Anyone that actually likes cars on here?

If only had money to buy a

If only had money to buy a car then I will buy AC Cobras for its vintage look.

How can you not love cars?  I

How can you not love cars?  I love cars, I love to play with them, and play hard with them. 

I have a 09 Acura TL Tech that runs pretty fast for a 6 cylinder sedan, the reason I bought it for was because it was the fastest 4 dr sedan that was in my price, it will run a quarter mile right at 14 seconds which is not bad for a 6 cyclinder 4 dr sedan that gets 29 mpg at 80 mph. Never had a front wheel drive car before so I had to teach myself how to drift one after watching You Tube videos! 

I also have a 94 Ford F150 with the 302, that’s my camper hauling and other hauling vehicle, performance on that sucks as does the gas mileage, but it keeps working so I keep using it. 

I also have a excellent condition 79 Chevy Camaro Z28 with a built 350 that puts out about 400 hp (stock was only 190!), it’s a burnout champ due to the light rearend, but it’s fun to drift. 

Then finally I have a mint bone stock 67 Galaxy 500 Conv with a 390 V8 4 barrel setup, it’s a fun car for long summer drives…well the only thing that isn’t stock was I replaced the mechanical points with Pertronics electronic points so I don’t have to fool around with replacing those every 12k to 15k miles and they stay in timed, but it’s easy to convert back to mech points, in fact I carry a brand new set of mech points in the trunk just in case the electronic one should ever fry.

I had 3 other vintage cars I had for very long time but I sold them all over the past year, I could no longer keep them where I had them because my friend died and his wife was selling the house that had the poll barn where I kept them along with his vast collection, his wife sold off almost his entire collection of 32 cars over the year…god I wish I could have bought a couple, but no place to store them where I live.

I’ve gone right off cars,

I’ve gone right off cars, they’re now just transport for me, the family and ‘stuff’.

Maybe I’m just getting old, maybe I’ve finally found some wisdom, but once I started deliberately driving with less haste I noticed it made no difference at all to journey times (which are mainly dictated by the traffic in front of you) and it was a calmer experience all round with less money spent on fuel.

Having said that I’d own a defender, a DS19 or a mk1b Golf (the best looking one) tomorrow. I’d still keep the Passat estate though.

I live in the South of

I live in the South of England, so cars are just a very expensive way to sit in endless traffic jams and road works being late for things.  It was very different even 15 years ago, and when I lived abroad, when driving could be fun, as riding bikes is. Not any more though.

Of course, i have a ford

Of course, i have a ford mustang ecoboost 🙂

Thank you to all responding

Thank you to all responding to the “Anyone that actually likes cars on here?” thread.

All those who replied in the affirmative will shortly have their road.cc accounts terminated.

Through my youth to my mid

Through my youth to my mid-40s, I always owned at least one Mini (the real ones built by Brummies, not the BMW monstrosity).  My favourite was a van but it was also a pig to drive, with poor breaks and so many mechanical problems.  It taught me so much about the internal combustion engine, but it’s not possible to work on modern cars in the same way without access to a very well equipped workshop.

Like so many on here, children came along and priorities change.  My last Mini spent 8 years in my garage and was eventually sold with a heavy heart.  I now drive very ordinary family cars which are simply a means to an end.  

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

these days 99.9% of motors are samey/dog ugly/fat bloaters/too gadgety

This. Everyone who lives near me seems to piss bewteen £300 and £600 a month away, just to have a blobby shopping trolley with a German badge on the drive. In white, of course, with automatic everything, the biggest alloys and the smallest engine.