Baby, you can drive my car

[Desdichado]

Fergot: I drive my old 95 Plymouth Neon that we had in college. Nothing like the joy of a paid-off car. I'll run that baby into the ground commuting back and forth from work.

My wife, on the other hand, leases a 2005 Mercury Monterrey. But we've got four kids to haul around...

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

There are a ton of SUVs in C'ville as well, I guess I just tune them out. Although every fall when school starts up, theres a new crop of 18 year olds with only a year of driving experience and who can barely see over the steering wheel, driving around in mommy or daddys SUV, talking on their cellphone, and taking up 2 parking spaces in the parking lots. Nothing wrong with college kids driving, but damn it, make sure the kids know how to drive before you put them behind the wheel of a tank.

 

[Piratecat]

Not what you meant: 4-Year-Old Mich. Boy Drives Mother's Car

 

[nakia]

There are a ton of SUVs in C'ville as well, I guess I just tune them out. Although every fall when school starts up, theres a new crop of 18 year olds with only a year of driving experience and who can barely see over the steering wheel, driving around in mommy or daddys SUV, talking on their cellphone, and taking up 2 parking spaces in the parking lots. Nothing wrong with college kids driving, but damn it, make sure the kids know how to drive before you put them behind the wheel of a tank.

Sounds like someone's bitter about having to park in a student lot.

 

[Krieg]

Typical American midwest here...40% or so made up of the pickup, SUV, minivan troika with the rest being mostly midsize domestics & hondas/toyotas.

The tuner market is almost entirely the 21 and under crowd.

I drive a '97 LandRover Defender 90 and the wife drives a Ford Focus, although she will probably be getting either a Chrysler 300C or Jag X-Type in the next year or so.

I drive a smart fortwo, the best car on the planet

If you live in a closet.

 

[der_kluge]

I drive a Kia Optima. Nothing fancy. It's got power everything, and gets me to work everyday. My wife has a Mitsubishi Diamante. It's pretty nice.

I'd like to get one of those hybrid Civics. I'd like to get a hybrid, but that Prius is just butt-ugly.

Richmond isn't particurly unusual car-wise. Although, we did have a pretty unusual car moment the other night. We'd gone to dinner, and getting back in the car to leave, I noticed this suh-weet cherry red SC300 Lexus parked next to me. It was bee-yoo-ti-ful. And then I noticed it - a 2001 tassle hanging off the rear view mirror. There were two girls that had gone into the restaurant, and I could only assume that it belonged to one of them. Boy, was I jealous. That girl's car cost more than my mine and my wife's put together, and she probably didn't even have a job!

Another funny car story - I was driving home in Kansas City one day (down I-69 for those farmiliar with the area) and on the other side of the highway, a cop had pulled over a yellow lamborghini, and a red ferrari. Oh, if I only had a camera that day.

 

[ph34r]

There's a mix of everything here.

I drive a '99 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS.

 

[Guillaume]

They wont. Smart fortwo is not accepted with the roadworthyness test.

And I have to admit it is too small for US roads.
But you are welcome to come over and give it a spin.

Not necessarily, they started selling them in Canada in Fall of 2004.

I drive a 1997 Volks Jetta with a 1.9 turbo-diesel. Love the milleage

 

[Stone Angel]

Mostly trucks and suv's here. Pontiac grand prix's and grand am's tend to dominate the smaller car slice. We also have a fair share of mini vans and it never fails that no matter how fast I am going, there are at least two moms with a van full of kids that fly by me in a m-van.

The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[francisca]

Mostly trucks and suv's here. Pontiac grand prix's and grand am's tend to dominate the smaller car slice. We also have a fair share of mini vans and it never fails that no matter how fast I am going, there are at least two moms with a van full of kids that fly by me in a m-van.

The Seraph of Earth and Stone

We have a Honda Odyssey. It has a 3.5L V6 that puts out 240HP at 5500RPM. I once had some ricer wanna-be in a civic or something decide he wanted to race me. Imagine his surprise when I blew him out of the water. Imagine my surprise when he caught up to me a few miles later at a stop light, got out of his car and knocked on my window. Imagine his surprise when he saw his CPT176 instructor laughing in his face.

Honda Civic form Mom and Dad: Free
Cheep plastic ground effects, UV under chassie light, muffler which makes your car sound like a chain saw, and an emblem for a turbo unit which you obviously don't have: ~$500
Getting smoked in a race by your middle aged, wife and two kids, mini-van driving instructor: Priceless

(at least that's what I put up on the overhead at the next exam. I think he was looking for a rock to crawl under)

The van is my wife's. She doesn't like to let me drive it to much. Sorta like JD, I have a 93 Ford tempo I bought right after i got out of school, and I plan on driving it until the wheels fall off.