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A Rover 75 is much more stylish than a Dacia. I always liked the Rover, it's a shame that the brand was buried.

Fiat Panda Cross (hers), 5 door Mini Cooper (mine).

Bud
4/4 - Stanley

My daily driver is a Mercedes GL350 (7 seater SUV) used regularly for transporting our many grandchildren! SWMBO's is a 2004 Porsche 911 Carrera S.

My other car is 1963 Triumph TR4, had it for about 18 years now.
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Daily driver is Volvo XC60 D5 Manual Polestar upgrade, and SWMBO has a Mini Cooper S (BMW).

Interesting thread - always good to see the mix of cars and some great choices here. My Plus Four’s stablemates are an Alpine A110 like the OP (having owned it for fast approaching 6 years, and one of the first in the UK, it’s the one I never want to see go) and a GR Yaris (which was also a very early UK car). There’s also an XC40 in the household. With such little interesting new stuff in the market I’m finding it increasingly hard to keep to the “no more boring cars” mantra.

My Plus 8's stablemates are a Volvo XC60 T5 R design , Volvo V50 wagon, Fraser 7 (NZ nearest to a Caterham with Toyota power) and occasionally my regular co pilots Alfa Brera. Time to reduce the fleet this year.

A pretty boring other car and huge compared to the MGB. Also many people say it looks great but to me it looks pretty ugly although it is slowly growing on me, or I am just getting used to it.

It turned up as a new car a week before the MGB was delivered for me to put some km's on before getting ready for engineering, I had kept the MGB registration going so could legally drive it.

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is very heavy compared to other cars I owned. It is also the first car without a clutch pedal which I really miss, I know everyone says get an auto for the boring commuting type driving but I never felt the need my previous car was a Skoda Octavia VRS with 6 speed manual.

The good thing is you can plug it in and get about 80km range, it generally says 60km range after charging but we live at the top of a hill and I think getting back home muck up its average usage calculations, however I have done 100km on just EV mode probably due to not needing any for the first 4 or so km's leaving home. On the highway it is rather quiet and hard to tell whether it is using EV or petrol engines apart from the gauges on the dash, it will also generate a stack of battery going down hills and then drive for a while afterwards as an EV. It is extremely comfortable and probably using a bit less petrol than the Octavia on a trip and certainly less is town when charged, however electricity has just gone up again . It is big and can fit in a lot of stuff. The cameras are great for parking etc. The head up display showing speed etc, is very handy and flashing at you when above the limit is handy as it certainly get going even though it doesn't feel like it. One handy feature is the cruise will read and follow the limit signs, but you can override it. For example driving along a country road with a 100kph limit it will read road works 40kph and slow down to 40kph, unfortunately afterwards they didn't have a sign 100kph, just "End Roadworks" so it will sit at 40kph until I override the speed.

The bad thing is in my opinion it is so boring to drive, I want a manual and a real clutch. It has a stack of different EV driving modes to play with but I am still trying to work out if I like any of them, easier to just put in D and pretend it is an automatic. No spare wheel is a worry, although in over 40 year of driving I have never had a puncture on the road, always seen a nail in the tyre once home and then sorted it out at the local garage.

Very nice. I was born in 1963 and the first convertible car I got to sit in was a white TR4 for sale at a local car yard. Wanted one after that and still have a soft spot for them.

Nice garage, Chris, I like what you’ve done with the slatted panels on the walls. The MGB looks almost toy like compared to the size of your Mitsubishi 😃

Thanks Ewan, I got the panels from https://thegarageorganisers.com.au/awall-slatwall-details-page.htm

There are really good as the hooks and baskets etc. can be put virtually anywhere. I bought sheets of 1200 by 2400 plywood and cut them into either 300mm or 400mm wide. I put a 300mm on the bottom, above that of the tide wall slatted panels then a 400mm wide piece of plywood at the top. I had planned to do 300mm top and bottom but my son bought me some 305mm by 500mm metal car signs so I went 400mm so they would fit nicely.

Here are some more photos after I had finished the job. Before doing the walls I made 3 cupboards in the corners of the garage.