What type of car(s)are you driving?

Wondering, particularly of those on the left, what type of vehicle(s) you guys drive? Are you plugging your car in to save the planet or guzzling petrol like a real American?

My commute vehicle is a 414 horsepower V8 Mustang.

I drive a Skoda Octavia. It's known for being a bit boring but extremely reliable which suits me.

Toyota yaris.

Everyday commuter is a 2015 Honda Fit, which gets 35mpg in typical commuting and 40mpg+ on long highway drives. For lulz I still have my 2006 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, which is my weekend toy and "holy shit look at all the snow" commuter. Gets about 16mpg on a good day but has 4WD that has seen me going up snow-covered hills while everyone else is stuck.

My wife drives a 2006 Explorer, but I believe I'll be getting her a new Mustang in a few weeks.

I drive a 2007 Tacoma. I have no plans for getting rid of it any time soon (it only has 41,000 miles on it) but I'd like to get it repainted.

Before the end of the year I may buy myself a Nissan 370Z. Depends on how things are going financially.

Decade-old Scion xA in near-pristine condition. Hope it will last at least another decade.

I usually drive the '04 Tundra. The wife usually drives the '05 Camry.

These are my primary vehicles:











I use the first three the most. The last one, almost never.

We'v got two VW Golfs. Mine is a TDI with extra hp. The wifes is a blue motion which was meant to be super eco friendly, until we got the letter through from VW.......

For reasons that have nothing to do with politics but which I will not go into here (Hi, Face), any one of these:



Or one of these (most run on natural gas; all have bike racks on the front):



There is a car in the family, but as the family member who drives it is not a member here, nunya.

An Explorer and a Mustang. Fuck the environment.

Why do they still make girl bikes so that they can be ridden in skirts? Do that many women ride bikes in skirts anymore?

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Is that some kind of power-assist deal on that one?

No idea, but for someone like me with short legs (I've got the seat cranked down as far as it'll go so I can reach the pedals) it makes it a lot easier to get on and off one than off a men's bike. I'm told the bar on men's bikes "makes the frame stronger," but if you've ever seen some poor guy try to dismount too fast and whang The Boys off one it's not a pretty sight.

I wouldn't try riding in a skirt, anyway (though I've seen women doing it around here). Long skirts (even very wide-leg slacks) can get caught in the chain, and that's when you end up in the ER.

2009 Honda Fit. First car I ever owned. Bought it in 2009. Close to 100,000 miles on it already.

I drive a 2009 Nissan Altima Hybrid, gets 29 mpg Hwy, 33 mpg City.
The Mrs. drives a 2015 Nissan Rogue, gets about 30 mpg.
Eldest drives a 2005 Buick Century that we bought off my In-laws. No idea about mileage on it.
Youngest drives a 1998 Nissan Maxima that used to be mine. It has ~200K miles on it. Maybe 25/26 mpg???

I had a VW Golf as a "loaner" when my beetle was in the shop. Nice cars! Anywho here is a stock photo of my car. Not great mileage but other than that it's nice. I hope it lasts until it's paid for at least. It has a big trunk - I can fit an average Georgia white tail doe in it. My big body-wrapping tarp is always ready to go!

2015 MINI Cooper S

Been checking out the M235i though.

Cool! I like MINI's.

If we're including kids, my oldest daughter drives a 2006(?) Nissan XTerra and my youngest drives a 2011 Toyota RAV4.

As a family, we haven't owned a "car" since 1998.

Yup. She's got three options - straight human pedal-power, full-out electric motor, or half-and-half on the hills. That oblong thing behind the seat is the battery. Plug her in to a standard household outlet (battery's removable or, if you can park it close to the house, you can just run an extension cord to it a la an electric mower) and she gets about 20-25 miles on a recharge. Only thing I don't like is that, because the motor's on the rear wheel, it comes with hand brakes, not coaster brakes, and I've never entirely trusted hand brakes, but whattaya gonna do? If you're interested: http://www.yukontrailinc.com/electric-bicycles.html

I'm presently driving one of these:



But I'll probably be upgrading to one like this soon:

Good thinking! You have to plan ahead for a growing family in the future and get bigger, safer vehicles.

Don't have one. Never needed one. I have one train station, two Tube stations and about ten different buses within ten minutes of my home. I've never needed one. I just view it as an unnecessary luxury, plus I'd have to pay the extortionate parking permit annual cost on top...which makes no sense if I still have to use the train and Tube to commute or travel and pay for a season ticket each year to do so.

My reasons for having cars have mostly to do with children. Now that they are older, we pretty much only need one, rather than two. Without the kids, I'd probably go weeks at a time without using the car.

Herein lies the issue for me. I'd only need a car for traveling outside of London, and only then if it's got poor rail links, which just isn't that often. Maybe it might change if kids come into the picture. After all, I find that inner city kids tends to be too posh to walk anywhere.

Initially, the kid thing is about accompanying equipment. But at this point, it's about logistics and timing. If have three baseball games at different fields starting within 15 minutes of each other, there very often isn't a transit solution that works. My oldest can get there on her own, but not so much the other two.