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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?

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[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Of all the cars that I have personally owned, the one I loved the best, even to this day is:

1985 Toyota Corolla GT-S

Which is the US version of Toyota's excellent AE86 platform. In the US it was equipped with the same engine as the MR-2, which was the excellent 4A-GE. I bought mine with 60,000 miles on it in 1989 for $5000. Which at that time was a LOT of money for a 19 year old.

I autocrossed and Pro Solo'd that car for 4 straight years, plus it was my daily driver. I won a lot of competitions with it and put over 100,000 miles on it. It never and I mean NEVER needed anything more than basic maintenance. I did pour a bunch of money into adjustable struts and shocks, bushings, and sway bars that would be home on a 2 ton truck. The only other thing I did was change the oil after every race.

I traded it in on a 92 Nissan Sentra SE-R, which overall was a faster and better car, but it did not reach the absolute ferocity and fun of the old GT-S. Also around that time the SCCA screwed around with classes and because I did a lot of suspension work on the SE-R it ended up in C-Prepared instead of D-Stock. (Side note, I did race the GT-S in Prepared and it did very well there.) The SE-R was just not competitive in C-Prepared at the time as it was up against very high powered cars in that class. The problem was the SE-R had a ton of body roll and really needed big sway bars. You could have adjustable struts/shocks in the Prepared classes, but not larger sway bars. It did do well in D-Stock. I did eventually put the stock sway bars back on it, but I just didn't work with the car as well as the GT-S. Even though it was faster and I did get better times, the SE-R just never felt "right" to me. I did go on and get a 97 200SX SE-R, but never raced as it was a terrible car compared to the previous generation Sentra SE-R. I also gave up racing and started skydiving in the mid-90's anyway.

Today my daily driver is a 2019 Camry Hybrid XLE and I honestly love the car. It is probably my 2nd favorite that I have owned. The 45mpg is great.