What is the BEST car you have ever driven?

1958 Wolseley 1500 because it was my first car. It was 32yrs old when I bought it in 1990 and had been painted a horrible bright yellow. It wasn't fast, powerful or anything like that but I had a lot of fun driving and because of the stage of life that feeling of freedom.

I had to sell it when my second child was born because of an issue getting 2 baby seats in the back with 1 seat wide lap sash seat belt. My dad bought it, finished the restoration job I had started and sold it a few years later to a musician who wrote it off when someone crashed into the back off them.

I'm hoping that when I get the Deefer in a few months that I will have a different response to this thread.

Brand spanking new Falcon XY GTHO back in '72. It was unbelievable.

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Originally Posted by Bearman

Brand spanking new Falcon XY GTHO back in '72. It was unbelievable.

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You sold it :o :o :o :o :o :o

What ever you do .... Don't go lookup how much those things are worth now :wasntme:

Audi R8

Mercedes C55 AMG

Group C Commodore (around Eastern Creek)

Unfortunately it wasn't mine, belonged to a friend. I couldn't afford it even back then. But the one I should have kept was a '73 XA Fairmont Superbird hardtop optioned out with 351, top loader, slippery diff, rallypack, 12 slotters, bonnet stripes etc. Even had an 8 track stereo. Cost me about $5500 back then. I had to sell it when the family grew. I can only imagine what it would be worth now:(

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Originally Posted by joel0407

My Skoda Yeti 103Tdi with DSG.

It's not so expensive that I have to worry about it too much. I can drive it and use it within reason.

It's comfortable but handles nicely.

I had a 2005 WRX and while the WRX would blast away in gear, but I never really smashed it through the gears and that is something you need to do with a WRX to get the most out of them. I have read many times about how the magazine reporters would just dump the clutch at redline to get the posted 0 - 100 times. The Yeti with the DSG changes so quick, I think it would beat the WRX to at least 80km/h with the way I drove the WRX most of the time and the Yeti will do it every time without harm.

I can fit everything I need for my family of 4 in the car. Everything else, I dont really need it and the space limit gives me an excuse for the wife.

It's awesome on fuel.

I can take it a little bit off road.

It just does everything so well.

Happy Days.

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I'm not a huge VW fan, but oddly I have a soft spot for Skodas. They seem to be better built VWs :D Every Skoda I've driven has just felt right, well balanced, solid and lots of fun.

I got to the thrash a few different Octavia RSs around the old Top Gear Oz test track out of Sydney and they (both petrol and diesel) were a lot of fun.

The Yeti is a very well designed car and very capable. A chap I know was on the national launch for the current model and they flogged them up in the centre of Oz over outback roads and sand dunes. They left the Amarok support vehicles for dead (not a huge feat but you get the picture). Impressed a lot of people.

I'd happily own one. Perhaps the only thing that puts me off is the DSG and how well it would behave out of warranty I wouldn't want to be paying to replace one:mad: Seems VW has a few issues in that and other areas.

Best car I have driven & owned would have to be 1990 BMW M3 (E30). Not a super fast car (0-100Kph 6.7sec Top speed 240kph) but handle like a dream, it was a race car first (Lefthand drive only, dogleg gearbox, fat wheel arches, big areodynamic rear wing) and road car second. I loved that car :cool:

Best one I've driven, but not owned, would be 1989 Alpina B10 Bi-Turbo, based on a BMW 535i (E34). Super smooth engine, suspension that was comfortable and sporty. 5.6sec to 100kph, top speed 290kph, room for 5 adults plus a decent boot.

I might have seen 270kph on the speedo once :wasntme:

Not owned needless to say, just driven

1979 Aston Martin V8 Vantage
198? Ferrari 308GTS

You won't believe me of course but both cars were very tractable in traffic. Clutch was nothing a Defender driver couldn't easily handle. Out of traffic, well, they were somewhat better than awesome.

(PS still trying to recover from Tony Smurf's HiLux comment, not sure I'll ever manage to)

I did love my LC GTR Torana.
We currently have an Audi A4 Cabriolet which is pretty nifty.

I'm a ford man and have had several of the muscle cars XW GT, both XA & XB coupes, a XC Cobra coupe, but my mate had an A9X SS Torana and that was just AWESOME.

Best car for traveling long distance D3 wins hands down.

Cheers Ean