I can say, that my favourite, the VW K 70 is important in my life. When I was a small boy in the 70ies, I decided "When I will be grown up, I'll drive a K 70".
So I did.
The majority of of friends is coming from the K 70-club, my hobby-activities are often based on that car.

I grew up around Ford's (F-Series to be specific), so did my parents, and so did their parents. So, yes, Ford's are pretty much a part of the family. We've had Dodge's, Jeep's, Pontiac's and a Chevy or two, but there has never been a time when we didn't have at least one Ford truck.

These are the current cars fo my family:

Mother's side:

Peugeot 406 (mine, well my dad's )

Suzuki SX4 (my aunt's car)
Mercedes-Benz C Sportcoupé (uncle's car)
This uncle also has a Citroën 2CV painted in yellow and a Willys (i love it)
Fiat Stilo SW (my aunt and uncle's car)

Volkswagen Polo IV (my aunt's car)
Citroën C1 "funny car" (my uncle's car)

On my Father's side there's:

Volkswagen Golf MKII GTI "painted in red, adorable" (my aunt and uncle's car)

Renault Clio 1 (my uncle's car)

Peugeot 206 (my uncle's car)

My father and uncles have had other cars before for example my father had a Ford Fiesta Sport, and then when i was born he bought a MKII Ford Orion 17/18 years after he bought the 406 (i wanted to cry when we left the Orion at the Peugeot dealership, so many travels with it )

My aunt has driven before the SX4, my grandfather's nice Renault Siete (sent it to the junkyard after being unused for a long time, such a lost ), then she drove a Seat Panda, then a Fiat Cinquecento, a Rover 220 MKII, then a Seat Arosa, later a Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse, then my uncle's sportcoupé and now she drives the SX4 (which is very nice), they also had for one day a Porsche 944 that someone lended to them, it was nice to have a small ride in it .

My other uncle has had quite a lot of cars as well but sicne i was born he has had a Seat Panda or MArbella i dont remember, a Seat Ibiza of the first gen., a Nissan Serena, an Alfa 146, a Fiat Brava (got it for a few months when he got rear ended by another vehicle and had to left the Alfa for a few months to be repair) and now the Fiat Stilo SW.

My other aunt and uncle have had a Fiat Uno (my uncle was very annoyed with it, it resulted to be a very bad car, a wheel tyre came off when going on the road, they saw it overtaking them...), and a nice Peugeot 205 Mito, then the Polo and the C1.

On my dad's side my uncle had an Alfa GTV (he spun on the motorway in a rainny day and got scared of it, he then bought a renault 5, what a change...) and after the 5 hes got the current Clio 1.

My other aunt and uncle have always had the Golf since im in this world, and about my last uncle he has had a Seat Ibiza of the 1 gen in black but he crahed it and changed it to a Tipo, then to the current 206 he has.


Well i think i have mentioned all the cars that have been related to me and my family for the last 18 years.

My family has (ever since I can remember) loved Chevrolet. My first vehicle was a Chevy pickup.

I am a Buick Club of America member, and I appreciate postwar American sheetmetal the most--Chrysler, GM, Ford, Nash/AMC, Studebaker/Packard, and Willys, Kaiser, International, etc.

I especially like mid-priced and upper-middle priced marques such as Mercury and DeSoto of the 50s and 60s

I like Buick because, aside from some of the 1985-1995 era, the cars have class, and they are also very honest and grounding. I can't imagine what I would be doing driving a Jag XJ8 Vanden Plas if I were given one. Maybe when I am more successful, but right now Buick is the most accurate reflection of myself.

Cars are related to my life only by hauling my butt from one place to another. I enjoy looking at them and working on them but am not a fanatic about it. My main interest is in being able to name what I see and I really enjoy seeing something that I have never seen before. For example, I went to a car show last week and saw a Renault Alpine for the first time - made my day

For what its worth, my personal preference is for Volvo Coupes. I have spent more time in them than any other brand or make.

My family doesn't any have particular brand loyalty, although my grandfather has always liked his Audi, a 1985 100 CD that he still owns but doesn't drive anymore. When my dad had his Honda Accord and later the Vauxhall Omega, Grandad would always say his car was better (even though it was getting old). He now drives a Peugeot 406. Before the Audi he had a couple of Jaguar XJ6s (a Series I and Series II) that he'd bought off a family friend, I was too young to remember those very well (I can't remember ever riding in them), but he still kept them sitting in his driveway and garage for years after he bought his Audi in the mid-80s. He never drove them, he's just an old man who doesn't like to get rid of things. He kept a battered old moss-covered Morris 1000 Traveller (the Moggie Thou') that was once used by my father in his youth rotting in his front garden for at least 25 years, in the end someone spotted it and offered to take it away, that's how bad my grandad is at getting things done! As for my other grandfather on my mother's side, he knows nothing about cars (he once accidently put weedkiller in one mistaking it for engine oil) so he's always had dull cars like Talbots, Hyundais and Mazdas. A couple of years ago he bought a new Nissan Almera, which is a terribly bland car (it's ancestor was the Nissan Sunny), he must have thought the same so after not too long he changed it for a Mazda 3.

My dad tends make his cars last, rather than many people who seem to change their car every few years, he's only had 6 cars in the last 23 years (we've always been a 2 car family). One of my uncles seems to have a new car every time I see him (which isn't that often, maybe once a year), he's not rich or anything, he keeps buying crap like Hyundais and other run-of-the-mill small cars, then later finds it isn't right for what he needs. You don't save money by frequently changing your car, he must have blown quite a bit of money over the years on his fickle car-buying habits.

Since I was born these are the cars my family's had:

1979 Ford Cortina MkV 2.0 GL (1984-1992, actually he may have bought this before I was born)
1982 BMW 520i [E28] (1984-1995)
1988 Honda Accord 2.0 16v (1992-1998)
1995 Fiat Punto 75SX (1995-2004)
1996 Vauxhall Omega Tourer 2.5 V6 (1998-present)
2003 Seat Leon S 1.6 (2004-present)

The BMW, the Honda and the Omega were my family's "main cars", the ones we'd take on holiday and other long journeys during my childhood, so I have deeper memories of those cars than of the Cortina and the Seat. The Seat is the car I have the least fondness for, I've haven't spent much time in it compared to the others, it's just the car my dad drives to work.

I myself have only owned two cars, the Fiat Punto mentioned above (my dad gave it to me) and a 1991 Renault Clio 1.4 RT which I bought in 2004 and had to get rid of two months ago.

Maybe add Acura because My grandmother has had one for over 10 years.

I'm glad I found this topic. From when my grandparents got married the whole family would have either a Ford or GM vehicle, But sometime in the mid to late 1980's my grandfather started buying all Cadillacs. The first one I think was a Fleetwood Brougham, which was stolen from LAX in 1989 and was never found . The next one may have been a Coupe Deville. The third one was a 1994 Deville in beige, Next I think came a burgundy 1996 Deville, then a blue 1998 Deville, Then the last car he had when he died was a 2001 Deville which my uncle has now. (note that most of his cars were leased) Then my mom bought a 2006 DTS in Glacier White which didn't work out so then we bought the current 2007 STS in White Diamond. My grandfather may have had another Caddy but I can't remember. I can say that Cadillacs are like part of the family sine we've had a lot since the 80's, but It's either Ford, Chevy, or Cadillac.

I have to agree with Wickey. I have driven over 350000 miles in volvos (2-1800's, 262c, and C70) and loved every one of them.