Kinda O/T What is your everyday car Import or American

My only ride, but come summer I should have something else

 

Looks like the majority of F-150s are built in the US or America Jr (Canada) to me. BTW, as an observation the F series Ford trucks appear to be the single most popular vehicle in this thread. Since I'm a diehard Ford girl, that ain't a bad thing....

 

'05 GTI, '95 Miata, '96 'Burban, '28 R/PU.........the combo makes a well rounded stable. Something fast for trips, something that corners for fun, something that can go through mud and snow (all haul stuff) and something that goes like Hell. I also have a '73 Dodge Travco with an A3 440 for those weekend camping trips. Wheels are fun!

 

The wifes '62 Fairlane was our "new" car when I had the '50 Pontiac. Now we have an updated "import" '77 2WD Blazer. I think this is as new as it'll get. Still easy to work on.
Still plenty of "old" projects to keep me busy with a '49 Plymouth Suburban, '51 F1, '31 Ford Tudor, '30 Ford Roadster.
Maybe the the Suburban will replace the Blazer.

 

I drive a 93 lowered RC/SB pickup w/ a supercharger covered in billet, I call it "the antiHAMB" -I gotta thing for lowered chevy's but I think it's goin on the bay tonight. Wife drives an '05 Maxima, so far the best and most fun to drive car I've owned.

Mootz

 

I drive a 97 Dodge Diesel, a 37 chevy pickup, and building a 51 GMC also.

 

an 86 f-150 my dad bough new

 

'94 Chevy S10 Ex. Cab...2.2L w/ a 5-speed.
25 MPG!!!
Between that and PBR, I save enough money to buy parts for my '51.

 

Daily Driver 2000 Dodge Dakota 3.9 Sport


Imports ****. Will never buy one and dont particually like those that have em. By buying an import (even though chrysler is now DiamlerChrysler, I bought mine before the takeover....) it takes dollars out of our pockets in one way or another and may even take your future son/daughters job. Never know...

Besides what sounds better a throaty v6 or v8, flattie or Nailhead....Hemi or Boss engine...or a DOHC 4 banger? yea I thought so.

 

I'm a Ford guy straight to the heart, and all my cars/trucks are Fords.....except for my daily driver........which is a Honda CRX ......I know... I know, but I'm flat broke and I drive 50 miles round trip everyday...I bought it for $1000, gets 30mpg, and corners like it's on rails.....anyone here want to sell me something american made for the same amount of money that is that good on gas and I'll bite....

 

And France is 'V', as in 1981 Citroën 2CV6, which shares summer daily driving with an '85 Merc 300D. Sweetie drives an '89 Volvo 240.
During my divorce (and part of planning) made me opt for reliability rather than any other factor. Which explains the Merc, possibly the LAST forever car built. Mine's got 285,000, still does NOT burn or leak oil, gets 21 mpg at 100 mph, is dead nuts reliable (has NEVER let me down), and does not need electricity to run, just to start, unless you get a push...
ANd the Cit is simply a ball to drive. Women smile, kids laugh, and Porsche drivers swap lanes just to give a thumbs up.
Sweetie loves the Volvo, and that's all I need for me to be happy about it.

Cosmo

Come to think about it, I could do ALL my shopping at German-Swedish-French Auto Parts, except we don't HAVE German-Swedish-French Auto Parts in the USA...

 

It is best if we all just bought what we wanted. After all, rampant nationalism never saved the British auto/bike industry, didn't help the German motorcycle industry, lost the Spanish motorcycle and auto producers, and it won't save the American auto industry, either.

Finalist, most clueless bumper sticker: "Boycott France", on a Nissan...

Cosmo

 

The '49 on my avitar,is my sons,but I get to drive everyday until my '49 Merc is done.Then it becomes my daily driver.

 

Wrong. Nissan were bought out by Renault in 1999.
Renault is a French company.

Cosmo

 

My daily driver is an 87 Jeep Grand Wagoneer and the wife drives the Suburban or allwheel drive Ford van. No econo wagons here.

 

Just sold my Daily `04 Subaru WRX STI. it was the only Jap car I ever owned. I flogged the **** out of it, only changed the oil twice and never had a problem with it...

I went and bought a Ford Pickup...

 

The wife drives a 2005 Magnum.Got her a new car so she would let me play with my old ones,give and take you know!I also have a '95 Chevy pick-up for haulin,but the shoebox gets better mileage!Sometimes I have to take the truck to work,the shoebox can't carry much drywall.

 

The five- 0 Ford is my back and forth to work daily driver.

 

'97 Lincoln Town Car
'78 Ford F150
'63 Pontiac Grand Prix

All paid for, I can buy a hell of a lot of gas when I don't have two big *** car payments.

