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A future classic is a car that people think will become very popular and valuable in the future. This usually happens because the car has a special design or is loved by many fans.
Nostalgic draw is when people feel a strong emotional connection to a car because of good memories or experiences they have with it. This makes them want to own or appreciate that car more.
The Opel Astra is a small car that many people in Europe like because it's practical and comfortable. It has a good reputation for being reliable and is available in different styles, including a sportier version called the Astra GTC. If you want a dependable car that’s easy to drive, the Astra is a solid option.
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The BMW M3 is a super sporty version of the BMW 3 Series, made for people who want a fast and exciting driving experience. It has a powerful engine and is built to handle really well on the road. If you love cars that go fast and feel great to drive, the M3 is a popular choice.
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An email before I forget, because it's from a listener called Neil, who refers to us as an
absolute duplicate of untroubled, fleshy meat cylindricals.
That's awful.
But this is not a question, but I just wanted to read it out before it gets lost into the
massive snippet in-box.
Neil says, I've got a Jag X-type spout, which is chassis number 502, an X Coventry factory
press car, and the oldest one left in the whole wide world, except for chassis number one,
which is in the Gayden Museum next to an Allegro.
It's a true early barn find car just without the barn part.
It's on an original Redgeplate 2001 genuine Y-Redge.
Find another.
Genuine one.
I don't want it.
All right, okay.
I love that.
That's a statement.
Neil says, I don't want it.
It has its usual problems.
Both sills, red paint issues, and now, alas, the ECU is fried.
Lovely cream interior and sat-enough system, AMF and radio stereo.
The screen, it all works.
It's four-wheel drive automatic gearbox.
It's on the other side of Peterborough.
Just come and pick it up.
I'll even deliver it to you for 40 quid, as in I'll pay you 40 quid.
It would make a splendid addition to the show's fleet.
Thank you, Neil.
This is a very kind offer.
It is.
We're still getting on top of our free Saab.
I think we have to say no to the free X-Type.
But I wanted to mention this just to put it out there,
because obviously, if you like X-Types, this is something a bit special.
It's the, according to Neil, anyway, it's the oldest X-Type still on or near a road.
So if anyone wants an X-Type, write to us hello at smithandsniff.com.
This is a possible, first of all, an exceptional highlight, I would say.
Oh, 2001.
It's technically not allowed.
Oh, bobbins.
But, well, yeah, I think, you know, there's leeway, isn't there, sometimes, for something.
Could we use our sway?
Could we use our heft?
Yeah.
Well, there we go.
So, yeah, if you want a bright red X-Type,
he's not said which engine is in it, but it's a spout and it's a four-wheel drive.
So it's definitely a two, five, or a three-liter, because, actually,
that's all there were at launch, when there's so, yes, anyway, get in touch,
if you'd like a Jaguar X-Type that sort of has a bit of a talking point to it.
Anyway, let's go on with some questions.
Can I start with one, which I think is really up your street,
because you know about this stuff much more than I do.
It's from Rich Tiso.
We know Rich.
Hello.
We do.
Hi, Rich.
Um, he says this is one of those boring car advice questions.
In May, I bought a 2004 MX-5, four and a half grand, which is strong money for a Mark II,
but it's top-spec 1.8 spout, so it's six-speed, slippy-diff leather, with a hard top,
lovingly restored and tastefully modified with care and intake, gravity-exhaust,
unspec brakes, fully polybushed suspension, and a proper roll bar.
There is, as they say, not a spot of rust on it, unlike my previous MX-5s,
which got used hard as dailies and rusted away.
This one is not going to get used on gritted roads, with the plan to stop using it in late
October, which leads to the issue.
I don't have anywhere covered to store it.
I don't even have an uncovered driveway, just a reserved spot in a residential car park.
My budget won't stretch to a professional storage place for the three or four likely months.
I don't think I'd be able to sweet-talk the British Motor Museum at the road into taking
it as a temporary exhibit, so I'm wondering about covers.
I've heard differing opinions about their use, risk of paint damage and trapping in moisture,
which is obviously the opposite of what you want, and if there's actually a benefit to them,
so I would appreciate your input.
The parking space is under a tree, if that makes any difference.
CMTMB rich.
There is differing opinions on whether car covers help or actually do the opposite,
so you can get lots of grades of car covers, which is why you can get ones from about
10 quid to about 400.
Personally, and I cover cars and I do various things, I would say in your situation,
if I'm going to be completely honest, there'd be two things I would do.
If you haven't, first of all, if you haven't already rust-proofed the car,
please rust-proof the car, because it's still going to get outdoor moisture and it's still
going to be exposed, and if it's a Mk2 or Mx5, it's going to want to start dissolving again,
so invest in that.
