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Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« on: November 25, 2014, 07:33:27 AM »
I figured this would be a fun idea for a thread. This was sparked by the "Can a car enthusiast be mustachian" thread.

What do you drive?
Once you FIRE what would be your ideal vehicle and why?

I'll go first.

I drive a 2004 Nissan Sentra with only 57,000 miles on it. Purchased in 2010 for $7k cash with 13,000 on the odometer.

Being a car enthusiast my dream car would be something that is RWD, manual, and could roast the tires once in a while without being a complete gas guzzler. c5/c6 Vette's and the newer 2011+ Mustang 5.0 both get 26-28mpg Highway and are over 400hp. They can also be had for nearly half of sticker price at this point in time.

How about you? I know some on here are car guys/gals. Some could care less and would still drive the 100hp econobox.


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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2014, 08:04:36 AM »
I have two cars - a 1965 Datsun Fairlady (Sports) that is my daily driver (purchased in 1995 for $2,500,) and a 1988 Lotus Esprit that isn't.

My dream car would be ... wait, I'm living your dream! RWD, manual, and you want to be hanging on when that puppy gets going. 0-100kph in 5.1 seconds according to the manual, but I can't seem to get it below about 6. :)

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2014, 08:06:24 AM »
My dream car would be a Tesla.

An electric motor is 99% efficient, compared to the 25% of a regular internal combustion engine.

Very few moving parts, servicing is easy.

Now, if Tesla Model S dropped to 30K, It would be my regular car ;-)

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2014, 08:14:01 AM »
My dream car is a bicycle.

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« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2014, 08:37:44 AM »
I drive a 2003 Ford Focus station wagon with 125k miles.  Paid $4k in cash a couple years ago.  I love my wagon; it's my junky steed.  It can carry almost anything I need in the cargo area and has enough bumper damage that I fear no parallel parking situation.

I think I would love a Model S if I lived somewhere that had clean electricity, but my true love is a second generation El frickin' Camino because it's, like, the Cadillac of cars.

My SO has a 1979 Mini 1000 and I could happily cruise around in that little guy forever.

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« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2014, 10:20:46 AM »
They don't make my dream car. :(

I want a vehicle that gets 30-35mpg and seats 8, and also has a good bit of cargo room (enough to hold sleeping bags/coolers for 6-8 people. Like if you took a Honda Fit and made it another 4-5 feet longer....

Everything that is the size I want is either a ginormous van with a way overpowered engine, or is 40-45 years old (VW, I'm looking at you).

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2014, 11:31:37 AM »
My dream car is a bicycle.

I used to love cars, especially vintage brits. I don't even look at them when I see one on the street, although I now really like the aesthetics of old Italian and Japanese mini cars of the 50s and 60s. However, whenever I set foot in my LBS or the MEC store in Calgary, it would be a child's play to convince me to trade my $100 bike for one of those sleek $3,000 Ridley beauties. So far, I have been able to just walk in and out to the parts department without making eye contact with anyone.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2014, 11:40:09 AM »
My dream car is a bicycle.

I clicked to write the same, GS. The car is the pain in the ass making it inconvenient to get my bike up the driveway.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2014, 12:02:01 PM »
I'm driving my dream car: 2013 Audi A5. 31 mpg, 211 whp, AWD. 

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« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2014, 12:05:40 PM »
I want a larger pick up truck (than the 2003 Tacoma I currently have) and I want a Four Wheel Camper to sit on the truck.  I'm thinking about a Tundra, but I want a manual transmission.

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« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2014, 12:33:24 PM »
Mine will be a convertible, preferably zero emissions.

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« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2014, 12:51:34 PM »
I want a Tesla. Unless I some how become very wealthy I wont get one.
I will get a wrangler because I love hiking and exploring. I want a jeep that can take me places I cant in a car. But for now I rather have the money invested than have a Jeep.

I dont get sports cars. Where do people drive them fast without going to jail?

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2014, 01:09:30 PM »
I owned a 6-speed Miata SE with the Torsen limited slip for about 2.5 years.  It was the second generation Miata (2003) so fuel economy wasn't great, like 22mpg if you do exclusively short trips, although 30+ on long highway drives.  I like convertibles and Miatas are funny with resale; if you take good care of them, the resale is excellent.  I purchased mine for $10,500 and sold it 2.5 years later with another 10,000 miles on it for $9000 cash.

