• Boingboing_r@lemmy.world
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    I have a volvo c30 T5 manual face lift edition as a daily driver. Its fun but not comfortable.

    I wish I had a volvo s60 T5 classic with an automatic gearbox as a daily driver and the c30 could be my toy car for hard driving and track days.

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    I drive a 2018 tesla model 3. I wish I did not drive a tesla… Some other EV that can use the supercharger network would be good.

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    I have 99 Dodge Ram with a 24 valve Cummins. I love diesel, but I wish it was newer. It only has a half back seat and I have two kids. I wouldn’t even mind the emission controls.

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    I have an 20 year old Subaru WRX and an 30 year old Ford F-150 (2 door). Honestly, I can’t imagine a better combo if you have the space for 2 vehicles. The car is sporty, fun, and can carry 4 people, while the truck can haul or tow nearly everything I would need. Purchased both brand new, both are still running strong, although parts for the Subaru are starting to dry up.

    Although I’m not currently shopping to replace either, they’re both gas burners. If they die before I do (feels unlikely), I’d like to upgrade to electric. But I haven’t seen anything I would consider affordable - which is to say designed to be repaired by the owner. Slate is the only possible thing on the radar, but their trucklet in this weird middle spot where it’s too small to be (fully) useful to me as a truck, while also too big to fill my hot hatch/4door car needs either. Hopefully they’ll be super successful and bring more models to the market in the future.

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      Don’t tell me parts for the WRX are drying up! I have a 2003 wrx that I lifted, installed a tow hitch on, and replaced the engine with the block out of a 2019 sti.

      It’s actually become my “I need to haul things” vehicle. The high compression of the 2.5l block and the 2.0l heads from the original motor has given it a healthy amount of torque. Plus I have the tiniest trailer that is exactly the size of a pallet and weighs next to nothing.

      I also have a 2001 MR2 spyder. That’s my fun, sporty one. Only mods I’ve done to that are the head unit and installing a LSD after a bearing grenaded in the transaxle and I had to rebuild it.

      Pretty much the only thing thing that’ll get me to replace either is if they get wrecked and it twists the frame.

      Though the car I WANT to be driving is a catterham.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A twenty years old Renault Kangoo to drive to wherever I don’t have a bus to get to.

    Sometimes I think about an electric car but I don’t have a place plug it to and apparently those batteries don’t like to be in use for more than a week. I don’t use my car much.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Driving a 2013 Seat Ibiza, kinda wish I were driving an electric since they do less pollution over long term, but in the short term i dont care as long as its moves me from point a to point b.

    Though If I had a limitless cash supply I’d want to drive the BMW M3 GTR, the car used in Le Mans. Yea sure, BMW is not officially selling it and it’s much cheaper to convert an E46, but I’d really want to drive the actual thing.

  • prince of space@lemmy.world
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    Currently a Chevy Volt 2017. PHEV. I want a fully electric vehicle but the best current options now are Tesla and I’d prefer not to give musk any money, even if indirect through a used car purchase. So the long wait for others to catch up continues.

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    I drive a 2024 VW GLI 6MT, bought it as the best bang-for-buck MT available new. Fantastic car all around. What I wish I drove is my dream 2-car garage. The first would be a classic Cooper S, or any decent Miata, or any decent Boxster. MT on all of them. The second would be a Giulia Q4, or Volvo S60, or an Audi RS2. Any combination of these is dream material for me.

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    2007 Toyota 4runner

    It’s a fine compromise vehicle for me.

    If I’m being practical, ideally I’d like to have 2 vehicles

    First would some little electric thing, it only needs room to carry me, the wife and the dog or some groceries. It only needs to max out at about 50mph and have maybe 100 miles of range, heat, ac, and a Bluetooth connection to stream music and gps directions from my phone. I do not need any other bells or whistles, and that will pretty much cover all of my chores, commuting, etc. for a week on one charge.

    And small 4wd pickup truck, with long bed, single or extended cab (don’t need a full crew cab) something like the old rangers/Tacoma/etc (the current Gen is too big) for camping, picking up lumber, commuting in the snow (with some weight in the bed) etc. preferably as some sort of plug-in hybrid. Can’t imagine ever needing or wanting a towing capacity over 5000lbs.

    Ignoring practicality, I’d really like to have a big ol’ Cadillac. Not too picky on the specifics, but it should be a full-sized sedan, or maybe a convertible, from no later than the early 90s, it should be black or maybe red, and I want whitewall tires.

    I also have a special soft spot for Land Rover defenders, and old broncos (or k5 blazers, international scouts, etc.)

    I also think the Subaru Brat was really damn cool

    Would love to have a VW microbus (I think the new EV thing is also really cool)

    Getting more into the realm of the ridiculous, '64 Aston Martin DB5, a DeLorean, any batmobile, the ecto-1, a Jurassic Park jeep, the bluesmobile, or Mad Max’s pursuit special

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    Yoooo … Finally a thread about cars …

    I drive a Manual 2019 Mustang GT convertible I bought of the auction and rebuilt in my apartment … It was tough to find a car in the height of Covid and I had very little wiggle room since I ended up putting a piston thru the block in my 2016 Genesis Coupe …

    And this is the Genny I killed, she had over 120 miles and I was very lazy with maintenance … not that their build quality is the best to begin with

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    What I drive: 2009 Audi A3 What I want to drive: cheap Chinese EV

    I don’t drive often so a huge 50,000 USD loan for some gigantic EV is just not in the cards.

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      I just moved out of a city with amazing cycling infrastructure to the suburbs of a larger city… this city has okay transit but their cycling infrastructure is basically telling drivers to please not hit cyclists on the shared roads. At least until you get downtown you’ll be meandering through neighbourhoods because they don’t want to take away peoples parking spots on the main roads.