I've picked this up for winter, I've bought other cheap runarounds to keep my cars away from the salt, this time it's a mercedes, last time was a mk2 CRX.
Here it is:



Had the S2000 out today as it was nice, makes me Love the S so much more, just to look at it and drive it after being in the Merc for a while really makes you appreciate it again!

So does anyone else have the luxury of hibernating thier pride and joy over the winter?

 

How much was she to buy and insure?

 

Yep I got a 2001 Astra 1.6 16V estate for £400 last month for the winter, 93k miles and previous owner had it for around 8 years, looks and drives better than expected for £400

 

£1300 should make it back once I've fixed the small problems. Nice to have something to tinker with.

 

Cosworth ?

 

not at that price

my M is my winter hack but the S2 has winter tyres in case it snows

 

Not a cosworth. It's a w124, the cosworth engines didn't feature in this model. Porsche did do a rather tasty job on them though called a 500e. AMG made the Hammer which is also a beast.

 

My s2000 is off the road as soon as the gritters come out, and since my 'garage' is up a single track road that won't get cleared if it snows I always look for a good awd vehicle to do winter duties!

For 2 years I had this, bought for £2000, sold in January this year for £1650 with no mot. Never went wrong, never spent a penny on it!



This winter I have bought this. £900 with a years test and 4 new tires. Very clean and so far so good! It's my second subaru (first was a legacy outback a few years back) and they are brilliant IMO! Rugged, simple, built to last cars which is exactly what I need as a daily/winter hack!

 

Never have I seen a Pajero Mini look so good!

I had a Suzuki JX which was meant to be my ongoing hack. Sadly that was not meant to be.

 

I had an E39 last year which I only lost £200 on some 8000 miles later. Bought a w209 CLK from a client as he couldn't shift it in Scouseland. For a 12 year old car, it's faultless and only just hit 100k. Bargain at £2k happily saving my S 50 miles a day