What is the best car you have ever owned?

[Philippe]

On this last camp with the Patrol we were disturbed by an elephant from 5.30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
He was breaking wood, trumpeting and not wanting to go away, despite the fire which was constantly supplied and the headlights of the car and the tracking spot.
Maybe it was his camp before ours.
We had to break camp in the middle of the night at 10:00 p.m. to make room for him.

He wore a GPS collar around his neck.Maybe he kept a bad memory of this relationship with humans.

 

[Esoteric Junkie]

BMW M1 (1980)

EJ

 

[ActionBob]

Nissan Leaf, Geo Metro, Prius!! I assume you gents own Creedmoors as well?

@Just Gina and I are hunting whitetail right now with a Creedmoor. Just in case she gets something, the bonus is having @Bob Nelson 35Whelen turning all sorts of shades at the very thought

 

[ActionBob]

As for best "car" ever.... so far it's the 2016 Ram 1500 Longhorn I turned over to our Safety Officer as his work truck. I loved that thing but needed a 3500 Diesel to pull gooseneck and 5th wheel trailers. For that purpose I'm finding it hard to not love these Ram 3500's with HO Cummins at 1000 ft pounds of torque matched to the Aisin Automatic transmission. We also have a 2016 Jeep Wrangler for fun, and @Just Gina has a '22 Jeep Wagoneer we are loving. Just got home from a road trip to the Black Hills and that thing is awesome 4 wheel Air ride, steering feedback if you drift over a line, sleep detection for the driver, fantastic stereo, tons of power with mild electric torque boost, adaptive cruise, 3 sources of GPS, multiple Bluetooth options, tons of space, heated steering wheel, heated and cooled 12 way power seats, etc, etc, etc. I think they went to the moon with less technology

And no payments to interfere with hunting either.... One of the great things about living past the 40 years of hard work and high financial risk

 

[Red Leg]

As for best "car" ever.... so far it's the 2016 Ram 1500 Longhorn I turned over to our Safety Officer as his work truck. I loved that thing but needed a 3500 Diesel to pull gooseneck and 5th wheel trailers. For that purpose I'm finding it hard to not love these Ram 3500's with HO Cummins at 1000 ft pounds of torque matched to the Aisin Automatic transmission. We also have a 2016 Jeep Wrangler for fun, and @Just Gina has a '22 Jeep Wagoneer we are loving. Just got home from a road trip to the Black Hills and that thing is awesome 4 wheel Air ride, steering feedback if you drift over a line, sleep detection for the driver, fantastic stereo, tons of power with mild electric torque boost, adaptive cruise, 3 sources of GPS, multiple Bluetooth options, tons of space, heated steering wheel, heated and cooled 12 way power seats, etc, etc, etc. I think they went to the moon with less technology

And no payments to interfere with hunting either.... One of the great things about living past the 40 years of hard work and high financial risk

Yep. As I stare around the place, not a note on anything. But I do drive an F250 and a Land Cruiser!

 

[Wyatt Smith]

I’m 25 and have never made a car payment or even borrowed money. For three years I drove a 91 F250 (460) with no power steering or even windshield wipers.
I used to own at least 5 guns that cost more than my truck.
Then I got rich and bought a wrecked 95 F250 with the 7.3 power stroke. It only had 130,000 miles and no rust. I have ten fold the original cost of $1200 in that truck but is mechanically like new.
All my friends drive new vehicles and whine about car payments. I have fine guns.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

@Just Gina and I are hunting whitetail right now with a Creedmoor. Just in case she gets something, the bonus is having @Bob Nelson 35Whelen turning all sorts of shades at the very thought

@ActionBob
At least it's the man bun. Now that can pass as a fair to middling cartridge for hunting with the right projectiles.
Now if you told me it was with a 243 I would be pissed. I would have to fly over and force feed you Vegemite for 2 hours until you cried uncle and asked for forgiveness from the hunting god's. I know you wouldn't be that mean to Gina to give her one of those. She deserves class. After all that's why she married you. Class mate pure class there aren't many specimens like us left. You have to get her a nice 25-06, runs rings around the manbun.
Bob

 

[ActionBob]

@ActionBob
At least it's the man bun. Now that can pass as a fair to middling cartridge for hunting with the right projectiles.
Now if you told me it was with a 243 I would be pissed. I would have to fly over and force feed you Vegemite for 2 hours until you cried uncle and asked for forgiveness from the hunting god's. I know you wouldn't be that mean to Gina to give her one of those. She deserves class. After all that's why she married you. Class mate pure class there aren't many specimens like us left. You have to get her a nice 25-06, runs rings around the manbun.
Bob

Hey Bob, couple of things to be addressed here; 1. She does have that Rigby Highland Stalker. AND she has a Remington 700 in 35 Whelen... Plus several other good options. But she didn't want to scratch up the Rigby in the deer blind and the manbun has a real sweet Swarovski scope on it... The best opportunity on these whitetail seems to be first and last light so a good scope is a necessity. Plus she shoots it really well.

