What stable of cars do you have/are you aiming for?
 

We have:
Scion FRS - the canyon carver
Subaru Forester - the utility vehicle, like when you need to throw bikes in the back
Jaguar I-Pace - the luxury vehicle, when we all want to go somewhere together. Also the wife's commuter. Not to be taken to shitty neighborhoods.
Ram 1500 - The mover of large and heavy things. This week, it was plywood. Two weeks ago, it was a bunch of 16 foot boards.

What I want:
A Fiat 500e to modify into a tiny canyon carver and easy city car for parking
Maybe a Model 3 Performance for the same reason, but... kind of big. I need to do an extended test drive. Also useful for moving kids. Could replace the Forester.
Replace the Ram with a Ranger Raptor? Prefer an EV truck, like the Bolinger.

What I don't want:
Another ICE sports car or any other ICE car.

Fiat would be good I think the battery location would help anti roll over.
Bolinger would be cool is that Mr Bob lutz brand?




Have:
2015 FRS Convert to Modified BRZ tS
2005 Saab 97X Arc

Want:
-1988 Mercedes 190E Cosworth with Evo 1 body kit in black, need a rad wood car
-2018 BRZ/86, 4 inch lift kit, Baja style with a little bit of ritz like Matt Farah's porsche only affordable, Sparco RS sport seats, custom interior similar performance mods to current car. 4.4 diff and method rims with KO2's
-2016 Colorado Z71 4x4 for my light towing needs and camping general people moving
-Exocet for previous stated reasons of being cheap, light, thrash happy, and good.
-ILX Spec A or Buick Regal GS or if we are really kinky, To be frank. 2009-11 Crown Victoria, Black leather with tuxedo blue exterior, mustang rims locker 8.8 and 3.55 gears. Would make my tushy happy and nostalgic


And Id be lying if I didnt mention the C8 Corvette for all that in between

Have:
1988 Supra (Keep 4 Ever)
2016 FR-S (Keep 4 Ever)
2002/3 Sentra (need to fix/sell)

On order:
2020 Supra


Would Like:
4th Gen Hilux/Pickup
1st Gen Tacoma
CRX
Some sort of PHEV. Waiting until the Prius Prime gets more than 25 miles.

have:
2014 brz, the sports car.
2002 ford ranger, the work truck


want/looking for:
a fun work commuter car. no idea yet, but it's got to be cheap, unique, and stick shift.

Two '05 Dodge 4x4 4 door trucks, both 1500,
'15 twin,
'06 Lotus Exige,
1977 Porsche 911s Targa.

I'm good for now.

Have:
'14 BRZ
'91 Suzuki Intruder 750
'11 Corolla


Want:
ANY type of truck lol

I want all the carbon fiber possible in my BRZ. Only other car I might want is something mid engined, maybe an AW11.

AW11 or gen 2 supra.

13' BRZ-Daily/Toy
85' Diesel 4Runner - Toy
00' Xterra - Bad weather commuter
18' KTM 690 Duke - Good Weather Commuter



Looking for a basic ass truck as a tow rig.

Speaking as one that has almost 150,000 miles in it, the 86 makes a great commuter car, so seems to me you already own one!

Currently in my garage/driveway:

'13 FR-S - My daily/do-everything-mobile
'11 Civic - GF's daily
'05 Suzuki GS500F - Good weather commuter / backroads toy

Recently sold:

'06 Buell Blast - GF's bike

Future Plans:

Trade the GS500F for a GSX-R600 (hopefully this fall or next spring)
GF wants a Honda Grom

Have: 2017 Subaru BRZ - the fun daily driver that I can take to the back roads

Want: 2018+ Toyota Corolla Hatchback - something I can have for commuting to work and don't mind racking the miles up.

Just curious, is this "just because" or do you have a specific reason?

I ask because I just can't get there yet. EVs just don't meet my use cases for vehicles. If I only used it for commuting, yes, it would work. I just don't always use my vehicles that way. (As a lead in, I have nothing against EVs and there is a LOT about them I like. I've said before my vehicle can run on unicorn tears as long as it meets my need.).

For example, two weeks ago the family went on vacation. The trip was from Atlanta. GA to Myrtle Beach, SC. Because there were 4 people and a week's worth of supplies, beach accessories, etc we took your Suburban.

The one way trip required zero fuel stops (the Suburban can make the near 500 miles on one tank of fuel), 1 meal stop of 45 minutes, and two other stops of 10 minutes or less. Total trip time about 7 hours.

Using Tesla's trip planner for the Model X (the size we would have needed, and even then some things would be been left behind) starting off at full charge, I would need two stops totaling 90 minutes to refuel one way, making the trip a minimum 8.5 hours, or adding 3 hours round trip..

In general, we would still need the 65 minutes of other stops so this is all added time. Yes, technically we could make the meal stop as one of the refuel stops IF it was at the right time in the trip and IF it was at a place we could eat (we have some food restrictions in my family).

We would then have the problem once we arrived of charging the car. Most likely we would have to use 110 charging (not a lot of rental homes with built-in fast chargers). So we would have to plan any activity around the charging cycle.

We make this, or similar, trips 5 to 10 times a year. That's a lot of fitting our lifestyle around the vehicle, which should never happen.

That's not even talking about the upfront cost. I paid $12,000 for my used Suburban in 2012. It has had zero non-maintenance work done on it in that time. Yes, if buying both new it's probably a wash, but I rarely buy vehicles new.

2013 Scion FR-S
2007 Acura MDX
2006 Honda Ridgeline
1993 Chevy G20

My truck messes up the 3 digit name collection. :bonk:

After building a standard interior height van, now I want a high roof van to build. Specifically (dreaming here... LOL) a Ford Transit Connect XLT 350 Ecoboost.

ev's will be great when they can run off of solar panels mounted to them. Until then they are just expensive toys.