 

Well lets see.. '94 "rat" ****** wagon (flat black, red steel wheels and a billet proof sticker) '95 Ford F-150 (sport truck) '78 Ford Granada (first car and I still have it 22 years later) and a '94 Mercury Tracer for the wife. Don't laugh to hard but my little ****** gets 30 mpg and has close to 200,000 on it. Heck the F-150 has the fewest miles on it and it has 160,000 on the clock. Why have 'em if you can't drive 'em!!!!!!

 

5 days a week i drive a 2006 chevy chevron flatbed, i have 84 and 94 s10s and i am in the process of putting my 65 galaxie and 29 a roadster back on the road. i ride more than i drive. i have a rotating stable of 70's jap twins and fours. in 05 i put 1500 miles on my 94 s10 and 12000 on my yamaha 750.

 

What about the fact that most "import" cars now contain just as many americna parts if not more then american cars?

I drive my 64 Valiant daily. Hopefully I'll soon be swapping back and forth with my 64 Comet.

 

"What is your favorite color?"

 

Most of the year I drive a 1998 Buick Park Ave-172000 miles and 25-35 mpg. I got a hell of a good deal on it a few years ago.
For the last few weeks I have been driving a 4 door S10 Blazer, 2 wheel drive, dropped, TPI V8 and tire fryer. The 1st tank of gas got 18mpg. (real heavy right foot most of that tank).
I will probably go back to driving my 33 truck to work when the newness of the S10 wears off or the police suggest I put it back in the garage. LOL

 

My daily ride is a '92 Buick Roadmaster. Last foreign car I owned self-destructed on me! Never again!

 

DrJ is right, what name came on your car doesn't mean ****. There are no foreign or domestic cars anymore.

Not to mention, if you buy a used car, the money goes to the car dealer or previous owner, so buying a second hand Honda over a Chevy isn't making the Japanese any richer, nor is it stealing the food off of any American's table.

I own about 20 cars right now, and it's pathetic, because all I really have to drive that's reliable and registered is my '99 Silverado with 215K miles on it. I needed a big truck to pull a car trailer with, I would have bought a Chevy, Dodge, or Ford, didn't matter to me, but went with the Chevy because around here, that's what has resale and I ain't keepin' it forever.

However, I'm literally inches away from putting my '73 Mercedes 220D on the road which should be fun and get great mileage on diesel. I'm also fired up about my '64 Olds 98 again now that my year-long search for a back bumper turned up an NOS one (thank you, eBay)

I have a really nice '72 GTO that just sits in the garage, next to a clean '40 Chrysler that needs some wiring fixed, and my chopped, 348 powered '53 Ford just sits around, gotta get that one insured and on the road again.

I usually get an old car to drive all summer and a beater all winter long. Drove my '60 Fury all last year, '66 Suburban the year before, and a '69 C-10 before that. I won't drive anything old on the salt, even if it's a piece of ****. No old car that lasted this long deserves to be salted out, even if it's not "cool" to have a late model winter beater.

 

Man the number of people who drive new cars surprises me. Not having a go at anyone here, I thought that in a place like this we would see more early iron on the road every day?
Having said that I am embarr***ed to say that my daily driver is a 1981 XD Ford Falcon, Ex cop car but was re built by the previous owner to race in some cl*** of roundy roundy sport car cl***. Fixed it up to legal and put it back on the road (Got it cheap) handles like a racecar, because it is, and runs a 351C 4V (Boss motor) 496Hp at the rear wheels. Fun but still way too new for me.
Going back in time my daily drivers were….
Before that I ran around in my 38 Coupe, 351C until it just had to have a re-build 32 years on the road every day kina wore it down.
32-3w coupe, blown 427 SOHC, 1800hp sub 8 sec car. Daily driven for about 4monts, scared the **** out of me too many times.
29 RPU. Flattie, clapped out. Good fun.
54 Ford 100E Prefect, 13B rotary J ported. The 13B was free, the car was found in a field. Put them together with a tube ch***is and I had my first car. 9 sec ¼ mile 180mph car at 18……… crazy, it’s a wonder I am still alive.

Building the 38 again, a 28 A RPU and a 48 Austin A40 g***er.
Not going to list race cars.

New cars **** and I don’t give a rat’s **** where they are built, if you like it. Buy it.

Doc.

 

My drivers...

- 1960 Chevy Wagon
- 1960 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe
- 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible
- 1962 Lincoln Continental Convertible
- custom motorsickle

My wife is the only one in the family that owns a "modern" car, a 2005 Chysler Pacifica. We also have a 1962 Vespa VBB and a 1949 Schwinn Phantom.

Future projects / driver wants:
- 1941 Cadillac coupe taildragger w/ 500CID
- Model A roadster

-scott noteboom

 

My daily driver........it's a throwback to the '70's........

 

My '62 C10, and sometimes the slammed metallic green Schwinn low-rider bike.
David