Old cars vs new cars

Picked up my hire car for work tomorrow this evening, 62 plate Hyundai diesel. It had more buttons on the steering wheel than a spaceship. Dear not touch one of them incase i blow the the thing up!!!

My personal car is a focus st and u get in a drive my OH has a escort (project) and thats even more basic!!

Now is it me or are cars just getting to 'gadgety'

No Rebecca its not just you I dont see the need for all this crap its only more to go wrong! our car even tells you if a light bulb is faulty which I suppose in a way is handy but its always popping up with something. Funny though it never told me when the wheel was hanging off!

most definitely , my 09 Mondeo has plenty of buttons on the wheel but when I get in a new hire car I get quite diustracted looking for all the gizmos, never mind new car in a few months so have to find 1 with an F1 steering wheel

Hahaha inez!!!! Made me chuckle that!!

I had to get the Manuel out for a button i presses!! Only decent thing on newish cars is heated windows!

rebeccaleanne wrote:Hahaha inez!!!! Made me chuckle that!!

I had to get the Manuel out for a button i presses!! Only decent thing on newish cars is heated windows!

The heated front windscreen is the best ever

Dave wrote:most definitely , my 09 Mondeo has plenty of buttons on the wheel but when I get in a new hire car I get quite diustracted looking for all the gizmos, never mind new car in a few months so have to find 1 with an F1 steering wheel

Mines. 59 plate and it is perfect! What car u getting?!

Had astra few week okays wow they are bad!! Couldnt work out heating haha

rebeccaleanne wrote:Hahaha inez!!!! Made me chuckle that!!

I had to get the Manuel out for a button i presses!! Only decent thing on newish cars is heated windows!

And the seats that boost me up, down, foward,sideways so I can at least reach the pedals!!

I like gadgets in cars but I do also love a good example of a classic. Even my wee van has sat nav, bluetooth, parking sensors. The Audi has one of those crappy electronic handbrakes which I really hate though!

rebeccaleanne wrote:

Mines. 59 plate and it is perfect! What car u getting?!

Not sure to go smaller (BMW116 or A3) or keep bigger (Passat or Insignia) at the moment it's a company car and my auto Mondeo is quite heavy on tax buty I love driving Autos now as had it 4 years almost , smaller cars little cheaper on tax but its the only car in the house so the family car as well, ooooooooo so many thoughts and decisions to make

Tax is the killer Dave.

I would prefer an Austin Healey! Classic!

Passats are nice and insignias!!! Audia arnt that food n e more i dnt think

Well my tax is £270 for the year!!!!

Sierra cosworth!!! Haha for me

rebeccaleanne wrote:Passats are nice and insignias!!! Audia arnt that food n e more i dnt think

Well my tax is £270 for the year!!!!

I've an '11 A4 and it's one of the better cars I've ever driven tbh.

MatLogan wrote:Tax is the killer Dave.

I fronted up the boss when I got the Mondeo as standard for the engineers at the time was the Mondeo 1.8 Econet Estate and if you wanted more you had to pay yourself . So I told him I wanted the Auto Zetec 2.0 Estate and didn't want to pay anything for it as I was a senior member of the dept and he rolled over and got me it but 187 on the emissions and 40% tax £250 quid a month in tax

Will save at least £100 a month on tax when I change depending on what I go for , the new Zafira tourer looks quite an interesting proposiotion too as you can get it in Tecline spec which is the business packl with all the gizmos and about 3K cheaper than the car I have now and 130 or something on emissions

MatLogan wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:Passats are nice and insignias!!! Audia arnt that food n e more i dnt think

Well my tax is £270 for the year!!!!

I've an '11 A4 and it's one of the better cars I've ever driven tbh.

My old boss had an A4 , smashing motor but too expensive for my rank in the company

Yea I've to change soon too and will def be going for something a lot lower in the tax bracket because it's gotten way too much. Anything to save a few quid tbh.

MatLogan wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:Passats are nice and insignias!!! Audia arnt that food n e more i dnt think

Well my tax is £270 for the year!!!!

I've an '11 A4 and it's one of the better cars I've ever driven tbh.

Haha i wouldnt say no to one matt! Some one said other day that they just not as good as they use to be!