2. I can take a lot. But I don't think I could stand up to 2 minutes of Vegemite much less 2 hours.....

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Hey Bob, couple of things to be addressed here; 1. She does have that Rigby Highland Stalker. AND she has a Remington 700 in 35 Whelen... Plus several other good options. But she didn't want to scratch up the Rigby in the deer blind and the manbun has a real sweet Swarovski scope on it... The best opportunity on these whitetail seems to be first and last light so a good scope is a necessity. Plus she shoots it really well.

2. I can take a lot. But I don't think I could stand up to 2 minutes of Vegemite much less 2 hours.....

@ActionBob
Just because something has a sweet scope on it means diddly squat. You can put a sweet scope on a sewer pipe attached to a fence pailing but that doesn't mean it's good for purpose.
A Rigby with a couple of scratches on it is still beautiful, it just has stories to tell. I have a scratch on my beautiful little lowall, doesn't detract from its beauty but tells people the owner was a bit of a dick scratching it on something. Nothing some oil won't fix.

We will forget the Vegemite if you get Gina a 25-06 even if it's a Savage or a Weatherby S2.
Bob

 

[CoElkHunter]

I’m 25 and have never made a car payment or even borrowed money. For three years I drove a 91 F250 (460) with no power steering or even windshield wipers.
I used to own at least 5 guns that cost more than my truck.
Then I got rich and bought a wrecked 95 F250 with the 7.3 power stroke. It only had 130,000 miles and no rust. I have ten fold the original cost of $1200 in that truck but is mechanically like new.
All my friends drive new vehicles and whine about car payments. I have fine guns.

No windshield wipers for three years? How in he** did you manage to drive it in nasty weather?

 

[spike.t]

No windshield wipers for three years? How in he** did you manage to drive it in nasty weather?

Was wondering that myself.....

 

[Wyatt Smith]

No windshield wipers for three years? How in he** did you manage to drive it in nasty weather?

I tried not too. I could always borrow a truck from dad if absolutely necessary. Snow wasn’t bad if you set the defroster wide open and took your coat off.
I always kept a scraper, plenty of towels, glass cleaner, and de-icer.
It was not a perfect set up.

 

[IvW]

Picked up a old Suzuki Vitara today for my daughter who will be doing her practical at Entabeni next year....paint job needs a bit of work but she likes it...full 4x4 and all.....

 

[mikecatt13]

Well @Kevin Peacocke glad you started this thread as I would never have got around to firing it up.... ...not sure where to start...and hope not looking like being flash, but my father was into cars big time till his later years...nearly got killed in his jaguar XK120 on the moors in North East England when a driver coming the other way didn't realise how fast he was going and turned across the road in front of him....theXK was literally left in pieces...one of the steel spokes went though his chest ...he pulled it out and went to help the other driver...they weren't married then but my mum to be went with him to the doctor who was a friend of his...the doc said how the fk you are alive I don't know...I couldn't have pushed a scalpel through where that spoke went without cutting an artery...just bit of background to most likely where my love of fast exotic cars came from...assisted by him of course....I think on another thread I said a lot of money was spent on cars..guns..partying and girls....and I believe a lot of fun was had....some was a bit of a blur... ...my dad liked alfas...so first 2 cars were alfasuds that had great fun in...start of learning how cars handled....started writing but it got bit long...so will just list them...with bit of info after some...but had great fun with all of them...some I wish I still had as now worth a fortune...after the 2 alfasuds

2.0 litre lancia beta coupe ...first time done for speeding..police said they had to chase me at speeds of up to 90mph (speed limit 40mph)for over 2 miles...I didn't know they were chasing me till I slowed down and saw blue lights coming up behind...pulled over as thought they must be going to an emergency..not chasing me ..
Then lancia beta montecarlo..2 seat mid engine sports car...used to scare the crap out of you if you forgot the front brakes locked up at the drop of a hat
Ferrari Dino 246 as my dad always fancied one...ended up my drive as was bit cramped and uncivilised for him..... was 18 years old...great dad...brilliant and beautiful car...sounded fantastic and taught me the art of driving an Italian exotic...the starting procedure...allowing to warm up before moving and avoiding 2nd gear in it until oil was warm..

Started racing in UK so 246 wasn't really practical, so got a Ford escort RS2000 droop snoot as they were called....had serious fun on circuit with it as was an instructor for the racing school who also ran the racing cars...so we hammered around the circuit going to corners to observe the pupils...brilliant handling...and if got lost never did 3 point turn...just handbrake turn

Then things went bit staid as was given my mums merc 280ce...this was when my dad kind of cooled on cars .

