Free car! Told it has issues, will it get me 250 miles? 

Thank you for this video, Ian! And especially for understanding how sad I was to let Miss Daisy go. Was a bit gutted that you didn’t have any issues with her on the way back to Wales 😂 because it means I might’ve been able to keep her a bit longer but I’m really glad she’s part of the Hub Nut family now where she can be appreciated for the lovely car she is and be looked after as well as she looked after me. Happy retirement, Miss Daisy! 🥹💖

Looks like a lovely car, very generous for the last owner to give it to you for free.

What a lovely gesture from a genuine lovely person - it's so lovely to know that in this awful world in which we live, that there is still such kindness around

I have to say when I lived in London I decided the perfect car for London was a V8 E38 BMW (the one Hubnut reviewed) because it was good at getting as far away from the place as possible on the weekends.

Great addition to the fleet, I've always admired the look of these. Maybe all it needed was an Italian tune-up.

Absolutely LoVE Miss Daisy. I totally get why you couldn’t pass up on this either. What a brilliant addition to the fleet but also a save of a rare and forgotten car!

It's been in London for a while, all it needs is a fluid change and good bloody ragging out of our horrible metropolis

As a regular user of the Elizabeth line at Paddington, I had to smile at you not realising that you were looking at its new entrance before walking off. Lovely little car, I'm sure Miss Daisy will be getting some TLC from you.

I think Miss Hubnut will love this car.

What a cracking little car, amazing equipment levels and safety kit for the time.

18:37 sums up this channel perfectly. Porsche 911 passes and Ian is more interested in the Nissan van

I look forward to seeing more videos about this car. I can still vaguely remember when this car was launched and how it was said to have "love it or loathe it looks". The result of that is a car that is now fairly interesting. Daihatsu were also the kings if making zippy small engines too.

Maybe this is one car you should consider getting absolute perfect and as near to concourse as possible. You've got something really lovely and special here.

cracking little car that if you drove it 250 mls & it put a smile on your face its a keeper i bet miss hubnut will love that

my first car was a Renault 12 ,I couldn't give it away,had to pay to have her scrapped..happy times! :) way way back in the 80s when music was good!

I dealt with crazy London traffic for almost 15 years so I feel your pain

If I were to play internet car doctor for a minute, based off Chop's experience with the micra, and my own with a diesel Panda which tried to breathe water, it may have been some foreign matter in the MAF sensor which has since been sucked out, or some other kind of intermittent issue in that area. regardless, it seems like a nicely HubNut addition to the fleet

You were a brave man waving that phone about in London, that car was registered in Devon originally torbay. Haxbys of Plymouth car

The free car is in very good shape. Very well taken cared of I got to say. It's a keeper for sure. The previous owner so nice to let you have it.

Very entertaining Ian !. I genuinely expected a “Vice Grip Garage” tale of woe, driving the 250 miles home. But a great little car there, I would look after it and let it enjoy the lovely Welsh coast away from the suffocation of London….it deserves it…

Beautiful little car, great color too, and it appears to be in terrific shape. After your safe trip home , You should send the previous owner a bouquet of flowers. Keep up the good work

You just can't beat small Japanese cars. What a gift.

What a beautiful little car Ian. Perhaps your slightly harder driving blew the catalyst clean, or pushed some crud out of the injectors or fuel-rail pressure-relief valve or something? After the owner had given up on the little soul, it is rather nice it has found a new home in the HubNut fleet despite having been cured on the way to Wales (I suspect being in Wales is a cure in itself).

Nice to see HubNut driving round my neck of the woods. And love that you pinged up to say '10 miles took 1 hour' as it reminds me that the rest of the country doesn't see this as normal!

An excellent addition. Intererested to see a daylight full video review on this one, and to see how it settles into your Fleet. I hope its a long termer!

Still 1972 tubes in London. And they’re the nicest on the whole London Underground network.

What a great little motor, most enjoyable to see a trouble-free journey for you as I think you deserve that, thanks for sharing and I look forward to more on Miss Daisy, well done!

I've often found you can obtain a new lease of life from old wiper blades if you use some ScotchBrite and run that along the wiping edge. Seems to clean all the built-up grime and exposes a new edge of the rubber. It goes without saying also, that the glass must be spotless for any wiper to work efficiently.

Entertaining video, made all the better by including the journey on the trains to London. Good work!

Brilliantly enjoyable video Ian, thank you. Really enjoyed watching this one. Good luck with the new fleet addition.

