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I already have amazing public transport where we live now so I hardly need to drive ever, we just kept our car for weekend trips, big shops or holidays. And for that the one we have is already perfect.
That being said, if I had money to spare and a serious midlife crisis, the Hyundai N Vision 74 just tickles me the right way, retro futuristic styling, sports coupe, hydrogen hybrid...
Prius Prime with the telematics neutered
The real dream is robust public transportation, but to answer the actual question:
A Toyota Hilux Champ converted to EV. I'm American though, so guess I'll keep dreaming.
Much as I do agree with everyone talking about public transport here on an actual sensible and rational level, I do still like cars and driving no matter how much I agree that the world would be a better place were they rendered irrelevant.
So in the spirit of the question: the Morgan Supersport. It looks magnificent, Morgans are supposed to be great to drive, it's quite small and still fairly luxurious, it's pretty fast but not so fast that it becomes functionally unusable on actual roads, and the company still describes itself as a coachbuilder so you can tweak every little detail to your pleasing
I'm in a similar boat. I love my car, I like driving my car, I like working on my car (Subaru BRZ), but if I had the opportunity to take the bus or the train to work, you bet I would. (I COULD, but because the routes are so ass-backwards, it would take me over an hour and a half to ride the bus 12 miles with 2 transfers)
In the spirit of "Cars that SHOULD exist", I'd love me an Autozam AZ1. I grew up playing Sega GT on the Dreamcast, and I LOVED racing that little thing... Or, for a slightly more practical but still tiny and awesome, a Nissan Be-1. I've actually been close to importing a Be-1 a couple times, but the ass-backwards laws that make it difficult to register and drive kei vehicles in the USA are stupid.
Tiny cars are awesome. Big-ass trucks and SUV's in the USA are getting out of hand (I'm sure we can all agree). Just this weekend, I literally exclaimed "What the fuck" out loud when a truck pulled up next to me and the tops of its wheel wells were right at the top of my driver's side window. It was a relatively stock looking new Toyota of some kind and it truly dwarfed my car. I'm used to feeling small, and It might have been because they were passing me on a very narrow bridge, but it was the biggest truck (that wasn't obviously made bigger) I have seen in a long time.
My dream car doesn't exist.
I dream of a small EV, narrower than the current trend of fat cars, with actual mechanical buttons on the dashboard and not a screen you have to look to tap tap tap to get what you are after.
My dream car is data privacy friendly and if not, one can easily jailbreak it.
Its lights are powerful but actually point down, to the road, not to the front; any front pointing lights actually do dim to non blinding intensity.
Any automatic controls it has can be manually overridden if the driver so wishes. That's my dream car.
I've been planning to make one of these for a few years. I'll probably keep planning to make it for the next decade or 2.
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Might have made sure it was brown.
Look at Slate
None. I want more light rail and bike lanes.
Porsche 911 Turbo S with a full service warranty
That's a beauty
Aye it seems great, likely not in my lifetime though. If I had that kind of money I'd look at property, eh.. What's your pick?
I'm really terribly boring, I'm going for a Mini I think they're cute
I've watched the Italian Job those are anything but boring. Fun choice
Haha good point! Hopefully wouldn't be driving it like that though...
For fun: Lexus LFA
For commuting: Train
70s Volkswagen Beetle 1303 in dark green or white
Suzuki Carry Just look at that truck bed! Not so sure what to put on it though…
Have you seen damd's camping Every Wagon it's based on same platform as the Carry, a microbus could be good times
I now have a dream car.
Whoa. I have not, this looks so much cooler than the original one. Now I wish I just had the money. :(
My college used to have them as maintainance vans cause they were small enough to fit on the footpaths between buildings. They're super useful
Toyota Hilux with lots of 4x4 and camping extras.
I want it so my future family and I can go on road trips through Southern Africa
Caterham. I don't aim high, but it's just a pure driver's car.
Oh wow - tiny and fast.
And oh look, there's a US dealer near me. Whaddaya' know....
There's a place near-ish me that offers them for hire for a day. They're every bit as fun as you'd expect. Exhausting, but fun
No power-steering in those puppies.
Chris Harris did a review years ago on the old Drive YouTube channel, and the phrase that stuck in my mind is "oversteer wherever you want it".
I've only ever driven them in a sim. I've never driven a real one - I'm not even sure if I'd fit in one.
They're actually not bad for space! I'm about 1.9m / 6'3", and while I'm not that heavily-built I'm definitely not unusually slim. It wasn't roomy for sure, but I fit just fine. The lack of a roof did at least mean that headroom wasn't a concern
I did once have to back out of a purchase of a second gen Toyota MR2 because I was too tall. That was a deeply disappointing day
A delorian with an actual flux capacitor.
2000-ish Nissan Skyline in Midnight Purple
(Obligatory "car culture is cancer, build public transit, etc")
My white whale is a 1986 Mustang GT, manual transmission. Had a chance to buy one for absolute peanuts in 2018 (at least, compared to their price now!). Was completely stock too, no mods. But the mechanic I hired to inspect it warned me off it because of its age...
1986 is the only year that came with fuel injection but still has the old "four-eye" styling. Realistically, that car was probably not right for me at the time, but man - it will forever be my one that got away
Nissan 350z !!
Oh yes the OG pod car. Greetings fellow NSFU 2 enthusiast.
Something analog and reliable. Volvo 744, Toyota hilux. Landrover 80s (maybe not as reliable)
TVR Cerbera, damn thing isn't even that unobtainable, but more important things will always be in the way.
An electric small pickup (like a 90s s10) with a 6 foot bed. With minimal electronics inside.
Closest I'm aware of is the Slate EV pickup, but it is too small imo. Hoping their first model catches on well enough that they build one with a larger bed, heck, a bit larger all around really. I like the truck to be wide enough to fit 3 people on the bench seat in a pinch, so I guess I'm looking for a 'medium' sized truck - something I don't think exists today.
Failing that, I have an older F-150 that I just restored. Perhaps in another ~10 years there will be some nice donor electric vehicles that I could use to do a conversion myself.
Wow that's really cool I never heard of them before. I like how everything is modular. I'm not going to rush out to buy one because risking but I'll definitely be keeping an eye to see what people that do experience with it.
Dream: Porsche 911 Turbo S
Realistic: Infiniti Q50
I had a 2015 G37x a few years ago, and a G35x before that. I love those cars. The Porsche would be nice!
Cayman RS. I want to be deafened by an engine.8ft from my ear holes.
One that works reliably and is fully paid for
Starion widebody turbo
Porsche 997 GT3 RS. Or a heavily modified RX7 or R32 GTR. I feel like I have way more but you asked for one and I already gave three lol.
a solar/hydrogen rv that could generate 24/7 ac and run a fridge and evaporate water from the air and move itself around with just sunlight and water. Oh with 4wd and high speed internet. And a little 2 person kayak on top and a couple bikes on the back. It should look like a GMC motorhome.
Basically what I'm driving now (Seat Alhambra), but electric.
1985/1986 Volkswagen Jetta Carat, 4dr, manual transmission with working AC, PW, & PDL.
This is literally my grail vehicle. I have been on the lookout for a Carat for the last 20 years, but every one I have come across is either falling to pieces with heavy rust, or barely road-worthy in other ways. Last one I saw had the power windows stripped out and replaced with hand cranks because the owner was too lazy to fix the motors.
And I want a Canadian/Euro vehicle, with only kilometers on the speedometer.
Anyone in British Columbia (or even western Canada) with a decent-condition (no rust holes), running and road-worthy Carat with the above specs are encouraged to reach out to me.