Never drove tho:(

How many wheels u got matt?

yup they are, i have a 90 plate 200sx in the guarage that ive had for 12 years. ive taken the engine out twice for a rebuild and it was simply a breeze. its been in there past 4 years as i cant afford to run it and its no good as a daily driver. 310 BHP and a padal clutch means its a nightmare in traffic :O( ive plouged so much money into it that im loathed to get rid of her but i know i will have to soon. my daily is a civic exec which is a freaking nightmare to even find the washer bottle... but the 40 mpg if you keep it at the lower on of the vvt is much more acceptable than the 14mpg of the 200...i miss driving it so much...

At a time it wasn't actually that bad. I just noticed I made a mistake ther it's 2010 not 2011 .

But I def wouldn't warrant it now and it's to rise even further.

Dave wrote:

MatLogan wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:Passats are nice and insignias!!! Audia arnt that food n e more i dnt think

Well my tax is £270 for the year!!!!

I've an '11 A4 and it's one of the better cars I've ever driven tbh.

My old boss had an A4 , smashing motor but too expensive for my rank in the company

Haha i get hire cars!!

rebeccaleanne wrote:

Haha i wouldnt say no to one matt! Some one said other day that they just not as good as they use to be!

Never drove tho:(

How many wheels u got matt?

Sounds like Matt is really the Forum's Irish version of Ben , Mr Super exec and filthy rich

rebeccaleanne wrote:How many wheels u got matt?

I have the company car which is the a4 which is going away this year. The wee company van I got a week or so back. Then my wee Fiesta I bought when I passed my test and wanted to keep because it isn't costing me anything sitting here. In reality I actually own one car, but there is 3 vehicles here.

Haha def not Dave, far from it infact!

Nathan my daily car is pants on petrol i get 240 miles of a full tank! Thats if i been good haha!

What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

Dave wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:

Haha i wouldnt say no to one matt! Some one said other day that they just not as good as they use to be!

Never drove tho:(

How many wheels u got matt?

Sounds like Matt is really the Forum's Irish version of Ben , Mr Super exec and filthy rich

Hahaha i know bless him! Me and thee wi our hire cars!!

rebeccaleanne wrote:Nathan my daily car is pants on petrol i get 240 miles of a full tank! Thats if i been good haha!

What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

like the Focus ST though Vrooomm

rebeccaleanne wrote:What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

I don't understand all the terms you lot use over there for plates. We just go by year over here and then each county/area has it's own plate. I don't understand English Plates at all though. It's a leased company car so it's not just as bad as what you might think. It is getting too high though in the past year and to rise further so I'll be cutting back.

Dave wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:Nathan my daily car is pants on petrol i get 240 miles of a full tank! Thats if i been good haha!

What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

like the Focus ST though Vrooomm

I love my car dave..... To me its the dogs ........ Hahah there better cars but i love it!

Proper old classic though would be the RS2000

RS2000 would be mighty. I remember seeing the bad lads driving them about when I was wee thinking "one day... "

MatLogan wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

I don't understand all the terms you lot use over there for plates. We just go by year over here and then each county/area has it's own plate. I don't understand Englsih Plates at all though. It's a leased company car so it's not just as bad as what you might think. It is getting too high though in the past year and to rise further so I'll be cutting back.

12 plate was the first half of the year 62 second half of 2012. Now we got 13 plate and end of year we will get 63 plate! Reg plate example. WN62 ENG (not mine haha) the wn means were it was manufact i think and 62 the year

Dave wrote:Proper old classic though would be the RS2000

My OH has escort RS turbo 23 year old. Just getting restored

Which one the rs2000?!

I want my car to be a little faster haha!

See ours just go for example Armagh is AXZ1111, then it works up AXZ1112 the whole way up until BXZ, CXZ etc. The english way seems so more confusing.

MatLogan wrote:RS2000 would be mighty. I remember seeing the bad lads driving them about when I was wee thinking "one day... "

Me brother got as far as a 1.3 pop Mk2 Escort ( ), couldn't afford the RS so stuck massive Cibies on the front of his just to make it look a bit better

I had an Opel Ascona Berlina 1.9 though that was a fantastic motor

MatLogan wrote:See ours just go for example Armagh is AXZ1111, then it works up AXZ1112 the whole way up until BXZ, CXZ etc. The english way seems so more confusing.

Didn't realise that Northern Irish Plates were different to ours , only ever been to the South

MatLogan wrote:See ours just go for example Armagh is AXZ1111, then it works up AXZ1112 the whole way up until BXZ, CXZ etc. The english way seems so more confusing.

Haha we use to ha G123 ENG went alphabetical then we started on those few years ago!

Ure us mega confusing haha!!

