These Are The Reasons Our Readers Love Their Favorite Automakers

Currently? None of them. They are all building wheeled stupidity of very little interest to me at all anymore. Shark well and truly jumped, I’m done. Overpriced, overscreened, and underwhelming across the board. Get back to me when I can, in fact, buy a car that will let me take a nap while it chauffeurs me from FL to ME and back up the interstate and I might have some interest again. At that point I won’t care what it looks or drives like, I will be asleep or reading a book. I’ll drive my olde crockes around town and actually enjoy driving.

In the mid-term, BMW, though about 2012. Despite the reputation, in my direct, personal experience because I have little interest in the stupid ones with V-anything engines or M’s in the front of thier badges, I have had excellent results with a BUNCH of them. Great buying and ownership experience, they drive properly and I find them easy to live with. Honorary mention and a glass of Akavit poured out for Saab. They were 85% as good as a BMW for a significantly lower price and higher efficiency. But if you can afford that last 15%…

Historically, Peugeot. My first and one true automotive love are RWD Peugeots of the ‘60s-’80s. Nothing has as sublime a ride and handling balance short of a Citroen, and Peugeots are much easier to live with being rather more conventional to say the least. They are just delightful cars, I get them, they get me. Sadly a very difficult proposition to run today, even as a toy car.

If I have to pick just one, it would be Peugeot, even if I haven’t owned one in more than 20 years now.