Your favourite car style?

[Kolbenkopp]

caraddict said:

I agree. A minimum "complete garage" would at least have:

A stationwagon for daily commuting (BMW 3-series Touring is perfect)
A supercar with a mid-engine and F1 style paddles would be a plus
An oldschool/vintage car (Fiat 500 F Nuova)
A super basic, no electronic, low weight machine (Caterham 7)
A low budget offroader with some fuzz that I can afford to use properly (Subaru Forester XT)
A smooth GT with rear seats for kids (Jag XK or Aston DBS)

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Much in the same camp, but to greedy/poor for the full thing. Parking space alone for my 'perfect' garage would be around €4k/annum. Plus taxes + insurance + servicing for the machines themselves :-/. Think I'll somehow have to convince my lovely girlfriend to move out to the suburbs at least .

That said, I'd like to have:

A monovolume thingy as an allrounder (Audi A2)
A speedy barge for Autobahnwork / GT-ing (BMW E38, MB W126 or Jag X300)
A motorbike surrogate for those early sunday morning B-road drives (Elise S1 160, S2 SC, Caterham)
A classic for the enjoyment of tinkering with it (genuine Abarth, Lotus Elan or S1 Esprit, Simca 1200S, Porsche 924 or 914, Honda Beat, the list is long)
A real 4x4 just cos it looks cool and is a nice complement for that fav pair of very worn jeans (ex mil. Defender or MB G)

Semi optional:
A quirky micro car, just cos I like the genre (Lupo FSI, any Kei car, original Mini, Citroen C1)
A winter mobile to get to Austria round Christmas (Scooby, EVO, Audi type 44 turbo quattro, 90'es iX Beemer)
A bike to make me feel less old/fat (Aprilia RS250, Ducati 748)

There's no way that will happen at the same time sadly. So I'll have to come up with some sort plan to do it in sequence. Biggest problem there is letting go of the blasted things. I just *hate* selling cars I really like...

[djdestiny]

otolith said:

The Saab Aero is a reasonably quick estate, if nowhere near RS6/RS4 territory, but to be honest I wasn't that bothered about the performance. A big comfy estate is just a really useful car to own, and I wouldn't really be willing to compromise the usability and comfort to get more performance.

Mine hasn't compromised either of those, it still does runs to the tip and car boot sales too!