What cars did you lust after as a kid?

[Cobol74]

Lotus Cortina. It was a very very long time ago.

http://www.shorey.net/Auto/British/Lotus/1964 Ford Lotus Cortina.jpg

and Jim Clark as my instructor.

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

Aston Martin v8 Vantage from the living daylights

 

[MadCat360]

The first car I can remember wanting really badly was:

Super high-tech for '96. All you had to do was touch the top of the door and it opens with that same kind of sucking noise you get from the fridge.

Awesome.

 

[teletubby-warrior]

All but one of my childhood dream cars have already been listed...

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/08/01/kruze_000.jpg

 

[katwalk]

I am a girl
I wanted a pony
This is the kind I told the mercury dealer I wanted when we were getting a car for mom :lol:

 

[anti-net]

McLaren F1 LM in Orange

Jaguar XJ220

Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR

TVR Speed 12

......I still need all of those cars in my life, there awesome pieces of engineering

 

[Ottobon]

2 years old

4 years old

6 years old

10 years old

Just everything about it.

The fact it was the fastest car in the world before the Mclaren helped, but its beauty is what makes me still want one now. Honestly, i don't know how someone who has seen a car like this can find the current Jaguar XJ even acceptable. Not to say the current car isn't good looking, its just a let-down compared to this.

Sure its not pretty, even in the least, but who cares when you have that much aggression. Personally it sticks out in my mind simply because they went a completely different route with the whole idea of styling, basically the "f*ck beauty, lets intimidate the hell out of everybody" approuch. Also the fact its incredibly hard, incredibly quick (especially its 60-100mph time when driven properly) and the sound of its engine. To me its the perfect ying to the XJ220s yang. Beauty in cars is overrated as a aesthetic quality, the way i see it I have no desire to stick my junk up the tailpipe so all i care about is visual impact, rather then prettyness, prettyness, and more prettyness.

 

[Homer_Bart]

3 years old,

6 years old,

9 years old,

12 years old,

15 years old, now, year 2008

Sorry, but for a 15 year old, that Bentley is cool

 

[wooflepoof]

unfortunately.

 

[stevanford1]

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/08/02/DSC_0075.jpg

BTW reading about Homer_Bart reminded me that the R34 GT-R is now 9 years old. I remember when they first came out and if you found one for sale in Australia it would be on sale for more than $150,000 . Now i have seen them on sale for under $50,000. Time really does fly.

 

[MadCat360]

unfortunately.

UN fortunately? What's wrong with a GTO? It's a great car. Thinking of getting one.

 

[zeoniks]

The first car I can remember wanting really badly was:

Super high-tech for '96. All you had to do was touch the top of the door and it opens with that same kind of sucking noise you get from the fridge.

Awesome.

Yep this was my first dream car. I remember my mother buying me a folder with a picture of this car when I was younger. It had all the specifications on the side and trivia. Not to mention they had an awesome show based off of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPgHO55aYtQ&feature=related

 

[vanMould]

The first car I can remember wanting really badly was:

Super high-tech for '96. All you had to do was touch the top of the door and it opens with that same kind of sucking noise you get from the fridge.

Awesome.

x3

I remember playing the demo of this until my finger bled:

Is it normal to know what a racing line is at the age of 11?

Or a power take-off shaft at the age of 6?

 

[FDaihatsu]

 

[Buba]

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/08/02/bmw_635csi_1.jpg

This was beack when I was about 10, I guess...

Funny how some guys in here post contemporary cars. Well, if you still are a kid...

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/08/02/bmw_635csi_1.jpg

This was beack when I was about 10, I guess...

Funny how some guys in here post contemporary cars. Well, if you still are a kid...

because some of them still are

 

[fbc]

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/08/02/bmw_635csi_1.jpg

This was beack when I was about 10, I guess...

I'm still lusting after one of those

 

[Polly]

 

[DTMracer]

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/08/02/2006-BMW-Le-Mans-Classic-1972-1979-BMW-M1-1024x768.jpg

 

[marcos_eirik]

Well, here we go:

Of course the Ferrari F40, my first ever model car was an F40

The F1 LM was the ultimate version of the ultimate car back then so of course it needs to be included

Yes, I did play NFS2 quite a lot, this was my favorite

We have always had Fords at home, so the RS200 became a bit of a hero, especially with what the Norwegian rally cross driver Martin Schanche did with it.

This one is rather predictable if you know me, we still have one at home, so of course the Capri was a bit of a hero for me.

Don't know why but I always fancied the 928 quite a lot. A friend of mine is a huge BMW fan and I remember always arguing with him that the 928 was/is a better GT than the 850i, which I always said was too like lesser BMW coupes.

Back then this was the symbol of absolute success and total domination and therefore gained quite a bit of my fondness for that...

The original all weather supercar with lots of fancy electronics and computer controlled stuff.

Just like the 959, just newer and more accessible. Some would say the pinnacle of the air cooled 911.

I remember this one from an old batch of top trumps cards, this was the king...