What's Your Dream Car?

I don't usually long for ever more possessions, mostly quite content with what we (me and wife) have now, but Tesla has changed that. For some irrational reason I'd give my right arm for one of these supercars, and might not even miss it too much as Tesla largely drives itself if you are prepared to pay for the extras. It's completely impractical I know, but it's the only car around at present that could tempt me to blow a large hole in our finances providing she didn't actually threaten divorce I'm just not interested in yet another mid-range diesel however good a deal I'm offered. I'll stick with my quite handsome Astra SRI.

 

Stay away from the Tesla, wouldn't you rather have something more like a Jaguar or Rolls or Bentley or Porsche pure electric? These companies plus many others are going to eat Tesla and their unreliable http://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tesla-reliability-doesnt-match-its-high-performance/ cars alive. The only good news there is perhaps your Tesla will become a collector's item after Tesla fails. If you're thinking about Tesla in the meantime, cheaper Tessy's are on the way. The insane Tesla X with rear gullwing doors is on the way too. I just keep hearing more and more talk though that Tesla is going to die http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26859/bob-lutz-tesla/

 

If you want to be purely practical and hard headed about it you may be right, though none of those manufacturers are offering all electric cars yet, not here in the UK anyway. But Tesla have set up a showroom just minutes away in my hometown in the midlands and I was bowled over as soon as I saw it and more so the more I see of it and read about it. If I wanted to blow £70k plus that's the way I would do it - well, just now anyway

 

Always luv'd Cameros and Monte Carlos. Have had both and so much fun to drive. A future thought in electric is I see Dewalt products everywhere I go. I can see the day that Dewalt could win the Grand Prix with an electric car. As it stands I have to get cars on a second hand basis. So any dream for me isn't actually a 'new' car.

 

+1 yep new cars for me are secondhand. Just bought a new for us Volvo V50 AWD T5 wagon which has the high performance turbocharged 5 cylinder Audi motor. It goes very well but drinks a fair bit of premium unleaded when driven in a sporting manner. Driven sensibly though it only sips the premium unleaded.

Now if we were being impractical I always had a hankering for a Ferrari F40 as I was lucky enough to be allowed to do 5 laps around Sandown racetrack in one and and also a year later the same in a Lamborghini Diablo. The F40 is the fastest thing I have ever driven and although the Diablo was very quick too, I think I prefer the Ferrari. Hmmm I suppose if you drive fast enough you don't need to look in the mirror FYI I used to race open class offroad buggies and also had rally cars for many years so I know what is quick
http://www.graypaulclassiccars.com/media/3208/img_3997.jpg?width=1600&watermark=wm

 

Just for fun...
The Ford RS200.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/...y-ford-1986-rs200-evolution-heads-to-auction/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_RS200#Performance

 

Cameros? Perhaps you should switch to your fandom to Mustang or Stangs as I like to call them.

 

Neither it was a non turbo Nissan/Datsun 180B SSS race motor and running on avgas being fed via twin 45mm Weber side draught carbies and making just over 230HP at the back wheels. It could make 275HP but I kept blowing clutches and also once put a con rod through the side of the block at 10,000RPM so I wound it back a bit to save some money and to stop some of the long overun flames coming out the exhaust when coming off the throttle. It ran a modified 2.0l Kombi transaxle with Hollinger straight cut close ratio gears and a ceramic puck clutch with 2 tons clamping force. The diff had a four bolt stud girdle on both sides to take the power avoid breaking teeth off the crown wheel. Drive was through Porsche drive shafts and high angle Porsche CV joints.
It was in the mid 1980s and my main competitors in open class had modified aluminium Rover V8s and twin cam Toyota motors also a couple of Mazda 13B rotaries as well as all manner of turbocharged 4 cylinder Japanese motors (mostly Mitsubishi or Nissan). In those days the turbochargers were very unreliable and caused motors to seriously overheat so anything with a turbo would get way out in front early in the race then DNF.
Once I sorted my clutch problems I got my prizes for reliability and with very fast acceleration in the twisty bits. Usually my Nissan motor lasted a whole season without needing to be stripped down and rebuilt saving a lot of costs.
After several years I was thinking of upgrading so I tried out a buggy with a turbocharged Nissan Pulsar motor but didn't buy it because it seemed like there was too much to go wrong as its "normal" running temperature was 160°C and if the radiator or oil cooler got even partially blocked with mud it used to really overheat and blow the head gasket. Offroad racing is usually driving through mud so all I could see was a future full of cooked motors so I dodged a bullet there. Sensibly I used the money for a deposit on a house.

