• Birch@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I already have amazing public transport where we live now so I hardly need to drive ever, we just kept our car for weekend trips, big shops or holidays. And for that the one we have is already perfect.

    That being said, if I had money to spare and a serious midlife crisis, the Hyundai N Vision 74 just tickles me the right way, retro futuristic styling, sports coupe, hydrogen hybrid…

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    1985/1986 Volkswagen Jetta Carat, 4dr, manual transmission with working AC, PW, & PDL.

    This is literally my grail vehicle. I have been on the lookout for a Carat for the last 20 years, but every one I have come across is either falling to pieces with heavy rust, or barely road-worthy in other ways. Last one I saw had the power windows stripped out and replaced with hand cranks because the owner was too lazy to fix the motors.

    And I want a Canadian/Euro vehicle, with only kilometers on the speedometer.

    Anyone in British Columbia (or even western Canada) with a decent-condition (no rust holes), running and road-worthy Carat with the above specs are encouraged to reach out to me.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Dream: Porsche 911 Turbo S

    Realistic: Infiniti Q50

    I had a 2015 G37x a few years ago, and a G35x before that. I love those cars. The Porsche would be nice!

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 days ago

      People sleep on the Q50 but I absolutely love ours. It’s comfortable, yet agile, awd, physical buttons… near perfection for a family car. We bought it used with a few thousand miles on it for cheaper than a civic, and had it a decade now with no major problems. My biggest concern is finding something comparable and affordable to replace, as infinti seems to have stupidly abandoned sedans.

      Edit- the infotainment sucks as much as the reviews say, but if just using bluetooth you’ll never need to interact anyway.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The real dream is robust public transportation, but to answer the actual question:

    A Toyota Hilux Champ converted to EV. I’m American though, so guess I’ll keep dreaming.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    11·
    4 days ago

    Much as I do agree with everyone talking about public transport here on an actual sensible and rational level, I do still like cars and driving no matter how much I agree that the world would be a better place were they rendered irrelevant.

    So in the spirit of the question: the Morgan Supersport. It looks magnificent, Morgans are supposed to be great to drive, it’s quite small and still fairly luxurious, it’s pretty fast but not so fast that it becomes functionally unusable on actual roads, and the company still describes itself as a coachbuilder so you can tweak every little detail to your pleasing

    • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m in a similar boat. I love my car, I like driving my car, I like working on my car (Subaru BRZ), but if I had the opportunity to take the bus or the train to work, you bet I would. (I COULD, but because the routes are so ass-backwards, it would take me over an hour and a half to ride the bus 12 miles with 2 transfers)

      In the spirit of “Cars that SHOULD exist”, I’d love me an Autozam AZ1. I grew up playing Sega GT on the Dreamcast, and I LOVED racing that little thing… Or, for a slightly more practical but still tiny and awesome, a Nissan Be-1. I’ve actually been close to importing a Be-1 a couple times, but the ass-backwards laws that make it difficult to register and drive kei vehicles in the USA are stupid.

      Tiny cars are awesome. Big-ass trucks and SUV’s in the USA are getting out of hand (I’m sure we can all agree). Just this weekend, I literally exclaimed “What the fuck” out loud when a truck pulled up next to me and the tops of its wheel wells were right at the top of my driver’s side window. It was a relatively stock looking new Toyota of some kind and it truly dwarfed my car. I’m used to feeling small, and It might have been because they were passing me on a very narrow bridge, but it was the biggest truck (that wasn’t obviously made bigger) I have seen in a long time.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
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        2 days ago

        I’m in the UK where people do have an unfortunate obsession with SUVs but we mostly don’t have the really enormous American ones. Since our roads tend to be significantly narrower than American ones - especially in rural areas and older towns - when you do see one of those big trucks like a Hummer or something they just look like they got lost and are now stuck

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    My dream car doesn’t exist.

    I dream of a small EV, narrower than the current trend of fat cars, with actual mechanical buttons on the dashboard and not a screen you have to look to tap tap tap to get what you are after.

    My dream car is data privacy friendly and if not, one can easily jailbreak it.

    Its lights are powerful but actually point down, to the road, not to the front; any front pointing lights actually do dim to non blinding intensity.

    Any automatic controls it has can be manually overridden if the driver so wishes. That’s my dream car.