What’s One Car You Could Own for the Rest of Your Life?

2003 Audi RS 6 Avant with remapped ECU – miltek exhaust and VMR 810 Rims on sport pilots

Turbo Buick Regal

I already own it: A 1970 BMW 2002 in original/concours condition. I had one in 1970 and sold it five years later. The new one is exactly like the original car, same color, same everything, being three months off the build of the original. It was like hitting a bullet with a bullet.

Audi rs6

While I love Alfa Romeos (I own a big one with Busso and a small one with Boxer), my one-car-for-life would be a Citroen SM.

My 1993 BMW E34 M5 of course! Bought it in 1995 and am going on 20 years together. It is modified more than a bit, hehe, but appears stock except for the rumble of the exhaust – sets off car alarms in parking garages. A true SLEEPER if I were to de-badge it!

Mulling over all sorts of Porsche 911 options, then there is the BMW E30 M3, but one do all end all car for everything forever?
The W124 1994 Mercedes E500 might do it.

My current car, A semi-sporty saloon, which is in fact a proper ‘sleeper’; A ’01 Passat 3BG 4.0 W8 4Motion Sedan. It’s 275Bhp and four wheel drive hasn’t bored me yet. A few personal tweaks involves, adjustable KW suspension with H&R heavy duty anti-roll bars, Mannesmann drilled and grooved discs, Full stainless cat-back exhaust system (butterfly valves for engine-note regulation) on 18″ BBS Le Mans rims. I love it to bits, but still not as much as my 8 y.o. son. He already put in his claim to inherit the “8” when i am gone. 😀

Well, been driving a lot of cars, I’ve now settled with my 156 2.5 V6.
She’s a keeper and my 5’th Alfa.
Might want a true classic one day. But then, I don’t really feel that need for a classic any more.
Maybe an old Lada 210x, that I can thrash around and customize to what ever I might feel like, without having to answer to the “Original Polizei”…
Or something else, that others regard as trash…
But my 156, she’s just so complete in every sence.
Classic and modern, good quality, reliable engine, Great sound, great driving and then so absolutely beautiful.

Another member of the “I own my dream car” club here. My father had a Datsun Sunny and later a 74 260Z so my adoration of the Nissan and the Z car was instilled early on. Then in 2003, when the Z33 arrived it was love at first sight. 2 years later, in 2005, I found my car with less than 10k and near showroom paint. With just a few modifications the car takes pretty much anything I’m able to throw at her. Track days are just a blast and as my confidence/ability builds the car is able to respond in kind with the right modifications. Customization and tweaking is a perpetual process and something I’ll never get tired of. I think that’s what makes it the car I will own for the rest of my life!

While I’m decently sure that I will keep my BMW635CSi for a good, good while – there is one car that really [i]does it[/i] for me…
[b]Ferrari 288GTO[/b].

Oh yes. I’m born in the eighties! 😉

I’m in the “I own my dream car” club 🙂
It’s a Honda Civic Type-R (EP3) it’s reliable, sporty and practical too
I can carry my mountain bike inside with one passenger.

This is a question I’ve been considering lately myself. Having driven a collection of cars over the years – including of various Porsches (including a 2.4 911S and a 993 RS), V12 Ferrari’s, DB Aston Martin, Mercedes 280SL, etc, as well as a current model Maserati GT – the only car I could see myself enjoying until the end would be a ‘personalised’ 911; much like a singer 911, taking the minimalist design elements I love from the early 70’s, yet with the modern drivability and performance of say the 993 RS. The best of all Porsche worlds! But if I was dreaming… It would be a Ferrari 250 SWB or Cali Spyder

1997 Acura NSX. The engine was enlarged to 3.2L, the power rose from 270 to 290, it had the 6-speed manual rather than the 5-speed, and it still had the pop-up headlights as it was originally designed. This was the best version of what I consider to be the best Japanese sports/exotic of all time. So far.

I’ve been a fan and loyal owner of Datsun’s my whole life. One Datsun that I currently own is a 1972 Fairlady Z and it’s been a joy to build and own. I’ve extended my passion and sickness for another car recently and this will be a long time keeper ~ Black 1997 Porsche 993 (T). I drive both cars as often as I can along Orange County California’s Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). The RB25 (T) Straight 6 Nissan and 993 (T) Flat 6 Porsche engine’s sing so eloquently with the Pacific Ocean. It’s been a great joy to drive both iconic machines from different era’s.

After reading this so many beautiful rare classics came to mind, but thinking about it more I would keep my 1977 Reliant Scimitar. It’s a very understated car and I have so much history with it after only 5 years of ownership that I couldn’t let it go. I love the fact that it’s so usable, it’s small, sporty and I wouldn’t hesitate to use it for crazy trips as the shooting brake design means there is plenty of space for whatever I will need. It’s a car I feel I could use for anything that I desire from owning an auto-mobile, only problem is I can’t stop dreaming of what to do to it next which is a strain on my wallet.

My current, and first car, a Peugeot 205 1.1 ’89 5door. Its a beauty in light blue, no rust, little scratches and has sofas as seats.
Some things i want to do:
1. Make it even lighter (now 870kgs)
2. Upgrade suspension + more grippy tyres
3. Engine swap/tweak
4.[u]Rwd conversion[/u]
5. A kid’s seat in the back 😀

I think I finally found my “forever” car. My 76 911S is the stuff of dreams and there is not a day that goes by that I don’t sit and daydream about things we are going to do together.

I have thought about this as well since I was a teenager. I would have to go with an Audi Sport Quattro. Rare, fast, all-wheel-drive (I live in Canada), I would keep it forever, no matter how expensive it ever became to fuel it up.

I currently own a 2000 Alfa Romeo GTV 1.8 TS, my first car. As with many an Alfa of the era, I can, objectively speaking, make quite a list of things that could have been better or different. I even had to replace the engine due to inadequate maintenance by he previous owner. But when I see it standing by the road from my first floor window, I can’t but smile and think: that is my car. I can drive it whenever I want, listening to the little engine revving like only Italians can rev, going around corners with a big smile on my face. I’ve thought about buying other cars or driving other cars, but never about replacing this one.

My Morgan 4/4 1600 competition of course. It was brilliant fun in the 70’s and I know it’ll be just as good in my 70’s.