It's impossible for me to pin it down to a single vehicle, sorry for the way too long windy post, I've been thinking about this thread for a few days now. Right now, I have four vehicles (2008 Honda Accord EX-L V6 - our son's car now, 2009 Corvette, 2018 Honda Pilot Touring and 2021 F-150) but if I had the space for more I'm sure I'd have more and it's not to show off or impress anyone, I just absolutely love cars and now trucks. These are just a few of the cars I've owned In no particular order :
1993 300ZX - 5 speed in Sapphire Blue metallic -
exterior and
interior - so I bought this car in 2005 and I sold it to a buddy of mine in 2012. I think the car had like 39k miles on and I think I put like 7k miles on it? I bought it from the original owner, it was in very good condition but I did replace a bunch of parts on it over the time I owned it (new clutch, brakes (calipers, rotors, ss brake lines), tires, I rebuilt the t-tops, I put in a short shifter, oem shift knob, shift and ebrake boots, I replaced the oem cd-player with a nos oem cd player, etc.) and I must admit that I believe I poured more money (just in maintenance and oem replacement parts) than probably any other car I ever owned but I really enjoyed it. And, so the thing of it is, I fell in love with the Z32 300ZX (1990-1996) when I was in college. It was my goal and my dream to one day own a 993 Porsche 911 or a Z32 300ZX - I loved them both equally. I had my time with it but, eventually, I fell in love with the C6 Corvette.
2009 Z-51 Corvette 6-speed in Cyber Gray metallic -
exterior - and
interior - although I swapped out the steering wheel with an expensive - D shaped wheel a couple of years ago. Anyway, I bought this car in 2012 from the original owner w/19k miles on it. I drove up to Michigan to get it.
here's another picture of the day I got it and in front of the Corvette you can see a 2005 Subaru Outback XT Limited which my brother is driving. I still own this Corvette and it now has about 26k miles on it. So far all I've done is fluid and filter changes and a set of tires but it's due for more fluid/filter changes and another set of tires.
2003 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8T 5-speed black/black -
exterior before mods and
exterior after mods. I bought this car brand new in 2003. In fact, I actually ordered this car from Volkswagen. I was looking to replace our 1996 Toyota Avalon XL and I stumbled upon a new black Passat at the dealership. The Passat wasn't my first choice because my first choice was a 2003 Subaru WRX wagon but I couldn't find one, on my way to the Subaru/VW dealership I stopped by the BMW/VW/Infiniti dealership near me and I saw the 2003 Passat and I must admit, I loved the way it looked. Worst transaction I've ever made in my life. I got totally screwed on my trade in, I paid full MSRP for the Passat but I was in love and I didn't care, I thought it was awesome. I owned this car for about 2.5 years and I was all in. I did so many mods to this car it was crazy. I lowered the car on lowering springs and shocks, I bought "Atlanta" wheels for it which were the 16-inch oem VW wheels off the V8 Passat, I put on each and ever single German VW Passat part I could find (blue tinted aspherical mirrors,
phatbox, rear fog light, etc. and on and on) but then one fine day. . . boom. . .
this happened. It's not a great picture but the car was totaled. I was sitting at a stoplight and I was rear ended about about 45-50mph, the lady was on the phone.
2005 Subaru Outback XT Limited 5-speed -
exterior and
interior - and I bought this car brand new in 2006. I almost bought a BMW 330xi wagon w/a manual transmission but the VW experience and BMW's reputation kinda spooked me. I must admit that I dearly loved this car because, I mean, stick shift, turbo, all wheel drive, panoramic roof, lifted wagon and no amount of snow nor ice could ever seem to stop it. I REALLY wanted a Legacy GT Wagon but by that time Subaru stopped making them and I couldn't find one. Anyway, I did a few mods to it over the years I owned it, I installed a trailer hitch (never used it, not even once), short throw shifter, tinted windows, upgraded oem Subaru stereo but this car was pretty much fully loaded from the get go. It went through CV shafts about every 20-30k miles, it did need a throw out bearing and while I got the throw out bearing replaced I had the mechanic install a new clutch even though it really didn't need it. I had that car for 11 years and 125k miles.
2016 Subaru WRX 6-speed -
exterior - and I can't find interior pictures of it right off hand. I traded the Outback for this car and while I really enjoyed the WRX Limited, I really missed the utility of my Outback. I put on these BBS wheels, a short throw shifter and a few odds and ends from Subispeed like this
shift knob but after 6 years and 50k miles I badly wanted a pickup truck. So, I traded the WRX in for that Toyota Tacoma in the background of that picture there.
2018 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road 4x4 6-speed MT -
exterior and
interior and I don't know what to say here about this truck. I traded in my WRX for this truck. It was absolutely beautiful, it only had 38k miles on it, it was fully certified pre-owned so it came with all new oem tires, all fluids/filters and I got a fantastic deal on it, you could call it a steal for what other Tacoma's were going for. At first, the only thing I didn't like were the speakers so I replaced all the speakers with really nice upgraded speakers and that fixed the stereo issue. But, as time went on, I just couldn't get comfortable in this truck. I thought the seats were horrible, I didn't like driving it and I got to the point where I just totally stopped driving it for about 3-4 months because I knew I really wanted a full size truck. So, I owned this Tacoma for 12 months, I put 5k miles on it and I got 3k more in trade than what I paid for it.
2021 Ford F-150 XLT 5.0 4x4 - Agate Black -
exterior and
interior - and I love the ever living crap out this thing. It puts a smile on my face and I never thought in a million years that this manual transmission driving, car snob would ever find himself behind the wheel of a pickup truck but here I am. I looked at the Tundra first then the Dodge Ram, then the Denali and finally the F-150. To me, I just enjoyed driving the F-150 the most. It took me a good 3 months to find the truck and deal I wanted. This was exactly 12 months old, it had 4k miles on it. They were asking $6k under sticker, they gave me $3k more than I paid for the Tacoma and I couldn't resist the whole package deal, it has more options than I was looking for and the guy that had it before me babied it but when he ordered it, he ordered one with the console shifter but this one came with the column shifter and he hated it. The salesman that sold it to me said this column shifter drove him nuts, he almost immediately ordered a 2022 F-150, same spec but with the console shifter and he said it took him 10 months to get his truck but he finally got it and he was happy.
