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2026. 10. 25. 작업

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Been lurking and half heartedly contributing on the site many years and always enjoyed the readers cars section, especially when people post up a dubious car history. So thought I’d share my car history from 2000 to date. I’m an early 80s child so grew up in the Max Power & jap car era’s.Anyway onto my car history complete with pics from the time (the Citroen BX & Cally T are the only pics where i’ve had to use google image closest matches)First Car (2000)A D reg 1.4 Citroen BX, this was my first car and actually gifted to me by the old man. Not the coolest car in the world but it was wheels/f

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It was early 2012 now and I guess I fancied some cheap power. I don’t know what drew me to this option but I ended up buying a Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo from ebay (a common theme). It had a FMIC, exhaust, ECU tweak and more boost yielding about 280bhp. I took the train down to Cornwall on a Saturday morning. The seller was a lovely bloke but I could only conclude he was also a nutter as he revelled in showing how quickly it accelerated to 130+ mph on two occasions on the test drive. That was me sold I guess as I handed over £1200 and made my way back to Plymouth. In terms of sound, this was one of the best sounding cars I’ve owned. The 5 cylinder turbo sounded immense (80s rally car esque) under throttle and coming off you’d get the compressor stall sound back through the open air filter. I was commuting between Plymouth and Exeter at this point as part of a car share and having 4 people in the car wasn’t really the best. Me and the long standing girlfriend had saved up our house deposit by now and bought & moved into our new house in Nov 2012. Around Christmas I decided I wanted to change cars again. I still didn’t have much of a budget at this stage as had put all my disposable income into the house pot over the previous two years and there was still some leftover debt from the legacy of the student days I wanted to address first. Given the commute I also wanted something a bit more economical than the Fiat. I did consider a diesel but I figured at my 2k budget, any savings could have been wiped out by a turbo/injector/pump issue quite quickly. I flipped the Fiat on for £1500 and thought I’d do a quick search on ebay for a LPG converted car… LPG is cheap!Stumbled upon a local-ish 51 plate facelift 325i Sport Saloon. Having owned an SE before, it was a nice looking car with all the sport bits. And would average me 50mpg in monetary terms. The auction was sniped last second and I picked it up for £1800. The 65p a litre fill-ups served their purpose but the body wasn’t gr