If You Could only Drive One Car for the Rest of Your Life, What Would it be?

[poolhaas]

I would loooove to own an Aston Martin, the new Virage looks stunning, can't tell you how it drives.

Just cruise around Europe

 

[Crash]

Well, if I can only drive one car for the rest of my life, how about a E39 M5. Make that a Touring too. It's got all the power I would never need, it drives fantastically, is very comfortable, can ferry 4 people plus driver around AND their luggage, has fancy standard equipment and it's still got a good old six-speed. No, BMW has never mass produced it, there's only one test mule at M GmbH, BUT yes, the conversion to a M5 Touring has been done before.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

I would loooove to own an Aston Martin, the new Virage looks stunning, can't tell you how it drives.

Just cruise around Europe

Any aston martin would be cool for that matter.... Cygnet? Probably not though lol

 

[Famine]

Well, if I can only drive one car for the rest of my life, how about a E39 M5. Make that a Touring too. It's got all the power I would never need, it drives fantastically, is very comfortable, can ferry 4 people plus driver around AND their luggage, has fancy standard equipment and it's still got a good old six-speed. No, BMW has never mass produced it, there's only one test mule at M GmbH, BUT yes, the conversion to a M5 Touring has been done before.

Alpina B10 V8 Touring. Nuff said.

 

[Crash]

Alpina B10 V8 Touring. Nuff said.

Yeah, you're right, they are pretty close. I tried Googling it, but it looks like the Alpina was only offered as an automatic?

 

[Famine]

Almost all of them are, yes - there's a couple of mannies out there, but they're left-hookers (not a problem for you, I guess ). They're ZF five speeds with steering wheel-mounted "switchtronic" shifters. But a manual swap is a lot easier than making an M5 out of an E39 Touring.

That's my lottery car, by the way. Alpina B10 V8 Touring S (all the Ss were ZF switchtronics) with a six-speed manny swap. I could probably live with the switchtronic, but I'd walk over hot coals for the 6-speed Getrag out of the M5.

 

[Eric.]

Corvette C6R GT1 Class

That's a real good car if all you ever need to do is drive around your garage/driveway. Sucks about putting fuel in it..walking however far it is to the nearest station that sells race gas.

 

[EliteDoom]

The most beautiful car in the world, according to me, the Nissan 300ZX.
With a nice body kit, so it looked even better, but the 2+2, so it's still practical. With the engine from a GT-R in it. I'd also get the touch screen system from a Buick Reatta, and the digital dash from the Z31. It would look a lot like this:

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Terrible fitment and the body kit is so ridiculous that it still has 4x4 status wheel gap despite being visually low to the ground.

 

[PureAwesomeness]

Terrible fitment and the body kit is so ridiculous that it still has 4x4 status wheel gap despite being visually low to the ground.

Agreed, it is hideous. But the world would be a dull place if we all liked the same things.

 

[Murcie_LP640]

but the 2+2, so it's still practical.

You could fit some shopping on those back seats but you're screwed for passenger space. I very barely fit in the back of a 2+2 300ZX when I was about 7 years old.

 

[homeforsummer]

Agreed, it is hideous. But the world would be a dull place if we all liked the same things.

Still, thank god we don't all like 300ZXs, right?

 

[C-ZETA]

Always, always the HKS CT230R. Yes, it's not road legal but seriously...you could never get bored of this thing. Plenty of HP but very low weight and 4WD.

 

[Luminis]

Always, always the HKS CT230R. Yes, it's not road legal but seriously...you could never get bored of this thing. Plenty of HP but very low weight and 4WD.

You'd better live in a place with lots of day light

 

[C-ZETA]

You'd better live in a place with lots of day light

Scandinavia in the summer then. Yeah, it doesn't have lights, but whatever And before anyone complains about practicality, I'd be doing time attacks more than going to the shops

 

[Luminis]

Scandinavia in the summer then. Yeah, it doesn't have lights, but whatever And before anyone complains about practicality, I'd be doing time attacks more than going to the shops

Well, there's always night vision devices

 

[astrosdude91]

Scandinavia in the summer then. Yeah, it doesn't have lights, but whatever And before anyone complains about practicality, I'd be doing time attacks more than going to the shops

So I assume you'll be walking everywhere in between time attack sessions.

 

[C-ZETA]

Well, there's always night vision devices

Yep. That's what I'd use

So I assume you'll be walking everywhere in between time attack sessions.

Oh no. I use a helicopter instead Or I could fit lights onto the CT230R (make it look like a rally car, it is 4WD after all) and raise the ride height to get it over the sleeping policemen.

 

[Villain]

Hahaha, i like that. Like all you need is AWD to be able to work as a rally car!

No thought to suspension, gearing, etc. What a dream world.

 

[EliteDoom]

Alright, on second thoughts, screw the body kit, and paint it in Midnight Purple Pearl. Yeah!!

 

[socomplayer2]

After having a couple hours wheel time in my uncles 2011 GT500 I can easily say I could drive one of those for the rest of my life. Preferably the New Super Snake

 

[AudiMan2011]

The car I would drive for the rest of my life would be an Audi R8 V10. It combines speed, style, handling, practicality (for a £100k supercar) and exceptional Audi build quality.

 

[TheCracker]

Terrible fitment and the body kit is so ridiculous that it still has 4x4 status wheel gap despite being visually low to the ground.

Nothing says gangsta like a sweet set of 14's

 

[turboash78]

Bigfoot.

 

[CarreraGT]

The most beautiful car in the world, according to me, the Nissan 300ZX.
With a nice body kit, so it looked even better, but the 2+2, so it's still practical. With the engine from a GT-R in it. I'd also get the touch screen system from a Buick Reatta, and the digital dash from the Z31. It would look a lot like this:

That is just awful... Oh well, it will make my Carrera GT look that much better

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Something like this:

Swap the white-face Meisters for chrome or polished aluminum, then add this engine:



and this trans

 

[McLaren]

Always, always the HKS CT230R. Yes, it's not road legal but seriously...you could never get bored of this thing. Plenty of HP but very low weight and 4WD.

I take it you've never actually seen how it would feel to drive a car like that on normal public roads, have you?

 

[fabmaru]

Probably this:

 

[Xavier2342]

 

[C-ZETA]

I take it you've never actually seen how it would feel to drive a car like that on normal public roads, have you?

I said it simply for the thrill of driving it. Plus as I said all I need is a suspension fix to get it to work at least pretty well on the roads. And lights.