1976 Fiat 128 wagon; Mom and Dad bought it used from friends of theirs when I was a senior in college. I eventually forgave them.
Dodge Omni. Owned it for 2.5 years before I traded it in. By comparison with the Fiat, it was a wonderfully reliably car… it only stranded me once, when the clutch died.
Typo Knig:
1976 or 7 AMC Hornet. It was worse than the Fiat.
Jointly-owned with Typo Knig:
Mazda 626. We had that for 5-6 years before we gave it to my in-laws; they had it for another 3+ years.
Honda Civic (1990 model). It was totalled in December 1998.
Saturn SL2 (1993 model). We wound up trading that in for a Dodge Caravan when Kid#2 was en route.
Dodge Caravan (obviously). 1996 model. Started misbehaving in weird undiagnosable ways in 2006.
Honda Civic (1998 model). We still have that one. Replaced the 1990 Civic.
Honda CR/V (2006 model). Replaced the Caravan. Still have that one too, obviously.
Once that’s paid off, we’ll likely replace the 11 year old Civic.
I’ll only count the cars I drive, and not the cars my wife drives but which I kind of half own.
1969 Galaxie 500, which my father bought for me from a gas station owned by a friend of his. Piece of crap, which luckily got stolen and stripped in Cambridge. I got it in 1972.
1973 Pinto. Far better than its rep. We a actually sold it to an exteriminator.
1981 Datsun 210 Station Wagon - for toting around our kid. Traded it in (for $100) after a guy who was five foot four and weighed 110 pounds tops pulled off the back door, and especially after the accelerator stuck on a winding Princeton back road.
1993 Saturn SL2. Wonderful car. Died in 1997 when a guy ran a red light and hit the drivers side door. Good body construction saved my wife’s life.
1998 Saturn SL2. Still going strong at 12 years and 141 K miles.
