My wife gets the newest car, so her all wheel drive BMW X1 serves as the family flagship.  
In addition to the Vanagon, I have held on to my '92 5.0 V8 Mustang. As Ron said, it's nice to exercise a fast car now and then.  The daily driver for me is a 12 year old Volvo V70 wagon. It is comfortable, has adequate power, returns 24mpg in town and 30mpg on the highway and can haul a lot of cargo or up to 7 people. It has been a reliable car for 140,000 miles and I hope to run it to 300,000 miles. My indulgence car would be an early 911, but nice ones are so pricey I would probably get a basket case and build it up.

Hope remains that VW will make an affordable transporter for the Americas.

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> On Aug 28, 2015, at 9:23 AM, The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM> wrote:
> 
> I have a Mini Cooper S convertible to remind myself what it's like to be able to drive fast and whip around corners.
> 
> I have a Citroen 2CV and an original Fiat 500, both with 2 cylinder engines, to remind myself that as slow as my Westy is, it could be much, much, much slower.
> 
> I have a '78 VW crew cab because I got tired of getting the interior of my Westy dirty whenever I needed to haul something.
> 
> And my wife has an all wheel drive Toyota minivan because she doesn't care if her vehicle has all the personality of dry toast just as long as it trudges through the snow, holds lots of kids and their stuff, and never breaks down.
> 
> Ron Salmon
> The Bus Depot, Inc.
> www.busdepot.com