They're not fast cars, but I think they fit Mustachian principles pretty well if you're looking in the used market where the majority of the resale hit has already been taken.  I wouldn't mind having one again, although clearly I can fit a ton more stuff in my compact hatchback/wagon than I can in a Miata.  OTOH, I have family members close by with a variety of cars including a compact SUV, so I could see myself using my bike & trailer for the short trips, car for the medium and fun trips, then borrowing the SUV for utility trips.

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« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2014, 01:33:01 PM »
I owned a 6-speed Miata SE with the Torsen limited slip for about 2.5 years.  It was the second generation Miata (2003) so fuel economy wasn't great, like 22mpg if you do exclusively short trips, although 30+ on long highway drives.  I like convertibles and Miatas are funny with resale; if you take good care of them, the resale is excellent.  I purchased mine for $10,500 and sold it 2.5 years later with another 10,000 miles on it for $9000 cash.

They're not fast cars, but I think they fit Mustachian principles pretty well if you're looking in the used market where the majority of the resale hit has already been taken.  I wouldn't mind having one again, although clearly I can fit a ton more stuff in my compact hatchback/wagon than I can in a Miata.  OTOH, I have family members close by with a variety of cars including a compact SUV, so I could see myself using my bike & trailer for the short trips, car for the medium and fun trips, then borrowing the SUV for utility trips.

I agree, I think if you want something sporty that will give you some fun at a track day, a Miata is a financially decent choice and could be considered at least neutrally mustachian (because it's still a low mpg car, after all). But because they are so ubiquitous, there are a lot of crappy ones out there.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #14 on: November 25, 2014, 03:45:35 PM »
I'm building a 1994 Ford Probe GT to compete in the Chumpcar World Series... it used to be a "$500" car thing, but that's out the window... it's going to be $5K in car work, support gear, and tires before I put rubber to the track, but it's the cheapest wheel to wheel racing I can find in the PNW by a huge margin.

I also love working on my '72 Chevy Nova. I've owned that car since I was 15, and you'll pry the title out of my cold, dead, foreclosed, backrupted, living-in-the-damned-thing, hands. Mustachianism will never take that car from me.

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« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2014, 04:00:27 PM »
I've been interested in both LeMons and Chumpcar since I read about them.  Have you had a chance to compete in a race yet?   I'm also in the PNW and have been toying with the idea for the last few years.

I'm building a 1994 Ford Probe GT to compete in the Chumpcar World Series... it used to be a "$500" car thing, but that's out the window... it's going to be $5K in car work, support gear, and tires before I put rubber to the track, but it's the cheapest wheel to wheel racing I can find in the PNW by a huge margin.

I also love working on my '72 Chevy Nova. I've owned that car since I was 15, and you'll pry the title out of my cold, dead, foreclosed, backrupted, living-in-the-damned-thing, hands. Mustachianism will never take that car from me.

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« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2014, 09:41:16 PM »
A functioning public transit system would be lovely...  In the mean time I drive an extremely decrepit 94 Geo Prism with 248,000 miles on it.  It should last me long enough for gas to hit $10 a gallon and our country to rediscover trains.  Or at least the engine will.

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« Reply #17 on: November 25, 2014, 10:15:36 PM »
I drive a Honda Accord now.

I will someday own a C7 Corvette. Period. This is my goal. Told my wife I'd like to join one of those corvette groups and spend part of our retirement driving around the US camping out of it and just seeing everything. She wants to get a camper but I don't consider that camping. Maybe someday I'll change my mind.

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« Reply #18 on: November 25, 2014, 10:44:16 PM »
In the next couple of years, Ill be purchasing a 2015 - 2017 Dodge Challenger Hellcat that I will own forever(following in my dads footsteps, he owned a 1970 Mercury GT from 1970 until he passed) This is a beast of a car, 707 rwhp, Supercharged, Unapologetic American Musclecar! Yea, it may not get the best gas mileage in town, I suspect it will get probably 25 or 26 MPG highway(My current 392 challenger get almost 27 MPG highway). The Challenger is as docile as you want, or as beastly as you want. No other car offers the same level of performance and comfort for $60,000. Most likely I will buy used so the other guy can take the depreciation.

