dlq04

I've owned a lot of different cars over the years and my favorite ones all seemed to be powered by 4 cylinder engines in the 1500 to 2000cc range. From my first small car, a Spitfire, to my MGA

ralper

I agree. Give me a small, light, 4 cylindered, manual transmissioned car anyday.

The fun is all in the gearbox anyway.

mikegarrison

That's the car I learned to drive on -- after my parents had owned it for more than 10 years.....

Honda 367

I miss my Spitfire that I drove when I was in college. I had to sell it because of my parents who thought it was too small and therefore more prone to serious harm when involved in an accident. From time to time, I still check out the E-Bay to see if there is one that looks like mine. Maybe one day, I will find one that I can tinker with.

MsPerky

I've always driven smaller, shift cars. My ex and I did have a truck once for hauling stuff around to a vacation place we owned, but it was a b---- to drive. Column shifting and I could barely push the clutch in. Then I clipped a telephone pole with one of the big mirrors it had on it. It didn't last too long...

Legal Bill

Well said Dave. I love the S2000 engine. I cruise through e-bay looking for the right classic British roadster to buy for a conversion project. My dream car is an AH 100-4 with a great body and a blown or missing motor and tranny. I would convert the car to negative ground, tube shocks, rack and pinion steering and disc brakes, install one of Hardtopguy's engine and tranny packages, and then find some bright young computer mechanic to identify all the electronic stuff from an S2000 that I would need to make the engine run right in the Healey and help me wire up some analog gauges. Add some period Minilite/panasport wheels and tires and that would be the best "hot rod" ever. 240 hp in a 2,000 pound (or lighter) car.

DiamondDave2005

I drove my Mom's Fiat 127 a lot back in Ireland. I once got it up to about 72-75mph on the highway, and the hood popped open. Luckily, it's a front-opener, so it wasn't a big deal.

It was a lot of fun to drive on the back roads, that's for sure.

I had one scare one day when doing some work on the car. I had just put the left front wheel back on when my mom called me in for dinner. After dinner, I took the car out to run to the bank, which was maybe six miles away.
On the way back, the car felt really squirrelly going around corners, and when it started to really shimmy, I realized I had only hand-tightened the lugnuts, and the wheel was barely on the car. Caught it just in time

dangarza

I learned how to drive in VW beetles in Mexico, then came the VW Rabbits, Jettas, VW quantum (great car, remember those?) and some others in between, then had a brief stint with a V8 Z28 camaro, went smaller again with an inline 6 Toyota Supra twin Turbo, then finally went back to my lithe car, 4 cyl. roots with an S2000 and an Acura RSX Type S for daily driving. I don't think I'm going back to heavy, high-powered vehicles either.

2Red2K

Entirely right on. All my fun cars were small sports or

Matt_in_VA

I have always been a fan of smaller displacement engines. I just made more sense to me than larger displacement engines poluting larger amounts of air at even idle speeds.

I guess one could make the argument about displacement versus RPM?

But I was VERY pleasd with the results of emissions test of our S2000, knowing that it runs SO clean.

Even back in 1970, my third car after my 1956 Buick Special and my 1963 Volkswagen was a 4.2 Litre Overhead Cam (250 CI) 1969 Fire Bird. At the time, it had the highest reving engine that Detroirt produced with a 6,500 RPM red line.

Then, I got into the world of high performance Two cycle motorcycles. No wonder that I love the 9,000 RPM red line of our S2000.