I got in or out of it I whacked a bit of my self on the awful interior lay out. Everything about that car is awful
I just got 31 lengths of 3x2 inside and 2 sheets of ply on the roof of my 13 year old Honda jazz and it didnt grumble, it’s a tardis.
Mazda 3s are actually a properly top-notch alternative to the Golf/Astra/Focus/Civic power 4 that rule that sector. The new Skyactiv-X engine tech that runs a petrol engine in low revs using compression ignition like a diesel to improve efficiency and maintain power is brilliant. I forgot about the Mazda 3 when I was musing about cars I wanted because I actually, properly want one.
Interior doesn’t look bad at all. Minimalist, but apparently premium-feeling
According to Top Gear it isn’t as good to drive as the last two generations of it though, which is a shame. Apparently the 2 older models were best-in-class chassis wise.
PS I don’t work for Mazda.
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I had a 2002 Mazda 323. I loved that thing. Proper tank.
Audi wanker here.
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It’s a thread about cars. We’re all wankers.
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Oh my word!
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I used to see this 1 off Ferrari estate car parked outside my office near Marylebone. I remember googling it the time, quite interesting how the guy got it.
From Wiki
Ferrari 456 GT Venice: It was a series of seven 5-door estate (wagon) commissioned by Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei. After Pininfarina designed and built them, the prince only purchased six and the remaining car was purchased by a private car collector in the United Kingdom. Each piece is rumoured to have cost the Sultan’s brother around US$1.5 million.[12]
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Z8 for me. There’s one down the road from me and I drool every time I see it.
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Yeah that’s a lunatic car. Love the look of it.
But for me it would be the Alfa 8C.
One day I will own a 4C for sure.
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My dream car when I was younger was always the Maserati 3200 because I love those boomerang lights at the back:
You can buy one pretty cheap these days because they don’t work. But it’ll look great in your driveway.
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It looks like an old Peugeot
You should see what the W8 one does, it was basically a countdown timer to overdraft.
A mate who I still know from when I started skating has been fixing this up for a couple of years on and off.
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I’m glad you opted for the one with those lights and not the newer boring ones.
Ha I bet! 1.8t not that bad in the scheme of things really.
My boss is responsible for that power plant ever being in production, don’t think he was very popular for it. I was equally unpopular for running straight pipes on one.
Nice. It was a funny engine, seem to remember the base was 150bhp but there were versions with at least 225? The 150 must’ve been a pretty low pressure turbo on a 20v 1.8.