Then We moved houses and he said if I get this price you can go get something exotic...must have been feeling sorry for me as mates were in ferrari..lotus and porsche amongst other things...so house sold and went over to London to test couple of cars...Lamborghini jalpa and De Tomaso pantera GT5...but even at the not so old age of 25 I decided the resonance in the pantera cabin a town speeds was not liveable with...preferred the jalpa as had targa roof...and had sports exhaust fitted...so the v8 sounded great...had some good trips in UK and Europe with it...was last thing my dad bought for me before he passed away.....so had it from 1985 to about 6 years ago when sold it to a friend ..so still get to see it ..

Then when was in London was in lamborghini show room as the salesman was a mate by now, and took the countach QV out for drive..ordered one and picked it up from the factory in Sept 1987...also sports exhaust..which had very small pancake looking silencers...didn't take long to blow the baffles out..so was more or less straight through...now that sounded awesome....I read tests on the countach now with the tester saying its no good and better to look at...bullshit...its a car you had to learn to drive..and when you did you could open the throttle 100 rpm at a time...and whole car was precise....handling was fine...took mine around castle coombe race circuit on a track day one time...only thing that was faster was an F40...my friend had a QV at same time and we had unbelievable fun in them...uk road trips...and in Europe... and we pushed them to their limits...also kept it for along time..

Next ..had at same time as QV..the 25th anniversary countach...but didn't like it as much as the QV so sold it after couple of years

Took it easy for a while..BMW 325 sport for every day...the jalpa and QV when first had I used daily...so still had them when had the BMW ..so wasn't deprived....

Then got a Lister Le Man's...which was basically a totally rebuild jaguar xjs..engine to 7 litres..body work totally changed..manual gearbox...its nickname was the batmobile as it was black...it was interesting but needed a bit more development...which was disappointing as was not cheap...broke the diff on it ..and the centre of one of the alloy wheels sheared when I went around a corner...luckily it was a slow one..it got sold

Then changed BMW for porsche carrera 2 with the tiptronic gearbox...was OK for daily use but that box not great for when you wanted to go for it..

Then Aston Martin Db7 volante...was the 6 cylinder version and looked great but not that fast

Then porsche 996 turbo with tiptronic box as well..but had been Improved a lot...that was fast and great daily driver..used it on couple of track days in France...but the 4 wheel drive system wasn't really suited..but it still was fun...

Next had ordered an Aston Martin DB9 volante when they were announced...the turbo 996 was such a good daily drive I was a bit dubious about the Aston...when it arrived I said to the salesman I need to have another drive just to check in my mind if its going to be OK...he said if you don't take it no problem as there were long waiting list at the time...well was a sunny day and put roof down and with the v12 howling ...I was like OK this will f---ing do ....had some great trips in it and a beautiful car...sounded fantastic...but it went when we tried the divorce scenario first time...

Then during those proceedings and good friend passed away from a stroke 6 weeks after his 40th bday...the day he was taken to hospital his new car arrived in the showroom...a mutual friend who looked after his cars was taking about it...I said let me go look..I said if its OK with his family I will buy it if I like it...they were yeah no probs...this was 2008...it was a mercedes AMG CLK Black Series...I had only gone up the Road from the showroom and knew it was a car that had been made for me...sounded unbelievable..handled amazingly...can go sideways at 5mph...50mph or 150mph...balance is perfect...I have done track days with it in France at the 2 different le mans permanent circuits a few times and always big grin....so now as far as I am concerned I have the perfect pairing...an amg clk black series ...and here my landcruiser double cab with the great 4.2 litre straight 6 diesel...both great at doing what they are designed and built to do....apologies for a long rambling one...

Lots of fine cars in that list but I bet you wish you kept that Countach lol. No way to tell quite where they would be today of course but they're high now!

 

[zephyr]

Hate all cars .....
Where I live in New England between the snow, dirt roads and road salt a car may last you 8 years and then it becomes "Cheap Fill"
They are necessary evils

 

[Mopani]

The car I loved most was an Austin Mini, that was 50 years ago I’m still in love with it.
Now I’m with a Subaru Forester, a great car but it won’t rise my heartbeat like the Mini did.

 

[Flipper Dude]

would love to get a hilux in the states but not to be. Was always a chevy man but
drive a tundra now hoping for better longevity!!!

My last Tundra was a 2008. Sold it with 363K miles on it. No problems. Buyer has added another 70 K. My current 2016 Tundra is sitting at 287K. No problems. Bulletproof

 

[Longdrive]

My old 1969 SS 396 Camaro with a 4 speed. Sold it long ago, wish I still had it.

 

[norfolk shooter]

I my early service years I had a Morgan 4 seater. That thing was pure class and the gal loved it. I ended up selling it to a wealthy Arab in the summer when back in the UK on leave from the middle east. That money get spent in bars

 

[Manny R]

I have always loved my Toyota's. I have driven Landcruisers, Tundra's Crew Cabs but since Toyota have stopped importing Landcruisers to the US I have driven the Lexus 570 SUV. What a great vehicle. I have just purchased the new Porsche Taycan EV and it is suppose to land at the Port in Houston Tx around December 9.