I've owned several different cars. Here is my take:
  • Honda Civic - Cheap and Reliable.
  • Toyota Camry - Maybe best bang for buck for used car. Very Reliable
  • Ford Mustang - Fun and classic. Very fast in a straight line....less so around curves
  • BMW 550/535/335 - Maybe the perfect "driving machine". Excellent cars. Expensive and needlessly over engineered. Whatever your repair guesstimate is, triple it.
  • Porsche 911 - The "supercar for the everyman". Very fun car to drive. Almost impossible to not speed in it. The most impressive thing is the brakes.... Very impractical car though....its only real use is driving max 2 people around in.
  • Cadillac STS - would rank this something like a BMW thats less fun to drive but more comfy for road trips....maybe that makes it sort like a Mercedes?
  • Honda Odyssey - What married man with kids doesn't want to drive a slow uncomfortable box around? The magic of all minivans lies in sliding doors....its their killer feature.
  • Ford Expedition - Good SUV. Drove like it was smaller than it was....was less difficult to navigate tight spots then you may originally imagine. However like all SUVs after a few years became a creaky rattlebox.
  • Chevy Colorado - Good decent small size pickup. Sort of miss it, but not much
  • Isuzu Pickup S - My fav tiny pickup. Can't say why I liked it so....just felt like driving a honda civic that was a pickup. Reliable and basically could run forever.
  • Ford Victoria - Not a bad car at all. Underrated honestly. Workhorse and cheap to fix. Land barge and not fun to drive, but good for long distances.
  • Ford Taurus - Decent car. Sort of forgettable.
  • Saturn - Rattletrap + Forgettable.
  • Mercury Mariner - Small SUV. Forgettable.
31 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 23 Jul
BMW 550/535/335 - Maybe the perfect "driving machine". Excellent cars. Expensive and needlessly over engineered. Whatever your repair guesstimate is, triple it.
Indeed, maybe the perfect driving machine.. I used to own a 530d..
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16 cars lol
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Basically every car I had!
But note: 3 of the above were company cars, and 2 were hand-me-downs that my parents gave to me because they didn't need (and then I handed down to other family members), and 1 (Ford Mustang) was a gift from my dad, and 1 was my wifes car that she owned before we were married (Saturn).
EDIT: By the way, my current car is the 20 year old Honda Civic! Keep stackin....
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I remember in 2003 my friend asked my mechanic, Is Saturn a good car?
Mechanic: NO
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It truly wasn't. It was "Government Motors" type of vehicle.
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