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> When we got the first royalty check my dad gave me a grand and I part-exchanged my Mini Cooper for a Ford Fiesta XR2. A few months later I changed that for a Ford Orion 1.6i Ghia.

This is where i cracked up. I think these models are all European, so American readers won't be familiar with them, but this article is a lovely tour of Shit Fords of the 1980s.

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The Orion was a bit shit but the Mini Cooper and the XR2 Fiesta were great at the time.

Hah, this brings back memories of buying weed in the 90's off a lad with a purple Orion.

In a true sense the Orion 1.6i was shit but not at the time, at the time it was high in the list of cars you'd want at 18 (I was born 80 so I remember lusting after them) particularly since it was the same engine as the XR3i without the utterly cripling insurance/reputation.

I still have a soft spot for that era but I'd have the even more naff (and lethal) Capri.

I loved that era of VW Scirocco but they were awful apparently. The Renault 5 GT was THE car to have around my parts.

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