What cars that you have owned do you view as the most reliable & have the happiest memories for you?

My 1954 Plymouth Belvedere with the flat-head six is probably still running somewhere.

My 06 Mustang. I’ve had some good times with that car.
Remember us in the backseat?

@Vunessuh I fucking wish..shit I hear the wife coming up the stairs.Moving on to some safe thread.

My 1971 Volkswagen bug and 1974 Volkswagen Superbeetle that I had in my much younger days were both very fun and very reliable.

@ucme Don’t be silly. We were only playing The License Plate Game.

No flirting in the automotive thread.

@Vunessuh I know that but she is quite easily riled.

Most reliable and happiest memories don’t necessarily coincide. Most reliable was probably my 1989 Honda Accord but boring. Happiest memories; driving to work in my Fiat Spyder with the top down.

91 Mazda miata

fitting 3 people in a car with only two seats on summer nights haha good times. One sitting on the roof after its down. I just wish it was an american car… and driving it is amazingly fun since it is so low to the ground making it very unlikely to flip with a stick shift. ( deaned a “safe” car by allstate so it is only $300 a year to insure =] )

My Nissan Maxima. Wonderful performance car. Fun to drive.

67 T Bird with suicide doors. Awesome.

My family car… a 1970 Buick GS 455 Stage 1, bought from the factory. This was under the hood.

I was too young to be the one behind the wheel but my father loved to street drag, me in the passenger seat, and we smoked ‘em. Ohhh the memories. I would love to have one today because love of drag racing was instilled in me very young.

I remember helping work on the thing and the time that stood out the most (other than getting a jolt that knocked me on my ass while doing the timing), was putting my hands over the hood scoops, my father gunning it, and feeling that engine try to suck my hands into itself.

I’ve always been a VW man, and my current car ‘99 Passat 1.8T is my fav.

I haven’t owned many cars; I usually drive them until they die. I’ve loved every one of them except a granny Oldsmobile which my husband bought for me. I like cars with manual transmission. I have fun memories from all of them too (except the grannymobile).

My Panasonic 10 speed.

Most reliable were my Mazda Miata, Mazda 626, Acura TL, Honda Civic, Nissan Stanza and Nissan Maxima. As far as memories go, I had a lot of fun in my Nissan Stanza, mostly because I had it during my college years. I thoroughly enjoy driving my Porsche 911 convertable, but it has needed a few things fixed. In fact every German, American, and Swedish car I have owned has needed some sort of fixing, except for the Corvettes we owned. All of my Japanese cars had zero problems (not counting my Stanza when it was 10 years old started to break down, but 10 years with no problems means to me it was pretty perfect). One did have a recall, which was fixed by the dealer, but I never experienced a problem.

What people view as most reliable is not sensible. People write about how they feel. That has nothing to do with reliability. I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere with 300k miles on a Lada who thinks its an amazing car.

@myflutherusername ”have the happiest memories for you?”
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Ok for the rest of the question, the GS I talked about is at well over 350,000 (probably hit 400K by now) miles on one rebuild and still going in the hands of a family friend. Getting gas it will run on is difficult, requiring additives.

The most reliable was probably my 90’s Honda Civic. The engine was tiny and had very little complexity. I think it’s somewhere in South Carolina these days, working it’s way toward 350k.

The most fun is a different story. That was my Saab 900S. It was a tank but still handled amazingly, it was really comfortble. I loved cracking open the moon roof with a big thud and then cranking the heat when I was driving through Vermont in the winter. I miss that car, but I don’t miss my mechanic.

Most reliable was my ‘98 Honda Civic with my ‘90 Nissan Sentra not far behind.

The most fun to drive was some sort of Subaru I drove for a few months after my first car was totaled. It was ugly and old and LOUD, but it could handle anything you sent it’s way.

Best memories aren’t in any of my cars. ;-)

Oh man. I’m with @ChazMaz on this one.

I had a white Rover Metro that I adored, I loved everything about it but sadly it was written off after an accident.

@Supacase Haha, me too. I would say my best memories aren’t in my cars.

Volkswagen and Opel.

My dad and uncle both owned 1972 Fiat 128s. When they get together and start reminiscing about their old Fiats they get so happy. They say it was the most fun car either of them have ever driven.

@mattbrowne I haven’t seen Opels in the USA in years. We went to Luxembourg in the 70s intending to rent a car but some Americans approached us and offered to sell us an Opel for $75. They were about to board a plane home. We bought it and had great fun in it for a month. When we were ready to come home, we sold it to some American college kids who were hitchhiking around Europe.

I used to drive a 1972 Renault 4L back in the 80’s. It sniffed fuel and would go pretty much anywhere you could roll a wagon wheel…

@thriftymaid – I never understood why GM did not try to sell successful Opel models in the US. And the GM engineers could have learned about more fuel-efficient engines from their European colleagues. Now the US taxpayers have to pay part of the bill related to these mistakes.