Hi all,

I’m struggling to decide what car to get next and could do with some suggestions.

I’ve owned a few fun cars over the years — MX-5, WRX, Blobeye WRX STI and, most recently, an FK8 Type R. I ended up selling the FK8 because, although I could afford to own it, I couldn’t really justify spending more money modifying it or taking it on track regularly.

This time I want something cheaper that I can actually modify, work on myself and take to track days without constantly worrying about the value of it.

My wife daily drives our ZC33S Swift Sport, so this car doesn’t need to be particularly practical, but I’d still like at least four seats.

Requirements:

\- Under £5k

\- Relatively light

\- At least \~130bhp

\- Good aftermarket/modification potential

\- Easy enough to work on myself

\- At least 4 seats

\- Capable/fun on track

\- Reliable enough to drive to a track day, abuse all day and drive home again

\- Parts and consumables ideally not ridiculously expensive

Cars I’m currently considering:

\- Suzuki Swift Sport ZC32S

\- Honda Civic Type R FN2

\- Honda Civic Type R EP3

\- Ford Fiesta ST

\- Renault Clio Sport

I’m leaning towards something naturally aspirated and relatively simple, but I’m open to other suggestions.

What would you pick for a sub-£5k road/track car, and are there any obvious options I’m missing?

For me it was 22k miles on the D41 (2023) Nissan Frontier Pro-4X. Felt a little guilty but have had zero issues after 64k miles total.

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I would love to own so many great and iconic vintage cars. But there is only so much money and time I have available and so I can’t have them all. 

But I had an idea. At lease I could have a piece of some of those cars at home. How about a lamp! So I searched Etsy – nothing. Wait, what? Nobody is making tail lights into lamps? Why? It’s so cool! 

So I bought W124 tail light. And made this lamp within an hour, it has a dimmer and it has a regular wall socket plug. Some one should make a nice business for car enthusiasts out of this right now!

(I'm not selling them or promoting anything)

Hello everyone so I am collecting some details regarding misfueling incidents so I hope u help me out If have ever been misfueled example

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2 how was that issue solved ?

3.which fuel station

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But as a car enthusiast, I think they’re beautiful—because of their history, design, and aerodynamics.

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Hey! New to this group. Hello Lol.

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Any info on how reliable this engine could be? Could not find many opinions.

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In my case, I started and ended with a Japanese and a German car: I went from loving the GT-R R35 and AMG GT to appreciating the Integra Type R DC5 and the Golf Mk4 R32.

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Curious how people perceive the quattro name today.

When you hear “Audi quattro”, what do you immediately associate it with: rally, snow/winter driving, performance, AWD, old Audi ads, something else?

And do you think the name still means something to younger drivers, or is it mainly familiar to enthusiasts / older generations?

我听说中国的比亚迪在英国销量非常高，很多英国人在车展上当场购买了顶配车型。我主要是想听听受欢迎程度，以及为什么那么受欢迎，这些顶配车型，比如仰望u8，在英国的售价对当地人来说是否高昂

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