Tell Me of Your Car

what brand model? any special feelings?

I just bought a new-used one this past Saturday. I haven't "bonded" with it yet, but I think this will work out just fine.

2006 Ford Escape XLT

My truck (Chev S10, ext. cab, 4-cyl) is paid-for, reliable and boring as hell. I'd like to unload it and get a new car, put manual transmissions behind me forever, but it would be a dumb extravagance for as little as I drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDt794kBXY

I know someone here drives an Aztec. fess up

I drive a 1995 Honda Accord I inherited from my Mom - its a great car

I had an Accord once that I also inherited from my mom. I drove it until it croaked (at somewhere over 200k miles).

2006 Honda Civic Coupe LX

sweet ride

1992: My first car was a 1979 Datsun 280zx. It had all kinds of problems but it looked so great. Sold it to a friend of my brother's and it caught on fire and burned to a crisp about a month later.
1992: Second car was a 1986 Audi 4000S. Pretty much determined my future of never owning an Audi or VW ever again.
1993: Since the Audi was such a heap, my dad helped me buy a 1987 Toyota pickup. It was nothing special.
1994: Traded it for a 1987 Mazda 323 wagon. I think this is my favorite car ever. I should've never gotten rid of it, because its problems were $10 or $15 dollar fixes...
1996: My 1990 Toyota Camry's problems were $500 and $1000 fixes. Camrys are probably reliable for most people, but I bought a lemon.
1998: Ended up with my mom's 1988 Honda Accord. I learned to drive in this car. Before I had my own car, it's what I did much of my high school driving in. I was glad to finally get it, and I drove it until it wouldn't go anymore.
2003: Bought a 2001 Dodge Neon. It was the "newest" car I'd ever owned, and it was also the one that I owned for the longest. It died last year on my way to Thanksgiving dinner. Timing belt broke, and it would've cost as much to fix as the car itself was worth. I wrote off the loss and bought a car from my uncle.
2011: The car I bought from my uncle was a 2007 Suzuki Reno. It was a serviceable A-to-B kind of car, and it had a nice stereo with an iPod jack, but I never liked it.
2012: Traded the Suzuki in for a 2006 Ford Escape. It's still so new to me that I don't have any idea what its quirks are, but it's probably the nicest thing I've ever owned. I hope I have it for as long or longer than I had the Neon.

2007 Honda CRV, and a 1990 Acura Integra.

I prefer the Acura bc it's more fun to drive but CRV is fine for commuting/shopping and long road trips. It's just a car though.

The only car i have special feelings for is my old 1969 Austin 1800 Mk II - it was my first car, belonged to my grandma before that & was in perfect condition. Drove it all through college. it RULED.
Poo-brown, white leather interior, roomy as all get out and could go like the clappers.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MIPuHEC2ruQ/UAs3RyeBgpI/AAAAAAAAAnw/4WTE3PbSaS8/s1600/1965_cars_austin1800_mk2.jpg

That is a beautiful car!!

that's pretty rad, yeah

2011 BMW X3 2.8

it is the best thing I have ever purchased and I would like to live inside of it

We have a 2012 Dodge laramie limited, extended cab. All black exterior and grey leather interior, and I love our truck! It has heated and cooled seats in the front and back!!

xxpost yeah she really was a winner. And mine was in about as good condition as that one in the photo. Nan had kept it garaged except on Sundays for church when I got it.

we ended up selling it to a collector because it got to the point where I had to keep a shittier, broken down Austin in the backyard to use for parts and I didn't have the time/money to keep up with the maintenance on it.

but they have a devoted following - other Austin drivers would always wave at me whenever we passed each other on the highway, or come up and talk to me if I had her parked anywhere around town. It was kind of like being in a club.

Wow, that Austin's a beaut.

Current wheels are 2000 Toyota Sienna; dull, but by far the most reliable car I've owned. But I still miss my first car, '87 Nissan Stanza Wagon:
http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/121/cdbb566601e1101bcbb94e88674f2a67/l.jpg
Goofy little car, underpowered (had 4wd, but same engine as the 2wd), first van with dual sliding doors, and the easiest car I've ever parallel parked.

yeah the Stanzas look like the awkward cousin of the Subaru. But in a good way, lol.

