Long overdue post your favourite car here

[Domino]

I would love to bash more, but i can't because I don't even have a drivers license yet

You are bashing cars, yet you are 19 years old and can't even drive. Maybe you should test drive cars before bashing them over stupid looks. If you were employed by Motor Week then i could take you more seriously.

You are probably riding your bike still, with the little bell on it.  Don't talk trash against American cars unless you have driven one.

edit: I drive an automatic, and my dad owns an SUV, guess that makes him gangsta as you say.

[shbaz]

Monteverdi is Swiss quality so shut up! The reason people like American power cars are because of the mainstream movies... If they made bullit with HAI, everyone would want it.
And only real cars that are American made (GTI) are from European parts...

People like American power cars in America because they're cheap, easy to repair and improve and parts are cheap.  The middle aged crowd grew up while they were the coolest thing on the market and they have a fantasy surrounding them.  It has very little to do with the movies, the movies are there because people like muscle cars not vice versa.  Where I live, stupid hillbilly rednecks, or historically oppressed poor white people, whichever you prefer you bigoted bastard, buy them for under $1000 in poor condition and then get spare parts from huge junkyards full of wrecked ones to make race cars out of.  I really doubt you could do the same thing with ANY European sports car here.

Even 20 year old beater BMW's can hardly be repaired because the imported repair parts are so expensive.

On the flip side, one of my friends traveled to Germany to play American football in a fit of irony.  He said that the American cars that we pretty much ignore here are super popular and thought of as high class while Mercedes cars we would drool over were used as taxi cabs.  Europeans see American cars as attractive because they are status symbols I guess, that's my best guess, in addition to their shaking thundering sound and power that Americans enjoy.

Personally I'd like to drive a smart car and I wish the Loremo was on the market.

edit:
Loremo:

A 100+ mpg car with a four passenger capacity.  Absolutely amazing.  Probably pretty cramped.

[Sylpher]

Mmm, not too big on favorites but a couple cars I like...

'97 Toyota Supra


1st Gen Toyota Celica


'07 VW GTi


Dodge Neon SRT-4


Chevy Chevelle SS


Honorable mention!

Steam car!

[Nacho]

Well Ross (Shbaz) I don' t really think that there is a sociological reason why people like american cars, basically because, for example, in my case (Which I think can be applied to many others), I don' t like the Shelby for being american, I just like the Shelby because I LIKE the Shelby.

My second favourite car is this:



A Ferrari GT250... Why I like it? Because I like the shape, the colours, the way they manofacturer finished the details...  I don' t like it for being Italian, or European, or for not being "Yankee"...

I think that liking things (or desliking things) JUST because they are "American" or "European" it' s a show of being a closed minded little fascist, very close to more obvious forms of racism or xenophobia.

One different thing is that you find several sociological reasons to like "your" cars in front of the imported ones, like the price, or that you can find pieces easilly... I agree that liking a "national" cars for those issues is a perfectly valid reason, but I think that people likes or dislikes sportive cars (which are basically, a dream, for most of us) mainly because of the external shape...

[Oliwerko]

Well, radiowaves, we are here to tell others what cars do we like. Not to tell them that "shut up, american cars are shit". It's shallow, childish and stupid to insist that European cars are BEST and nothing that BEST. We don't need to hear it again, we know your opinion yet.

[Pumaman]

This goes without saying.

[radiowaves]

I can't believe how much hate my post brought, heh. And no I don't have a bell on my bike, but I might as well have if I went to school with bike every day instead of walking. They have bikes all over Sweden, Danmark and in many other cultures. But I do like to ride my XC!
The reason i don't have a car is because I don't need it, I do my licence when I get a car. I don't like motors just for the sake of it so take this as personal shit.
Peace!

http://www.autointell.com/nao_companies/general_motors/concepts-2003/gm_hy_wire/gm-hy-wire-02.htm
-American car developed by europeans...