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« Reply #19 on: November 25, 2014, 11:47:03 PM »
I drive a '95 Volvo 850 GLT wagon with a manual transmission. It had 238,000 miles on it when the odometer ceased functioning five years ago. I don't drive it very much--maybe 3000 miles/year--so fixing the odometer is a very low priority. I just change the oil every six months as a matter of course, and that's that.

I do still love the car, but I bought it new after receiving a financial windfall in late '94. After self-administering a facepunch when I snapped to and realized what a dumb move that was, I decided to redeem my folly by driving it until a) it's dead, Jim; or b) I can buy an electric car that fits the bill as well as this one does.

I could go buy myself a Tesla model S tomorrow, but I don't want a sedan. The model X, from what I've seen, just doesn't rev my engine (I'll see how I feel about it once they finally hit the streets). But if Tesla came out with a hatchback about the size of a Subaru Impreza? I'd be first in line to put down a deposit.

It's probably too much for me to ask for station wagons to become the next hot car trend, isn't it? Oh, well.

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« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2014, 11:55:56 PM »
I haven't yet done a race. I've raced circle track in the past, and have done motorcycle track days at alot of the same tracks that Chumpcar runs at. I want to hit PIR with Chumpcar, ORP with the STAR project, and the Ridge however I can. I may do a few drift events at the PARC for some more seat time.

If you don't have motorsports experience, you can buy a seat in a car for $1000. Arrive and drive, they call it. Probably the most cost effective way, truthfully.

I've been interested in both LeMons and Chumpcar since I read about them.  Have you had a chance to compete in a race yet?   I'm also in the PNW and have been toying with the idea for the last few years.

I'm building a 1994 Ford Probe GT to compete in the Chumpcar World Series... it used to be a "$500" car thing, but that's out the window... it's going to be $5K in car work, support gear, and tires before I put rubber to the track, but it's the cheapest wheel to wheel racing I can find in the PNW by a huge margin.

I also love working on my '72 Chevy Nova. I've owned that car since I was 15, and you'll pry the title out of my cold, dead, foreclosed, backrupted, living-in-the-damned-thing, hands. Mustachianism will never take that car from me.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #21 on: November 26, 2014, 12:35:26 AM »
Fair to say that none of the above are MMM approved. They're "sensible rich person cars".
Mine isn't either.

I have a 2006 Audi A4 Quattro 6-speed.
I get the fun of a manual transmission so I feel like it's a sportscar. I buy my gas at costco and get an average of 25mpg commuting.
I'm into doing my own work, and value the features and qualities it has. It's still a facepunch compared to a used Honda Civic.

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« Reply #22 on: November 26, 2014, 04:26:27 AM »
As long as we're dreaming, I want a late '90s Jeep Wrangler that gets 40mpg. With a hard top and working heater.

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« Reply #23 on: November 26, 2014, 04:38:21 AM »
Dream car would be a van that I could outfit to live in.  Complete with solar and deep cycle batteries that can run most of my 12V stuff without outside power.   If I'm dreaming, it would have great gas mileage, haha.  But guess I will take no mortgage or rent payments.   Self contained and off-grid.  It can take me on adventures while providing my basic housing needs. 

For now, driving my new-to-me 2007 Pontiac Vibe, 4cyl, Toyota motor, 30mpg, cargo storage is freaking amazing, and I can camp in it :D   Just sold the extra car yesterday, non-great-mpg'd SUV that was in decent shape. 

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« Reply #24 on: November 26, 2014, 06:50:20 AM »
Currently driving a 2010 Corolla S - pretty fun to drive with the great gas mileage to go along with it...also recently discovered it will haul 20 boxes of 16" tile if you ask it to (not sure how much that weighs, but it's quite a bit)

Every now and again, I'll see a Viper on the road and lust after it - the sleek styling, luxurious interior, and raw, unadulterated power...then I think "At 12 mpg, I'm not sure I could convince myself to drive one of those things, let alone own one and consume that much gasoline"  My honest-to-god dream car that I could drive forever without feeling a lick of guilt would probably be a Mini Cooper, preferably one I've outfitted to be an EV.

