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ok, my contribution:
My favourite car in the world would probably be a tuned-up Karmann Ghia. I would use it on sunny weekends for long drives through our beautiful countryside with my girl.
I also LOVE beetles, fastbacks, split-screen buses and indeed most other cars from that stable. These aren't particularly fast or powerful but modest, beautiful and easily understood/serviced.
I still think that the environmental, visual and noise pollution created by car reliance, particularly in urban areas, is incredibly bent. They have been massively detrimental to the public life of the city. It is very weird to look at old modernist drawings of the utopian 'autoscape' where the car is heralded as the great saviour of the city, providing fast, clean and efficient transport for the masses. The reality has proven entirely different.