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Originally Posted by tonupkid
I once bought my wife an Austin Ambassador
She was significantly unimpressed...
I sold it four months later for about double what I paid. Yay!
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I once got my wife one of those, it was an ex-company car.
(not mine, though I did have to take it off the regular user and drive it for a few days to be eligible for the end-of-contract special sell-off deal)
It was ideal with 3 kids and all their rubbish as it was CAVERNOUS. 1.7L with power-steering (try driving one without!). She quite liked it as it was NEVER full.
Someone drove straight into the back of it at 60mph while she was stationary at some lights (M40 Handy Cross junction at High Wycombe) and literally EVERY panel was bent. Luckily she was alone as the other car (an escort van I think) ended up mostly in the back seat. She just had a bit of whiplash and was otherwise OK, so was the other driver!
This was after she'd had it for 2 years and we got back more from the insurers than we'd paid for it. 
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant.
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation".  (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one! 
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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