Top Gear CCC Poll: £100 Cars

[Liquid]

Something I thought might be fun for a few weeks. There will be some potato-quality images.

Use whatever criteria you want:

Which is your favourite
Which you think is objectively the best
Which was the most imaginative
Which captured the spirit of the challenge

Original Challenge Winner: Jeremy's Volvo

Jeremy's Volvo 760

James' Audi 80

Richard's Rover 416

 

[DK]

Jeremy bought his car for one pound. It still had a working radio...albeit with very tinny speakers. It survived a c.65km/h crash when the others couldn't survive crashes which were just under 50km/h. /thread

 

[axletramp]

The Audi 80 is the best because I used to own a gold one. Oh yesssss!

Although I think the Rover captures the spirit better as it was so lame. It was even lame when it was new, unlike the other two, so in effect it had a head start in that respect.

 

[Liquid]

I can't help but think that had this challenge been done some years later, James (character) would have bought the Rover and Scriptchard (character) would have bought the Audi.

 

[Aki Ko]

Jeremy bought his car for one pound.

How can you beat that?

 

[homeforsummer]

How can you beat that?

99p?

 

[Aki Ko]

99p?

If only they did that. 99p car.

 

[AudiMan2011]

Back when I first watched I was keen on the Volvo since it was ludicrous a car built like a brick :censored:house could be had for so cheap. Now though I think the Audi was more in spirit of the challenge since it looked as though it worked the best and most reliably (crash "test" aside).

 

[SVX]

How can you beat that?

Free!

 

[UltimateYosh]

How can you beat that?

They Pay you to take the car away.

 

[Liquid]

They Pay you to take the car away.

That was almost the whole point of the challenge. In days gone by a scrap dealer would indeed pay you to take your old car off you but under new recycling schemes you now, in certain instances, have to pay the scrap dealer for him to take your car away instead.

Because of that Jeremy's friend who bought the car for him went to a dealer who had lots of part-ex cars. The dealer had loads of cars and it would cost money to have a scrap dealer take them away; instead the dealer gets £1 in pure profit to have someone buy it as a usable machine still.

 

[Legro]

The 416 they used was the GTi version, wasn't it.

The 760 was technically the best purchase between the three, even if it wasn't the best car objectively. Mostly because it's quite a bit easier to turn a £1 thing into profit than it is to do so with a £99 thing.

 

[UltimateYosh]

That was almost the whole point of the challenge. In days gone by a scrap dealer would indeed pay you to take your old car off you but under new recycling schemes you now, in certain instances, have to pay the scrap dealer for him to take your car away instead.

Because of that Jeremy's friend who bought the car for him went to a dealer who had lots of part-ex cars. The dealer had loads of cars and it would cost money to have a scrap dealer take them away; instead the dealer gets £1 in pure profit to have someone buy it as a usable machine still.

It's been a while since I watched the challenge though

 

[Razor440]