Focus 1.6 Black, limited edition with Leather seats! I crashed it.....

I had a Hyundai Accent my parents paid £600. It was white and bleep.
The clutch was awful in it, where sometimes it wouldnt depress so i could stall with the clutch down if that makes any sense.

I was the most nervous learner ever, and after passing my test on the 4th try i wouldnt go out in the car on my own for weeks.
Was lucky as the clutch.. messed up on a huge round-a-bout and i was in bits not knowing what to do.
Some garage fobbed us off with stuff and eventually got rid of it part exchange for my mums new Peugeot 107.

At first i thought it was a good little car, and my driving instructor asked if it was nippy, i said yeah, but soon realised after 20mph the car was a joke, taking 14 seconds to 60!
It was excellent on fuel though, thats the only thing i miss about it. The boot was an engineering disaster to.

I count my Fiesta as my first car because i paid for it myself.
Its pretty impressive to buy it brand new at 20.
I still think hmm why didnt i get the Subaru for £3000 more when i get overtaken by faster cars, but my Fiesta looks better than most Subaru.

1.8 focus fully loaded , ICE the lot!

st150 alloys


st170 alloys

First car was a Renault 5 GT tur...*cough* No no, just a 1 liter campus
Was BLEEP But fun times with pals driving about, I was the 1st of my mates that had a car

Then got rid after a year, stopped driving for 18 months! (no job ) then had 2 fez mk3 1.1's in 18 months (one for 2 weeks! lol) while I was waiting to get a pay rise and buy the

My XR2 sounds like steves, not my first car as that was a mk2 escort 1.3L, then moved onto a mk2 Droopsnoot RS2000, then a few capri's had a lovely 2.0S but got pinched from work, then tried a vauxhall or two, cavalier sri and mk1 astra GTE, then the xr2 you see here, it didnt look like this when i got it though, had the kit painted some rs seven spokes, lowered the suspension, autosprint big valve head, piper 285 cam, ashley four branch system, rolling roaded at about 125bhp not bad for the day. Stuck with fords ever since.

My RS turbo 185 bhp, but liked gearboxes to much.

Cabby was my summer car.

My RS2000 4X4 i miss this one, but parts were hard to find so i gave it to my dad, who had it a couple of years.

My 2 wheel drive RS2000, had this one for over seven years, its part of the family, still only has 64,000 miles on the clock.

Citroen Saxo 1.1i

I don't think we need the pics

I drove it for 5 years and it served me well when I was a student (cheap) I took everything out of it to make it less dull to drive, it had 15" alloys and weighed very little but the cornering was abysmal.

Nothing fancy as I was 17 when I passed.
I had a Mk3 Ford Fiesta 1.3 Elisse (if that's how you spell it, Elisse?)
Good little rugged car. Leaked power steering fuild thought and needed a new rack. Then needed a full exhaust system so it had to go...
Got 110mph out of it somehow going down hill LOL!
and also it could go from one end of the country to the other without over heating so that was very helpful for travelling!
Good times...

You mean going down a hill, slipsteaming a lorry, with the wind behind you, with a boot-full of lead and aerodynamic tape all over the gaps???? lol

Firstly i had a red 1.6se Escort with black bumpers and black chip proof paint on the bottom half of the doors... the gearbox went on this one after a very well driven 190,000 miles

then i had a 1.4 red Escort that i picked up for £50 and now i hav my fez

at 17 i had 03 plate 1.4 fiesta finesse, then 6 months later a new 56 plate 1.6 zetec s. then at 19 i got a 08 plate civic type s gt, then 6 month later got my 08 plate fezza st. ordering my new rs in 7 days!!!

My first car was an Aston Martin V8.... Sorry just dreaming!

Actually it was a 99 T-reg Fiesta LX in burgundy with air con etc but it was only a 1.8D old style diesel without a turbo! 0-60 17 seconds, top speed 90mph!
Hear the music and feel the speed!
Before the ST I had a W-reg 1.6 focus lx, 05 reg 1.6 focus zetec which I wrote off and an 03 reg 1.8 tdci focus ghia
Big on Fords as you have gathered

top work Kev

Passed my test in 1988 and having driven around in my mums Renault 4 van then writting off my dads Mark 1 Cavilier which he replaced with a Talbot Alpine....why oh why!........ and my mum changed her van to a Fiat Panda 750L! I had to put some effort in to save up for my own car, by 19 I was able to by a Mark 1 XR2 YEH! and what a great little car it was

kev that is one of the funniest things i have herd in a long time

Kevin, that's brilliant. I've no idea how you thought you'd manage to get away with all that.