Desirable Rides

Since its invention proper in the 1890s, the car has been worshipped like no other machine ... Today we find almost impossible to live without it. We fuss over it. Talk about it proudly in pubs. We build it little houses to live in. ... In motorshows worldwide, worshippers come in tens of thousands to pay homage to new gods ... otherwise healthy young women are strewn all but naked, like sacrificial victims, across the lovingly polished machines ... (Jonathan Glancey, 2003)

Well said. Some women may find these words revolting because they don't understand and cannot appreciate the love between boys and cars. To make them understand and appreciate, one only has to replace 'cars' with handbags or shoes ...

Every decade has its own icon; it was the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing in the 1950s, the E-Type in the swinging 60s. My pick for the 70s is the Datsun 240Z and the BMW CS. The 80s saw the creation of a new class by BMW in the form of the E30 3 series. The 90s were the era of the computer aided designs where cars look almost alike but beauties like the Supra, Efini RX-7 and TVR Chimeara were still produced. Ferrari never failed to make beautiful sexy cars; the 250GTO and 275GTB of the 60s, to the Dino 246GT and 308 of the 70s to the 288GTO and 328GTB of the 80s and my personal favourite, the 355.

I may one day be able to afford a Ferrari but for now I have to settle for the realistic and attainable dream cars. The current top three in my list (in no particular order) are; the Mini Cooper, Volkswagen Scirocco (the 1.4 will do) and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10. 
A certain Ms Shaliza calls them babe magnets. She wasn't agreeable to the 'project Mini Cooper' some months ago and she was vehemently against the 'project Scirocco' a few weeks back. I wonder what she'll say to the soon to be announced 'project Evo 10'? Maybe she shouldn't know, she has been giving too much bad automobile advice lately. She was however quite supportive of the idea of me getting the Fiesta ... hmmm