They're not paying me to say this, but I use built-hamber, B-I-L-T,
hamber, potions from S6, anti-crosion potions are really good and easy to apply,
and you can get a garage door on a ramp, but because you've got a hard top on your Mx5,
that's really good because it's going to reduce the ingress of water, so one school of thought is
a bit like my Boxster. I have a cover which just goes around the roof area, which is where water
would normally leak in, so it's a smaller cover which tethers around the wing mirrors
and around the back, like there's a waistband which goes around the back, and I actually think
that might work well. However, before you put a cover on the car and you can get really good
heavy duty, make sure you get one that fits quite tight to the car so it doesn't move like a piece
of sandpaper in the wind, and if the wind gets under a big cover, obviously it's going to want to
parachute it off the car, but detail the car before you cover it. The reason for that is because you
want to be as little friction as possible on the bodywork, so it does pay dividends to detail a
car quite hard before the bad months anyway, and I know this is all sounding very sensible
and consumer, but I think it is the right way to do it, so I would detail it, rust proof it,
and probably buy one of those covers which just goes over the cabin part of the Mx5
that's tailored around the mirrors, so that's my personal view, but if the tree is brutal and
drops a load of old toss, I'd probably get a tailored car cover, which is make sure you
get one that's breathable and fully weather resistant, and it has to be a fairly tight
fitting so it doesn't move in a blade, but you've got these words. Well, it's hard because I've
had cars which I love and I haven't been able to store properly, and you do worry about them,
and so yeah, it's nice to know that people are actually wanting to try and preserve these things,
so it's what a great spec car as well. What a great spec Mx5. Yeah, it sounds really good.
Rich, can you get bored of it and sell it to my daughter for 600 quid in the next 12 months?
Thanks. I've got a question from Ethan Hatch. Hi, SSGs. I'm a driving instructor. Big shout out
to all those SSDIs out there, sweet, sweet driving instructors. I'm currently, well,
there's a few that listen to this podcast, which is quite troubling really. I'm currently on the
hunt for a new car since my current 2021 seed has got some electrical gremlins. On occasion,
the car won't recognise the key and will refuse to start, then five seconds later it fires up,
like there was never an issue at all. As you can imagine, this is not ideal when nervous new
drivers get behind the wheel and the car won't start having been stalled a few times at a junction.
Oh, sugar. Maybe it's been over stalled as a learner car and it's just started to have a bit
of a hissy fit. Yes, VCUs had a meltdown. So my question to you both is what car is the perfect
car enthusiast's instructor vehicle? Currently, I'm set on an up GTI VW with some cheeky steel wheels,
so it's not to damage those lovely diamond cut loys that come with the car from the factory.
Let me know your thoughts. Many thanks, Ethan. Well, I mean, we do both like an up GTI and I
actually, yes, I was talking to someone that owns one the other day when I was filming and I was
looking around his lovely three-door example of the mark and it was amazing. And did they still
love it? They said it's fantastic. Extended ownership. He reeled off a list of other cars he's owned,
many of which were things like Lotuses, K-Trums, all kinds of and he said the up GTI is by far and
away the best car I've ever owned. Interesting. So he thinks he's going to keep it forever because he
can't. Wow. Because he loves the combination of sort of analogue and modern and footprint and
cheap to run and all those things. Well, now this is an immediate benefit. Well, I assume it is for
Ethan's day job because the up GTI still just starts on a trad key, doesn't it? So yes, if one
of his pupils stalls it, there's none of that sort of dabbing at a button and then realizing you've
got to have a clutch in and they're sort of getting all flustered and panicky. It's very simple. You
just turn a key. Yeah, exactly. So it sort of feels like that might be a benefit. It's small,
which I suppose is good for new drivers, but the visibility is decent.
The only thing that I remember from the up GTI is that it sometimes does that weird rev hanging
thing. Yes. Which is for emissions reasons. Yeah, it's to do with the injection, isn't it usually?
Just keeps the revs up when you put the clutch in, but I don't know if that's that kind of throw
off learners or is that fine? It's not majoring. It doesn't do it all the time. It seems to be
sort of only in certain circumstances and maybe only when it's cold. I don't know. I forget now,
but I will say, because I've thought about buying it up GTI many times. In fact, I was looking at
them only a couple of weeks ago. They sort of don't, they haven't lost as much money as I was
hoping. They've sort of leveled out. Well, we both had the opportunity to buy them when they were new
for not a great deal of money. And we're both annoyed that we didn't.