2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid. Boooooooooring, but that is a good thing in my book.

1997 Isuzu Trooper with 108K. Not boring at all! Manual transmission! Fun! Terrible gas milage!

first car was a 94? Plymouth Horizon. really not a good car and i believe had transmission problems the entire time i owned it that were masked by the previous owner being an old lady who drove in town below 25mph always. i repainted the roof myself with anti-rust outdoor paint when it started to flake out. looked great.

then i had an 86? Toyota Camry that ran ok but had the weirdest shitty things happen to it. i hit a pothole at 60 mph that punched one of the rear shocks up into the interior of the car through the panel that holds the speakers.

then i inherited a 95 Olds Cutlass Ciera from my grandmother when she died. my dad and i drove it back to MN from phoenix (not fun btw). those things are tanks and you see tons of them on the road still. ancillary shit started to fail after a while tho, the power locks, the windshield squirters, etc. i gave it away to a vets organization.

I once owned A dodge omni too - it was in mint condition and it was a good littel car. all red - blood red interior

It's funny (well not funny when you think about it) that car interiors really only come in three colors anymore: tan, gray or black. When I think about the green Olds with green interior my parents had when I was a child, I gag.

White 1997 Mazda Miata with teeth in the front grille. Not a single mechanical problem (besides normal wear items like clutches/brakes) in 8 years/50,000 miles.

my Grandma kept all the interior seats of the Austin under horrible beige seat covers - when I got the car the first thing we did was take off the covers to wash them and discovered !! white leather seats!!

used the seat covers in summer, of course. but daaaaaamn those things were cool.

I can't say I have strong feelings of affection for any car I've owned. otoh, I do have strong feelings of appreciation for our 1994 Honda Civic 4dr sedan, because the cost of ownership on it has been **beyond outstanding** and it is as reliable as a rock. This is what I ask of a car and it has delivered big time!

Our dodge is my first new truck to drive off the dealership lot. Before that I drove a used jeep grand cherokee, and my first car was Scout made by International harvester, it looked like this except completely orange
http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/2539/3861/31346930001_large.jpg
With both the jeep and scout, I always drove in fear of something breaking and getting stranded, it happened all the time with my scout. And after I put 160.000 miles on my jeep in 5 years, things slowly started falling apart. Having a new vehicle makes a world of difference but I'm still getting used to not worrying when I drive.

Gah, the Scout! Yeah, International Harvester never really made the consumer-grade thing work.

i just donated my volvo s40 and bought a prius

I have a Rabbit. (no, not that kind ;-) The Volkswagen known in other parts and times as the Golf

I miss my first car, an old '82 Pontiac with green button-tuffed velour reclining seats. For me it's inextricably linked to my first girlfriend, (not really the first, but the first that was a real romantic relationship so let's not count anyone before). We went everywhere together in that car. Often got stuck together too 'cause it broke down alot. Had a cassette player so we could inflict our musical tastes on each other. I should've kept that car. I should've kept that girl....

have a good picture of it at home I'll post if I can find it later

Ah yeah, International Harvester - they got spooked out by rising fuel prices and stopped making pickup trucks and 4x4s in the '80s; surely by the '90s nobody would be driving SUVs anymore. Whoops.

been driving a '95 corolla for about 10 years now, it's boring though pretty reliable and paid for. but it's old now, dinged up inside and out, accelerates slowly, doesn't have a stereo (didn't bother replacing it after it was stolen for the third time), one of the headlights doesn't work on regular mode so it has to be on high beams all the time, loud road noise on the highway, etc. so we're going to buy a new (used) car in the next month, mainly because i worry about taking such an old car on the road for longer trips and we're driving to north carolina for christmas.

car #1 : fiat panda (orig. design) - people laffed when we had it, but damn, that thing was a blast to drive. no frills. no comfort. great fun. it fell apart of course which lead to ....

car #2 : hyundai pony : f*cking hated it. heavy on steering. heavy on everything. no joy to drive. so, i crashed into a truck head on, and got rid of the f*cker for ....

car #3 : fiat brava : more comfort than the panda, but dreadful visibility. but a car i really loved until it became very costly to keep on road.

car #4 : ford fusion 3 : boring family car. no passion. no perks. just functional. its fulfills its purpose.

next car : fiat 500.

unfortunately my teenkid wont fit in one .. then again, that could be seen as a bonus ..

i learned to drive in a tank-like escort station wagon but the only other car i've owned was a teal ford escort hatchback with spoiler, was pretty good for moving band equipment, sold it when we moved to chicago and decided not to bring two cars.

