IMO the best car mentioned here so far... :cheers:
It would take way too much time to collect all the cars I have owned or I have driven in the past several years... But in the end it all comes down to the Volkswagen...
My top choice for the man of the household would be:
Passat CC 2.0 CR TDI DSG 4Motion
And for the Lady:
Polo Comfortline 1.2 105 TSI DSG 4 door version...
If there are kids:
Tiguan Sport & Style 1.4 TSi 4Motion
If she wants to shine:
Scirocco 1.4 TSI DSG
The new BMW 5 series is pretty cool, but IMO it's a waste spending that much money on 4 wheels..
My 2004 Ford Ranger is my principal mode of transportation. V 6 petrol engine. Part time 4X4 (electronic shift), 4spd manual w/OD (No wussmatics for this member :tongue2: ) The truck is loaded down for work and the revolving light is a magnet mount, so it can be taken off if I don't need it.
My most recent acquisition, a 2009 Yamaha WR250R that I bought new this spring. (Surplus stock) Too bad it's been a cruddy summer weather wise.
I can't drive yet... but when next year I get the driving license, I will drive a 1999 Honda Civic that currently my parents are driving and I saw since I was a kid!
In late 2011 I got my driver's license and thus I started to drive it for almost 6 years. But the car ended its life after my brother encountered someone going too fast on an unpaved road. So now I drive a Citroën Berlingo.
It was funny, a few months ago I was actually looking at the brand new Sentra's and Versa's but when I saw this at the dealership, I knew I had to have this. Plus, I dont like the way the new Nissan's look but hey, who cares, a used car is just as good as a new car anyways.
I own a 2004 Renault Kangoo for tax reasons. Commercial vans from 2004 or before were excluded from purchase tax, which saves 42% of the price. I only had to pay VAT (19%). It is also cheap in insurance (all-risk) and road tax.
I wanted to drive a post-2003 turbodiesel car because of my mileage, and I wanted airconditioning. I eventually bought this Renault Kangoo over 2 years ago. I've driven 47.000 kilometers in the past 27 months with it.
Honda Accord 1.8 (y. 2000) with complete equipment and 255.000 km currently. It still has some years to serve me. Next one will almost certainly be an Accord too, of course not new.
Ugh, this again? European cars have had a bad reputation for decades, mainly due to the Euro cars being imported here in the 70's and 80's. Peugeot, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Yugo and others were forced to leave the U.S. due to poor sales attributed to reliability issues. This hurt U.S. brands too; Ford tried importing the Sierra and the Scorpio/Granada as well as other models and they failed as well. General Motors did this also.
Most in the U.S. think highly of the remaining Euro brands, the exception being Volkswagen. That's generally attributed to shoddy assembly at VW's Mexican plants which build many of the models we get here.
I'd be interested to see a comparison also of the distance the average American drives vs the average European. We tend to have long commutes and obscenely long "road trips" where a car will face a variety of conditions in a short time span.
408 will never come. 508 replaced 407 and 607, introduced right now in Paris auto mondial.
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