Ahh! So that was a good guess. I know of Citroen but not a lot.
I really hate the automotive products from America, especially recently. I would LOVE a nice little Citroen DC2. I love me some sporty little cars.
It was the right price, at the right time, and unfortunately the boss, my wife, liked it. Her words, āit is sooo cute!ā I knew right then and there that I was doomed to drive around in a roller skate with an engine. Sighā¦
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If it has a real transmission, Iād buy it. Worst feeling in the world to me is driving an automatic transmission. So boring, I feel so disconnected, and I zone out and have a tendency to nearly hit things from not paying attention.
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Unfortunately it isd getting harder and harder to find a model that has a manual. Vehicles that would otherwise tempt me are āoff the listā for being auto only. The only thing worse is the auto being a CVT! As I mentioned before, I got over that feature in 1967 - by the time I turned 14 it had no use-case!
If I had $$ Iād custom build a Subaru Forester with turbo and manual, perhaps with the STI diff control tooā¦ or maybe not - if I had money maybe I could find something interesting! 
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I just recently bought a Hyundai Elantra, and it was one of the very few cars I was interested in because thereās just not many cars available in the USA with 3 pedals anymore.
I have most assuredly built a Subaru or two in my day. A Forester is definitely plausible. Itās actually not an overly tough build, most people just opt to do it in a smaller car. I think that would be awesome though!!
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Ultimately thatās probably going to be the decider of what car I buy when I next need one as well. Corvetteās are out (C8 is auto only), Camaroās are an option but I donāt like the design, Mustangās I like but the S550 is significantly less attractive than my S197 IMO. So if it comes down to it Iāll buy a small economical FWD car if I must to get a stick shift.
As to Subiās, I love me a full on Outback. I was a fan of the AMC EAgles in the 80ās, had the Mitsu 4wd wagon rebadged as a Dodge Colt, etc. I love me a station wagon, and if itās 4wd then itās even better.
Now youāre talking my language. Most of my car building career was eclipses, mirages, colts, evos and gallant vr4s. I love 90s Mitsubishi.
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Was a fun car. Was HORRIBLE build quality. Thing burned about 1/2 as much oil as gas from the day it was new, not a very good ride quality. But 5-speed manual w/ AWD and the ground clearance with a wagons level of cargo roomā¦that thing was FUN.
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Love to read you Americans reminiscing the US bedsteads with engines the size of houses, When their are Mercs, BMW, Volvo, VW, Audi, and European Fords, and many others that out perform your efforts and are good on fuel as well,
LOl I want a tank?
They were very advanced in their day but would not pass modern safety standards,
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I have always been an anomaly for an American. Even though I have whinged about my Nissan Micra in a previous post, I have always liked the smaller car. Despite its primitiveness, I really loved the Ford Pinto I inherited as my first car. It was so old and rusty, that it had āFlintstones Brakesā, and an included a fire extinguisher. 
Since then, every car I have owned has been a compact of some sort. The one car I still wish I had, was my 1989 Ford Escort Mk. IV XR3i. I had quite a bit of fun driving it around Europe when I was living there.
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I love cars, but I have no license.
I am very Scandinavian in my taste tho so I love rally, rallycross, classic carsā¦
(And have found that Youtube is a treasure trove for classic racing. I mean why watch F1 or Nascar when you can watch two pre-1930s cars pedal-to-the-metal fighting for 5th place. Or a 1970s Volvo going faster-than-anyone-would-think-is-sane on a narrow icy finnish gravel road?)
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Who is the rally driver thatās taken a lot of heat over the years because in interviews he basically always says (paraphrased): āI havenāt the foggiest clue what my navigator is saying. Heās only there because weāve been friends for years and the regs say I have to have a navigatorā
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Mark Fischer?
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To clear up any confusion. I know that my flag is showing Thailand. That is where I have been living for the last 8 years. I grew up in Iowa in the US. I lived there until I turned 16. Since that time, I have lived in a number of countries. I have not been back to the US for any length of time (longer than a month) in the last 12 years. Before Thailand, I was in Japan. While there, I had a Mazda Demio (Same as a Ford Fiesta) and a Toyota MR-2. When I went back to the US for a visit, my father kindly lent me his Chevy 1/2 Ton pick-up with an extended bed. After driving the previously mentioned cars for 4 1/2 years I felt like I was driving a tank. Also, driving on the right side of the road was a little bit disorientating as well. I only turned into the wrong lane 3 times. Thank goodness I grew up in a small town of 700 people. So there was no traffic to worry about. Now, after driving so long on the left side in Thailand, it would feel really weird.
Side note: I often find myself driving on the āwrong sideā in video games much to the amusement of my Thai wife.
I was saddened to see SAAB stop making cars. They were some of my favorites.
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I spent the first week in Forza Horizon 4 crashing because wellā¦ England.
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I like my chevy with big carbs!
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Carbs are the one thing I wonāt do. I like a lot of the manual things in my cars, but not carbs. I like how much better fuel economy you get with the same power output w/ injection, or same fuel economy with better power. Yes, itās more complex, requires computers to manage a proper injections system, and is FAR more expensive to install and maintainā¦but IMO itās worth it. Itās my ONE thing I will give in and prefer technology for in a car.
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Well itās a 50ās era machine.
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