"The best car you have ever driven" Thread

Alfa Romeo 156 2.4 JTD.
Way too many things I loved about that car.
The looks, the comfort, the economy, the power, handled like a dream.
It had such sentimental value to me. Still have it's number plates in a cupboard.
Nearly shed a tear the day it was scrapped.

Drove a Lamborghini Diablo in the UK, so definitely that. But if we're talking cars we've owned then it would be my second FTO. I miss that car.

Honda NSX. By far my favourite car I've driven. Why I just didn't get a loan and buy it still bugs me today.

I've never driven anything over-the-top exciting really. Cheap cars mostly.

The best car I have owned so far is 1.6 VW Bora.
The best car I have ever driven... hmmm, that's a tough one, probably the Bora as well since anything over 1.6 that I have driven has been either automatic, diesel or both. Except a Rover 75 V6, which I did not enjoy very much tbh.

Dangel4x4 wrote: »

Daysul Avensis. Savage yoke.

Or a Carina II Lean Burn

Yes!!! +1


I think it is a toss up between my current 300ZX, my old 535d, or a 335d that I test drove around the same time.

Should be a thread for worst car I ever drove... I've got a few of those!

The Fiesta 1.2 3-door I learned to drive in has to rate highly. It was just such a simple, easy and intuitive thing to operate. It was also reasonably nippy and revvy for such a small engine.

I have fond memories of that '02 Renault Laguna the house used to own. 1.8, Automatic and as comfortable as a sofa. It was also almost impeccably reliable until someone decided to see if it floated on a flooded road, and let water into the gearbox wiring loom. Even crippled, it never failed to get home. It made it's final journey to the dealer to be sold without hiccup or fault, and was passed off as 'running without fault' to the salesman.

The dealership went bankrupt a few weeks later. I like to think it contributed.

The Rx-8 I own, was the first car I ever paid for with my own money. That,above all else, makes it special. It's also butter-on-tits smooth to drive and was the first car to ever demonstrate what driving feel and feedback was. It'll even get better fuel economy at a cruise than the old Laguna.... oddly.

Either an Audi S3 Saloon or a Ferrari California. Probably the latter.

Citroen AX GT Sportif, a 1360cc of raw power, which may have had a 1.6 BX carb on it. It weighed feck all from the factory (plastic boot lid for example) and when I was finished it weighted 790kg for the NCT. It was a total rad rod (8 shades of white paint, rust, ill fitting panels, no carpet, no sound deadening, etc) and it sulked the odd time (coil failure at 2am) but it was great fun. I learned quickly about lift off oversteer and it could spin the wheels in third in the wet. As long as you didn't think about lifting 1mm off the throttle it would go around any bend. If you even throught about lifting off the throttle for half a second it was stepping out. Once you got the hang of it it was great fun on slippy back road....

It blew a crank oil seal which sprayed oil on the clutch. I had to stop every 20 miles or so to wash the oil off with Coke through the inspection hole in the bell-housing. I drove it from Killarney to Cork that way, flat out as usual. I parked it at home and left it for 6 months. It started first time, but the clutch was well stuck. I sold it that way and regretted it ever since. I've spent 4 years looking for another one......

There were some typical French touches, like a heater in the carb to stop it iceing up in winter, and a manual choke (that was well hidden on the dash). It had a removable sunroof that did it's own thing, electric windows that worked with a fist banging on the motors and a four foot long water hose that went from the back of the engine to the rad via the north pole.

ianobrien wrote: »

Citroen AX GT Sportif, a 1360cc of raw power

I had a AX GT, made of tissue paper but savage fun! My old MG ZR 160 was the most fun you could have on 4 wheels with a tight budget. Handles like its on rails and would push most cars in a sprint up the motorway hill leaving cork. Shame the steering wheel and pedals didn't line up so was an awkward driving position.

My last car which was a Toyota FJ Cruiser was a great car, fun, powerful and go anywhere do anything car.

Only owned two the Golf and the the Ram. To drive It's the golf hands down the ram was a pig and the steering was awful.

The best car I've driven though was the ford Taurus SHO what a fantastic car with lots and lots of extras. Had 2 days of fun with it in Rural California.

I test drove an E39 M5, loved it!