This is how little I care about cars: I honestly don't know if I have a Camry or a Carolla. It's def one of those C Toyotas though.

I think it's a Camry. I inherited it from my parents when my mom stopped driving.

The only other car I've had was a silver Saturn that was a college graduation present. My dad had my initials detailed near the driver's handle. lol. LONG ISLAND! I actually really loved that car but sold it when I moved out of the country for a couple years.

That one was actually sort of funny. My parents had arranged to have a friend drive it onto our lawn while we were coming back from the graduation weekend. I was hungover as fuck and pretty much passed out in the backseat when we rolled up to the house. I remember looking at them and asking why some asshole had parked on our lawn. The damn thing even had a bow on it and it took me a good five minutes to figure out what was going on.

2004 Crown Vic Police Interceptor *oh yeah*

@ENBB.

2 reactions

1 : haha, thats proper ace

2 : fucking ungrateful student

reason i say this is i have a teenkid who hits driving age next year, and so i am keeping my wifes car especially for him to learn in, and i just know that the ungrateful f*cker will have no idea how lucky he is to have such a cracking little car at his disposal (original design fiesta with cool stereo, sunroof, sparky engine etc, its a much better car than the boring fusion)

This is how little I care about cars: I honestly don't know if I have a Camry or a Carolla. It's def one of those C Toyotas though.

― ENBB, Thursday, November 1, 2012 4:04 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:) i have been in this car and don't remember either

It is very hard to care about C Toyotas that are not the Celica. I had a '78 Celica that I miss. The least sporty sports car of all times, but it was reliable and had . . . something.

lol SEAN WHY DON'T YOU KNOW?? ;)

x-post - I was just really really hungover. Once I got some sleep and felt better I did totally love and appreciate it especially since I'd never asked for a car nor did I think getting one was even a remote possibility.

whereas my teenkid (as most teenkids of the modern age) has a very different level of expectation.

i would love to get rid of the car just to make him realise, but that would be cutting off my nose to spite my face.

not too mention the fact i love driving it a lot more than the fusion ..

Man, the car I got as a hand-me-down from my mom was an early 90s (or maybe even late 80s) Buick LeSabre. Forest green. We had some adventures, but I can't say I miss it too much.

i inherited a '94 accord
then i inherited an '01 accord
then i bought a new '12 civic
hondas 4 lyfe

http://images.cars.com/phototab/DMI/154414/4N13001A/01.jpg 178,000 miles – all but a handful mine - xoxo love you car-y old car

I have probably spent more hours of my life looking at

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/vehicle-pictures/1997/toyota/corolla/93812041990416-480.jpg than anything else, and I'm going to get it framed and bronzed when the car has to go.

My parents let me "buy" their 1996 Ford Taurus wagon during my last year of college; a year later the steering stopped working on an off-ramp and that was the end of that. Next month my new job gives me a free bus pass.

dad bought me and my brother a clapped out fiat seicento as a starter car

http://photos2.donedeal.ie/Full-14692485.jpeg

great fun. like driving a dodgem tbh. i spent all my money on bringing it up to scratch and he wrapped it round a telegraph pole (and it's fucking difficult to wrap a seicento around anything) leading to

http://www.carsireland.ie/image_db/829150-l6573769.jpg

97 toyota carolla. went like the clappers up to 60 cos it was light as anything, i drove it like a deathwish clown for this reason. tended to skid a lot due to said lightness, got rid of on gf's request and invested in current wheels:

http://c0.dmlimg.com/1fc1c1c2db5852e08ffc380475e2633682caaaf16daa668c7ef3047ac3112e1c.jpg

octavia mkII. economical, tough as old boots, comfortable and has a stupidly huge boot. paid it off two years ago and if i look after the rest of it, the engine's good for another 100k miles at least. might hang on to it a while yet.

on an unrelated note, why is google image search so shit now?

lol @ drives like a dodgem. Kinda looks like it might.