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« Reply #25 on: November 26, 2014, 06:57:26 AM »
I want a Tesla, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

We once owned a 1986 manual 4WD Tercel wagon.  That car was the bomb, it could go anywhere, and climb pretty much anything.  Too bad it threw a rod in the engine, and died a smoky death before 100,000km (this was in 2007, so it was pretty long in the teeth, and had spend 5 years not being run or serviced before we got it).  So, if the option to get my hands on another one, I might have trouble passing it up

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« Reply #26 on: November 26, 2014, 07:11:02 AM »
I've wanted a 911 for as long as I've thought about cars. I love the shape, the sound, the wrongness of the engine location, the way they drive and for me the GT3 is the perfect distillation of the car. I have heart palpitations just being in the presence of these machines. The only problem is the money. Very serious money.

http://youtu.be/KVdme4ISq8Y

For now I have my '93 MR2 Turbo (a great drivers car) and 2003 Insight ( a completely different challenge).


I dont get sports cars. Where do people drive them fast without going to jail?

The magnitude of achievable speed is only a small part of the whole sports car experience. The Tesla you want has more straight line acceleration than many rewarding sports cars.

My dream car would be a Tesla.

An electric motor is 99% efficient, compared to the 25% of a regular internal combustion engine.

Very few moving parts, servicing is easy.

Now, if Tesla Model S dropped to 30K, It would be my regular car ;-)

They're less than 99% efficient. We also must consider the drivetrain loss (a single speed transmission is still lossy, as are the CVJs), battery inefficiency (both charging and discharging), battery degradation, battery production, our sources of electricity, transmission line losses (as much as 1/3!), Etc. When you look at everything the electric car doesn't shine quite so bright. I very much enjoyed driving the model s, though.
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« Reply #27 on: November 26, 2014, 07:19:53 AM »
There is a 1990 Toyota Sera on my local auto trader.  It's not really expensive, but it's neat, and *if* I was in the market for a fancy foreign car, I'd want this:

http://wwwb.autotrader.ca/a/Toyota/SERA/EDMONTON/Alberta/19_8398026_/?showcpo=ShowCPO&orup=1_15_1

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« Reply #28 on: November 26, 2014, 07:20:33 AM »


I dont get sports cars. Where do people drive them fast without going to jail?

The magnitude of achievable speed is only a small part of the whole sports car experience. The Tesla you want has more straight line acceleration than many rewarding sports cars.

I didnt just mean top speed. I mean driving them like they are meant to be driven. I guess I dont have the self control or budget to own a sports car. Ive had a few and only got in trouble with them. I was even ticketed for accelerating too quickly on an freeway on ramp.

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« Reply #29 on: November 26, 2014, 07:32:35 AM »
Sorry about your dick cop experience. IMO no wheelspin no problem.

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« Reply #30 on: November 26, 2014, 07:34:36 AM »
I want a Tesla, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

We once owned a 1986 manual 4WD Tercel wagon.  That car was the bomb, it could go anywhere, and climb pretty much anything.  Too bad it threw a rod in the engine, and died a smoky death before 100,000km (this was in 2007, so it was pretty long in the teeth, and had spend 5 years not being run or serviced before we got it).  So, if the option to get my hands on another one, I might have trouble passing it up

It only made it to 100,000 Km? Lesson learned, never buy a 86 Tercel.

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« Reply #31 on: November 26, 2014, 07:38:15 AM »
An electric motor is 99% efficient, compared to the 25% of a regular internal combustion engine.

You're skewing the numbers here a bit.  ICE car's achieve about 20-30% efficiency rubber to the road, as they say.  Electric cars achieve somewhere in the 60%-70% range.  Even Tesla has stated that you lose about 20% of the potential energy just by charging the battery.  Still way better than ICE.

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« Reply #32 on: November 26, 2014, 07:40:55 AM »
I never said they aren't an improvement.. They're just not the nearly perfect devices many misunderstand them to be.

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« Reply #33 on: November 26, 2014, 07:47:23 AM »
An electric motor is 99% efficient, compared to the 25% of a regular internal combustion engine.

You're skewing the numbers here a bit.  ICE car's achieve about 20-30% efficiency rubber to the road, as they say.  Electric cars achieve somewhere in the 60%-70% range.  Even Tesla has stated that you lose about 20% of the potential energy just by charging the battery.  Still way better than ICE.

