Life before 8s - What's your story?

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Originally Posted by Dezzy

Just a LINKY to a thread started a few years ago with a few members previous.

Thanks Dezzy, I missed that thread

Actually, while this thread has become a similar chronology of car ownership, what I was originally asking was essentially "how did everyone become an '8 owner?". The subtle difference being the reasoning behind arriving at '8 ownership rather than the sequence of cars owned.

For example, like I said in my first post:

When the time came to replace the XM, I was looking for something that could make up for a lack of Hydractive handling/ride with sheer grip and road-holding, which meant that it had to be an AWD vehicle. I also wanted something at least as big, luxurious and quick as the XM and preferably something with good build quality (therefore probably German or Japanese) and something that was also reasonably rare. An AWD '8 was really the only car that ticked all the boxes.

Still fascinating to hear of all the great (and some not so great) cars everyone's owned though!