What would be your "one car for life"?

[rohrl]

dvshannow said:

The age of turbo is just upon us

Mass-produced turbo cars have been on sale for over 40 years now.

[Soov535]

RS6 Wagon here too.

Everything you ever need.

[VF7]

I am pretty smitten with my B6 Audi S4.
Would love an B7 RS4 but I much prefer the pre single frame look of the original B6.

But the one car for life has to be my '67 Volvo 1800 S !!

[RoverP6B]

rohrl said:

Mass-produced turbo cars have been on sale for over 40 years now.

They were only ever a niche offering until the last few years though.

[rohrl]

RoverP6B said:

They were only ever a niche offering until the last few years though.

Setting aside turbodiesels, which have been ubiquitous among diesels for the last twenty-five years or so, what about all the turbo Saabs, Volvo 740, Renault 5 GT turbo, Subarus, Fiat Uno turbo, the VW 1.8t which has been fitted to anything and everything for the past twenty years?

Turbocharging is a mature technology and has been for ages.

[RoverP6B]

Well, I was ignoring diesels. Turbocharged petrols have been made, as you say, by several companies, and VW did much to popularise them, but the rule was still N/A until very recently.

[M3DGE]

One car to own for life whilst having other cars - Mark 1 E-Type convertible or, in the absence of a lottery win, 64-69 MGB Roadster.

One car to own for life and rely on to do everything - FF Rangie.

[dvshannow]

rohrl said:

Mass-produced turbo cars have been on sale for over 40 years now.

Yes but that's not the point

The point is now
M cars typically name now turbo
911s na now turbo
Amgs all turbo now
Ferrari 488 now a turbo

So it's not that turbos have been around they are now being seen as the choice for almost all performance cars