IIRC (it was several years ago I took the class), the thermodynamic efficiency limit of an ICE is in the neighborhood of 35%, so the efficiency loss with ICE cars seems to me much less than the efficiency loss of electric motor cars.  Perhaps with the onset of better charging technology and superconductors, the electric cars can start to approach the 90% "rubber to road" range?

Either way, I'm way looking forward to having an electric car for my next vehicle, in something like 15 years

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« Reply #34 on: November 26, 2014, 07:49:06 AM »
I want a Tesla, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

We once owned a 1986 manual 4WD Tercel wagon.  That car was the bomb, it could go anywhere, and climb pretty much anything.  Too bad it threw a rod in the engine, and died a smoky death before 100,000km (this was in 2007, so it was pretty long in the teeth, and had spend 5 years not being run or serviced before we got it).  So, if the option to get my hands on another one, I might have trouble passing it up

It only made it to 100,000 Km? Lesson learned, never buy a 86 Tercel.

No!  The lesson here is don't leave your vehicles sitting in a barn, untouched, for 5 years!  Regular maintenance is key!

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« Reply #35 on: November 26, 2014, 07:58:03 AM »
An electric motor is 99% efficient, compared to the 25% of a regular internal combustion engine.

You're skewing the numbers here a bit.  ICE car's achieve about 20-30% efficiency rubber to the road, as they say.  Electric cars achieve somewhere in the 60%-70% range.  Even Tesla has stated that you lose about 20% of the potential energy just by charging the battery.  Still way better than ICE.

IIRC (it was several years ago I took the class), the thermodynamic efficiency limit of an ICE is in the neighborhood of 35%, so the efficiency loss with ICE cars seems to me much less than the efficiency loss of electric motor cars.  Perhaps with the onset of better charging technology and superconductors, the electric cars can start to approach the 90% "rubber to road" range?

Either way, I'm way looking forward to having an electric car for my next vehicle, in something like 15 years

Yes, as of now, charging the car is always going to be the biggest loss.  In actual driving EV are better at transferring energy to the road than ICE are.  This will only improve as we start seeing more EVs with the motors in/near each wheel rather than under the hood.

I'm just hoping my current car lasts around 10 years, that way I might be able to pickup a used Gen III Telsa :)

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« Reply #36 on: November 26, 2014, 08:10:16 AM »
Surly Big Dummy, a road bike, and a mountain bike.    More importantly though would be to live in a city with excellent bicycle infrastructure.    Even here in the Denver area I find that I'm not comfortable riding everywhere.     I really wish the US would get with the Dutch model for bicycles.

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« Reply #37 on: November 26, 2014, 09:20:20 AM »
An 87-88 Chevy Sprint Turbo would be pretty great. So would an early 90s RWD Volvo turbo wagon with a 5-speed.  I have odd taste.

Or a Delorean.  An electric Delorean with the drivetrain of a Tesla.  There we go.

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« Reply #38 on: November 26, 2014, 09:44:05 AM »

Or a Delorean.  An electric Delorean with the drivetrain of a Tesla.  There we go.

I know a few other men, my husband included, who would agree!

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« Reply #39 on: November 26, 2014, 09:54:51 AM »
I'll bite:

Weekend Cruise Car: 1969 Dodge Charger (resto mod with current brakes, suspension, exhaust, etc)
Weekend SUV: Late 1980's Jeep Grand Wagoneer fully restored (for home depot runs)

Track Car: Audi R8

Weekday Winter Car-Range Rover
Weekday Summer Car- Tesla (to somewhat offset the others haha)

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #40 on: November 26, 2014, 10:46:59 AM »
2015 BMW M3
2015 Corvette
A reasonable sized pick up truck with decent fuel economy
Tesla S

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« Reply #41 on: November 26, 2014, 10:50:04 AM »
LOVE all the replies so far!!

Maybe these cars are not "mustachian per say" but if you shop around hard and pay cash, get a good deal, learn how to maintain yourself, and truly enjoy the driving part I think its totally worth it for a car guy. I would not be putting on 10-15k miles a year commuting to work in my dream car, but I would want my heart to race every time I got behind the wheel.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #42 on: November 26, 2014, 02:26:54 PM »
My 15 year old pick up is so awesome, it satisfies my unhealthy vehicle lust to a large degree.

