Your real life car?

That was going to be my next guess as I have those on my car now as well.

 

@Radiantm3 , love the new car. I only drove one for about 15 minutes, but the magnetic damping was unlike anything I've ever driven before. Nice and taught when turning, but very comfortable on choppy pavement. Eager to hear what you think of it on the track.

Turned in my SHO today, I'll miss it. Perfect Interstate cruiser, accelerates like a tsunami, and is surprisingly fun on a twisty road. And, cops don't look twice at a white Taurus.


AWD sedan with a twin-turbo V6 from a pickup truck.

 

I just came back from the dealership.
All our cars are manual, but now wife wants to have a car with an automatic transmission. In the past few months I have been constantly doing research what to buy next. Today when I was test driving a V60 at a Volvo dealer, the salesperson heard I daily drove a Subaru STI, and told me they just had got an ISF and asked me if I would like to see it. After a while the decision was made. I traded my 2015 Subaru STI for this 2008 Lexus IS-F.

 

I bet you'll miss the STI. It's such a cool car. But sometimes you have to go for practicality, and pleasing the partner is important.

I remember, 15 years ago trading in my '97 Miata on a used 4x2 V6 F-150. It was a sad day. Made my wife happy and was ultimately a better vehicle for a young family.

But last month, I got my hands on another 1997.



I tossed these mats, they're ugly and and big honkin' feet need bare carpet for maximum space. I like the wheel, and the shift knob grew on me after a drive or two.

Red's gonna have to go. Garage only holds one tiny car.

96k miles on it. Kinda rough, but runs good. Swapped the 14" daisy wheels from my red '93 because those polished ones weigh a ton.

Fix an oil leak (crossing fingers that its only valve cover and/or CPS), get some nice wheels/rubber, better brakes, replace the fake roll-bar with a real one, and I'll have a fun car for VIR next season. Not going to touch the suspension until its been around the track some.

Had no muffler, so I put on a straight pipe for now... it's obnoxiously, alarmingly loud.

 

We still have an 03 miata and a 05 Cooper S (a surprise gift I used for proposing to her), both manual transmission for fun cars.

But you are right. I'm already missing the STI - it might be all the stories I've had with the car, and it might be that driving a manual makes the car feel like a companion, while driving an automatic makes me feel I'm riding an appliance on wheels.

Anyways I look forward to taking this ISF to some events and see what the V8 truly feels.

 

My wheels

 

What's that? A Pontiac G8?

 

Haha, yeah that's it.

 

Since the beginning of october this is my new car, traded in my 2016 M2.



This spring I'll put on an axle back Remus or Lightweight TA exhaust system (because of maintaining the OPF petrol particle filters and I don't want warranty claims)

Cheers
Robin

 

Still got me little Honda, no upgrades recently just maintenance (2 new front lower control arms!) and another roadtrip











I love Switzerland!

 

I like your Honda, but can you imagine driving that little red Fiat thru the Alps? <3

 

I know! I didn't speak to the guy but I imagine both the climbs and descents would have been very slow, I wouldn't be trusting those drum brakes, although saying that he probably had a more comfortable ride than me on that particular pass - it was on the old Tremola St Gotthad pass which is all cobbles, so the Civic on stiff coilovers, ARBs and full pollybush kit (and a loose subframe bolt!) made for a very noisy, bumpy ride

 

My new baby

 

My car's not on the right.

 

Old love VS New Affair

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I've wasted a lot of time looking through most pages of this thread over the last few days, some great cars in here.

The car below I built in my garage, there no base car underneath its a tubular chassis and a space frame. Be nice to finally drive it again one day!!