Ok here goes:
(nicked a few phot's from AT for effect)
1) Ford Escort LX - This was the first car I bought after I finished uni and got my first job. It cost me £500 that I had to borrow from a friend. Had it 4 weeks before it got stolen. Went shopping in it to asda, came home, went to a party, cmae back and it was gone!!! Insurance paid out £400 minus the £350 excess meaning I got a cheque for £50 and I still owed my mate £500!!! Even worse though was that I'd bought a suprise engagement ring (for my now wife) and had hidden it in my briefcase in the boot of my car before it got nicked!!! I spent a long time paying that lot off My Mrs now admits to being happy about the ring getting nicked as she got a much bigger one a few years later
2) Peugeot 309 - As I was **** poor my father in law bought me a car to get to work. Unfortunately he bought me this heap of @*!# for £200. The exhaust had a whole in it till it fell off. Eventually went to car heaven after I neglected to ever check the water or oil levels and the engine seized I hated this car more than any other!!!
3) VW Golf - Needed another quick run around so bought this for £250. This car ran like a dream for ten years for the previous owner; 3 weeks after I bought it, the head gasket went costing £350. A month later it went again. Bye bye Golf .
4) Renault Megane Coupe 2.0l - Eventually I stopped bumming around and got a good job that paid well and saved hard. Took me ages to save £6k to buy my first car for cash. Bought a yellow Megane Coupe and loved it!!! it was a league above everything else I had owned. It had a CD player, AC, electric windows, leather seats and even NO CHOKE!!!! Had it for nearly two years and saved enough to try and join the big boys! Lost £4k on it though in the process
5) Kuro Nissan 350z - I'd waited ages to finally get a decent sporty car. I'd chosen the zed over a load of other cars including a 330, TT,S2K, boxster etc etc. After writing off Westway Nissan's demo on a test drive I was hooked! I looked for months for my perfect zed. One saturday morning my Mrs was preparing to paint the spare room, I saw an ad with no pics as it was that new they hadn't even had time to upload them. It was exactly was I was after; Kuro, Rays, alezan, Sat nav, GT ~£21k, after 3 mins on the phone I was on my way to London. 4 hours later I was back in it Later sold it to Paul T who has turned it into the green machine!!!!
6) UY Nissan 350z - I wanted to add the Nismo kit and rims to the Kuro but at over £5k all in, I thought it was a waste of money so I sold the kuro and used the money to get the UY with the kit alreay fitted. Loved this car so much and still miss it to this day. I bought it the day I got back from a holiday in Portugal. Landed at 9am in Brum, made my Mrs drive 4 hrs to Newcastle to pick it up and 4 hrs back Never thought I would sell it and always knew that nothing within £20k of the price I'd paid for it would tempt me away, the only other car that really evoked uncontrollable desire and palpataions was the Gallardo. I went self employed, set up a few companies and built my business plans around buying one before I was 28.
7) Lamborghini Gallardo - Finally got one just after I was 28. The single best purchase I have ever made. The whole ownership experience was out of this world. The attention it draws is unbelieveable. The performance is on another level, the noise was to die for. Not a lot of women know a lot about cars, but trust me, every woman knows what a Lamborghini is I mourned for that car longer than I have ex girlfriends I loved that car but I hate losing money even more. I'm still in touch in with the owner and he offered it me back a few months ago for £28k less than I sold it him, which is a hit I was glad to not be the one taking! I will have another one, just have to convice my Mrs to get back to work first
8) BMW M3 - This was the best compromise I could find for the Mrs once we found out she was preggers. It was rear seats, its fast enough to keep me interested and it has rear seats for the sprog. Best of all it only cost £9k so whilst the economy falls to pieces I'm saving (my mrs doesn't know this bit ) for something special in the near future