AskewLordWhat kind of car do you drive, and what kind do you wish you did?
Toyota RAV4, and maybe a slightly nicer Toyota. Because I’ve been a Toyota stan since high school. Those dudes know how to make a fine machine.
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)My parents have 2 different model RAV4s (cuz you need a car to do anything around here)
It’s funny how I always see them on the road and be like “OMG do they have the same car as we have? Why did it suddently get popular? Are they just copying our choices?” lmfao
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 What I drive: Ford Fiesta (i don’t remember the year)
What I want to drive: The Millennium Falcon
SubArcticTundraFord fiestas feel like the default car
That is Ford’s claim to fame!
I drive a car with an internal combustion engine.
I’d prefer to drive a plug-in hybrid, so I could produce slightly less greenhouse gas.
But I’d really prefer a walkable neighbourhood with reliable rapid transit. Maybe car sharing for trips.
Lots of complexity in a hybrid, and gas does eventually go bad if you don’t use it. Though when I used to have a motorcycle it always ran after the winter in the garage so idk how long that actually takes to happen…
JensSpahnpastaCurrently an old Corsa D. Which is a great car, honestly. It has already gone 210.000km. So it will not last forever and I would like to have an electric car afterwards.
I drive a Toyota Yaris Hybrid. I don’t care enough about cars to wish for anything else.
I drive a Subaru Forester (2017). I wish I drove a newer or less beat up Subaru Forester.
Volvo gang
So boxy.
Looove the older boxy models. I dream about the day I find a clean thunder blue 850R wagon for sale
lime!I just moved out of a city with amazing cycling infrastructure to the suburbs of a larger city… this city has okay transit but their cycling infrastructure is basically telling drivers to please not hit cyclists on the shared roads. At least until you get downtown you’ll be meandering through neighbourhoods because they don’t want to take away peoples parking spots on the main roads.
What I drive: None
What I want to drive: a Car-free walkable city
people don’t realise how much better the world would be if we had no cars in cities. You think you do, but you don’t.
I drive an old Toyota, wish I could convert it to EV
ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠I’ve got a rear rack and panniers on my road bike.
Way faster than my hybrid bike, also with a rear rack and panniers. The hybrid is now my designated winter bike, as to not completely kill my good bike.
Now: ICE minivan and SUV
Want: Electric subway train. They’re building it now. In 10-15 years it will be ready.
gigastasioKia Sportage Hybrid. No desire to drive anything else. This car is nice and does everything I need it to do. My fourth Kia too. I like Kias.
Driving: A kia picanto
Want to drive: An electric vehicle with cargospace enough for four goats or a 1kubic meter liquid container
starlingukI inherited a Suzuki Ignis from my mother in law. Weird little car but it gets me from A to B. I don’t care what care I drive.
I’d like to have a small cargo van with a DIY electric conversion, as opposed to a ready-made EV loaded with spyware. I’m not a car person so I don’t yet understand why an EV is inherently more complicated than a washing machine on wheels, plus a battery system. They made them in the 1920s right? It should be doable with very little software, anyway.
kivihiilifrom what i’ve gathered, many earlier EVs were more so “luxury” vehicles, and a lot of them were made by tesla, notorious for shoving wireless connectivity in vehicles. those other luxury EVs decided to follow suit with that!
but note that “many” i sneaked in there. there were absolutely some that weren’t spyware machines! the first that come to mind are the earlier models of the nissan leaf and chevy volt (well, there is onstar, but it is not so hard to disable), but there are certainly others. there is no valid reason for the spyware, i mean these cars easily did without it (minus again, onstar…)!
as for an electric van, i knew a (ex-)teacher who did just that! from what she said, she pulled a couple of the major drivetrain components (motor, battery, differential etc.) from a crashed nissan leaf, hooked up an aftermarket controller, and from what i heard the most fiddly parts were the charge port and getting the axles dealt with. i don’t know if she got custom axles made or if she just mashed together the axles from both vehicles, but she said it was ultimately a nice vehicle to drive around.
I had thought in terms of keeping the differential and drive shaft for an RWD van. But IDK. I know there are conversion kits you can buy, and even shops that will install them for you. Old van = $5K, conversion kit without battery = $5K to $10K (dunno), battery depends on size I guess, but maybe $6K (50 KWH) for 100 mile range. I haven’t seriously pursued it, just had the idea bubbling around.
anon6789I had bought my 08 Honda Fit (Jazz to the non-Americans) brand new. It got near 190,000 miles and my wife was begging me for a year to pick a new car, but nothing I drove felt like it was worth what it cost.
She decided she gave me enough time, and she went and bought herself a new car and now I’m making her last year of payments on her Hyundai Elantra. It isn’t what I’d pick, but the features for the price are amazing and it has about 150,000 less miles. I gave my Honda to my niece as her first car.
The Hyundai doesn’t physically fit me well, so if I ever do find a car I enjoy, I at least I’ll have something newer to trade. Otherwise I’ll drive this until the wheels fall off.
1993 Miata. I would prefer a late 90s RX7 but for reliability reasons I do already have my dream car.
What is it about Miatas that won you over?
2000 lbs, great feeling transmission going out the rear wheels. Tiny, nimble, perfectly balanced. Handles amazing. It’s low HP so you need to rev out each gear to drive at normal speeds. It’s a blast at legal speeds with the top down on a sunny day. That’s what won me over. And it’s reliable enough that I can drive it to the race track, lap all day, and drive back home. Maintenance wise it’s dead simple, basic mechanically with lots of space to work, new OEM parts available, and a hundred guides online for each job to do.
I could go all day! But what really won me over is it’s a street legal go kart.
Eyyy! Also drive a camry!
But I wanna drive a GitS Tachikoma. They look fun.
minivan and none as I hate cars and driving. I would however not pick something over it. Its seat height is great for people with medical issues and its versatile as you can get and its as fuel efficient as you get for the size. Only thing I see with better mileage are compact cars. About the only downside is its low clearance and turn radius.
dkppunkI drive a Subaru XV Crosstrek that I bought brand new. I love my car so much, she’s so fucking cute!
The car I wish I drove is the same car except in manual transmission. And I mean a proper clutch and gear shift, not the paddle shifters on the wheel. It would be even nicer if it was an EV. And yes, I would absolutely still want manual transmission EV even if that doesn’t make any sense. I just want a stick shift again!
What I drive- 2019 Acura RDX
What I want to drive- 2026 Acura RDX
I am a simple man and its as close to a perfect car for my needs as seems to exist.
I’m with the bike folks, since I ride most places. For the places I need a vehicle, I wish that kei cars were (highway) legal here. The Shuttle LS vans that run around campus are so cute!
Currently driving: Subaru Outback, Miata
Wish I drove: Subaru Outback, Miata
Canopyflyer2019 Camry Hybrid XLE
I don’t wish to drive a car any longer. I’m done with them. They are a stupid form of transport in their current form. They should be used for local traffic only and all electric. City to City should be trains.
Toes♀I’m looking for a new vehicle. The f150 surrendered, wanting something small this time so I can drive into the city and not spend a week’s pay on gas.
EpicFailGuyCheck out the maverick, it has all the utility of a truck with all the economy and comfort of a smaller car. It’s kind of a hybrid minivan with a bed, but TBH most people that buy trucks are not really using the bed.