A Bit Like Always Wanting The Most Beautiful Girl In School!

[LS400ANTH]

I remember always wanting to date the best looking girl in class-until I did. Turned out she was as dull as dishwater. A similar thing when I recently drove an 80's Porsche 911. Was really looking forward to it and was quite disappointed. Hard to drive on the limit. Not as quick as I thought. Now off my wish list.

What car have you always wanted, and may have bought and then thought it wasn't as good as the dream?

[mikeyv]

I remember always wanting to date the best looking girl in class-until I did. Turned out she was as dull as dishwater. A similar thing when I recently drove an 80's Porsche 911. Was really looking forward to it and was quite disappointed. Hard to drive on the limit. Not as quick as I thought. Now off my wish list.

What car have you always wanted, and may have bought and then thought it wasn't as good as the dream?

Dream car 59 Cadillac, the one with the massive fins and spaceship styling, I expect it's a dog to drive, but I wouldn't care, to me it's art, I'd be happy just to be able to wake up every morning and look at it.

Not dream cars, but two I fancied for a while before actually buying - a TypeR Honda and a Mazda MX5.

I loved my EP3 Civic TypeR, even though it was a licence threatener, being so much fun to thrash.

The Mazda on the other hand hasn't grabbed me, in fairness though it might be because I left it too late, getting on a bit now so feel a bit of a pillock tearing round with the top down.

[The Swede]

I've driven many 911's and it remains a dream car. That being said, I love a car that is hard to drive on the limit. No achievement in driving an Audi RS4, IS-F or a BMW M3.They're just heaps of metal that go fast.

Then again, drove a few heroes that turned out to be big disappointments:

1. Aston Marton DB9. Considered buying one and never been so disappointed by a car. Looks great, but really heavy to drive. A truck is more nimble than a DB9.

2. Mercedes W126. This was THE car when I was a child and since my dad always drove the W123 / W124, the car we'd aspire to. I was always told the W124 was actually a "small S-class". Drove an immaculate 300SE a while ago and was very disappointed. The W124 actually drove much better.

3. Latest disappointment had been the BMW 7 series (F01). As I drive an S myself, but always quite liked the 7, I was really thrilled when Sixt gave me a 740 as renter one week. Turns out that the old principles of "The Merc is the comfortable one and the BMW is the sporty one", doesn't exist anymore. The Merc is way sharper and more nimble to drive that the current airplane carrier of BMW.

There are a whole series of other disappointing cars (M5, BMW X5 35d, Audi R8, etc) but none that were really heroes.

On the other hand, there are still a few cars that absolutely enthuse me when driving them or that were really pleasant surprises. Except for those I owned myself, there is the Range Rover (and RR Sport) TDV8, the 911 C2 (not c4 or C4S), the Citroën DS3 1.6 (150hp), Jag' S-Type 2.5 V6 Sport, Honda Civic Type R (first gen.), Ferrari 348 GTS (also a pig to drive), Focus St 2.5, Merc R320CDi (yup, amazing machine for traveling),