What car brand you drive? POLL

[BosseBe]

My first car was a Opel Rekord from -71!
I "bought" it from my uncle for 1 SEK!
I drove it for about 7 years (87 - 95) it was rusty, ugly but it worked! (Real ugly faded red colour, with duct tape to cover the rust holes.)
One time I had changed the oil filter, (don't know why, but I think I read somewhere that you had to), and got a sudden stop, no oil in the motor!
I remounted the oil filter since the gasket hadn't set correctly and filled it up with oil again, no problems! An old cast iron motor I believe, very simple so just a seizure could not kill it!
I put it to sleep when I went back to school in 95, I tried to sell it but the award for scrapping it was as high as the price I got offered for it, so scrapping it was. (Didn't want to be responsible for someone else driving that clunker!)

After that I decided that I wouldn't get a car again until my costs for rental cars and Taxi cabs was over 3000 SEK per month on average per year, I figured that 3000 SEK per month was the minimum cost of driving a car. So if I didn't spend that much on rentals and Taxis I would actually be ahead financially.
I never spent 3000 SEK per month per year in average during the time I was without a car!
So no car for me!
Until my economy got a bit better and the convenience of having a car won!
That is when the BMW appeared.

Now a days I am too lazy and use the car daily even if I know it is not economic.

 

[Z-Shooter]

Subaru Forester

 

[rklepper]

I certainly don’t have time to list all the cars I found in my life, neither could I probably remember all of them. I currently drive a 2018 Ford F150 with a twin turbo diesel in it. I love it it does everything I needed to do and it will get up to 30 miles per gallon. I run bio diesel in it and as a chemist I’ve taught myself how to make biodiesel so sometimes I do make it to run my truck. When I make biodiesel comes in at just under a dollar a gallon Because I live in corn and soy beans country and I can get both very reasonable to make the diesel.

 

[Temup]

I am just curious what car brands u4/3 users drive, are we less mainstream than the average??

Anyway I will start,

Current model Renault Megane

2008 Envoy Denali

 

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

2008 Envoy Denali

This is a photography site. You need to tell us about your camera before mentioning your car in your first post. But welcome anyways.

 

[AaronE]

I have 3 cars right now, all Toyotas, all white. 2006 Tundra V8, 2006 4Runner V8, and 2009 Rav4, V6. All have over 100,000 miles. 4Runner is my favorite. They all get driven off road.

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[gtm]

Multiple gas engine cars in the past. Went electric and probably addicted for life. A Tesla just isn't like an ICE vehicle.

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[grcolts]

Nissan Frontier truck...2016.

 

[Macroramphosis]

2007 1.9l Volkswagen Touran.

An ancient Tardis of a car, economical and comfortable. It can seat 7 in a pinch and can take home just about anything you can buy from a normal shop, without the need to call a truck. 260K on the clock, and yes, it rattles a bit, and needs TLC, but it still goes.

I'm not posting a photo - you all know what a Touran looks like, right?

 

[pdk42]

Multiple gas engine cars in the past. Went electric and probably addicted for life. A Tesla just isn't like an ICE vehicle. View attachment 847620

Nice - I think Teslas look the best in red (although mine is white!). I can't see me going back to an ICE car now.

 

[andy darbyshire]

Vw Polo

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[Panolyman]

2007 1.9l Volkswagen Touran.
I'm not posting a photo - you all know what a Touran looks like, right?

Shed on wheels?

But then again, I think they were called Range Rover Discoveries.

 

[ex machina]

'93 Miata black with tan/leather interior, 233K miles of which I added the last 100K. Currently in the shop getting a new paint job, replacing rusted parts and dents. Reckon I'll keep her till I can't get in and out of it anymore.

 

[Carbonman]

But it wasn’t always relatively nice cars...prior to these I had several heaps of junk -

86 Ford Escort EXP (I still contend this stood for ‘experimental’)
83 Chevy Caprice station wagon (where the 3rd row faced backwards)
84 Dodge Omni (I have nothing endearing to say about this vehicle)
76 Pontiac Ventura (suped up - this one was kinda fun)
97 Toyota Corolla (the worlds most boring car?)

I'd take the Corolla over any of the others; as long as you keep up the basic service intervals, they'll last forever with almost no reliability issues.

 

[Mountain_Man_79]

I'd take the Corolla over any of the others; as long as you keep up the basic service intervals, they'll last forever with almost no reliability issues.

The only time that corolla wasn’t the most boring car in the world was about 2 years into ownership when I lost control of it going around a wet corner. That was the end of the corolla...so no, it didn’t last forever ?

 

[rloewy]

'93 Miata black with tan/leather interior, 233K miles of which I added the last 100K. Currently in the shop getting a new paint job, replacing rusted parts and dents. Reckon I'll keep her till I can't get in and out of it anymore.

I have had my '93 since '96 (hard to believe it will be 25 years next year). It has about 160K miles now (at least 120K by me). Mine looks like crap because it lives outside, but it still goes strong. These cars are forever cars. No way to get the same kind of fun per mile per dollar in anything else, imho.

 

[ex machina]

I have had my '93 since '96 (hard to believe it will be 25 years next year). It has about 160K miles now (at least 120K by me). Mine looks like crap because it lives outside, but it still goes strong. These cars are forever cars. No way to get the same kind of fun per mile per dollar in anything else, imho.

Absolutely agree, any day I can drive with the top down is a good day. Bought mine in 2009 and wish I had bought it brand new, but a two seater with hardly any cargo space wasn't a practical choice for me until then.

 

[BosseBe]

I really like back wheel drive cars, especially in the winter! Because with back wheel drive you feel when the back starts to drift and can compensate or drift if that is what you want!

Every year I try to go to an empty parking lot when the first snow appears, just to practice drifting with the car, this is to be prepared for the winter, and just fun.
Front wheel drive cars almost always surprise you when they loose traction, back wheel drive cars are consistent and you can feel the start of loosing traction.
Four wheel drive I have yet to learn how to handle, it takes longer it seems until it looses traction and when it does it seems to handle a bit like a back wheel drive car.

I hope we get a real winter this year so I can learn!

 

[Zeus1]

Best car I ever had was a Toyota LandCruiser. Had to dump it, due to entry restrictions in Belgian towns (Euro 4 diesel no longer permitted). Had it 10 years and drove nearly 300.000 km without problems. Giant car booth; going on holiday with the family and You could stow everything in it without showing.

Now drive a semi-electric Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV because of the tax benefits offered in Belgium.

 

[StanS]

My first (and so far only) car: a 2003 Toyota Celica. I'm quite happy with it so far.

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