Favorite car of all time?

[BengalDuck]

First, current, only:

Dream:

 

[TehChad]

what is that!

maxiep is right, it's a Bugatti Veyron. But it's also the brand new convertible edition, which I believe pushes the price to just over 2 million US dollars.

 

[Denny Crane]

The best car I ever owned:

The fastest I ever drove it was 140 MPH. It's small and has a tight turning radius, easy to park. Great gas mileage; I'd fill it up once a month.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The best car I've ever had is my current car:

STi

Very similar to this one. Same color, 35% tint, black lip with the charcoal spokes.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

The best car I ever owned:

The fastest I ever drove it was 140 MPH. It's small and has a tight turning radius, easy to park. Great gas mileage; I'd fill it up once a month.

Yes! I completely agree, Denny.

(Porsche 944 for anyone wondering)

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The 944 is a nice looking car.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Huge pic is huge.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Very clean lines. It has a lot of potential.

It'd be my style to modernize it. Stance, wheels, paint. I'd also smooth the exterior by taking off those guard strips.

HID headlights would look awesome. The RX7 has the Ferrari style after market HID's, this Porsche is tailor-made for those. Like this:

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Very clean lines. It has a lot of potential.

It'd be my style to modernize it. Stance, wheels, paint. I'd also smooth the exterior by taking off those guard strips.

HID headlights would look awesome. The RX7 has the Ferrari style after market HID's, this Porsche is tailor-made for those. Like this:

Yeah, I love those aftermarket headlights.

 

[andalusian]

what is that!

It's the 2nd nicest Bugatti in this thread!

 

[andalusian]

The best car I've ever had is my current car:

STi

Very similar to this one. Same color, 35% tint, black lip with the charcoal spokes.

Cool. I test drove one recently and liked it a lot. Still a little too much turbo-lag for my taste - but suspension settings were on the money.

BTW - here is my new race car.

 

[THE HCP]

The best car I've ever had is my current car:

STi

Very similar to this one. Same color, 35% tint, black lip with the charcoal spokes.

How long have you lived at the shipping yards down by the river?

 

[noknobs]

Easy choice for me. Gas mileage is a little shaky, but the rear jets with vector control and front-firing machine guns are a must whenever I get on the freeways here in Los Angeles.

 

[mook]

My current car. Even red. Nissan Xterra. Got it a few months ago. 90K miles, $6k. Been a really, really fun hunting rig. Almost no wear on it. Well, until I got my hands on it.

Now it's rocking what I call "Idaho pinstriping," which is when you go down some fuck-awful mountain road and wind up scratching the doors by wedging past a couple of pine trees. A 4x4 isn't a real 4x4 without those delightful scratch marks.

I'd really rather own a nice, sturdy SUV over a sportscar. You go 0-60 in 4 seconds or 130 mph, and you stand a pretty good chance of eating a fat ticket. So you just rarely do it. You go up some insane muddy track, and you stand a pretty good chance of just having fun.

Unless I ever got really rich, I'd never want a truck over $10k. Things get a lot less "expendable" after that.

 

[andalusian]

My current car. Even red. Nissan Xterra. Got it a few months ago. 90K miles, $6k. Been a really, really fun hunting rig. Almost no wear on it. Well, until I got my hands on it.

Now it's rocking what I call "Idaho pinstriping," which is when you go down some fuck-awful mountain road and wind up scratching the doors by wedging past a couple of pine trees. A 4x4 isn't a real 4x4 without those delightful scratch marks.

That's a nice rig. I always liked the way these look.

I'd really rather own a nice, sturdy SUV over a sportscar. You go 0-60 in 4 seconds or 130 mph, and you stand a pretty good chance of eating a fat ticket. So you just rarely do it. You go up some insane muddy track, and you stand a pretty good chance of just having fun.

Well, it's been quite some time since I sold my last Jeep (I had 3) - so I can understand where you are coming from. Of course, the alternative - is to get a low-powered, light-weight sport car - they are fun just about anywhere, on the road or on the track.

My '93 Miata is just a fun, fun car - even if it has only 116 horsepower. It has fantastic chassis and can be thrown around with abandon. Of course, if you ever pursue road racing seriously - you realize that the good drivers can be a lot faster in a slow car than most guys with a big checkbook and the latest fancy machine with 400 horsepower...

