What cool car do you want right now?

there are many, but the first one that popped into my head when I saw the thread title was a new Mustang GT350.

Still obsessed with '09-'12 Caymans. Prefer how they look to the current generation.

I've really been feeling the urge to get another BMW 2002. This one I would keep stock and use it as an occasional daily driver.

Cayman GT4. Drooooool.

GT350R, ND miata hardtop, EJ Civic type R. But what really has me going recently:

mazdeuce wrote: I've been thinking about this all morning and the only car I can think of that would actually get used would be a rallycross/kid teaching car. If I didn't have to worry about money I'd head over to my local VW dealer and buy a manual GTI with plaid seats. The Focus ST might be a better car, but the plaid seats are way cooler, and I want them.

No argument here.

Don;t ask me why. Also I still want a Figaro.

I kinda go for the not common most of the time. For me, wanted a 74 1/2 Jenson Healey w/dogleg 5-speed and/or Daimler SP250 Dart since I first saw them almost 40 years ago. Also on the list, an early A-H 3000. It's the design that first got me interested in sports cars. Newish, a Cayman GTS checks the box.

wearymicrobe wrote: Don't ask me why. Also I still want a Figaro.

No explanation is needed as soon as you see the picture. It's enough to trigger "want" on sight.

I'll take a Cougar please.

Also a Pao. I'd actually get one but I can't (yet) convince the wife to allow me to put kids in it.

I'd also like to state that sometimes the desire for a car is for a specific color, much like the desire for plaid seats. It's a total package thing- the TRD Pro I listed in the Sand color does nothing for me.

Brett_Murphy wrote: I'd also like to state that sometimes the desire for a car is for a specific color, much like the desire for plaid seats. It's a total package thing- the TRD Pro I listed in the Sand color does nothing for me.

A co-worker of my wife has one in sand and it's amazing. The orange is horrible.
And then there are cars where color has no bearing at all. When I bought my Mazda2 I told the dealer I had no color preference as long as it was a base car. It wouldn't have mattered at all if it was blue or white or green or silver or black. He was very confused.

dean1484 wrote: Or a 1963 mercury comet S22

There was a nice s22 on Indianapolis CL 2 weeks ago

As for me, I want a Beck 550 Spyder.

I've got X1/9s on the brain again.

This one checks most of the boxes for me. Local, in my price range, farkin' clean. But no room in the stable for another car.

Burrito wrote: I've got X1/9s on the brain again. This one checks most of the boxes for me. Local, in my price range, farkin' clean. But no room in the stable for another car.

Very pretty and clean. Well worth a look.

Although, I really, really don't understand why people put sunroofs in the Targa tops.

I gave Mezzanine my spare targa top.

Jus' Sayin'

and I too would love to have one.

Stefan (Not Bruce) wrote:

Burrito wrote: I've got X1/9s on the brain again. This one checks most of the boxes for me. Local, in my price range, farkin' clean. But no room in the stable for another car.

Very pretty and clean. Well worth a look. Although, I really, really don't understand why people put sunroofs in the Targa tops. I gave Mezzanine my spare targa top. Jus' Sayin' and I too would love to have one.

The sunroof certainly is a bit odd.

I listed the Scirocco late last evening and woke up to a barrage of emails, so with any luck it will find a new home this weekend.

If that happens, there will be a shiny new X parked in my driveway, much to my wife's disappointment.

Burrito wrote:

Stefan (Not Bruce) wrote:

Burrito wrote: I've got X1/9s on the brain again. This one checks most of the boxes for me. Local, in my price range, farkin' clean. But no room in the stable for another car.

Very pretty and clean. Well worth a look. Although, I really, really don't understand why people put sunroofs in the Targa tops. I gave Mezzanine my spare targa top. Jus' Sayin' and I too would love to have one.

The sunroof certainly is a bit odd. I listed the Scirocco late last evening and woke up to a barrage of emails, so with any luck it will find a new home this weekend. If that happens, there will be a shiny new X parked in my driveway, much to my wife's disappointment.

Yeah, it made the Obscure Cars for Sale group on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ObscureCarsOC/

So I suspect you'll have gotten a bunch of emails.

Good luck on the sale!

I saw one of the late 90s thunderbird today and thought of a trio of swaps that need to be done that would ooze cool

1) coyote thunderbird, the power the tbird always needed, the amazing coyote sound, a pretty cool sleek body that could now shred tires and let's be honest the coyote deserves to be dropped into a chassis where it can do more than kill spectators

2) hellcat prowler, you really wanted to like the prowler, but the current grand caravan is faster. Well we've fixed that. Now people that only catch a fleeting glimpse of you sliding by in a mental cloud of tire smoke will think that Pastor Maladano snuck an open wheel car onto the street.

3) hellcat crossfire, think of it as is AMG and SRT ever really jointly developed a project. This idea really makes me wish that Chrysler would develop a solid rwd chassis that isn't the size of a naval warship with a similar turning radius to house some of their properly mental engines. If they really wanted to save the recently killed Dart, the answer would've been to make it rwd, it'd have no natural predators in the market. Potential young male buyers would select it over better looking options with more refinement, materials and design, because rwd. Start with a 4 cyn option, then have the turbo 4 pot, the 300hp v6, a hemi and finally the mental hellcat. (I guess the last suggestion is really 3 and 4, but 4 wouldn't be feasible and is really just a rant on Mopar product planning)

In reply to captdownshift:

I didn't know they killed the dart. Is anything lined up to replace it?

mazdeuce wrote: A co-worker of my wife has one in sand and it's amazing. The orange is horrible.

When you're planning on using it as a base vehicle for launching your kayak from the beach, being able to see it from a distance is important. Hence, Orange > Sand. I'm probably going to wind up using plasti-dip on the silver 4Runner I have to change it into some obnoxious color.

Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote: In reply to captdownshift: I didn't know they killed the dart. Is anything lined up to replace it?

They're stopping production of the Dart and Chrysler 200 to make room in production for more Jeeps and crossovers, so FCA will no longer have cars smaller than the 300/Charger after 2016.

Integra Type R, 67-72 C10 resto-modded, and Typhoon would all fall under the current "want" category

Of course you all know what I've been lusting after for the past year, and still can't have...

captdownshift wrote: I saw one of the late 90s thunderbird today and thought of a trio of swaps that need to be done that would ooze cool 1) coyote thunderbird, the power the tbird always needed, the amazing coyote sound, a pretty cool sleek body that could now shred tires and let's be honest the coyote deserves to be dropped into a chassis where it can do more than kill spectators

I was considering that swap too. The Coyote crate engine and controls package from Jegs is something like $7k. Even clean MN-12 T-birds are only like $3500. Find a SuperChicken for the manual bits but grab an actual trans from the Mustang that has the Getrag MT82 and get the shifter to hit the factory hole. (giggity)

I've been shopping these hard lately:

Long term ownership seems a bit scary though.

petegossett wrote: A '78 Lincoln Continental Town Car, a Locost, and a FiST.

I have a friend of mine that has a 79 town car they are trying to get rid of...

Just saying.

As for me, I past couple of weeks have been building the ultimate late 80's S-10, with a V8 and AWD, in my head.