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1976 Buick Estate Wagon (Dad let me use it most weekends). Horrible lag when you mashed it, but when it finally took off, it really took off. I believe it had a 6.6.

1975 Buick Century - Real POS. It was 9 years old when Dad bought it for me because we moved to another school district in January of my senior year and he wasn't going to make me change High Schools for my final semester, but obviously I couldn't take the bus at that point (and he wasn't going to drive me). Built when GM's reaction to the gas crisis was to make the engine smaller but otherwise keep the car just as big and heavy, so it was horribly under-powered. It was a two-door and each door probably weighed 1500 pounds so if you parked on a cant, your girlfriend couldn't open the passenger door from the inside. Of course, being a gentleman, I would always open her door for her anyway. Lots of weird gremlins. Couldn't wait to put it out of my misery.

1983 Honda Civic - My wife bought this before we were married but I inherited it when we could finally afford to buy a new car after we were married, because not being an idiot (and because it was mostly her earnings as I was still in school), she got the new car (it was a 1989 Civic). Manual transmission, can't remember if it was 4 or 5 speed. Didn't love it. Under-powered and had a weird gremlin where it would die every once in a while when being driven in the rain. But at least it got me out of the Buick.

1992 Honda Civic - First car we bought new for me. 5 speed manual. Loved it. Almost got to 200k before trading it in, but clutch started getting wonky so I made the move early.

2005 Acura TSX Six-speed manual. Loved it. Almost got to 200k before trading it in, but at 190 is about to need a bunch of wear stuff all at the same time (brakes, tires, shocks) and I'd rather put that money into a new car than buy all that stuff and only use it for another year to get to 200k.

2025 BMW 540i - Just ordered. Should arrive right in time for the TSX's 20th birthday and 195,000th mile.