If you could have one car...

[Matthew_T]

There's also a Monaro somewhere around here

I used to want a Monaro. But the VXR8 is kind of an improvement of it. I am sure it is still the same car though, no idea why they have different names.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

FAO; 'Ffoeg'

Oh yes!!!, particularly John Milners!!!!
I guess you know which I mean??

I do , but there be 2 too many windows for me... t'was a sweet runner though

 

[ComedyPilot]

Always been more of a motorbike fan than a car fan, but I'd give my left nut for one of these....

 

[Boris Bajic]

Nice but woud've been so much better if the lower glass line was a swooping curve starting at the apex of the left pointing V on the rear window + the hard angle at the top left of the rear window could've done with a little curve in it.

No. And then No again. And then a very hard, long stare. And then a sort of pitiful look because you might not be right in the bonce.

I greatly regret not including the SM on my list of ten 'only car I have' cars. I might even have included it on a list of five 'only car I ever have' cars.

You cannot improve perfection. You cannot. It cannot be done. The SM is all about impossibility, incongruity, beauty, 'jolie-laide' eccentricity and the marriage of seemingly ill-matched yet perfectly suited concepts. It is Crazy Citroen making whoopee in a restaurant broom cupboard with Crazy Maserati and producing a beautiful bastard of genetic and mechanical impossibility.

To think in terms of altering the line of the rear glass is to say the Himalayas would be better if two of them matched, or that cats would be better pets if they spoke Spanish.

If you want a swoopy window line, buy an Alfa Mito, Opel Astra or any other current brand-values, bland-value econobox.

Change the SM? You're probably the sort of person who rides a recumbent bicycle and can justify it.

Dear God! Constance, bring me a large brandy! Quickly!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

'jolie-laide'

Nailed it.

 

[Andrew_P]

Rover P5B Coupe

When I was 19, thinking I was young and trendy I worked for someone who loved and cherished P4's I used to have to do the banking and rather than pay me petrol money he used to toss me the keys to something similar to this. I used to pray none of my mates would see me jumping out of it and dashing in to the Midland Bank, West Croydon! Jeez no power steering it was a beast to drive no chance of parking in tight spots such hard work.

At the time I was driving an Opel Manta, which I loved and I used to lust after one of these, and still secretly do!

 

[ayceejay]

You post with 8 or 9 choices listed and then say we get only one choice - how fair is that?
My choice would be one of these that I could drive somewhere without any danger of coming across a bloody cyclist -

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Can't choose...


1959-1967 JAGUAR Mk2 3.8

Or...
1982 Mercedes 380SL

 

[paul04]

lots of cars to pick, but if I just had to pick one, and I did not have to pay for the petrol, it would have to be a Nissan R35

 

[Boris Bajic]

You post with 8 or 9 choices listed and then say we get only one choice - how fair is that?
My choice would be one of these that I could drive somewhere without any danger of coming across a bloody cyclist - View attachment 26393

It is fair. You only get one choice because you chose something made on a strange continent where they confuse size with quality.

I also only get one choice, but my other choices are spares or stand-by spares in case one of my other spares in unavailable, inappropriate for the task in hand or just parked too far away.

My 'only car' list has only one car on it, but there are others there too for technical and practical reasons.

You will never understand the mathematical subtleties of this notion of an expanded list of one which may include several but still be only one, because you cannot tell the difference between a Tonka Toy and a motor car.

So far, the correct answers on this list include the following: Rover P4 and P5B, Citroen DS Safari, 2CV, SM and Traction-Avant, Fiat 126 and Nuova 500, Mercedes 380SL (but not the Federal-Bumper model), various Jaguars, the Bentley Speed Six, Opel Manta 400, Renault 4 and one or two other nice cars.

Most of the answers are wrong and are indicative of why society finds itself in such a mess today.

If you chose a car that's an option on a video game for the young people, you are wrong.

 

[TheDoctor]

Well, I'm not sure.

I loved my kit car - like this one only with brown wings.

For some years we had a Fiat Uno 45S - 999cc engine, cheap to run, cornered like it was on rails.
I've driven a Ferrari 360, an Elise and a Caterham 7 - good fun, but I wouldn't want one.
I would love a Citroen DS. There's nothing that looks quite like it.
I wouldn't say no to a Capri either. I thought they were great when I was ten...

 

[ColinJ]

If I could have just one car, it would be something like this car - ...

... bon fibre bike!

 

[smokeysmoo]

Citroen SM. I'll wait for a prettier car pic........it may be some time.

That is a beautiful car. However, I'll see your SM and raise you a DS cabriolet

 

[Cheddar George]

That is a beautiful car. However, I'll see your SM and raise you a DS cabriolet

The DS is the only car that would also look good as a boat.

 

[smokeysmoo]

The DS is the only car that would also look good as a boat.

On the subject of boats I'll have one of these, hubba hubba hubba