Me at the wheel of my first car - a '73 Pontiac Grand Prix - living out my Mad Max / Vanishing Point fantasies by hauling down the West Side Road in Death Valley in 1983.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/69/155836430_171ad2f732_z.jpg

and from the front:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3589/3369140343_2d8ce2783e_o.jpg

badass

What I drive now (2004 Ford Thunderbird). Just realized that I've had this car for seven years - longer than any other car I've owned.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/18/24189384_76e7e52217_z.jpg

Those thunderbirds are nice, and I've never been in a convertible. But my truck has a sunroof!

http://i46.tinypic.com/10zzel5.jpg

Before this guy I had an 98 Ford Escort ZX2 for about 10 years.

http://i48.tinypic.com/28thowp.jpg

My sister's been driving it for three years now, those things are hard to kill.

Our truck
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8192/8146651299_0b642f52b0_c.jpg

Wow, that's even larger than my brother's truck, and his is obscenely huge.

(considers changing his display name to: larger than obscenely huge)

haha

first car was a 94? Plymouth Horizon. really not a good car and i believe had transmission problems the entire time i owned it that were masked by the previous owner being an old lady who drove in town below 25mph always. i repainted the roof myself with anti-rust outdoor paint when it started to flake out. looked great.

former horizon owners represent!

i have a 2002 volkswagon passat station wagon now, because i am super cool like that. first car i have ever owned that was within a decade of when i was driving it!

best car i ever drove regularly was my high school gfs fiat x1/9, which was so weird and low to the ground that i could roll down the window and touch the asphalt.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/3327839719_495184b673.jpg

wow it really is weird looking

that is a dope car

yeah, rear engine rear wheel hardtop convertible, so the roof stowed in the front over the uh trunk i guess? it is totally amazing that we never managed to kill ourselves in that thing

Ha! It's not that huge, the guys I worked with do everything possible to make their trucks huge. They all have lifts on their trucks and huge fuck off tires.

So jealous. Always wanted an X1/9 (and I know they're relatively cheap used, but I'm not ready to spend my every waking moment maintaining a car). Nothing that's been made since -- except maybe the mid-80s MR2 -- comes close in terms of affordable absurdity.

xp

Oh man Jacob I have SUCH truck envy!

being an nyc/manhattan resident since college graduation i never owned a car until last year. 2011 Volvo s60 T5 sedan. have to agree w/DJP:

it is the best thing I have ever purchased and I would like to live inside of it

1997 nissan altima. won the 2011 social workers magazine car of the year award.

we basically use it on weekends. took an epic drive from ny to ohio last year, "road testing" on the PA turnpike mountains was so cool

yeah Jacob I dig ur truck

When we finished the job in del rio, we decided to tow the jeep back home which is on the other side of Texas. I surprised myself and did fairly well, until we hit Houston traffic and I thought we were going to die. No one seem to understand why I was driving slow or to understand how long it takes to switch lanes. Now we are thinking about buying a travel trailer and I'm a little nervous. Even though the guy who sold us the truck said I could pull a tree out of the ground with the truck, it still changes your driving completely.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8148074272_f3e8f7d5d6_b.jpg

http://www.autogush.com/images/subaru-legacy-1.8-03.jpg

fastest car I ever had

subaru legacy btw 1992

bought a new (used) car this weekend - 2010 honda fit sport. last car was a 1995 corolla with no stereo (stolen three times) so driving a relatively new car that has a stereo and power locks and windows and other crazy features is kind of blowing my mind.

2009 Cadillac CTS

bought a new (used) car this weekend

Congrats! One of my friends owns a Fit and I like it a lot.

I have a 10-yr-old Jeep Liberty, cherry red like this one:

http://www.sookeharbour.com/classified/images/2002_jeep_liberty.jpg

I bought it from a friend a few years ago after I left NYC (and seven blissful car-free years). It gets terrible gas mileage, but was the right price for me at the time and is convenient for toting two kids around. (I guess that's why the Liberty was so popular when it came out, it was the suburban mom's alternative to a minivan.) Biggest bonus: manual transmission. I love driving stick, so much more satisfying. It's at 120,000, and I've started having to replace things semi-regularly, but it's paid off, in good shape, and my mechanics promise to get it to at least 200,000 for me. So I'm reasonably content with it.