At one point when I was really, really thinking about it, I was looking up people who have put
them on steelies, whether it's because they're in a country where you have winter tires or just
because they thought they looked cool. And the good news is they look cool on steelies. It really
suits them. So that part of Ethan's plan would work a treat. I can't think of an alternative now
that would give you a little bit of delight, but isn't so aggressively sporty, because a Fiesta ST
I think is just a bit too spiky and really sharp throttle response, but hard to learn in, I would
say, as a result. Yeah, can you get, can you still buy up GTIs new? You can't, can you?
No, no, the up, the up in general is now dead. When did the up die? Two years ago?
Yes. Well, I've got a counter which is not as sexy, but you can currently buy it new,
which might be good for you as an instructor. I don't know. I really, really like the Kier
Picanto. And you can get the Kier Picanto, the new design language is a little bit more angular,
but not unnecessarily aggressive. But it's also available with a peppy little, I think it's GT
model, one litre turbo. And it's a great car. It's the outgoing version I took on the Lanzen
trial. And resilient car, good build quality and very enjoyable, enjoyable gearbox,
enjoyable chassis. It won't be a GTI, but it'll, it'll, it won't be that far behind, I wouldn't say.
So I borrowed one when I had my Panda 100 horsepower and I was writing about it in Eva
and I looked around and I was like, what is the today's equivalent of the Panda 100 horsepower?
And there really wasn't. And actually the, the Picanto with that little turbo engine was about
as close as it got. So I borrowed one and drove it back to back of my Panda. It was a nice little
car, but it wasn't as fun as the Panda. And I think the up GTI would be more fun. But you're
right. Those Picantos are very nice little cars and they feel very high quality considering the
price. Yeah, I agree. That's exactly what I was thinking. They do feel really good
quality for the model. Because I don't know what else. I mean, you know, the truth is that
if you don't have an ST, just normal fiestas are really nice to drive. Yeah. And would be
more learner friendly than the slightly aggressive ST. But some, but yeah, otherwise up GTI on
steelies. Yeah. I agree, mate. I have a question here from a listener called Andrew, who says,
I have a question. Well, that's nice. That's nice. Thanks for that. I realised I should have edited
that bit out of my head because that's why he's writing to this. He says, I have a question.
I really enjoy car auctions, especially those for classic cars. And the last two have both
resulted in a purchase for a friend, which I encourage him to do, and one for me with the
same friend pushing me on. The question is, what is your best auction purchase? And what,
if any, is the one you wish you hadn't? Oh, best auction purchase. Well,
I mean, eBay is classed as an auction, isn't it? Yeah, or our friends at Piston Heads,
or our friends at Piston Heads, exactly to do online auction. So I many years ago now would
have been 2008. I bought my Dodge Charger from off of eBay America. And it was the most expensive
car I'd ever bought. And I bought it blind. But I did buy it wisely. So I remain chuffed to pieces
about it. It was accurately described. And obviously, there was a lot of excitement waiting
for it to be loaded onto a ship and sent over here. Ra, ra, ra. So that's probably my best
auction. Yeah, I'd say that's probably my best in terms of sheer bargain. I mean, I've bought
my Allegro was an auction for 127 quid. I offered the guy 500 to end the auction early. And he
went, no, I'll let it run. And then I said, and then the hammer went down at 127. I went, okay, then.
So yeah, I know. I know. I know. So there's been some good ones. But I have bought,
I have I've got carried away with the auction, the auction excitement, like so many of us.
And then when the car is either delivered or I go and collect it, there is a there is a lackluster
reception to it to the point where I one of them I just went, yep, that'll go straight back on the
auction site next week. And it didn't. One of those being a Chevrolet Caprice classic wagon
that was two tone cream and peach. And I bought it unseen for not a lot of money. But it had been
here had the v8 removed from it and it had been converted to a straight six, which is a conversion
that nobody does. It was somebody I think a bought the car for its engine and then just slung a six
into it and had let I don't know a crash of children do the wiring in it. And it was so bad.
But I also reversed it accidentally on full choke into my neighbor's house, which I might
have regaled in a previous podcast. And he was furious about it. And I just gave me bad juju
about the car. So I was like, I don't I don't really want this car. I've just bought it because
it's cheap. And I just had a reality check and put it back for sale and off it went. So yeah,
what about you? I have never bought a car at auction. Have you? For myself. No. Oh, I have
bought I bought a car. Well, I was I was sort of involved in buying a car at a sort of auction in
God, like 20 odd years ago on old old top gear. When we we were at a classic car auction, this
very honest, but cosmetically tired Porsche 944 was one of the lots. Oh, and I was there with
Quentin. And he looked around this car, he went, that could be a bargain. And I was like,
oh, shit. And I was the director and I both went, really? And you could see us both thinking,
we should buy it. But then we were both a bit like, Oh, God, what we didn't do with 944 and
and according to what I, well, I think I'm going to buy it, frankly. Let's get bidding. But would
can you two do my bidding? Because if people see bloke off the telly bidding for that car,
it'll drive the price up or the auctioneer will start taking bids off the wall. So
we ended up doing the little finger to get I can't really got it for in the end, not much.
