What Type Of Car Do You Drive?

2010 Jeep Compass. I'm happy with it. I'm a Jeep girl. This is my 3rd Jeep.

 

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This is my other car. It's also a Neon, but it's a 98 Chrysler Expresso. It has major problems and is currently parked. But I want to fix it.

 

I love Mazda.

I had the larger van; the MPV. We got hit in a t-bone accident, the van did a 1/4 roll, and we walked away from it. We bought another one exactly like it and later sold it to some friends. We got this one after that. My d-i-l drives a Mazda MPV, my son has had a Mazda Progege for years. My daughter recently sold her Protege after having it for years.

We all love Mazda.

 

Whatever car I get picked up in.

 

Bet you love to hangout in the Darth Vader meditation chamber........i.e. The Palpatine era equivalent of a 21st century man cave


Hotwater

 

2006 Mercedes sprinter van.
1931 Ford roadster
1932 Ford pickup
depending on what I'm doing, the van is very handy for everything.

 

The stalker... :d

 

Not all mine, but I do drive them all.

2011 Honda CR-V i-CDTi (husband)
2011 Audi A5 2.0 TDI quattro (mine)
2013 Toyota Hi-Lux (both)

All great vehicles.

 

Just some friendly advice, stay away from the landrover! Lol we have more of those in our shop then we know what to do with. They are horrible vehicles, not to mention expensive to fix.

 

I drive a 2004 Mazda 6i

Its a great car plus it hauls arsh! Love it

 

That's a sweping statement if I ever heard on. Landrover are excellent vehicles. County and Defender especially.

We have an old County for use on the farm. Goes anywhere you want it and hasn't broken down in the time we've owned, and I doubt neither for the previous owners.

 

My vehicle is a 2010 Nissan Sentra.

 

In recent times, I've tended to go round in Merc and BMWs. I quite like them. Quality wise they're as good as anything. They aren't too conspicuous. And aren't show showoffish that they're liable to get keyed/robbed. I've gone round in various things over the yrs, including a Rolls. That just drew a ridiculous amount of attention. I'm a Socialist (yeah right, you're saying, I know..) and I did feel a bit uncomfortable in it. And a bit of prick TBH haha.

My relationship with cars is complex. I absolutely hate driving and would much rather go by train/taxi/plane or get driven. In the past I had a "Paul Walker" phase with cars.. allegedly.But I'm past that now.

I think society is far too obsessed with cars. Often people are pressured into buying something they don't want or need. Its often a status symbol, yet people with really lots of money often drive round in old bangers. Maybe I'll change car makes next yr, more for business reasons (depending on what I'm doing) than any personal desire. Maseratis look quite nice, but I dunno. In some ways, cars are just cars.

 

My psychological profiling of car drivers:-

Mercedes - arrogant, never reverses in a single lane.
BMW - idiotic drivers on motorways, always brake too late.
Porsche 911 shapes - what twats!
Ferrari - cokehead, hooker obsessed 50 somethings.
Black Audi - thinks he's Jason Statham in Transporter. But the only thing he has in common is shit hair.
Gold BMW M3 - crack dealer.
Jaguar - golf club bore and freemason. Shame because the cars are nice. Unlike his golfing knitwear..
Beaten up 25 yr old Range Rover worth nothing - driver owns half the county.
Fiat 500 - driver paints her nails and facebooks on iPhone while driving. Then kills an old lady at a Zebra crossing. Gets off.
Nissan Juke - in his mind, he's a surf dude and extreme sport diehard. In reality, he's a pubquiz geek who plays Dungeons and Dragons all day and night.

 

I drive a 14 Dodge Journey. I almost bought a Chrysler 300, but in the end, the Journey won over its functionality with having two kids in car seats/double stroller.

It's been a good car for the last year. I won't buy another, because hopefully I'll be sans car seats when it's time to buy another.

 

i don't. i'd have to get another license, insurance and all that crap, plus the cost of keep it running. thanx but no thanx. true, i wouldn't have to live in a city if i did, so i won't say there's not one positive tradeoff. but i'd rather live in a world/culture, where i didn't have to have one to not.

the furst car i owned was a 1959 chevy panel truck. before that i did own a 1962 i think it was, honda 90 two wheeler. i don't remember which came next but i've owned a 60 something chevy pickup, a 49 ford panel named frieda, a 60 something ford pickup, and the last one i owned was 70 something hornet wagon. somewhere in there i also owned a yamaha or suzuki, i forget which, 125 two wheeler. also of 60s or 70s vintage.

i love the idea of public trasportation and only wish there was a hell of a lot more of it. if working on cars was something i liked doing and had a place to do so, i might be more inclined also, but i don't and i'm not.
driving is fun, mostly, if it isn't something you have to do, and in a lot of traffic, but people killing each other and destroying the environment over oil, isn't exactly my idea of fun either.

so i live in a place that's kind of a dump, i call it that because of being surrounded by so much pavement instead of gardens, that's half a block from a corner served by four different bus routes. never have to wait more then 15 minuets for one inbound toward the main transfer terminal that connects to almost all of them during the day on a week day, and on saturday the wait is never more then a half hour.

i can afford to play with trains and computers, two things i love, along with making interesting food and making art to illustrate the kind of world i would like to live in, on the computer, mostly because of what i don't have to spend on a car. things i might seldom or never afford otherwise on my very limited income.

 

Its my opinion, and I work at a mechanic shop. We get a lot of them and its never pretty. We just had one hauled off for a customer because the parts and labor to fix it were rediculous. But if you have had good experiences, then thats great! But I personally would never buy one.

 

2008 Mazda 3. Absolutely love it. I'd buy another one tomorrow.

 

Volvo won me over when the S60 replaced the widely hated S40. I had been loyal to VW and Audi until VW started importing most of their American cars from Mexico instead of Germany, and Audi's prices soared into the BMW range. My Volvo was assembled in Belgium. She's my baby.

We also own a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee that rarely leaves the garage. It performs well under extreme conditions, but repairs and maintenance are expensive, and it's a gas hog. It has climbed rocks, sand dunes, forded rivers, pushed through mountain blizzards and floods, you name it. It's not a good choice for ordinary driving around town.

I liked Mazda until Ford got involved with them. I wore out an RX-7 (bought it new) and hated to see it go. Later, my 626 developed a mysterious transmission problem that nobody could fix, and then the brakes caught fire one day in the mountains. I was done with Mazda after that. Ford nearly ruined Volvo too, but it seems to have recovered. I found my old Honda a very economical choice, but not a lot of fun to drive, and helpless in the snow.

These days when I want to rent some basic, cheap transportation at an airport for urban driving, I've more or less settled on the Prius, the larger version, or the middle size if they don't have the bigger one. They get the job done. I could get used to filling up a tank for ten dollars.