2009 Cadillac CTS

How do you like it? I'm looking at getting a new (probably from pre-owned program) next year and the CTS is on my shortlist.

Its pretty good. It's the second one ive had, (i had the '05) and its a significant upgrade over that model. If you live in snow territory get the CTS 4. It will have to be pre-owned because I think they are discontinuing it.

I've had this for just over two weeks now and I want to marry it already.

http://i.imgur.com/kvOwj.png

WoW! - this is not actually *my* car, obv, but this is basically my car.

http://imganuncios.mitula.net/2003_toyota_camry_le_v6_gray_in_new_cassel_new_york_96714756263236735.jpg

style-wise, it's as dull as dishwater (and the same basic color, as well), but it gets pretty decent gas mileage, handles well, is miraculously low-maintenance & has retained a remarkable level of marketplace value.

My dad has one just like that, except his is green. I've driven it a few times and it seems alright. Definitely better than the 1990 Camry I used to own (my least favorite car ever).

That's all I would ever want in a car

I feel like all jeeps suck

no way, I would totally want something like this if I lived somewhere warmer:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2a6s5kp.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6iKe73N3JM

what i'm sayin

hi here is the ridiculous new mine-spec hilux that work has given me

http://i48.tinypic.com/5a54qs.jpg

http://s3-media4.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/BSJjOT0KCjv66h-oBQ-fFA/l.jpg

First car:

1975 Toyota Corona wagon. Learnt to drive and had one of these as first car. It was my nan's. Wonderful little car, big enough to fit band gear, small enough to park easily. Not even 60,000k's on the clock when I got it, unkillable 2L engine. Unfortunately my friend fucked it up driving me back from a hospital.

http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa327/willofan/Picture003.jpg

Currently:

1973 Chrysler by Chrysler. Had it for five or six years now. I love it, but don't drive it much. No aircon or sound system and the LPG system has stopped working. still.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/156/405227255_1399db5a9d.jpghttp://farm1.staticflickr.com/139/407355351_3c5909b1e1_z.jpg

1990: 1981 chevy citation, multiple shades of blue, golf ball for the shifter handle, KRACO stereo, had a lot of problems

1991: 1986 grey chevy celebrity. Rear ended someone in this and it never really worked right afterwards.

1995: 1988(?) gold plymouth horizon. This car was my sister's before she went to college, I borrowed it one day and taught myself to drive a stick. Delivered a lot of pizzas in this one, couldn't fill the tank more than half way, and had accidents that broke both rear tail lights two saturdays in a row (one my fault, one not my fault).

1995: 1986 red honda CRX. Got in an accident in Detroit (last one so far), it kept running, sold to an acquaintance and ended up finding its rusting hulk in the backyard of a friend ten years later.

1997: 1990? silver Oldsmobile Bravada, acquired upon moving in with girlfriend. Eventually sold to a girl from my hometown and its rusting hulk is visible on Google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/Pc3j9

2003?: 1995 navy blue Subaru Legacy wagon. The default car for non SUV hippie types in snowy climates. Loved it but no longer need AWD.

Late 2009: brand new silver 2010 Honda Fit Sport. Swore I'd never in million years buy a new car but this was too good a deal to pass up. I kind of dig it, from Washington to Michigan and back a couple times, can hold a ton of shit, generally adequate.

That Chrysler by Chrysler is badass

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/beloved.jpg

i've owned a dozen cars in my life. this was my third car. 1995 honda civic sedan. i drove it across canada twice. i drove it to california twice. went across mountain ranges. taught the love of my life to drive in it and she put hundreds of clicks on it without a license or any proper driver education. had a low mileage jdm motor put in it after it rolled over 300k km on the first motor. just over 300k km on its second motor. it sat at home in my mom's backyard while i went around the world. it took its final trip from regina to vancouver island in 2006. i left it in the yard of my aunt's house and i forgot about it and she had it towed away. i loved it and i miss it more than any childhood pets.

i got a 2012 ford edge for work. it's not much fun to drive but it has cool stuff in it and it's big.

i bought this a couple months ago and it's really fun to drive, has cool stuff in it, and it's small:

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/fiester22.jpg
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/fiester111.jpg

Is that the Fiesta?

you got it.