So he owned it. He did buy it for himself. Yeah, he bought it. I don't know what he did
with it in the end, I think he probably just because at the time he was running a garage
store with his brother. So I guess maybe just bought it for stock, get it get it spruced up
because it was it was like you could see it was a really decent car underneath, but it's just it
was red. So it faded. And it was quite exciting standing there doing the bidding and with Quentin
standing sort of behind us like behind a pillow going, yes, hold. Yes. Did he say hold? I might
be making this up now. I love that. It was definitely they were just sort of single word
instructions muttered from behind. It was really fun. I love that. And I've never
I've ever bought a car off eBay. Geez, I don't know that have. No, just quite bad isn't it?
It's quite bad, Rich. Well, hang on, hang on. You've bought an equal quest. Oh, yes. All right,
that counts. Yeah. And I forgot that from auction, my most recent absolute bargains
was obviously my Tesla P90D. Oh, yes. Which was just an absurdly cheap car, which I've just clicked
over 271,900 miles. Have you? Yeah, I've done shed loads in it. And I'm going to just keep
piling them on, although it is so dirty. I need to clean the damn thing. I don't I don't my Tesla.
So hopefully that answers the question there on that side of things. I've got a question from
Ryan Jones. Good day, you pair of Bill withering clutches. I have I have I have a some cash saved
up. I'm going to say it like that because that's how it's written down. Is there a word to know
which one is it? No, I can't try to work it out. I have I have a some cash saved up with a view
a sum of cash. Yeah, to buy something that will be a future classic currently in the vein of
nobody cares, but will surely be nostalgic and of value later on. I currently live abroad in the
Middle East to be exact. So I won't be using the car that much if at all in the UK on holidays.
Currently, I'm stuck on the idea of a Mondeo ST220 estate in performance blue, or perhaps a smaller
Fiesta Z Tech S in the same color. Both cars are relatively cheap at the moment. They are. Yeah,
I was talking to someone about these Fiesta Z Tech Estes, actually. But I feel will only
ground value having missed the XR2 boat emoji sad face. My question is, are there other more
interesting left field options you experts can suggest that maybe I've not considered? I'm
thinking along the lines of the Mark 1 focus chat, you guys did a few casts ago. Ryan Jones,
Ryan, this is good. I'm excited on your behalf for what may happen.
Hot off the back of goading people into auction buying.
So, well, I mean, the S220 Mondeo is quite a good shout, actually. And the good thing about
the Z Tech S Fiesta is the great fun to drive and there's no wet belts. So I wonder which era
he's talking about. I think he's talking about the mid 2000s one, because that's the best one,
I would say. The Fiesta that sort of looked like when Ford had started to try and do sort of more
solid looking VW-ish design. Yeah, is it the triangular headlights? Do they look a bit more
triangular with a curved edge? Yeah, I had to, if it is the one I'm thinking of,
which was the early 2000s Fiesta basically came out in about 2002, I'm going to say.
And I had in about 2005, I had a Fiesta ST of that shape as a long term from Evo.
Hmm. I did not particularly love it. It was okay. But the engine always felt a bit tight,
even with thousands of miles on it. It just wasn't a zingy engine. And the chassis was just a bit
lead footed. I think because the wheels and tires were too big. And while I had the long
term, I borrowed a Z-Tech S press car, just to see what that was like. And it was everything
that the ST should have been, but wasn't. It had a lovely, lively, revvy engine.
And because it had smaller wheels and tires, it didn't look as good. But it was absolutely
lovely to drive, because it really sort of flowed along a nice road rather than sort of
thudding down it. And it was, it was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. But my worry in terms
of future classic would be that it's one of those ones where I think Ryan would have to play the
long game. Yeah. I mean, that's going to be the case with any of these. But particularly the Z-Tech
S, I think the attention is drawn to the ST. Fewer people want the Z-Tech S because
fewer people appreciated it, even though I felt it was the nicer car to drive.
And you'll have to wait until there are so few of them less that it becomes a real novelty,
because everybody looked after and kept the STs. So it's whether you want to do that.
