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Had some pretty boring cars over the years but this was not one of them.
Alfa 156 2.5 v6 sp3, factory bodykit factory colour nuvola blue (colour changed from silver-blue-green-gold depending which way you looked at it) fitted a 2.5" stainless exhaust and a bmc cda. That busso engine was great and it handled well. Despite Alfa reputation it never gave me any problems.
It had a cloverleaf badge on the back when I bought it but never got to the bottom of why as they never made a cloverleaf edition as far as I could find out.
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The best car was probably a Mazda 121 Suntop - due to sheer rarity. I have never seen another one on the road and I regret selling it for just £220. It was an F-reg with about 70,000 on the clock and a full service history. It hated wet weather and refused to start if it had been raining. It had a 1.3 Ford Fiesta engine but the body of a Kia Pride. It sounds horrendous but it was a hoot to drive.
The worst car (and I’ve had some stinkers in 25 years of car ownership) was a diesel Renault Clio. I bought it with the intention of running it on vegetable oil but realised it had a blown head gasket when I got it home. I had to sell it for scrap.
The car with the fondest memories was a B reg Volvo 340. It was my first car. I bought it to practice in after failing my driving test for the third time. It was unfortunately written off when I crashed into the central reservation of the M62 after falling asleep at the wheel.
I decided today that the mx5 is the best car I have ever owned. It just does everything so well.
I still yearn for a TVR V8 and primarily for the sound 
Best car was my last fun car, my Caterham 7 which I built and drove for 12 years. It was supposed to be my forever car but I’m getting far more use and easily as much enjoyment from my MX5. My Ford Escort Mexico that I rallied in my younger days comes a close second.
Worst car was the original version of the Fiat 124. I was wearing rose tinted spectacles that day and it was a heap of ****. It was made using Italian steel, and the floor pan looked like the one in Fred Flintstone’s car.
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I yearn to have one again tbh and regret selling it 24 years later. So it must be the best car I’ve ever owned by that measure.
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Best Mk I Audi TT 225,classic design fun to drive.
Worst MK II Astra, floppy handling, underpowered OK design for the time,replaced fairly quickly with a Mk II Golf GTI.
one of the best: Ford Cortina 1500GT did’nt appreciate at the time
worst: MG TF head gasket blew…did’nt they all!
Mines was a 1984 Audi 80 Sport (GTE) 4-door saloon 1.8 K-Jetronic engine, can even remember the reg A870SYS had it up to 138mph - on a track, honest!
The worst car was my first car, given to me by my sister as she was moving to London a Skoda Estelle - I was given it a few weeks before I even sat my test! I graduated from that to a Vauxhall Chevette then on to the Audi
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1985-audi-80-8-sport-4dr-white-b2-514892860
If I had the money I’d buy that type of Audi again, loved the car and it was the first one I really bonded with if you like and also did a fair bit of work on it, surprisingly I broke my car work teeth on the two previous cars 
Just checked the MOT status out of curiosity - apparently, it hasn’t had its first MOT !
I never drove the Estelle, but I did have a Skoda Rapid coupe. Apparently it was built in a different factory/location to the Estelle’s. I actually loved the Rapid with it’s rear engine. Some called it the ‘poor man’s Porsche’ and one magazine described it as ‘a beginners course to the 911’. It wasn’t particularly fast, but had character and was rather quirky with it’s reasonably large boot in the front.
Didn’t the mk2 turbo earn the ‘widow maker’ title for its snap oversteer? How did you find that?
I know lots of people will have had one of those but your name isn’t Paul by chance?
One of our drivers had one many years ago, a very smart set of wheels as I remember, Dunlop alloys??
That Audi brings back memories. Had the same model, same colour, C169GGS.
Mastering the unsettling habit of keeping your right foot in it was key
Nope, afraid not. I’m a ‘Nigel’….which back in the 80/90’s would have made me an estate agent!
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I took the car to the Thoresby Hall Classic Car show and I was pleasantly surprised by how much interest it generated by having a simple piece of paper in the windscreen.
Anyway, it’s now sold!
Best fun car was a bitsa I put together from odds and ends when we were totally skint because of a big mortgage in the early days of 70s inflation. It helped me refine my welding skills.
Apart from the flat-ledge rims and 185 SP Sports it looked like a beat-up old Corsair. But the 2737E engine etc with 103BHP measured at the wheels of an 870kg car helped it go like a scalded cat. It stopped well too, after I added an in-line servo, but corners, mmm…
Nicest boring car and cheapest by far at 19.41p/mile lifetime-buy-to-scrap was a (declared as) new Astra with the options of peppy 1.4SE multipoint engine and ABS and RDS, modded slightly to improve reliability and comfort. Utterly reliable and rust free until the first breakdown at 205,000 miles when bits fell out of the clutch.
Mazda 626 gt 2.5 v6 hatchback I was a great family car a bit of a sleeper at the time not many about.
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My three most enjoyable and fun cars to drive have been -
Caterhams I drove over 100kmiles in Sevens , I started with a 130bhp 1.4 and ended up with a 220 bhp monster) .Nothing I have driven comes even close
Alfasud Ti A car which was so far ahead of its time it was laughable. Sublime grip, handling , ride and steering and an exhaust note which made every trip feel like the Mille Miglia
Citroen 2CV6- amazing car, with a novel , but logical approach to everything . Unburstable flat twin , fantastic ride, comedy hour body roll but endless grip and formidable in snow and mud . A genius car which made driving an adventure and a joy . If you have never slipstreamed a coach on the motorway and pulled an extra 10mph before drafting by , you have never lived .
The MX5 is fun , but fourth after these stars .