As a person who once owned a Corvair*, and who rode as a child in a BMW Bubble Car (everybody who went to Germany fell in love with the VW bug, except MY MOTHER, who loved the Bubble Car), I would ride in anything.
However, there are cars I wouldn’t own. Lots of them. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t ride in them, depending of course on the driver.
*Among others; look at any list of the Worst 10 Cars Ever and I will probably have owned at least half of them.
ETA: I just looked at the web page someone provided for the Isetta (real name of Bubble Car). It says in the event of a wreck the driver & passenger should exit through the top. As a person who has been in one of those things, in the event of a wreck the driver and passenger will be smashed flat.
I remember when my dad bought a brand spanking new Plymouth Horizon. The thing squealed like a pig when it started up & it rode like a soapbox derby racer.
A few years ago he started to tell me about the night he was stopped by the State Patrol while driving that car. I cut him off by asking if he was littering car parts on the highway, because he sure as hell wasn’t speeding.
Put me down for two, that is sweet! I’ve also seen pics of an Aston-Martin “shooting brake” that was pretty nice looking too. Shooting brake means station wagon for those of you who have never heard the term before, you just have to add another digit to the price.
I have to defend the Lada, sort of, as one of my friends in high school had one. It did have some issues with door handles and trim falling off but it also started every time in Winnipeg winters, even -45C, without once being plugged in. He slid it into the back of a parked 66 Galaxy and wrote the Galaxy off while only needing a new bumper. What finally killed it was when he hit an icy patch and slid off the off ramp, rolling it five times and no one was hurt. Even then the car was drivable, just crumpled.
Why was the Fiat 126 such an icon for stealing as a design platform? I never did understand that.