If he means the Z-Tech S from the generation before, again, that was a lovely car. And I could
see those coming round more quickly, because it was quite a short lived model. And they were
delightful to drive. Yeah, they were. The thing about future classics is we don't know the future,
but what we do know is that anything that has a nostalgic draw and the Z-Tech S was a cheaper
car to insure and own than an ST. So there'd be a lot of younger people that bought Z-Tech Ss
because they couldn't buy an ST. And they've probably got all the memories attached to
the Z-Tech S. And by very definition, that might mean that the Z-Tech S has got a bright
future ahead. But I think the one, the round about the millennium was my favourite one,
which had the quite plucked eyebrow headlights. I don't know what you, they look like you've got
quite a surprised face, like someone's dug you in the ribs. That's the one I really like.
No wet belts in sight at that point. And a simple car. But if he wanted someone that let's quickly,
for one, give us something a minute to give him any alternative cars to sniff around.
The one day OSTs and on fiesta Z-Texes. Well, because this is the thing,
the folds thing is good because as we know, it seems like performance folds always hit a point
where they go a bit silly in value. And the 80s and 90s stuff is definitely sort of in its sweet
spot now. In fact, I'm wondering if we're going to start seeing the 80 stuff, but maybe we have
seen it sort of start to soften off a bit because the generation that coveted those cars and really
wanted them is, it's moved on now. But will an ST220, I don't know. But yeah, forward and
forward. I suppose a Peugeot 309 GTI6, they're already sought after and 106 rallies for that
matter, but they've not gone completely stupid. 306 is cheaper than a 106 rally, I would say.
But it's got to be good. Yes. And so if you want to use it, it's like you want it to be good,
but not so good that you dare not use it. So it's a tricky one. And obviously,
you've got to keep it in good order as well. Yeah. If you want to, at some point,
sounds like the plan is to sell it for more than you paid for it, but it's always going to be a
long game. Yeah, it is. It is. Golf GTI Mark V, the values have started to go up and they're hard
to find without rust. A massive fan of them. I really like the Astra GTC, the kind of like
2012 era GTC Astra, the three door one. Oh yeah. It's a really good looking car and it was pretty
good to drive from memory. They did a VXR version. It was a little bit cartoonish to me,
like the wheels. And usually rare you get a production car where the wheels are actually
too big, but some of those Astras, they sort of, there's something a bit odd about them.
There's got to be an Alfa Romeo. I tell you one car, the chap who I store my cars with,
Ignition Cars and Coffee Lewis, he bought an Alfa 147 GTA. Oh. And I've had to move it the other
day and it reminded me of how absurd and brilliant hot hatches were because there's this quite small
car with bulbous arches and it's got a 3.2 V6 in it. And you could just go, that's a lot of engine
for a small car like this. That's cool. And it sounds amazing. Yes. That era when hot hatches
felt like the engine was trying to burst out of the car a little bit. Yeah. Because the
Renault Sport Clio's had a slight sense of that. And I suppose the 205 GTi's did to some degree,
particularly 1.9. And then, yeah, that Alfa obviously is the zenith of that. I never particularly
liked those GTA Alphas though. They didn't feel quite sorted enough. But they, yeah, I mean,
there's not that many around anyway. So perhaps they could actually become just by dint of the
numbers game. They have got up as well. They probably won't ever saw in value because people,
in the medium term, are a bit worried about Alphas and the expense of
keeping them going and stuff. I don't know. Alfa 156 gets my vote if I was going to Alfa.
Yes. They do an Alfa 156 GTA Sport Wagon, which is rare AF and cool AF as well.
And I would have won over a Mondeo ST220, but I think it'd probably be more money to buy and
keep. And possibly less reliable. I don't know. I mean, you just, you just never know, do you?
But yeah, I was, I suddenly thought of those older BMW 3 Series, the IS ones that were,
you know, people seemed to like. I mean, there was that 320 IS, which was the Italian market,
yeah, sort of substitute for the M3. But I realized they've already taken off, you know,
they're sort of into the five figures easily. So that boat, I mean, it doesn't, because Ryan
hasn't said how much money he's got set aside. So I don't know. A really, really clean, tidy Mondeo
ST220 is staying in that nice blue. At some point in the future, someone will want that off you. So
why not? So. All right. Well, I think we've covered that. If you've got a question for us,
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Listeners are treated to a mix of car advice and entertaining anecdotes as the hosts discuss a listener's unique Jaguar X-Type offer and delve into storage solutions for a pristine MX-5. They tackle questions about the best cars for driving instructors, future classic car investments, and share personal auction experiences. The episode features lively debates on car covers, the appeal of various Ford models, and the charm of lesser-known vehicles. With a blend of humor and expertise, the hosts provide valuable insights for car enthusiasts.
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