Is this a good car to get?

Triumph Herald estate. Coker fits nicely with the back seat folded down
(or without if you take the saddle off), 26x3 fits with the seat in
place. Cheap to buy and insure, reliable, 45+ mpg on a long run, no
road tax, no horrible diesel or catalyst stink, no depreciation, looks
cool, pretty much nothing to go wrong you can't fix with a half inch
spanner. Does take more maintenance than a newer design though.

Rob

edit: Just realised you specifically said saloon... not a chance of
getting a coker in a Herald saloon.

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I think you are unlikely to find a saloon car that will take a nimbus
36" whole in the boot, my dad's Jaguar S-Type has a pretty big boot,
the wheel will just fit but you have to fold down one of the rear seats
to allow the frame/handle to poke through. A nimbus 36" fits nicely in
the back of a ford focus if you fold both rear seats down, infact you
can get a couple in.

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What is a saloon car?

My guess is it is a small economy car no?

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here's my thoughts about cars.

i bought a station wagon, and tinted the windows black.

it holds 14 unicycles inside (with 2 people)

but more importantly, if i take it anywwhere for overnight, i can sleep
in the back. if i go to a trailhead between business meetings, i can
change in the back, completely privately. (I was changing in the back
one time, completely naked at this point, toweling off all the
grossness, when a lady notice the unicycle leaning on my car fell over,
and she stopped to carefully place the unicycel back how it was,
leaning against the back of the car, against the window, with me
butt-naked on the other side of the glass!

station wagons are a great unicycle car

ps...and a station wagon isn't any bigger, it's properly designed

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Ah, language difference. Even within the english language. Gotta love
it. In the US saloon brings connotations of a loud and rowdy pub. In
carspeak, if I remember correctly, it means 'sedan' (as opposed to a
compact). Correct me if I'm wrong (I usually am).

If you're independantly wealthy, there's nothing cooler than an old VW
bus and it'll hold a handfull of Cokers. Pitiful fuel economy but, if
you can afford one, you can probably afford the petrol.

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I have a citroen saxo desire. The N36 fits on the back seat no probs.
(Don't know if its a saloon or not, don't know anything about cars)

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Joe2005 said:

What is a saloon car?

My guess is it is a small economy car no?

No, I belive the american equivalent word is 'sedan':

"the sedan is a passenger car with two rows of seats and adequate
passenger space in the rear compartment for adult passengers. The
vehicle has a separate trunk (boot in British English), for luggage at
the rear."

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Roof rack and a bike lock.

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I have a Ford Escort LX and I've had a 28" and two 20"s in the 'boot' at
once. This car has decent fuel economy (~28mpg) - better than my Grand
Marquis (~16-17mpg). I didn't realize that Triumph still manufactured
cars...

BTW: BluntRM's suggestion of racks is a good idea. You could get a pair
of cheap surfboard racks for ~$100USD, and, if you take off the cranks,
you could probably fit 2 cokers on the roof. Even with my small car,
I've been able to fit 5-6 surfboards with help from the racks (one of
my boards is 7'10", too).

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rob.northcott said:

Triumph Herald estate. Coker fits nicely with the back seat folded down
(or without if you take the saddle off), 26x3 fits with the seat in
place. Cheap to buy and insure, reliable, 45+ mpg on a long run, no
road tax, no horrible diesel or catalyst stink, no depreciation, looks
cool, pretty much nothing to go wrong you can't fix with a half inch
spanner. Does take more maintenance than a newer design though.

Been there, seen it, done it' :-)' (http://tinyurl.com/2p626r)

Sadly though I also need guaranteed reliability as I do 300 motorway
miles every weekend

STM

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kington99 said:

I think you are unlikely to find a saloon car that will take a nimbus
36" whole in the boot, my dad's Jaguar S-Type has a pretty big boot,
the wheel will just fit but you have to fold down one of the rear seats
to allow the frame/handle to poke through. A nimbus 36" fits nicely in
the back of a ford focus if you fold both rear seats down, infact you
can get a couple in.

Mmmm.... S-Type! Tempting. Out of my budget, but tempting!

The rear seats fold down in the Peugeot, but I'm kind of hoping to get
it to fit in without doing that.

STM

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well if ya want reliability dont get a french car as it is garentied to
blow up i would tgon something along the lines of a honda civic or a
vauxhall vectra as i dont know your budget i cant rly say nemore but
either new or old both these cars will fit a 36" uni so its all good.

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I'm pretty sure our old Seat Cordoba could fit my 36" with smallish
handle + a couple of 20" with just a little luggage space left. Some
VAG cars have very big boots 🙂

STM we can experiment tonight with 1*36"+3*20" in an Avensis. If the
experiment fails domesticated_ape will have a 50 mile night ride to get
home with his new uni 😉

KEG

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I have a 1992 Honda Civic DX hatchback. A small car by most standards.
With the seats folded down I can get a 36er, 2 Munis and a trials
(with adequete padding of course so I don't scratch my Hunter 36er
frame) inside. It gets 40 mpg and it's cool. 🙂

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keg said:

STM we can experiment tonight with 1*36"+3*20" in an Avensis. If the
experiment fails domesticated_ape will have a 50 mile night ride to get
home with his new uni 😉

LOL, I guess that'll be one way to get familiar with a new uni!

just to let you know, I'm going to be getting to hockey early tonight,
and leaving strait away, as I'm all bunged up with a cold at the moment
and really not feeling like doing much physical stuff.

STM

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Bring your uni to the dealership and see if it fits in any car you test
drive. If the uni doesen't fit then you can eliminate that car.

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semach.the.monkey said:

Mmmm.... S-Type! Tempting. Out of my budget, but tempting!

You can get preowned jags very cheap, maybe £1500 will get you an XJ6
with full service history, air con, full leather trim, 4.2 litre engine
etc. The boots on these things are huge. Unfortunately so is the fuel
use, else I would have had one as my first car.

Incidentally usedjag.com has an s-type for 5k

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kington99 said:

You can get preowned jags very cheap, maybe £1500 will get you an XJ6
with full service history, air con, full leather trim, 4.2 litre engine
etc. The boots on these things are huge. Unfortunately so is the fuel
use, else I would have had one as my first car.

1.5k - 2.5k is the kind of budget I'm looking at. But a 4.2 litre
enging would cost as much as that again to do London to Nottingham each
week :-)

That's why I like the idea of a peugeot - economical 55mpg+ diesel
engine!

If I felt confident that a N36 should fit, then I'd hapilly take it
along for a test drive. But if I get there and there's no way it's
going in, or I scratch the paintwork trying then I'd feel such a
muppet.

Maybe I'll spend some time going around dealerships this weekend with a
tape measure...

STM

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Brian MacKenzie said:

here's my thoughts about cars.

i bought a station wagon, and tinted the windows black.

it holds 14 unicycles inside (with 2 people)

but more importantly, if i take it anywwhere for overnight, i can sleep
in the back. if i go to a trailhead between business meetings, i can
change in the back, completely privately. (I was changing in the back
one time, completely naked at this point, toweling off all the
grossness, when a lady notice the unicycle leaning on my car fell over,
and she stopped to carefully place the unicycel back how it was,
leaning against the back of the car, against the window, with me
butt-naked on the other side of the glass!

station wagons are a great unicycle car

ps...and a station wagon isn't any bigger, it's properly designed

I got a 99 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport (wagon) for that same reason🙂
28-30 mpg, did great in crash tests,and great reliability. Also the
all wheel drive is great for skiing. No chains!😄

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