But in another life (or years down the road when inheritance comes thru) I would like a BMW M4 or Audi RS5. German performance coupes are my weakness.

But my truck does everything I need it to do, and more... my stock truck is one of the best off road vehicles ever (with a respectful nod to Jeeps) and while I'm still in my relative youth and in "adventure mode" I need transport with off some serious off road capability. Once I am and old man, I can see myself trying to recapture my youth with a German rocket of some sort.


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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #43 on: November 26, 2014, 02:42:23 PM »

Or a Delorean.  An electric Delorean with the drivetrain of a Tesla.  There we go.


Or a DeLorean that gets exciting at exactly 88mph if we're dreaming. You know the one.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #44 on: November 26, 2014, 03:00:52 PM »
Dream garage...(no particular order)

Ferrari f40
Porsche Carrera GT
Dodge charger r/t
Facel vega hk500
Citroen DS
Rolls Royce phantom drophead coupe (daily driver methinks)

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #45 on: November 26, 2014, 03:37:45 PM »
When I was a kid I had a pedal power surrey with fringe on top, like the one in the musical Oklahoma. It had room for a passenger in the front.

Got stolen by tenants at my first rental but that would be my dream car as it's zero gas/emissions and you could haul quite a bit in it and you aren't sitting in the sun.

Think: Fred Flintstone's car, only with pedals. And a striped awning. Awesome!

But I'm actually looking for a Rav4 to replace the Ford Escape that's on it's last legs.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #46 on: November 26, 2014, 03:38:26 PM »
As long as we're dreaming, I want a late '90s Jeep Wrangler that gets 40mpg. With a hard top and working heater.
That IS dreaming :-)! I use to have an old Jeep CJ when I lived in the mountains and that thing was a huge gas hog. UGH. Of course it had a soft top and doors so I could drive around "looking cool" but easy to break into. Also had a 3 cylinder Suzuki Samari with a soft top years before the Jeep and it got good gas mileage. Of course the "cool" factor was totally missing - as was the radio.


Don't I know it! Ours gets about 14 mpg, and I can't bring myself to fork out the money for a hardtop. It does have full steel doors, but the heat doesn't work very well, and heater cores for that model Jeep are no longer available. This (the mpg) is why I continue to tear up small, cheap front wheel drive cars on my driveway. I can't justify driving something that can handle the road here for the distance of my commute.

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« Reply #47 on: November 26, 2014, 03:42:28 PM »
I don't drive any car and I love it.  My dream would be if the hegemony of car driving in this country was reduced (at least in my area) and we made more serious investments in public transportation infrastructure (and controlling the costs of such projects).  Even in NYC, we're beholden to the 20th century city design paradigm that says car drivers get privileged right of way by defacto over public transit riders or pedestrians/bicyclists.  More tolls on bridges and tunnels (many expensive to maintain bridges in NYC have no tolls at all!), tolls for entering the city's core, and more gasoline tax would be nice. 

Somebody is paying for all those free parking spaces on the side of the street, why should it be me?
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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #48 on: November 26, 2014, 04:01:51 PM »
Some folks at work have Teslas and they're pretty amazing. I only live about 5 miles from work so I bike most days and it wouldn't make sense to get one, but they're impressive cars.  Just really well put together with all the various details well thought out.  The acceleration is incredible. 

When we do go out to lunch I sometimes get to finagle a test drive from one of the Tesla owners.  Always a fun time.

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Re: Mustachian Dream Car Thread
« Reply #49 on: November 27, 2014, 11:13:37 AM »
When I think of a mustachian car I always think of the original Honda Insight. It was an amazing car and is STILL the highest fuel efficiency of any gasoline car the EPA has ever tested. Designed with efficiency in mind and really amazing how much better it is than even modern hybrids.

From Wikipedia:
"The Insight featured optimized aerodynamics and a lightweight aluminum structure to maximize fuel efficiency and minimize emissions. As of 2014, the first generation Insight still ranks as the most fuel-efficient United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified gasoline-fueled vehicle, with a highway rating of 61 miles per US gallon (3.9 L/100 km; 73 mpg-imp) and combined city/highway rating of 53 miles per US gallon (4.4 L/100 km; 64 mpg-imp).[12]"


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