• Skua@kbin.earth
    12·
    10 days ago

    Much as I do agree with everyone talking about public transport here on an actual sensible and rational level, I do still like cars and driving no matter how much I agree that the world would be a better place were they rendered irrelevant.

    So in the spirit of the question: the Morgan Supersport. It looks magnificent, Morgans are supposed to be great to drive, it’s quite small and still fairly luxurious, it’s pretty fast but not so fast that it becomes functionally unusable on actual roads, and the company still describes itself as a coachbuilder so you can tweak every little detail to your pleasing

    • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      I’m in a similar boat. I love my car, I like driving my car, I like working on my car (Subaru BRZ), but if I had the opportunity to take the bus or the train to work, you bet I would. (I COULD, but because the routes are so ass-backwards, it would take me over an hour and a half to ride the bus 12 miles with 2 transfers)

      In the spirit of “Cars that SHOULD exist”, I’d love me an Autozam AZ1. I grew up playing Sega GT on the Dreamcast, and I LOVED racing that little thing… Or, for a slightly more practical but still tiny and awesome, a Nissan Be-1. I’ve actually been close to importing a Be-1 a couple times, but the ass-backwards laws that make it difficult to register and drive kei vehicles in the USA are stupid.

      Tiny cars are awesome. Big-ass trucks and SUV’s in the USA are getting out of hand (I’m sure we can all agree). Just this weekend, I literally exclaimed “What the fuck” out loud when a truck pulled up next to me and the tops of its wheel wells were right at the top of my driver’s side window. It was a relatively stock looking new Toyota of some kind and it truly dwarfed my car. I’m used to feeling small, and It might have been because they were passing me on a very narrow bridge, but it was the biggest truck (that wasn’t obviously made bigger) I have seen in a long time.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        1·
        8 days ago

        I’m in the UK where people do have an unfortunate obsession with SUVs but we mostly don’t have the really enormous American ones. Since our roads tend to be significantly narrower than American ones - especially in rural areas and older towns - when you do see one of those big trucks like a Hummer or something they just look like they got lost and are now stuck

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    111·
    10 days ago

    My dream car doesn’t exist.

    I dream of a small EV, narrower than the current trend of fat cars, with actual mechanical buttons on the dashboard and not a screen you have to look to tap tap tap to get what you are after.

    My dream car is data privacy friendly and if not, one can easily jailbreak it.

    Its lights are powerful but actually point down, to the road, not to the front; any front pointing lights actually do dim to non blinding intensity.

    Any automatic controls it has can be manually overridden if the driver so wishes. That’s my dream car.

  • 0x01@lemmy.ml
    81·
    10 days ago

    One that I don’t own and drives on rails, preferably one without a driver like they have in some parts of asia.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      2·
      10 days ago

      There’s a place near-ish me that offers them for hire for a day. They’re every bit as fun as you’d expect. Exhausting, but fun

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        No power-steering in those puppies.

        Chris Harris did a review years ago on the old Drive YouTube channel, and the phrase that stuck in my mind is “oversteer wherever you want it”.

        I’ve only ever driven them in a sim. I’ve never driven a real one - I’m not even sure if I’d fit in one.

        • Skua@kbin.earth
          2·
          8 days ago

          They’re actually not bad for space! I’m about 1.9m / 6’3", and while I’m not that heavily-built I’m definitely not unusually slim. It wasn’t roomy for sure, but I fit just fine. The lack of a roof did at least mean that headroom wasn’t a concern

          I did once have to back out of a purchase of a second gen Toyota MR2 because I was too tall. That was a deeply disappointing day

  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    10 days ago

    Toyota Hilux with lots of 4x4 and camping extras.

    I want it so my future family and I can go on road trips through Southern Africa

    • ptc075@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Closest I’m aware of is the Slate EV pickup, but it is too small imo. Hoping their first model catches on well enough that they build one with a larger bed, heck, a bit larger all around really. I like the truck to be wide enough to fit 3 people on the bench seat in a pinch, so I guess I’m looking for a ‘medium’ sized truck - something I don’t think exists today.

      https://www.slate.auto/en

      Failing that, I have an older F-150 that I just restored. Perhaps in another ~10 years there will be some nice donor electric vehicles that I could use to do a conversion myself.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        3·
        10 days ago

        Wow that’s really cool I never heard of them before. I like how everything is modular. I’m not going to rush out to buy one because risking but I’ll definitely be keeping an eye to see what people that do experience with it.

  • Dijon@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    9 days ago

    (Obligatory “car culture is cancer, build public transit, etc”)

    My white whale is a 1986 Mustang GT, manual transmission. Had a chance to buy one for absolute peanuts in 2018 (at least, compared to their price now!). Was completely stock too, no mods. But the mechanic I hired to inspect it warned me off it because of its age…

    1986 is the only year that came with fuel injection but still has the old “four-eye” styling. Realistically, that car was probably not right for me at the time, but man - it will forever be my one that got away