Amazing video as always and great car. Lovely to meet you at the Practical Classics show. You inspire me and keep the good work up Ian

What a cracking little car Ian ! Once you’ve given her a service she’ll be even better 👍

"Oh, look! Some Nissan... erm... is that a Serena? Followed by some Porsche thing..." EVERY run-of-the-mill car RU-vidr wouldn't have bat an eyelid on the Serena and would've concentrated 100% on the Porsche! 😂 That's why I love your channel!

I am so glad to hear that Ms Daisy's rear arches look better than YOUR rear arches do.... although I am positive that welding Ms Daisy's must have been much easier than welding yours! 🤣

What a lovely purchase! Brings back memories to me as well because I owned one in the same colour, albeit with the 1.3 litre engine. I hope you will enjoy many happy miles with her!

Congratulations @Hubnut on your new car. Our 2005 Sirion is a firm favourite. The little engine in Miss Daisy sounds glorious.

Gonna miss driving past this, papped it myself not long ago. But i’m more than happy to see it’s fallen into the right hands.

What a little belter! Awesome colour too. Maybe there's an intermittent fault, maybe not but at least you got it back to base without drama.

Love it, a friend of mine had one exactly like that, same colour and everything. Lovely car!

Fantastic journey brings back memories of buying cars then the adventure home, in an untested vehicle, oh the amount of trust we used to place in people, brilliant please more road trips thank you again 😁👍

The Berlingo and now this. You're on a roll with good buys Ian!

Welcome to the channel, Miss Daisy! Hoping you enjoy many new adventures with Hubnut.

24:23 I drove down to London from the north and hit that concrete section. I didn't know about it and my heart sank because I thought something had gone badly wrong with my car. The racket was horrendous. I had visions of waiting for the AA & having a 200 mile journey on the back of a transporter. They ought to put a sign up warning people of the noise. If you don't know about it, it takes you by surprise.

Such a lovely little car and it seems no issues bar the wiper blades (fingers crossed). I do get what you mean in "if there's nothing wrong with it you won't feel good taking it for free" but they wanted a good home for Daisy and they got one so they'll be happy.

Looks like you have a good one there. Seems to go well. Most small 4 speed automatics need 3rd gear to keep going along at motorway speeds with an incline or headwind. It will be interesting to see what welding it's had.

That was better than every episode of top gear I’ve ever seen.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the collection caper Ian and Carly, hope you both get a lot of enjoyment out of Miss Daisy

What a Cracking car to get for free, I very much look forward to seeing updates and any issues you might have if any. It's a Daihatsu so not alot can really go wrong mechanically. This was from a Time when the Japanese where at their Peak in Engineering.

That's a great car you've been given for free, nice addition to the fleet, may become a daily driver

Lovely car , nice colour to boot . Glad you made it back .

Cracking little car. I really like the Sirion, they’re a pretty little car. Miss. Daisy certainly seems to drive fine. Hopefully rust won’t be a serious problem despite the fact that she has had extensive welding carried out for the MOT.

Excellent episode! Looks like the Sirion is a good’n, and I look forward to future adventures.

Another great day and more fantastic content Ian. Nice one!!

Great little car! I took one for a test drive when it was just released. A manual.. I thrashed it... I really had a blast in it!

Can't help thinking the lack of power could have been down to a slipped floor mat restricting the throttle pedal. Happened to me a few years ago in my Chevette. Not nearly as big a problem as my dog's tennis ball rolling under the brake pedal approaching a roundabout.. Best of luck with the new arrival, Ian.

Looks like Miss Daisy was not used enough on long runs. Driving back to Wales will do it good.

I always liked these cars and nearly bought one a few years ago (also automatic)... Regret not doing so! Look forward to seeing the future adventures you'll have together.

Nice tidy little car for a freebie, looking forward to a full review.

A free car and a Daihatsu to boot. No wonder you had to have it. Really looking forward to seeing how this one goes. 🤞

I did Worcester to Wick in the 2CV on the same day. Took 13hrs to do 600 miles. I often did Aberdeen to Worcester/ Worcester to Aberdeen, 450 miles, in the 2CV when I lived in the Shetland Islands. Best time I did was 7 1/2 hours.

There’s a council-run 50kW EV charging hub in the centre of Portishead, 3ish miles from Gordano services. Not ideal, I realise, but it’s newish and well maintained.

A free car!!! and not only free but a really good simple daily driver, congrats man

Another great video looking forward to your adventures driving Miss Daisy! You just couldn't refuse her!!!

Great video! Classic hubnut! Really liked the train ride with the music and the drive was good too. Thanks!

