Cars. The ones that we own now - and some that I have owned in the past...
First up, our current drives; a Passat Alltrack estate, a Mazda MX-5 & a Land Rover Freelander 2.
| Our latest estate is a Volkswagen Passat Alltrack. Bought locally from Snape in May 2018 to replace Suzy's HR-V. The Alltrack has all the toys and comforts plus DSG 'box, full length glass roof & four wheel drive - should you need it... |
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Suzy's Mazda MX5 (christened Mimi!) purchased not far from Stradbrooke in December 2022 to replace her Golf. Bought as an early birthday present to herself, it is a 2.0 Sport Tech with 6 speed manual gearbox with the electric hard top. |
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This is our Land Rover Freelander 2. We bought her for my birthday in Feb 2017 - my big 50th! :-) We bought her because the 5 door body would be better now the kids are growing up and the Shogun was getting a little old, poor thing. Flanders is much more up to date, economical and comfy.
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Now on to the Omegas I've owned in the past....
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| This is my first Vauxhall Omega, an ex-Thames Valley 1996 3.0l MV6. Bought in 2001 with 115k in the clock. At 178,000 miles I sold this to a mate in when I bought the next one in 2003... | This is my 2nd Omega, another ex-Thames Valley MV6. Bought with 95,000 miles on the clock, retired in March '06 with nearly 230k miles clocked up - and it only stopped on me once!! |
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| This was my 3rd MV6, a 3.0l Lincolnshire CID saloon bought direct at auction. Written off by a lorry whilst I was stationary, but the insurance money paid for the next one (the first estate I owned) with some to spare! | This is my 4th Omega, a 2001 3.0l MV6, and my first estate car. This was a Lincolnshire traffic car. The huge, flat boot is very handy!! 184k on the clock when I retired it with a blown head gasket in '07 and then kept her for parts until '13. |
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| And this was my 5th MV6, this time a Wiltshire Constabulary Armed Response vehicle. Very shiny & very red! Written off by an idiot in an Audi - a real shame. | My 6th Omega that I owned - It was a 3.2l manual MV6. This one came direct from Derbyshire Police, and they even filled in the holes and re-sprayed the roof before I got it which was nice. The 3.2 was a Pursuit Vehicle, had fly-by-wire throttle and was very VERY fast... Written off by a tw@t in a transit van, but I got £500 *more* in insurance than I paid for her over three years previously! |
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| This is my 7th Omega, a 2001
3.0l MV6 estate bought to replace the first estate. No man should be
without an estate car.... This again was a Thames Valley traffic car,
but being another Armed Response car it has the heavy armoured doors.
At one point in 2007 I had three white Omegas to choose from in the morning. In 2009 I had 3 again, a white saloon, a white estate and Black Betty... |
Black Betty, the Beast of
Blaxhall... This was my 8th Omega, a 2003
3.2l manual MV6. This was a Thames Valley undercover car before I got it.
Black leather interior, twin zone climate control, DAB MP3 CD player
with Bose speakers, Irmscher grill and spoilers front + rear, a bargain
at £1,150 from auction! Sold when the tin worm in the rear arches was getting serious, but the engine and gearbox lived on by getting transplanted into a Scimitar GTE. |
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| This was our last Omega... a 2003 retail spec MV6 with black leather. Was bought in March 2013 to replace the 3.0l white estate and 3.2l Black Betty that were getting a little rough at their edges. She was just £1,300 and after a trip to Surrey she was home and she lasted well for six years before too many big problems mounted up just at the MOT renewal time - and with all the various spare Omega alloys with her she was scrapped for £170, making her cost a mere £190 per year in depreciation! | |
