Best City Fun Car to Drive.

DaveC

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The G-Cabriolet looks pretty fun, just a lot of $!

 

JackD201

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The soft top is really rare!
 

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Funnily enough there is a similar post on Whats Best Car Forum where various Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc owners debate on what's the best fun DAC to own.

Some like this:



and others this:



- respectively £150 and £300.

The tyre noise from their cars completely drowns out the audio anyway.
 

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Tang I know just how you feel. I end up driving a little Honda HR-V that isn't mine all the time. It's not sporty, and not even as small as the cooper, but it's soooo easy to park and turn, flips U's, etc. Small cars in city are boss. If only I properly could fit in some of them... my knees grind on the dashboard if I can even get my butt to make contact on the seat in some of the smaller cars.

When I don't like small cars is on freeway with big trucks etc!
 

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Shane you must be a fake aussie to complain about heat.

LOL. Tang. Big difference between Aussie heat and HK / Thai heat with all that humidity :cool:
I am from Sydney, not far east Qld.

To use for beach car, I understand :)
 

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I have owned quite a few cars, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren, Benz, BMW, Mini, Dodge, Toyota, Honda, Mazda. I actually enjoy Mini Coupe most driving in Bangkok. It is most fun, most practical, most exciting (because I can drive as crazy as I want without worrying about totaling.) car of the bunch. The car is quick. It grips the road really well, zigzag from point A to B fastest. Never broke. The trunk is big enough to grocery shop for a week. I love the proportion of the car and I believe it will be a future classic.

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Ever tried a Fiat Abarth 595?
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I‘ve almost always had a 2 car setup, one for the garage queen and another for those city trips and bad weather days when practical makes sense.. My last beater was a scion xD which was so easy to maneuver and park anywhere without care or worry.. I enjoyed driving the wee goofy little car.. In the Real world, Driving a slow car fast is more fun than driving a fast car slow.
 

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I think the question in the title of the thread is not so easy to answer.

when I think of city driving, I think of driving in Midtown Manhattan. I don't find that city driving fun in any respect.

I definitely prefer a small car to maneuver in the city, rather than a large car. But I would also want something comfortable and which insulates me from the noise and commotion of the ambient city environment.

My answer to this question would be a small, two-door luxury car.
 

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Please have a look at that one:
I immediately fell deeply in love :cool:
 

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Judging by recent live LA network broadcasts of police chopper car chases. The answer would be a +600 HP lifted Hennessey Velociraptor 6x6.


Does it come in bulletproof? :oops:
 

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The VelociRaptor... needs my pancake (car) flipper idea—slides out from the front to get under all those cars stalled in front of you. Just flips 'em over so they end up looking like little beetles in the ditch, with their wheels spinning!
 
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The VelociRaptor... needs my pancake (car) flipper idea—slides out from the front to get under all those cars stalled in front of you. Just flips 'em over so they end up looking like little beetles in the ditch, with their wheels spinning!
Great idea, Lol.. your flipper idea is already alive in GTA5 ..
 

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Does it come in bulletproof? :oops:
The VelociRaptor... needs my pancake (car) flipper idea—slides out from the front to get under all those cars stalled in front of you. Just flips 'em over so they end up looking like little beetles in the ditch, with their wheels spinning!
I'm afraid it isn't quite that American at delivery. Even if it is already past the point of being driveable in almost any other country's city centers.
 

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I think the question in the title of the thread is not so easy to answer.

when I think of city driving, I think of driving in Midtown Manhattan. I don't find that city driving fun in any respect.

I definitely prefer a small car to maneuver in the city, rather than a large car. But I would also want something comfortable and which insulates me from the noise and commotion of the ambient city environment.

My answer to this question would be a small, two-door luxury car.

A couple months ago or so I happened upon a Mercedes of the vintage of your last SL. I thought to myself "wow that really is a small car" but I thought about what you said how the inside feels really big. Then I thought... I could do that, I like the idea of small on the outside, big on inside.

However these days it's almost all coupes that are sports cars with bad visibility. No one makes coupes for being a coupe anymore it seems. I mean, I guess the Honda Civic counts?
 

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Bob, this is for you:

A Prius is just a roof rack for that bad-boy!
 

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I’d be interested in what others are driving. I have a 2013 JX35 that the wife drives since we sold her car. My daily driver is now a 2001 Chevy Explorer Conversion van and I’ve grown quite tired of driving a boat about town. My eyes have been towards a performance suv like a 2004 Cayenne Turbo and the Infiniti FX50.
 

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