Next best thing to an X1/9

I was thinking the other day what fun car I’d have in my garage if the X1/9 didn’t exist. The car it would be having immediately sprung to mind, I was struck at what this revealed about me and the primary reason I have an X1/9. At the same time it would fix the biggest gripe… no, that’s a too harsh a word…frustration with our beloved.

The car? I’d have a Triumph Spitfire. This reveals me to be a poseur on a budget. What is most important to me is style and cost. You can probably now guess what my biggest frustration with the X1/9 is. Have you ever seen a Spit with its bonnet up? Oh the space, the space….

I would be interested to hear what other members would really have (no wishful thinking!) in place of their X1/9s had Mr Bertone never convinced the FIAT bosses to waste lots of money.

SimonH

A Mk1 MR2, obviously.

:lol:

But if the exxy didn't exist, Toyota would have had nothing to copy! Look in detail at the mk1 MR2 and you realise it's a mk2 x1/9...what Fiat should have done.

Next best thing to a X1/9 is EITHER two empty parking places or another X1/9 Having travelled down to France at the weekend seeing numerous other cars of the seventies and eighties nothing with two seats hard roof
removal came into the same cheap mode
1/ Matra with two half tagas did not have the same pleaseing lines as the
X1/9
2/ 914/912 made in Germany
3/ MR 2 not seen at the weekend ......not unless you class the one which we forced the well know MR2 lover PCM to park next to at Maidstone before departure.

I had a Spitfire once (what a confession) and they are pretty but after about 5 miles your spine starts to compress due to the appalling hard jaring ride, and they dont even corner that well !

So stick with the Exxy, one of who's many vertues is that it sticks to the road like glue and still has a remarkably compliant ride quality.

Mind you sitting on the front wheel of the Spitfire while working on it is a luxury

After seeing the back wheel of a spitfire overtake an X1/9 in France whilst the rest of the car went over to the hard shoulder

the owner of the Spitfire comment was ...All ways new I should of got a X1/9.Yes Bones retrived the wheel from the French "central reservazion"
and returned it to its owner.

I confess that I find myself being drawn towards a Jaguar XJS convertible.
O.K. - they're a much heavier and more complex car than the Exxy, but you can pick up a reasonable example for four or five thousand quid, and you've got a car that will do a genuine 150MPH in real luxury and with pretty respectable handling for a car of that size. It's a more expensive option in every way, I know, but I had an XJ6 saloon for a couple of years which I bought for a thousand quid, and in many ways it was the best car I ever owned.

you lots should be ashamed of yourselfs, what if it didnt exist!!!!

It does exist, have a look at the club name... and this yappin on about other cars make my blood boil........

THE NEXT BEST THING TO AN X1/9 IS AN X1/9 !!!!!!

The only thing you should be concerned about is the colour......

so please no more this car or that car crap.......

Calm down dear!

You been taking lessons from Paul?

:lol:

I'll take that as a compliment, I'm sure Paul would be pleased...!!!! :lol: :lol: