These Are The Cars Readers Would Drive For The Rest Of Their Lives

Even if gasoline no longer floweth from the pumps and there is no way to convert the powertrain to batteries, nuclear fusion, or whatever tech aliens may bestow upon us, I would own a 1st gen Acura NSX, if nothing more than to just stare at it every day.

More importantly, it will give me the motivation to keep exercising into my twilight years so I could continue to fit in the damn thing.

Suggested by paradsecar

Chevy SS with the manual - giant trunk, spacious interior, plenty powerful without forced induction on a lovely motor. Trying to remember why I don’t already own one...

Suggested by MaxLat

It was between the Zonda and the CLK GTR, and I choose Zonda. First of all, I could stare at this thing all day, Second of all the sound that Mercedes V12 Makes comes with it’s own Holy Water, Practical? Who cares, I’m sure I can find someone to mount a roof rack on it...I want it, and in purple!

Suggested by darthspartan117

The newest, lowest mileage Honda Accord 2.0T manual. Room for the family, should be fairly reliable, but still be fun to drive and moddable if I wanted to go down that road.

Suggested by FijiST

I’d probably go with a WRX wagon. Hawkeye maybe? Performance, but still practical. The more hopeful side of me would go with a Polestar 2 AWD, because I want to believe owning an EV will become affordable in my lifetime

Suggested by Skamanda

I’m keeping my Maverick hybrid for the foreseeable future regardless. It’s small enough to be kind of fun do drive, it does weekend chores and gets my teardrop and kayaks to interesting places, it has room for 5 if I’m ever called on to be the bus driver, and it can easily get close to 50mpg running around town. Even if gas were $7-8/gallon that’s still not too terribly painful. Plus — and this is the REAL beauty of the right “for the rest of your life” vehicle — it should be generally reliable and easy to source parts/repairs for for quite a long time.

Suggested by ReluctantFloridaMan

Style, personality, performance. Saab 900 Turbo SPG.

I know by personal experience, change the oil every 5000 miles, it will outlive us all.

Suggested by 900turbo

Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, an awesome looking reliable japanese M3 coupe for daily needs that will keep rising in value every single year without fail as if it’s made of S&P 500

Suggested by hayase

A new Porsche Panamera Turbo E-Hybrid. Speed, and room for extra people when needed.

Suggested by Hooperdink

Porsche 356C Coupe, Meißen blau over red interior.

Suggested by Driver Jer

Honestly, I think it my be my current daily driver. 2011 Volvo C30. Manual, enough safety stuff, buttons instead of screens and as fast as I need it to be.

Suggested by Paaron

my current baby, my lotus evora GT; toyota powertrain with just enough space for trips for two, with the “backseats” acting as an extended trunk, plus the actual trunk. and two great bucket seats that are so comfy on my 240 pound, 5'11 frame.

and its a lotus with 420hp, its so much fun its hard to keep it legal :D

Suggested by jtiberius91

Unless you’re a Baby Boomer or older, this has to be an electric car, because at a certain point gasoline is going to be largely unavailable for purchase. And sooner than that, it’s going to become prohibitively expensive. So it needs to be electric, and reliable (has to last enough decades until you die), and easy enough to get in and out of that when you’re in your 80's you can still operate it comfortably.

Reliability, comfort, will be just as useful when you’re Joe Biden’s age as it is today? You need a Lexus RZ.

Suggested by neverspeakawordagain

The one I have already, and it’s going to the grave with me. BMW M5 (E39). It checks every single box you could ever think of, even reliability !!

Suggested by Da Car Guru - 15,000 RPM daily driver

I’ll keep my 1937 Buick till the day I die.

You see, It used to be my old man’s. Till he passed on. He taught me how to drive in that thing (it was already an 70 year old car at that point). He taught me how to fix and maintain a car with that thing. And he taught me how to respect the machine with that thing.

The motor is seized now from not being driven for about a decade, but It’s a simple enough car, that I plan to do an electric swap on it and drive it to the end of the world.

Suggested by redneckrob and his flock of Volvo