I didn’t drive it that much but it didn’t cost much to look after. Annual service was all I paid for. Maybe $5-600 a year.... it only had 11000 Km when I sold it.

 

My son is named Morgan after the make - never owned one but did get to drive a Plus 8 once which was pretty intoxicating with roof down!

 

Nicest car I've driven is a 2016 AMG GTS around CoTA. Nicest car I've owned is a 2016 C63S AMG.

 

DB4 or 1976 Panther J72 (IFS) or possibly a Lotus 7 which felt like you were doing 120 even when the speedo said 30!

(Of cars I haven't owned, the Audi Q7 and Jag XJR came close)

 

New Zealand would be one of the best places to drive one. I hope the name inspires your son to get one when he´s able.

 

Grandma's first new Car, 1953 Ford Victoria,..we have been the custodian's since 1976. Unrestored original.
Registered every year since delivery

 

This ‘84 with 45k miles is the nicest car I have owned. Perfectly balanced combination of form and function with a bullet proof engine and timeless design.

Puts a smile on my face each time I hear and feel the roar of the engine.

 

Another 911, my current is likely my favorite. More fun and comfortable than my prior ones including the 1984 air cooled. Newer models don't seem to add a lot more, so I am good with the 996.

 

For it has been an Aston Martin Vantage, Lotus Evora and Tesla Roadster. I have driven both cars but never owned any. The car I owned and enjoyed the most was a 2009 BMW 135i Coupe.

 

I also owned a B7 A4, MY 2007 and it was a great car, never had any serious issues or trouble.

 

Saw this car race at Daytona in 1991.

 

Nice to see that the thread has had some legs... in hindsight my first 'nice' car was probably also the nicest - a 1976 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 that had been delivered new in Australia...

It came to a very untimely end though - and I almost did as well - after being hit head-on at open road speeds (100kph/60mph) back in 2001.

I have zero recollection of the accident and never saw the car again (someone took the pic of wreck for me) - which is probably why I went for the Dodge when starting this thread...

 

Glad your were fortunate to survive what appeared to be not a likely survivable accident. The 911s back then had crazy corner instability with throttle lift off. Many did not make it. Your accident did not look like that mechanism though.

 

Nicest Car Driven: Maybach. Kind of like driving a suite at the Plaza Hotel.
Most Fun Car Driven: My first car, a 1970 Camaro Z/28. LT1 engine, M21 transmission, 11:1 compression, and 395HP to the rear wheels on a garage dnyo. I did some STUPID stuff in that car and loved every second of it. After Sunoco discontinued their 260-grade leaded gas it was hard to find anything she'd run on properly. The solution was AvGas at the Lincoln Park NJ airport. Ran hot, burned up a set of spark plugs in a couple hundred miles, but WOW, did it fly!!
Finest Car Actually Owned: My wife's Mercedes GLE400. While it's nice and fancy-pants, it's not my personal cup of tea. My personal choice, and my first car I bought new for myself in several decades, is my 2019 Subaru Outback. While the wife's MB is fancy, my Subaru is the anti-fancy car. Cloth seats! I'd have gotten a front bench seat if they made them these days, but cloth seats instead of leather is a start. I was driving her hand-me-down Infiniti QX56's for more than 10 years. She gets the new lease, and if I need a new car when the lease is up we buy it out for me. And then we lease her another whatever. She's such a low mileage driver it makes sense for us that way. And more importantly it keeps her happy. Happy Wife, Happy Life.

 

The early 930 turbos were certainly dangerous if overdriven - notorious for lag and vicious torque steer...I had this girl on the track several times and handled perfectly.
This was someone losing control coming towards me and head-on..What saved me was engine in the rear...

 

Yeah tell me about it... Through the years I have been lucky enough to drive alot of fast vintage and vintage race car 911's, no full bore 935's, but a 934 and more then a few 930's. Luckily I know how to handle them when they want to bite back. I still remember the day I swore I would never own a 930. I was asked to take a local one for sale out for a check ride for a guy a few states over. It was a real nice 1978, the sweet spot with the bigger engine and lighter chassis white with a light tan interior. I was not really paying attention and shooting the shit with the owner, when I decided to hit an on ramp in 3rd gear and low speed.... The rpms where low and I was checking for bogging or flat spots totally forgetting it was a 930... I had given it almost full throttle from low rpm as I went up this nice curve to the right to enter the freeway... Next thing I know the the turbo hits and the rear kicks out on me. Thankfully I did not lift and just countersteered and left it on the throttle till the turn straightened out. It was a real code brown moment... I almost any other car you lift the throttle to correct, in a 911 you do that and it all gets worse. It has to do with polar inertia and weight transfer with the huge rear tires trying to hold the heavy lump of an engine sitting behind them in place. You only brake in straight lines in an old 911, esp pre 1969 short wheelbase ones.

On a track when you expect it is one thing, on a freeway onramp when your not paying attention is another. At that moment I swore I would never own a 930... Flash forward a few years I get offered a nice Green on green 1978 with blue and green plaid inserts. I passed, at 30k... At the time no one wanted 930's to expensive to service, no fun to drive on the street.... Few years later it sells to a famous collector (Magnus) for 80k or so and everyone wants them...

I'll be honest I'd take a mid 80's Carrera 3.2 with the m491 package aka the turbo look package for the US as we did not get the Turbo from 80-86 or so. Also Magnus is a super nice and gracious dude, I've run into him a few times at events.

 

The nicest car I ever had is this awesome little plastic tiny car which I have been hunting for a years...


But the best car I ever had is this 2013 C63. Naturally aspirated V8. What a sound (real sound, no cheating!) and what a performance.


I’m lucky enough to have these two cars still in my possession.

 

@Foo2rama the "wickedest" Porsche I ever had the pleasure of driving was a 996 GT2 (possibly because I haven't encountered one of the early 930's) - and only in the dry. I can't imagine how carefully you would have to balance the throttle cornering in the wet. When you get to drive something like that it brings home just how talented (and ballsy) professional drivers have to be to get through something like Le Mans or an event at the Nurburgring...

Back to nice/interesting cars. One that I would likely still have if it wasn't stolen back in 2010 is the Nissan GTR32 - 'Godzilla'. Not so well known out of Asia Pacific I'm guessing, but the GTR32 turned motorsport on its head down here in the early '90's by beating Holden and Ford at their own game in the Bathurst 1000 race. My 1992 model has been imported to NZ with relatively few modifications and I had just finished returning her to complete factory spec (even including the original radio cassette player) when it was stolen...

 

Those are unicorns in the US.

any 996 is a piece of cake vs the 901 chassis cars aka 1963-1989 cars. Porsche has kept moving the engine closer to mid at each model change. In fact I think the current one is actually considered mid engined at this point. I know the race cars definitely are.

but you still needed to be careful with 996’s and 7’s. Brake straight roll on the gas before the apex to weight transfer onto the rears.