Most fun - my Mini Cooper 1071 S, later converted to a 970S.
With Weber 45 carb, BMC formula junior cam, gas flowed head, very expensive sodium cooled valves, Janspeed ehaust,lowered front suspension (only) - what oversteer when I lifted off!. Doubled as a road car and occasional circuit racer.
Least Fun - Hillman Hunter. Well it had an engine!
Roger. (in Spain).
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Most fun: Lancia Beta
Least Fun: Talbot Horizon
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Most fun: 1986 Sierra 1.8 GL Mk1; rwd, very skinny tyres lots of fun.
Least fun: 1999 Tata Indica Diesel; the play in the steering wheel when driving in a straight line was ridiculous, and the engine had less power than a dead flea. 70mph was achievable in a number of years, on a downhill slope!.
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Most fun - My Pimlico Kit car that I owned as a student between the years of 1986 and 1987 ish. This was based on a Mini setup, using both subframes, a 1275 GT engine and running gear.
From the front it looked like a normal Mini, but it had enlarged wheel arches allowing 13 inch wheels with low profiles and was topped by a T bar, instead of a roof. However it did have canvase. Oh and the door sills were about 8 inches up from the floor (beach buggy style).
It was great you could drive with the roof up but the doors off rickshaw style, roof down but the doors on (motorway style) or all of it off (sheer pose value).
That car was not just a head turner, no I had to fight my way through the crowd when I wanted to get back in it. "Make way - smug owner coming through"
Only just in front of my first car - Mini 850 UCV 980 H - those were the days.
Least fun: Fiat Regretta 1.6 MARE. Ultra relaible, but it's like driving Italy's answer to the Montego. Having said that I had it for 5 years and had very few problems with it.
Hugo
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Starting with the least fun, a Triumph Acclaim. Having enjoyed rear-drive Triumph saloons, I hated the way this fwd car put down its power. If all fwd cars twenty years ago had driven like that one, we'd most likely nowadays be back again with rear wheel drive as the norm.
Febus' mention of the Nurburgring reminds me that I once contemplated taking my most fun car there, where it would have been very much at home, a well used but fit Opel Monza 3.0 injection five speed. If I could nominate two cars in joint pole position, my old 2CV bamboo special edition, also. Poles apart, but equally fun.
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Most fun - Land Rover 90. I used to go trialling with it - but 20 mpg was getting expensive in a day to-day-car. It's 19 years old and is a 'third car' at the moment. It will soon need lots doing to it, so it'll have to go. Boo hoo!
Cheers, SS
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Least fun SWMBO C180 estate, E200 Estate, BM 520i.
Most fun, very early Golf Mk 1 GTI, metallic green,imported from Germany in rhd form AUM 880X (only 1600cc but how I miss it to this day)Pug 205 Gti B211 UCP(again only 1600cc)even earlier droop snoot RS2000, standard Elise (years later, midlife crisis...allegedly)last of the proper 2 door Quattros (20 v turbo, with a huge 220 bhp on a G plate). What a lucky lucky person I have been.Now sensibly running a cheap 7 year old Legacy estate, soon to be replaced by a van, and an, as yet to be decided, £4k fun car for occasional use.
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Most fun an 18 month old Ford Cortina 1600E, my first car.
Uprated with Cibie lights, Twin fogs front and rear. Everflex black roof. NO servo.
Many odd faults all its life. New engine at 25K. New fuel tank.
Wipers jammed and burnt the motor out causing smoking dash. Not fun in a thunderstorm. Steering box tore out of the chassis.
It would have dumped many years earlier but for much TLC by me.
Followed immediately by my least fun car a Mk II Triumph 2000 Auto.
Way under powered and awful lights.
It seemed like a grandpa armchair especially after the 1600E
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Most fun: 1998 Vauxhall Omega Elite 2.5TD Auto
OK I haven't really ever driven anything exotic, but I have had my current car two and a half years and it still thrills me to bits! I'm a sucker for large cars with all the extras like power leather seats, HID, sat nav, BOSE sound etc..and the car has fine handling. Very cheap too, the only thing that has let it down was an expensive repair required to the engine, but I think the car is worth it.
Least fun:1996 Mazda 626 GLXi
Utter rubbish this car was pale silver and looked nice, but was rubbish, it was poorly made, flimsy jap-crap, it was not made by Ford, it was made in Japan with Japanese parts made by Nippon Denso etc... It needed mortgage repayment sized money to keep it niggle free, and was still like a Mondeo's boring but fussy brother at the end of the day.
Grrr! the hatred is coming back, also couldnt sell the damn thing for love or money.
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HJ - You need more practice on roof removal - one minute max!
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