What is your dream car?

[Michael-5]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Michael-5 said:

Only 70,000 km? That's not a lot at all. Have you had any problems with it other then cosmetic?

To my knowledge, Fiat is the least reliable european car manufacterer. I find it funny that they bought out Crysler, the least reliable US car manufacterer, and by far, the least reliable cars on our streets.

I don't know much about small cars because we don't get as many in North America, but my pops own an old Diesel Smart car. However I think a diesel Fiesta is a cooler car to own. Since the BMW is too big, and where you live is bumpy as hell, your probably forced to get FWD.

However if it's possible, get the BMW. RWD is so awesome, and those little 1 series are fast as hell.

As for Peugot's, you know those numbers mean nothing to me? We don't get Peugots here... I know what a Citroen C3 is because of Top Gear and Forza, but my fnowledge of French car manufactuers is very very limited.

Hey....the Lotus Evora is awesome. >;-/ Needs a bigger engine, but since they source their parts from Toyota that's unlikely. I heard many of the upcoming Lotus's will be using BMW V8's (new Esprit, Elan, Estoque, etc)

For that last bit. I still like Porsche. I'm not trying to get a 911 because it's fast, I want it because it's a fast 4 seater coupe, that feels like a sports car. The Nissan GT-R only comes in auto, looks ugly, and is too big IMO to be a fun sport car to have. The 911 S or GTS both are naturally apriated (best noise, no turbo lag, power available through a wide spectrum unlike superchargers). and look like they are fun to drive in city streets (In Toronto, Canada, our streets are probably a lot wider then yours). I don't need too much, and if the base 911 is enough power for me, I might stick with that.

Ferrarri are really good at making cars nowdays. I hate how the Italia no longer comes in stick, but oh well. At least it drives amazing. Lambo have gotten too tame since Audi bought them, they will never produce a beast like the Diablo ever again, and the Nissan would be cool if it came in stick.

Yep, apart the suspension damage started by bumpy roads and made ca lot worse by my mom, only cosmetic problems. BTW, I like my 3rd series Fiesta, once I rented a 4th series and I liked it a lot too, but I'm not an enthusiast of the latest 5th series one, I don't like when a car size increases and its internal space decreases, and that's what Ford did with the latest Fiesta and Focus. Were they cars one buys only for fun, there would be no problem, but they are meant mostly for practical, everyday purposes, so no, thanks.

About Fiat, yes, your infos are quite right, although lately no other car we ever owned gave us as many troubles as the Opel Corsa (even a broken oil pump, and it has a few thousand km more than my Fiesta and it's just 2 months older).

About the Peugeot, the 205 was a city car, its GTI version at its time was faster than the VW Golf/Rabbit GTI. The 505 was some years older, a quite normal family sedan with also a SW version. BTW, when I was a little kid I hated the Citroën DS, I called it "the unbuilt car", now I love it, I started loving Citroëns since the CX, those oleo-pneumatic suspensions (that were first mounted on the DS, but I was too little to appreciate them when that car was still quite common) that once equipped even their compact models (only Citroën city cars and subcompacts had "normal" suspensions once) amazed me. Now they are still excellent and advanced cars, with great value for price, for EU standards, but alas only the high-end models still have those suspensions.

About the Evora, I have never driven it, neither I drove the Exige, so I must trust what I read on tests, and according to what I read the Exige is a lot closer to my tastes. Also, I guess Quattroruote bashed it mostly due to the excessive expectations they had due to their English colleagues' hype for it.

About the 911, I agree about the aspirated ones, I like the turbo more on diesels.

By "stick" I guess you mean the manual gearbox, actually, despite losing a few tens seconds on times, if you aren't a real ace, a good manual gearbox gives a maybe better sensation, although test drivers and car journalists that have the luck to try all those wonderful cars swear the latest robotized and dual clutch gearbox now mounted on most supercars are wonderful too.

Still 70,000km seems like very little. I live in Canada, and ice in the winter forms pot holes on our roads. I know by driving a lot, some of the roads in Toronto are the worst in North America. Bus stops for instance often have such a depression from the weight of the bus, my car cannot make it over the higher center part of the road, so I often have to drive half in my lane, over the bump, just to do a right turn.

I also leave my car outside all the time (it was indoors when I lived with my parents, but now I park in an above ground lot), and really I don't have much damage. I'm at 190,000km and the only major repair I had was rebuilding the transmission (cause I own an auto   ).

Opel is GM, so I would imagine the quality isn't that bad. If you want a benchpoint to know how bad US cars are, I hear that Open make their cars to a higher standard then any US GM car.... :-/ Ford's improved, but I would still never get US.

For all Lotus, I think they have great chasis, but are underpowered. I never drove a Lotus, but I have sat inside an Elise SC and a Evora before, and I really really loved the Evora interior. It may be slow and underpowered, but the driving position and how the car felt (size wise and ergonimically) felt perfect. I wish they used a more powerful engine, I hate how the Evora is marketed as a car inbetweeen the performance of a 911 and a Cayman.

I've driven manual before. I like the mechanical feel. Paddle shifters, or manual-auto gear boxes, make you feel like your driving a computer.

Next car, RWD, 400hp+, Small and Agile, Standard Transmission, Naturally Aspirated, 2+2 layout. I know what's good, and in 10 years everything above except Small won't exist anymore due to rising fuel prices.