Aw what a great little car. If a car is going to have a load of adventures and some love and care then the Hubnut world is ideal! Look forward to seeing those adventures 😀

Absolutely brilliant video Ian 👍what a beautiful looking car and auto that's even more luxury brilliant

waiting for this to premiere there is a real feeling of excitement!! 😂😂😂😂😂

As soon as he said 'It's an automatic' I thought 'No wonder it doesn't like to go up hills'!!

I could have just fast forwarded to the car reveal, but your content never bored me for a second.

When you said you were picking up a car that didn't like hills, I was imagining the queue behind you on the Severn crossing! That car looks like a little peach!

brilliant video... brightened up a dull evening nicely, thanks!

Here we go...AGAIN! Chuckle chuckle. This is why we luv Hub Nut. 😂

Nice car. I love the retracting mirrors. Let me tell you a bit of a secret in regards to the out of order shake machine. A lot of times the shake machine works fine but the employees don't want to clean it at the end of the night as they are a pain to clean (I always had to clean the one at the McDonalds I worked at as a 16-18 year old back in the 1990's) so it is easier to turn it off and tell folks it is not working

I do love a Daihatsu, especially the JDM models but they are all good in my book. I did own an automatic Daihatsu and it was the nicest automatic box ever in a small car. I’ve seen a few rusty ones, I guess the level of rust protection is maybe not adequate for the UK winter use of salt on the roads. I recognized a lot of places in that video as I’ve driven all those roads many many times even though I don’t live in UK anymore, this summer we were in the UK and I did stop at Magor Services, fortunately in the summer daytime they had a Cornish pasty van just outside the door and that was excellent, but in general I am always disappointed with UK motorway services and prefer to get off the motorway completely and use local services in towns.

Ooh I'm jealous- thats tidy. Your old yellow Sirion persuaded me into a Cuore (been with the channel from wayy back) - those Daihatsus are such fun little cars that thrum their heart out and make you smile... I'd love another.

What a lovely car , and lovely gift !

Fantastic little cars. Well done Ian.

Lovely little car, send the lady some flowers and chocolates x

As a born and bred south Londoner, this collection caper did make me chuckle! Ive driven all these roads so many times.

That car is so so HubNut! Great acquisition!

Lovely Little Car ...I'll be getting outta London too very soon ..enjoy Miss Daisy

You have to treat Google Maps directions with care in cities. The GPS is mightily confused by buildings. It's called "canyon effect", where the signal takes multiple paths off the buildings.

Great to see another car collection caper achieved. Nice little car, will be interesting to follow its progress and see which bits break, though as a Japanese car that probably won't be much.

What a little sweetie. Miss Daisy I mean. Congrats on a problem free caper

The wait is killing me! Whatever it is, I have no doubt its going to be extremely entertaining to watch be fixed 😂

Great little car Ian. It looks so clean!

Yay, a Sirion! Used to drive them all the time during 6 very happy years working in a Daihatsu dealer, fabulous little cars, so miss Daihatsu, always made quirky little cars, happy days. Enjoy Miss Daisy Ian 👍

those old train looked like valley lines and yes old but they are busy sorting lines for new trains (eventually)...... That car has been loved , nice n clean, hard to criticise something that when you compare to other cars of its year is quite luxury in terms of toys

Anticipating what silliness awaits. I'm sticking to my guess of some terrible kit car! 🤣

Welcome Miss Daisy, she looks lovely and didn't let you down on you maiden voyage together. May you enjoy many, many miles together. I can certainly sympathise with the previous owner, I've done the same where I've given a vehicle away as it had a fighting chance of being used and maintained as a complete vehicle vehicle rather than someone who took it to break it for spares.

I absolutely love the Silly One! And Brixton?? Jesus you're brave 😅

These travel videos are my favourite

Your video takes me back to memory lane. When I was a student back in the 90 to 2003 in this country, I was driving a Granny 2.0 Ghia automatic with complete RS body kit. I bought it for 700 pounds 1998 about, and sold it for 100 pounds. Then got a 205 1.1 great little motor, which I gave it for FREE to a ladybird of mine before leaving the country . Had complete work done on it, including MOT. The only thing that I got out of was the Alpine CD player worth then 500 pounds which I still have it in Greece

Lives in Wales, buys a car that can't go up hills. What could possibly go wrong?

Oh I do like a good adventure,very enjoyable video Ian thank you

Now THIS is excellent!

Your videos are always intriguing entertaining and relaxing all in one thank you for all these sensations.

That's a tidy train journey mate ! Can't wait to see this !

Glad you got back ok with no dramas to the car Ian 👍👌👍

I can absolutely see why you had to give Miss Daisy a home. What a great example of a Sirion and for free too. I wonder if we'll see her get the magic Hubnut wax treatment to protect all that welding?