Would you let a woman choose your next car for you?

If I remember correctly, I picked 2 or 3 and then we went to see them together, and since she would be using it everyday (I used an old banger for work), my wife made the final decision.

I only let my missus choose a car once and wouldn't do it again.

She trawled ebay for almost a week and announced she had found one she liked. A red Renault Megane because it was "a nice colour" and that was the only positive comment I could make. Not even local to Cornwall mind, but in feckin Bradford of all places and spent the entire day just to pick it up. On the way home a rear wheel bearing expired and the seller did stump up for that to be replaced.

Two days later an ignition coil packed up and took the catalytic convertor with it, in fact during the year of ownership this thing chewed up 3 sets of ignition coils.

The final straw was when the hatchback lid fell on the wife's head as she was unloading some shopping and she was lucky not to have been seriously injured. One of the hinges has broken and it wasn't a case of replacing the broken hinge, oh no, the hinge was firmly welded to the tailgate and I had to buy another complete tailgate. The original had a spoiler on it and the replacement didn't and I couldn't be arsed to fit it, but when I came to sell the car nobody believed it was the "Sport" version because the spoiler was absent. Glad to get rid of the bastid thing.

Generally I agree with this, although there are exceptions.

My daughter is still running the Peugeot Partner 2.0 HDi I gave her a couple of years ago after I'd owned it for two years myself. They are tough old diesels and this one has never missed a beat.

I tend to like Suzukis as a rule. I'm on my sixth one now, bought new five years ago and has only 19k on the clock so far.

Alfas have good engines it's the rest of it that lets them down.

My car is a Diahatsu fourtrak 2.8TD 4WD jobbie. Need it for work. Its always covered in shite and gets a wash once a year for the MOT. This September was its 20th year and I have owned it 18.5 of those. Let me down once in all those years - fuel solenoid. It just runs and runs and runs. Looking forward to its 30th anniversary.

Jap cars are the best. If I was going to get a motor it would be a Lexus LS400. Go on forever, you only get a few little niggles which are easy fixes. Better than a Merc E class in every respect:



Okay a bit thirsty with the V8 and that but I hardly go anywhere except work and back so it wouldn't matter much and you've got the satisfaction of using a bit of top class engineering every day. No woman I know would ever even consider one.

It would need to go on forever, they've not been made for nearly twenty years.

Repairs are not cheap, I remember a mate having the front brakes replaced on his. That cost him around £1500 fifteen years ago, followed by a new steering rack which cost even more to sort out.

I know, which is why you can pick up a low-milege minter for £5K. I've never spend more than that on a vehicle unless it was an appreciating classic. 

probably spend about £2K on the car and that leaves plenty in reserve if anything needed doing but your mate was either very unlucky or bought a dog to begin with.

My missus loves American muscle cars, so I’d be fine with her choosing. I love them too, only Jap car I ever fancied was Nissan skyline.....largely due to Gran Turismo!

As I'm now living off a pension, I have to be sensible about car choices these days and as there's only me (and dog) to cart around 99% of the time, I now run a small car, a 2014 Suzuki Alto bought new.

It was chosen for its reliability record, economic servicing and running cost. 996cc, 70mpg, no road tax and low insurance suit me fine and it has a timing chain, so no poxy belt to worry about. I like the engine note too, the little three cyclinder motor has a good growl to it and sounds like a small 911 Porsche once it starts revving.

Suzukis tend to be pretty perky and with its VVT engine, this one nips along usefully, it's actually quicker than many larger cars. Perfectly happy on motorways and doing long runs, handles well too. 

Of course I'd like to zoom about in a big Audi or Jag etc., but that would just be an expensive and unneccessary indulgence and as I'm prone to getting done for speeding, probably not a great idea  .

best cars in the world mate..nothing can beat that yank v8 feel and sound..i loved my 2013 camaro.
will get another asap

us here in our camaro in 2015

should never had part exchanged it for that pos mustang