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I drive: KIA EV6.
What I wish for? A better KIA EV6. I love my EV6, it’s a marvellous car,much more fun than the Audis, BMWs, etc. I drove before. But yet there is room for improvents.
I wish I didn’t need to drive
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.
What I drive: Ford Fiesta (i don’t remember the year)
What I want to drive: The Millennium Falcon
Ford 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…
Apparently Mitsubishis (and others, I assume) are smart enough to use the gas before it goes bad. 🤷♂️
iirc, the bigger problem is that the gas separates out a water layer that can rust your gas tank, allowing rust flakes to clog your carb.
Driving: A kia picanto
Want to drive: An electric vehicle with cargospace enough for four goats or a 1kubic meter liquid container
Do you have pet goats? I love goats. :D
This is awesome
F R I T Z?
No idea what you mean. Are you asking about my name?
What are your thoughts on the Picanto?
Have: a stage 2 '05 Impreza WRX STi in moderately good repair.
Want: a stage 2 '05 Impreza WRX STi in good repair with an ethanol sensor and new tune to enable selectively running E85.
I have a rusty bugeye wrx wagon :)
Can’t believe they killed the STI … Granted we have the GR corolla, but it’s just not the same without the boxer :(
I wanted a WRX hatch back, but not like this … not like this.
Volvo XC90 T8. I don’t want any other car; It’s great under scandinavian winter conditions, my entire family fits, and it’s genuinely a nice car without being too flashy.
Volvo gang
My previous car was also a Volvo. A 940 tank from 1995.
Looove the older boxy models. I dream about the day I find a clean lightning blue 850R wagon for sale
So boxy.
my first car was a V70 Executive with 350 000 km on it.
well, on the rear half.
i was the 23rd owner. it had a phone in the central arm rest, which didn’t work because some mongrel had replaced the head unit with aftermarket crap. at least the wood trim and leather seats were nice.
Yoooo … Finally a thread about cars …
I drive a Manual 2019 Mustang GT convertible I bought of the auction and rebuilt in my apartment … It was tough to find a car in the height of Covid and I had very little wiggle room since I ended up putting a piston thru the block in my 2016 Genesis Coupe …
And this is the Genny I killed, she had over 120 miles and I was very lazy with maintenance … not that their build quality is the best to begin with
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.
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
I drive a Golf 4 with a check engine light and I wish I drove one without a check engine light
Tomorrow it’s going to the electrician and it would better come back fixed!!!
The check engine light is complimentary with any VW product 🤣 I love how nice the damn things are but never met one who’s dashboard didn’t look like a Christmas tree.
My golf before it finally became too much to keep up.
The brake, brake wear, blown light, and tps weren’t real, they were all bad sensors. The windshield washer fluid was low, and it had emissions issues though.
TBF, most cars do that now a days. Car brands don’t make their own ABS systems, they buy them from manufacturers like Bosh and Denso; and they all work on the “CAMBUS” standard, meaning that all sensors talk to each other over a network. Normally these systems light up an individual diagnostics light to let you know if there’s a problem detected (low brake pad / fluid indicator, parking brake, ABS light) so to differentiate when there’s a system error such as a sensor that can’t communicate it lights them all up at the same time to let you know.
For example my 06 G35 did that for a stupid brake sensor, cost me endless hours of troubleshooting to pinpoint.
I HAVE
My brother has one that squeaks and squeals from all its hinges, and often goes to the country side on crappy roads, but it has no damn check engine light
Mine is a city baby and has one, dammit
i have! the fun part is while the malfunction lights weren’t lit up, neither was anything else :D
Look at you, bragging about your working check engine light
You can disconnect the battery for a few seconds to reset that light and enjoy a clear dashboard until the issue triggers a sensor again 😜
Well for me that would be just a few hours later
Also I have a code reader but yea that works too haha
Have: PHEV Crossover with enough ev range to get me 99% of the places I need
Want: public transit for 98% of my travel, and a cheap sports car like a miata for the weekends or any long trips I might take
I drive an old Toyota, wish I could convert it to EV
There is/was a group of engineering students at the University of Calgary doing just that. It cost thousands of dollars, but worth it IMO if one can afford that.
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 (and popup lights)