There is an old saying "it's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow". I subscribe to this theory.

 

[BlazerWookee]

The first running race car I ever sat in, I was almost eleven years old. Jimmy Insolo was my father's friend...

 

[crowTrobot]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

How long have you lived at the shipping yards down by the river?

It's actually a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Easy choice for me. Gas mileage is a little shaky, but the rear jets with vector control and front-firing machine guns are a must whenever I get on the freeways here in Los Angeles.

The creator of this based the design on his idea of merging together a Hummer H1 and a Lamborghini Gallardo.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Cool. I test drove one recently and liked it a lot. Still a little too much turbo-lag for my taste - but suspension settings were on the money.

Suby's legendary suspension. The car is awesome. I was never into hatchbacks but this one caught my eye. After driving my brothers turbo'd MazdaSpeed3 I wanted to give a hatch a try.

 

[bodyman5001]

The creator of this based the design on his idea of merging together a Hummer H1 and a Lamborghini Gallardo.

I would say he did quite well if that was his intention.

 

[mook]

My '93 Miata is just a fun, fun car - even if it has only 116 horsepower. It has fantastic chassis and can be thrown around with abandon. Of course, if you ever pursue road racing seriously - you realize that the good drivers can be a lot faster in a slow car than most guys with a big checkbook and the latest fancy machine with 400 horsepower...

There is an old saying "it's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow". I subscribe to this theory.

I'm nearly secure enough in my heterosexuality that I could show up at my redneck brother's house without it really bothering me that he called me a "fuckin' goddamn pansy" for buying a Miata. Nearly.

I honestly have always really liked the way they look and handle. It's more of a peer pressure thing for me.

That and I have a wife, two kids and a Labrador. We all barely fit in the Xterra.

I really hear you about slow cars fast. My other favorite vehicle was my 914, or as I called it "The Porkswagon." (Porsche design, Volkswagon bug engine.) Mine looked just like this, and I loved it every time it didn't die on me:

It's basically an insanely unreliable Miata with a mid-engine. A nightmare to work on if you don't have tentacles for arms.

 

[andalusian]

I'm nearly secure enough in my heterosexuality that I could show up at my redneck brother's house without it really bothering me that he called me a "fuckin' goddamn pansy" for buying a Miata. Nearly.

I do not understand the logic of Miata is for the gay, to be honest (even if it was a bad thing, which I do not care about - not my business what people do in their beds, as long as they are happy and do not harm others doing it).

A guy in a big, bad ass truck once told me that since I drive a Miata I am gay because it is small and cute and feminine, while his truck was for real men because it was big and brute and loud.

So... I asked him why wanting to be inside something small and cute and feminine makes you gay but wanting to be inside something big and brute and loud makes you a real man. I think that over-fried a circuit in his brain.

Miatas, especially early ones with no power-steering are tons of fun. There is a good reason there are more Miatas running every weekend on road-courses in this country than any other car. They make for fantastic race cars. I started racing my Miata before moving to faster (and now older) things.

As for 914s. Always liked them. Their design survived the test of time a lot better than I thought it would.

 

[barfo]

I'm gonna have to go with David Robinson, since he was also a member of the Modern Lovers, and thus gets twice the points.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

I'm nearly secure enough in my heterosexuality that I could show up at my redneck brother's house without it really bothering me that he called me a "fuckin' goddamn pansy" for buying a Miata. Nearly.

I honestly have always really liked the way they look and handle. It's more of a peer pressure thing for me.

That and I have a wife, two kids and a Labrador. We all barely fit in the Xterra.

I really hear you about slow cars fast. My other favorite vehicle was my 914, or as I called it "The Porkswagon." (Porsche design, Volkswagon bug engine.) Mine looked just like this, and I loved it every time it didn't die on me:

It's basically an insanely unreliable Miata with a mid-engine. A nightmare to work on if you don't have tentacles for arms.

The 914 had the pancake engine. Same one as in the VW bus, or a modified version of it.

 

[MARIS61]

When I was a kid there was a guy who had an Amphicar, and he gave rides in the Willamette River at George Rogers Park one summer.



Now they have sub-cars:

 

[ABM]

As a proud graduate of Lakeridge High School, there can be only one choice:

Hear! Hear!

 

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