I've never had a fast car in my life tbh. I'm not a very fast driver. Great to look at though

Dave wrote:

MatLogan wrote:RS2000 would be mighty. I remember seeing the bad lads driving them about when I was wee thinking "one day... "

Me brother got as far as a 1.3 pop Mk2 Escort ( ), couldn't afford the RS so stuck massive Cibies on the front of his just to make it look a bit better

I had an Opel Ascona Berlina 1.9 though that was a fantastic motor

There old are they not?'

MatLogan wrote:I've never had a fast car in my life tbh. I'm not a very fast driver. Great to look at though

I always stick to limit but what makes my car fun is that it just goes and i aint afraid to use it haha!!

rebeccaleanne wrote:Nathan my daily car is pants on petrol i get 240 miles of a full tank! Thats if i been good haha!

What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

its got the same T3 turbo as the cossie and 444cc injectors, high lift intake cam, straight through 3 1/2 exhaust as before cats needed for mot. runs 1.5 bar and we had to dial it back on the rolling road as we couldnt get enough fuel in. also bigger front mount intercooler and methonal alchohol/water injection to keep the charge temps down. its a beast. i ground in each valve personally and changed all the collates (pain in the butt) racelogic traction control and blitz turbo timer. my fave bit is the streering wheel mounted turbo control...your making me feel like getting her out the gaurage now lol except she has very bald rear tyres....no idea how that happend many more bits and bobs like the greddy pistons, shot peened crank shaft.. its endless for gods sake i even mapped the chip myself its a killer not to drive her

rebeccaleanne wrote:

MatLogan wrote:I've never had a fast car in my life tbh. I'm not a very fast driver. Great to look at though

I always stick to limit but what makes my car fun is that it just goes and i aint afraid to use it haha!!

See where I live the roads are crap and ya really couldn't drive fast anyway. And in work I'd be driving around teeny tiny filthy country lanes where 20mph feels like lightspeed.

rebeccaleanne wrote:
Which one the rs2000?!

http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/ford-escort-rs2000-2

rebeccaleanne wrote:
There old are they not?'

Very old , like me but this was in the day when cars had seats , windy windows and push button stereos , the heyday for Rallying too

I, like a lot of women, hate all the extra buttons we have to use these days on our gadgets, whatever they are.

However,regarding cars, I DO appreciate in modern cars:-

Automatic choke
ABS
Lights that light up when anything is wrong, especially not-shut doors
Central locking
5th gear

Meh, I'd rather an RS200 if it had to be a ford.

I prefer the old Vauxhalls, my current daily is an '89 cavalier SRi. 35mpg, more than keeps up with traffic, reasonably comfortable, reliable as British rain, and buttons to buy/insure/run. Recycle the past, invest in the future

Dave wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:
There old are they not?'

, the heyday for Rallying too

what made and broke a car, love em. i remember once when one bogged down after a water splash, the co driver got out and lifted the bonnet sprayed about got back in and they drove off. the comentator simply said "an advert for WD40 if i ever saw one" lol

Nathan wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:Nathan my daily car is pants on petrol i get 240 miles of a full tank! Thats if i been good haha!

What matt its a 10 plate? Still cost abit tho at that age!

its got the same T3 turbo as the cossie and 444cc injectors, high lift intake cam, straight through 3 1/2 exhaust as before cats needed for mot. runs 1.5 bar and we had to dial it back on the rolling road as we couldnt get enough fuel in. also bigger front mount intercooler and methonal alchohol/water injection to keep the charge temps down. its a beast. i ground in each valve personally and changed all the collates (pain in the butt) racelogic traction control and blitz turbo timer. my fave bit is the streering wheel mounted turbo control...your making me feel like getting her out the gaurage now lol except she has very bald rear tyres....no idea how that happend many more bits and bobs like the greddy pistons, shot peened crank shaft.. its endless for gods sake i even mapped the chip myself its a killer not to drive her

Just had to read to OH to explain fully haha am getting there tho with car talk!!

He says u must a put loads into it!
I want mine chipped soon and having new exhaust built. My OH doing his but needs welding and re spray first. That did 240 on rolling road he wants least 300 bhp from the escort in time!

Lynda wrote:

Automatic choke

Haven't had those on cars since carb's were phased out in '91/'92!

Dave wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:
Which one the rs2000?!

http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/ford-escort-rs2000-2

Thats nice that dave!! Im a ford lover and can appreciate a good car!