Too hard to narrow down THE favorite. The ones that would make the finals are:

1970 Honda 600 Sedan (my 1st car - 600 cc 2 cylinder engine sitting on 145SR10 tires - 50+ MPG and at 6' I couldn't put the seat all the way back and still reach the pedals)

1975 Chevy Monza TOwn Coupe (looked like a very boring car but had a factory 350 V-8 that would take a Vette of the same vintage off the line - owned when people started lifting pick-ups and I loved smoking them off the line as well - and in all the time I had it, I never got a ticket in it, though I certainly deserved quite a few)

1962 Willy's M38A1 (stock military Jeep with a top speed of 50 MPH but would climb a tree)

1974 Dodge Sportsmobile pop-top van conversion AKA "The Happy Van" (avocado green inside and out which was seriously out of date in the '90s when we owned it but it was a rolling party with comfortable sleeping for 4 adults)

Austin-Healey 3000.



Nothing else comes close ..... except for the BMW 507 of course ....



Oh waidaminute ........

If you're talking actually having owned or driven, that would be my current BMW M Roadster (2006), but the Mk II Austin-Healey Sprite was a close second as driving experience at the time. How I survived the Sprite after closing time back in Jolly Old I'll never really understand ..... [not me of course, the other road users staggering out of the pubs]

The funnest car I ever drove was my girlfriend's Porsche that I had access to in school.

My favorite car I've owned was a Honda Accord (talk about a dose of reality).

The car that always brings a smile to my face is one of the old T-birds, ca. 1960 or thereabouts.

Wow...Lancia Stratos..love it. Some of this has reminded me that I had a '76 Capri (Black Cat), Vanagon, VW Bus, VW bug, and a few others that I'm sure will come to mind.

Never had a favourite, the car is a tool, it's expensive, needs a lot of repairs, and I'd rather not bother with one, but I have needed one at various times, but don't care about it all that much, you want to talk bicycles, then you might have something....

1998 Saturn SL1. My wife's has around 160,000 miles and isn't showing any sign of giving up. All we've done to it is maintenance, fill it with gas and keep tires on it. Most of the exterior body panels are plastic and cheap to replace. It may be the most practical car that GM ever built so, of course, they stopped makeing them. It needs to last 2 more years until my wife retires.

The first car I ever owned, that let me go where I wanted, when I wanted, was also beautiful to look at: a '65 Chevy Malibu two-door hardtop in kind of a rich, royal blue. Gorgeous.
I've had lots of cars, liked many of them, but I was especially fond of my Suzuki Sidekick: cheap to buy, cheap to run, cheap to maintain, and offroad capable enough to go anywhere I wanted to go. Great little car, and versatile as all get out.

Man, tough choices:

• my first car, the 1962 Buick Special Wagon with the 198 V-8?
• The 1961 Austin Healy Sprite (after the Buick tranny exploded)?
• My 1972 Datsun 510 sedan?
• My '84 VW Vanagan (water cooled)? Would love to have that car now!
• My 2001 Isuzu Trooper?

And I've had other good cars, as well. But I'd probably say the favorite would be the Vanagan - camping, hunting, forest roads, long trips, commute, it was a great car for a young family. It would be a great car for an old family now...

O.K. I'll play.

My favorite car that I ever owned is my 1972 MGB, purchased new and still out in my garage. I wooed my wife in this car and we drove it on a weekend road trip when we celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. It just sits out in the garage now as the sad realities of tuition payments and prescription drugs have jumped to our financial forefront.

This is a pic of our "B" from the late 70's...




The most thrilling car we owned for tearing up the highways was the 1971 Triumph Spitfire that I bought for the bride back in 1976. The steel belted Michelin tires and the Koni shocks on all four corners courtesy of the previous owner, combined with the already great handling characteristics of this little beast helped this car hold the road like it was on rails!

Here's the bride in her "New to her Triumph".




There's been a whole series of American cars and trucks in our life that were mostly crap. There have also been several other British Sports cars have passed through our life, but those first two stole my heart.

I just bought a 2007 chevy hhr love it with lots of storage in back my Trek 1.2 fits in just fine
but I'm probubly going to get a roof mounted bike rack for it.

I have more of a love/hate thing with cars than most of you. I mean, I became a mechanic because it was my hobby, (big mistake).
I have owned some old cars, my favorite of them was the '47 Fleetmaster like this one.


