The Car Magazine which runs its own Bangers rather than borrowing brand new press cars and then pretending it bought them
Banger Fleet - Our New Jaaagwaar
Here are real cars that cost not very much working hard for a living. By all means send a picture and details of yours and we will add it to the Reader’s Drives page james@bangernomics.com
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Fleet in Full
1984 Land Rover - Working Vehicle
2000 Volvo V70 - Now Given Away
1964 Mini Cooper - Classic in bits
1995 Jaguar Sovereign - New Arrival
1995 Rover Sterling V6 - Auctioned
1997 Saab 9000 - Now Given Away
1984 Land Rover Series III the full story is in The British Car Industry Our Part in Its Downfall, which you really must buy. It gives me no trouble at all, but actually does a proper commercial job too during the summer months so even earns its keep. I’ll try and take some more detailed pics of the rust.
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Rover Sterling V6, it cost £240 and successfully completed a John ‘O’ Groats and back charity run, completing more than 1500 miles in just over two days, see Rover on Tour. Most of the electrics worked well, including the air con and driver’s electric seat, but not passenger one which was in permanent semi recline. Glove box broken too and a couple of buttons of the Rover Radio were missing. Otherwise it ran faultlessly and we took it from 148,000 miles to well over 151,000 without a blip. Sadly it had to be auctioned off. See what happened on Bangernomics TV.
Here’s the Jaguar we did buy. Comfortably under £2000 and by far the poshest car we have ever owned. It’s a 1995 3.2 Sovereign with 105,000 miles. It’s very comfy and does long distances brilliantly. So far we’ve only spent money on some rear brake pads. We can’t believe our Bangernomic luck.
