What kind of vehicle do you drive?

[Mars_ax]

I'm well into my cars, probably owned 30+ over the years. I was always into Jap sports cars, my favourite being my Toyota Supra Twin Turbo.

Me and the missus are about to move into our first house soon so we recently sold our cars (mine a Nissan 350Z) and pooled our money together to buy a car to share. It's a diesel sadly but my missus does a lot of miles so 60mpg was appealing. Damn you know you're getting old when MPG takes preference over performance!

I'm a builder by trade and for work I have a Nissan Cabstar Tipper and a Mitsubishi L200 Animal. Not as beefy as the V8 pickups you can get Stateside but we don't have the silly $4 a gallon gas prices you get.

I'd love a V8 pickup like the Dodge Ram but sadly they're quite rare over here therefore very expensive at £30k ($45k). If and when the construction industry picks up over here and I can afford it, I'm seriously gonna look into importing one over. I've gotta have an American V8 at some point. Be it the Corvette Z06, Ram pickup or a Mustang! My dream car is the BMW M3 which has a V8, but being German I'm pretty sure it'll be all refined and sound nowhere near as good as a US V8.

Those 350 Z's are also a great value in a sports car, with tons of power in the HP 6 cyl. engine, and the 370Z is just bad ass. I'd love to own one of those but it isn't a practical for me to use as a business vehicle, and it would probably just set in my garage most of the time.

I got a great deal here in Texas on my regular cab 2010 Dodge R/T pickup, the sticker price was something like $33,000 American, but I got around $9,000 in rebates and dealer discounts, $15,000 for my trade in, and a break on sales tax.
I always look for great deals on vehicles before I buy them, i'm not the dummy I used to be when I first started buying cars/trucks 40 + years ago.

cheers