I also had a '48 Chevy Fleetline, a 53 Chevy pickup, a '53 Ford, a '60 Rambler American, and a bunch of cars from the 60s including a '65 Chevy pickup which I drove for 19 years.

I test drove a 2005 Hyundai Elantra GT back in 2005 and really liked it. Reviewers liked them too. The manual tranny version was a lot peppier than the auto. I thought it drove a lot like a Saab.

Raising 5 children, my cars have been a parade of the same practical vehicles, over and over again. I purchased a '79 Corolla new and drove it for 14 years. Then a used '87 Chevy Nova (built on at a joint GM/Toyota plant), followed by a new '97 Corolla, which I still have.

On the family side there was a used Ford Fairmont wagon, followed by a used '86 Dodge Caravan, a '93 Dodge Caravan (whose life ended prematurely by being rear-ended), and a '00 Caravan.

Along the way I did pick up an 8 year old Acura Integra with a stick shift. That has been my most fun car. Still have it too, it's 15 now.

No question. Our '53 Studebaker race car.



We've set records numerous times at Bonneville.

Had plenty of cars I would have liked to own but never had a car I formed any attachment to.

A Car gets me from A to B and that is it. Always had old cars that were checked over and were safe. Kept them for years till the repairs would have cost more than another car. But one or two-in hindsight- I should have kept.- Austin Healey sprite Mk 1- VW Beatle with a split screen- Found out this year that they are rare and just name your price to a VW enthusiast. But by the one I should never have got rid of was a Rover 75. It only did about 12 miles to the gallon but they are as rare now as the split screen Beatles- and are a quality car--Think pre war Bentley.

My favorite car was my 1965 Plymouth Sports Fury. I bought it with a stock 318 automatic and ended up with a 426 Street blown Hemi and a Hurst 4 speed in-line shifter on a standard tranny. I lifted the rear up and ran cheater slicks. Did that baby fly. But the most fun car I have driven is my customized 2002 PT Cruiser. The other vehicles I have had were always 4 wheel drive pickup trucks because of hunting, which I no longer do.

'68 SAAB 96 Monte Carlo. Taunus V4 motor.

But I am a plodding driver , just a bit trifle quicker than on the bike..

Rick Woolf in Eugene , who was my Saab parts Hoarder, says Capri V 6's fit too.
he had one in his 95, the quasi estate saloon..

Made for more of a petrol tank hoover though..

My one-owner '75 Pontiac TransAm. White with blue trim. And hella yeah I had the hood bird!!

The Screaming Chicken?

My 74 Beetle.

200hp, custom 5 speed and upgraded suspension and brakes.

I bought it new.

I started out with a 1966 VW Beetle with a rebuilt '63 engine in it. Then had the "thrill" of a '74 Vega hatchback. From that went to a 76 Plymouth Duster. After that got married and had some station wagons and then an Olds Delta 88 with the converted gas to diesel in it. No choice of mine but the price was too good to pass up. Most recent cars have been a '97 Dodge Neon and then the wife's 2000 Kia Sephia. Neon was totaled in a deer accident so am currently driving a 2009 smart car. What's funny is that of all the cars, the smart is the safest one. It has a Nascar compatible safety frame and has a hitch on the back for the bike rack. We're Empty Nesters now and members of the Sandwich Generation, so it's nice to go on about 5 or 6 gallons a week at the gas pump. As for the old Vega, it burned more oil than gas!

Wow. I was looking through this thread and was thinking about my 53 Studebaker in college when I saw this!

Yours is a little faster. Actually I put a Chevy engine in mine - 283 bored out to a 301. With a high lift cam and some other work, I got 8,000 rpms.

My most recent favorite cars were a 1998 Corvette (stolen in 2003) and replaced with a Mercedes AMG SLK. But I need a car for commuting as well as something that goes in the snow so my and wife wife's cars are more practical lately.

I loved my 2004 BM 325 but it had to go to pay bills - (insert sad face here).

Love my 1979 911. I've owned it for the past 13 years and it is hands down the most fun and reliable car I've owned.

I autocross a half dozen times a year, do a track day or two, do multi-thousand mile road trips, commute (when I'm not on my bike), and even throw the Yakima Rack and bikes on top for out of town bike rides. So long as I keep it in fresh oil, rubber and brake pads and it goes and goes.

Second choice would be the 2007 Mazda3 5 door that my wife drives. Fantastic brakes and suspension; I've done a track day in it and was surprised at how composed it is at speed. Another 40 HP and it would be fantastic. I guess that's what the Speed 3 is all about.