This is very similar to my buggy.
I will post a pic of mine when I have some time to get out one of my photo albums from in storage and then scan a picture.
http://smuracing.com.au/word/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/SCAN00782.jpg

 

I had one of the very last of those Rover V8s, housed in the twin plenum version of the Vitesse 3500. I sold it not realising it was one of only 500 built and destined to become a collector's car. The lucky buyer still shows it but tbh the build quality was dire, as were all British Leyland cars in the 80s. My wife just loved it but I couldn't put up with the obvious signs of deterioration after only 3-4 years and was both sad and glad to see it go.

 

I typically shoot for something that will fit me, most of the above won't, since I'm 6'6" tall. My current daily is a 2008 Volvo s80 T6, so with that said, my current dream car is the new 2017 s90 (Though looking at when the come out with the T8).

 

My very first car. 1956 buick Roadmaster station wagon. I bought it from my father. It took me a year and a half to rebuild it. I loved that old tank. I drove it for about a year.
Some rotten SOB stole it. Never got it back.

 

That's why I would happily settle for a Ford RS200 - after Cosworth has applied some not so subtle modifications.

 

I live about 7 miles from the Tesla factory. There are tons of them around here. Their reliability is not as good as something like a Toyota Camry, but better than most cars. But then again we are in the target weather conditions.
How about if the Tesla was FREE! Yep, early adopters that got the Tesla to commute to LA weekly have just about paid for the car in gas/engine maintenance savings. The Super Chargers are free. Once you get your schedule down the self drive and free charging make anything else just seem silly. AutoPilot will take you 90% of the way to LA so you can work, or in most cases, sleep. Tesla does not encourage sleeping when AutoPilot is on, but I know a few that do it on a regular basis.

Now if you want to talk toys, not transportation, gimme the NSX.

 

It's not a car, it's a truck . . . and I'm driving it. Chevy Colorado Crew cab Z71 4X4 . . . went out looking for a truck and found it. It wanted to come home with me. If it would fit in the door I'd park it in the living room.

In my entire life this is the first vehicle I purchased just because I wanted it. Wife gets the new cars; I just drove around it whatever old truck or once a car (dad car. Don't like cars . . . unless they are 1968 Chevelle SS Malibu's).

 

I'm not a sports car type of person. My dream would be to have a Ford F150 crew cab.

 

Since we are branching out...
My vehicle of choice, especially in California traffic. Lane splitting is legal and when traffic is light 90 MPH is the norm.

 

DavidGP...
I found a 'nice' electric car for you.
http://www.alphr.com/cars/1001530/p...race-to-build-the-electric-supercar-has-begun

And one for LauraR...
http://www.alphr.com/cars/1004048/watch-this-prototype-corvette-smashes-electric-speed-record

 

Actually the Porsche is not up to par, check Tesla Ludicrous mode (762 HP) and it is on the road now.
In other Tesla news the CHP is pulling over sleeping drivers, there is no law against sleeping while the car drives so they get a warning.
So far a sleeping Tesla driver has 1/3 the fatalities of a human driver and 1/100th the accidents. Humans were not made to pay attention 100% of the time and have comparatively slow reaction times. Statistics are for the last 3 Million consumer miles.

 

http://autoguide.com.vsassets.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/11022632_933279420069596_458672372867754671_o.jpg

Hellcat. 805 HP. Stock.

Yikes...

 

I could sell a kidney...

You missed out on this thread.
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php?threads/great-cars.298296/

 

I'm crazy about it! by the way, you can buy it just $6,692/mo ))))


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