Like the title says, tell the community which car you’ve had that was the one you loved most. I’ll kick it off.
I’m on my sixth. I have driven a:
- 1981 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ60 4MT
- 2000 Honda Prelude Base 4AT
- 2016 Honda HR-V EX CVT
- 2019 GMC Acadia SLT-1 AWD 6AT
- 2019 Honda Accord Sport 1.5T CVT
- 2012 Honda Civic LX 5AT
Some of these cars are cars I’ve owned but we’re daily driven by my wife. But they were my car too. So I drove them quite a bit. The two cars we have now are the Civic and Accord. Both are FANTASTIC cars. The Civic is my daily, and the Accord is hers. I love my Civic. It ain’t quick, but the engine is right for the size of the car. I’d have loved my HR-V a lot more if they used the 2.4 from the Accord in it. That car with 180-something horsepower would have been one million times better to drive.
The old Yota was way more fun than it should have ever been. It topped out at 82 miles an hour downhill with a tailwind. Not that you’d ever want to go that fast in it because it could get a little dicey over 45, really. Nothing drives like an old Toyota 4x4. I loved that truck.
But my favorite in the list was my old Prelude. That was the car I drove in high school and college and a few years after. It was 16 years old and had 197,000 miles on it when I traded it in for the HR-V. My parents owned the car and they didn’t feel comfortable with me driving it anymore. I was heartbroken to have to let it go. I was absolutely in love with that car. But looking at it objectively, it was having work done all the time. The drivetrain was fine. It was the rest of the car that was falling apart.
Absolutely legendary car. I still miss that stupid thing 8 years later.
The Civic has been in my wife’s family since it was new. And it fills that itch for something small and light left behind by my Lude. I’ve been the daily driver of that car since 2019. I love it. My wife was driving it when we met and we kind of traded cars. I love that Civic. All of my favorite cars are paid off lmao
Anyway, if you’ve driven multiple cars, which one(s) have you loved the most?
Anyway, if you’ve driven multiple cars, which one(s) have you loved the most?
I’ve just sold my (well not mine anymore :')) NB Miata this morning.
I had it for three years and it’s the car that “started it all” for me:
- I met one guy whom I barely knew who also had an NB Miata, then the other one, who also had a friend with a Miata, and yadda yadda yadda, we now have an unofficial Miata club, we regularly go on drives, we hang out, help each other with car repairs, etc.
- My girlfriend and I went on so many road trips and enjoyed every minute of it.
- This car also re-ignited my passion for cars, so thanks to it, at some point I also bought my childhood-dream car: EF Civic (and I’ve sold it a year later; even though it was my childhood dream, it was pale compared to the NB).
Today I’ve sold my NB, but I will always remember it and all the good times in it.
(But don’t worry, I’m still driving a Miata — NC2 :))
I think the NA gets all the love, but the NB is my personal favorite gen Miata. I love the popup headlights on the NA but the NB just looks so much more modern to me. I once binged Tom’s Turbo Garage’s whole build of the Thunderbolt Miata. To have an LS-swapped Miata would be a hoot.
But I can promise I’d stay clear of the law in it lmao
There is definitely some truth to slow car fast.
I have a Focus RS which is certainly quick and routy car but throwing my NA Miata into corners or rowing the gears to red line is just so much fun in the Miata.
2000 Focus ZX3
2011 Subaru WRX
1996 Miata M
2017 Focus RS
I don’t have as many cars under my belt but the Miata is the most memorable imo.
