Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive?


Just curious. People have asked about watches,
cigars, beer, and even ones income here.

1: What do you drive (daily & weekends)?
2: What might you be driving in the future?
3: What would you drive if $$$ was no object (pick 2 ;-)?

My answers to the above:
1: Toyota truck.
2: Newer Toyota truck.
3: Lamborghini Murcielago & McLaren F1.
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Showing 2 responses by cdk84

I drive English automobiles. My favorite is my [presently not very competitive] 1961 Sunbeam Alpine race car. But hey, a race car is a work in progress, just like an audio system.
The Alpine has more driving character than virtually all [affordable] contemporary cars. And it has something only the very exotic cars have today, namely style. For my taste, if it's not attractive, don't take it off the trailer. Were someone to give me a BMW Z convertible, I would trade it for something whose lines I like. And they drive very neutrally, which I do not enjoy.
If I could afford it, I would have a Bentley --not a 'Blower Bentley'-- but one of the enclosed four seaters from the early 20s, or an Alvis Special!

I drive a 2003 Honda CR-V because winters in New England are easier to manage with AWD. I'm 6'7". The Honda handles better than any other SUV [that I can sit in] driving pretty nicely, all things considered. As an aside, my CR-V is from the period when its AWD was on-demand. That means that when I'm enjoying a drift through a corner and the AWD kicks in, I have to correct for the AWD after correcting for the drift: a very different approach to performance driving. Not particularly hard to manage, just different.

I love the bumper sticker "my other car is a broom". When time allows I vintage race a 1961 Sunbeam Alpine --no longer seriously but for fun. Generally if it speaks with a British accent, it's to my liking. The only reason I have a listening room, however, is that I simply can't fit in a Type 35 Bugatti without the jaws of life.

I'm still looking for a Series 1 or 1.5 XKE coupe. I've driven seven of them by now (well, two drop-tops) and just have to have one at some point, sooner, I hope, than later.