in UK - Some of these owned concurrently (most was 4 at once)

Peugeot 309 1.3
Hyundai Accent Coupe 1.3?
Peugeot 306 1.4
Volvo S40 1.6
BMW 730i 3.0
Vauxhall Cavalier (bought for a Charity Rally)
Land Rover Series 3 2.25
Mazda 6 2.3
Range Rover Vogue 3.5 V8

In Canada (not there yet - 6 weeks to go! )

Looking at a Jeep (either YJ or XJ) with 4.0

Wow, what a list...you should go on Top Gear Star in a Reasonably Priced Car...

Surely putting 'cool' and GMC Safari van in the same sentence is an oxymoron....pictures would help to see how you consider this car to be cool

Sir Tainly's post reminds me. At one stage I had a bright orange 1967 S3 LWB LR that never was roadworthy and got sold for parts, and a 1972 SWB S3 Landy that I ran for three years before the engine expired and I sold it for spares/repair. Both ownership experiences convinced me that mechanic'ing, particularly of old vehicles, is not my strong suit!

In the UK these all followed one after the other

1973 Hillman Hunter (bought for 180 quid, covered about 11,000 miles in a year, sold to a bloke in a pub for 140)
1984 VW Golf C 1.1 (nominally shared with my sister who was for some reason really pissed off when I drove it to Aberdeen and stayed there for 7 months)
1985 Volvo 245 wagon (my parents' old car, bought in an emergency when the Golf died and said sister blamed me entirely, possibly with some justification)
1930 Austin 7 Chummy (although actually owned by my dad, I commuted to work in it every day for about 3 months)
a four- or five-year hiatus living in London and not needing a car
1996 Peugot 106 - company provided
1998 VW Polo - company provided
2000 Citroen Xsara Picasso - private lease on company allowance: bought because OH thought they were pretty
2003 Picasso - bought because the previous one had been a surprisingly good car and we had a baby to throw into the mix by then

in Canada the pattern seems to have shifted to owning them all at once...
2006 Honda Odyssey (3.5l V6 Auto)
2009 Hyundai Accent (1.6l 4-cyl manual - cheap and cheerful, and incredibly economical even if I chuck it around)
1985 Morgan 4/4 4-seater

UK

Nissan Bluebird
Citroen AX
Ford Escort Ghia
Astra GTE
Renault Clio 16V
Renault Clio
Peugeot 306 Tdi
Volkswagen Golf GT Tdi
Subaru Impreza Turbo 2000
Subaru Impreza Turbo Terzo
BMW 330d
Audi TT
BMW 330d Sport

Canada

Nissan Murano
Volkswagen Jetta
Mk 6 GTI

I'll play:

UK:
1: 1966 Vauxhall HA Viva (My first car, bought for fifty quid and made the scrap yard before the road..lol It had grass growing through the footwell...lol)

2: 1974 1.6L Hillman Avenger Estate

3: 1972 Hillman Avenger Tiger (very rare and I loved it to bits. Wish I'd kept it - it's finally become a classic ) Used to cost us 3000 quid a year to insure (in 1982/3)

4: Ford Sierra 1.6 (early 80's)
5: Ford Granada 2.8 Ghia (company car)
6: Vauxhall Carlton (company car)
7: Ford Sierra 2.0 (mid 80's)
8: Vauxhall Cavalier (early 80's)

Germany:
1: 735i BMW
2: VW Passatt Estate
3: Mazda 626 (first bitch box)

Canada:
1: 1988 (ish) Mazda 626 (brought the one above with us)
2: 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix SE (auto)
3: 1997 GMC Safari SLE (auto)
4: 1998 - current GMC Safari SLT (auto)
5: 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP (auto)
6: 2006 - current Audi A4 quattro 2.0T (six speed manual)
7: 2008 - current Audi S4 quattro (six speed manual) My pride and mostly JOY - finally got the (almost) car of my dreams - it would have had an "R" in front of the S in an ideal world.
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This thread got me thinking about cars from my childhood and I remembered my dad's assortment of vehicles. (Probably forgotten some - but not bad from the memory of a (then) five year old girly - my daughter says I should've been a guy...lol)

Not necessarily in the right order - but the A40 is the earliest I can remember

Austin A40
Ford Anglia (vans - two of)
MG Magnet
Mini (Van)
Ford Zephyr
Morris Minor (Van - ex Southern Electricity Board - you could just see the name under the paint on the side..lol)
Triumph (forget the model - similar shape as as the Dolomite Sprint)
Ford Escort 1.3 Ghia
Ford Van (forget the model)

Yamaha DT50
Yamaha FS1E x3
Yamaha DT80
Yamaha RD125 x2
Honda CB100
Honda CB125
Honda 250 Superdream
Yamaha RD250LC
Yamaha RD350 YPVS
Honda VF500
Yamaha 1000 Genesis
Kawasaki 900 Ninja

Landrover 88"
Escort Mk2 1.1 x2
Escort Mk2 1300 Sport
Escort Mk2 RS2000 x2
Capri 1600 in fetching lime green
Capri 2.8i
Astra x4
Nova 1.3SR
Sierra XR4i
Carlton Estate
Mk2 Escort rally car x3
Mk1 Escort rally car
Range Rover x2
Granada estate
Transit van
Escort van
Bedford CF250 van
Subaru Impreza
Lotus 7 replica

Canada:
Explorer x2
Impreza
Nissan Frontier
Lancer
Outlander
Range Rover urggh
Flat bed trailer
Kawasaki 650 Brute force
Mk1 Capri 2.6
V8 Lotus 7 clone
Nissan Titan

Maybe some others I can't remember.

Austin Metro
Mini 1000
Mini 1275GT (THE best car I have ever driven)
Vauxhall Omega
VW Polo Coupé S (went like the proverbial off a shovel but then ran into problems with fuel and it was never the same again)
VW Golf MK2 1.3 (way too underpowered)

Hyundai Elantra
Nissan Xterra (v. thirsty but needed off roader for work)

LOL clearly true, I rememeber mine as a 1.0, but they never made them smaller than a 1.3!

Many memories of crawling up the hill at Rhuallt on the A55 at 30MPH with fully laden HGVs overtaking me associated with that car. Was "inherited" and was the last car I had before moving here, so not complaining too much.

Incidentally, AX, what does the "OT:" mean in this thread title?

Off Topic.

Which could be applied to most threads on BE.

My Mk3 1.0L Escort had similar performance. On the run to Plymouth (where I was at Polytechnic), Telegraph Hill outside of Exeter on the A38 was a third gear experience. And if I had the car loaded enough, sometimes a 2nd gear! (It only had 4 gears).

Ah, okay, thanks.

I thought everything in the Maple Leaf was 'off topic'!

I wish I could post you a pic, but it was before we got a digital camera, but picture this, in a world full of transit vans and VW campers, along comes something with the steering wheel on the wrong side, with a starcraft conversion so it had captains chairs and a futon in the back and it had been lowered a few inches too - it was cool!