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My dream car when I was 10, and still is - the F40.  The prices of these things are up around $3 million nowadays.  









But my lottery car, despite taking a lot of pride for not being "southern" culturally, is the General Lee:

If I were to buy a Porsche, I think it would be a Cayman.  I like the Boxter, and the Cayman is essentially a Boxter coupe.  Convertibles are nice to have at the right time and place.  But that's not most times and most places.  Coupes are more practical, comfortable, quiet, safe, and theft-resistant.  They are also lighter for a given degree of structural stiffness, so they can have a better combo of ride and handling.

I like them as well.  The wife told me "911 or nothing".  OK then.

At one time she wanted a convertible, she then said she was fine with a sunroof (which we rarely use, almost never if I'm driving).  That put me on to the BMW 240i convertible, which soon runs up to $60K.  The GTI is a lot more practical but doesn't make the same nice noises.

I like the old Pontiac Soltice.

I'm sure the engineers at Porsche build an excellent SUV.  I just don't like the overall concept, even if it is the best out there for the money.

I'd bet it's profitable for them because a lot of folks DO want a Porsche and can't manage the 911 type, or even a Panamera.

One rarely sees SUVs in France, and if you do it's a Range Rover 90% of the time.  We had a rental mini-ute last time though.  A friend asked me if it was an SUV and I responded "Nope".  If you have to ask ....  it was a kind of raised sedan.  It really was the older Chevy Equinox with a Diesel and manual transmission.

The new revised Equinox is not half bad, but this one was mediocre.  At best.

I dislike the high CoG.

I guess that's another feature of a sports car, low CoG and difficult entry.  At my age, that is beginning to be a factor.

I saw somewhere the 2020 run of Corvettes is almost sold out.

Macan is definitely too small.  Cayenne is a great tow vehicle by European standards and a decent one by American standards, but at only 7700 lbs rating it's still not really built for towing.

I prefer SUVs over pickups for towing for a variety of reasons, but when I got my new travel trailer, it's just a little too heavy for the 1/2 ton options out there.  The problem is, the car manufacturers stopped making 3/4 ton SUVs.  So now the Ford Expedition gets to the highest tow rating you can get on a modern SUV, at around 9200 lbs, which still isn't enough for my purposes, plus the Expedition is kind of ugly.

So that's how I ended up with the F150 supercrew with max towing, it'll do 11,500 lbs.  It's not truly a 3/4 ton but it's also more than a 1/2 ton, I guess it's a 2/3 ton or something.  Anyway, with its twin turbo V6 gas engine it's a great daily driver, but also has incredible torque throughout the power band which makes towing even very heavy trailers, a real pleasure.

If I towed often, I'd think about a Diesel something something.

If I towed often, I'd think about a Diesel something something.

Diesel trucks in the 3/4 ton and up range, are pretty brutal daily drivers. I test drove them all-- including towing my vehicles-- before choosing.  You could say I "tow a lot" by non-commercial/private/consumer standards, but even so I'm only towing maybe 10% of my total driving time. So the daily driving aspect is extremely important to me.

My friend Bald Greg has a 3/4 ton turbo-diesel GMC 2500 and tows both a boat, and a travel trailer, of similar weights to mine.  It's heavy and sluggish on city streets.  It's great for long-haul towing and gets WAY better mileage than my V6 gasser does when pulling a trailer, but it's still a bit of a dog on the streets alone.  As was every other Ford/GM/Dodge diesel that I drove.

And when NOT towing, the 3.5L V6 twin turbo Ford Ecoboost is a real screamer.  It's the most fun driving vehicle I've ever owned.

There are several thousand C7s on lots unsold, brand new, going to be some serious incentives to move them along.

When the C7 came out, the same happened with the C6s.