So what's your opinion on cars?

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I love cars. I have two. A fun vehicle and a work vehicle. My work vehicle is one I just recently got in a trade, a 1996 Camry XLE with the V6, automatic, leather, etc... Sweet ride, very smooth handling and great cornering when the need arises. It is good for my pizza delivery job, with the A/C, softer suspension and larger sedan body style.

My fun car is a 1996 Honda Civic. It has a JDM Civic Type-R B16B engine, close ratio LSD transmission, custom exhaust, programmable ECU, custom suspension, rear GSR sway bar, GSR seats which I found for 25 bucks for the pair!! ! 99-00 Civic Si gauge cluster, EK4 non-SRS steering wheel. Planned upgrades include: rear disc swap from Civic Si( direct bolt-up), AEM ECU with Hondata S300, header, intake manifold, and returning the body to stock( currently has an ugly stripe and shaved door handles).

I love cars - could fill many garages with the cars I'd like to have.


Currently have a convertible bmw ///m and a few others that I won't mention for privacy reasons. About 500k of cars. I re-read the manuals quite often, and hang out on the relevant forums all the time. I don't memorize car parts etc. but its definitely an obsession !

Don't really meet any girls that I can discuss cars with, and to the average NT, I don't appear to be the type of girl that is a car nut.

I like cars, I think I used to be more interested in them as a kid or teen. Now I have two cars, one for everyday(?) use, and one hobby car made by the socialist industry in 1970, a Skoda S100L with rear engine. The car has a chrome arrow on both sides of the nose (the right one hides the fuel fill inlet), turnable little "elephant-ear" windows on the front and rear doors, and protruding outer doorhandles. These are characteristics of the early variant of the model.

I really want to go to race driving school, but that will have to wait. When I look for my next place to live, proximity to a race track where I can go out will be a major factor. By then, I expect to see more car country clubs.

I don't have much interest in working on cars, though.

i love the shape of certain cars. this pretty much stops with cars of thirty years ago (although the PT Cruiser is tolerable, among more recent ones.) i think car design used to be an art form--one that pretty much peaked in the thirties. cars are highly technological today, but they have no soul. even the clunker i drive daily (an '86 Buick LeSabre) has personality (i say it has "gravitas"). it just breaks down a lot.

i wished people still wanted to drive cars that don't all look exactly alike.

I love my car, I have driven since I was 16. My car has a name. I love driving my car, I really don't like driving any other cars. I've ended up learning a lot about cars/engines because I want to know more about my car, but I don't really care that much about other cars. I have all the service manuals for my car and could tell you how to take apart almost anything on it. At 334k miles it has its quirks but still runs great, I could never really imagine getting rid of it. I got in a fender bender a few months ago and am still upset about the fact that I bent the front bumper. If my car ever dies I really don't know what I would do... I don't think getting another in the same color, built in the same year, with the same options would actually be a suitable replacement.

I have an appreciation for other cars (some, mostly 80s vintage cars) but couldn't really imagine buying another car. So I guess I do have some general interest in cars but really it all just stems from obsessing over my car.

No. They're boring and expensive. But I love planes, airships, submarines and yachts.

Actually, planes and yachts are even more expensive, now that I think about it. But they are totally worth it.

I love classic or otherwise special cars but I don't have one because it's useless in the city, bike is much faster and cheaper here.
When I grew up my parents drove a Saab, a 96, 900 and a 9000, and a DAF, that's a dutch car.
I really like old american cars with a big v8, brutal and majestic. Buick is my favorite.
But difficult to reconcile with my peok oil concerns.

I forgot to tell,
Five years ago I got really interested in muscle cars which narrowed down to Buicks and then broadened to cars in general, technology behind it , aesthetics and car design.
I've seen this movie Senna recently, about a brazillian F1 driver called Ayrton Senna who died tragically. I find myself now reading atricles and watching documentaries about Formula one.
But I wouldn't even be interested in seeing this movie if I hadn't developed an interest in cars in the first place.
Do you guys have similar experinces. An interest in cars that narrows down to a certain brand or era. Or just the other way around?

Pagani.

Yes.
My fascination is Alfa Romeo.
I cannot drive myself and I think it comes from my father being obsessed by it (he is very likely Aspergers).
My bigger fascination are airplanes, but still I have a big detailed knowledge about cars (I am female).