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[Mizhara]

Personally, I'm driving a Ye Olde '91 4Runner. Pic to follow:

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It's old, it's cantankerous, it's not all that fast or maneuverable and it's the best bloody car I've ever owned.

Currently doing some normal maintenance on it. Changed oil and oil filter and I'm also taking apart the front wheelhubs and brakes for cleaning, brushin', repairing and replacing. Greased a few nipples from back to front, ensuring that the driveshafts are well lubed. From what I can tell from casual inspection is that I should probably get out the shocks as well, stuffing in some Procomp ES9000s instead. Might replace the headlights too. They're notoriously bad on that model of 4Runner and will benefit from getting brand new shiney ones instead, with new H4 bulbs. Will probably draw new 2.5mm2 cable for them as well.

What do you drive and what's gotten your hands greasy and oily lately?

[Bacchanalian]

2006 Volvo S40 T5 AWD.  Love it to death.  Mine is identical to the above save the rims, which are slightly different.  Quoting some reviews of it that say it better than I can:

powered by a 218-horsepower low-pressure turbocharged and intercooled 2.5-liter variant of the Volvo five. That's the same engine used in the larger S60, and it makes the S40 T5s the sportiest Volvo sedans except for the much pricier high-pressure turbo S60R.

Engine Type         dual overhead cam turbocharged inline 5-cylinder

Engine Size         2.5 liters / 154 cu. in.
Horsepower         218 @ 5000 rpm
Torque (lb-ft)          236 @ 1500-4800 rpm
Transmission         5-speed electronically-controlled automatic with Geartronic manual-shift mode

Wheelbase / Length      103.9 in. / 175.9 in.
Curb Weight         3,278 lbs.
Pounds Per Horsepower      15.0

Turbo kicks in at shockingly low RPM, and it's as fast off the line as the same year's Mustang apparently.  I've never raced it off the line like that, but I can say that getting onto the highway is a helluva lot of fun so long as there's no one in front of me.

If you can't tell, I love my car.  Leather interior, winter package (yay two levels of ass warming heat), sunroof, automatic everything.  I love it love it love it.  I'm not a big car guy in general, but this thing is just fun as hell to drive, and handles beautifully in the snow even on windy mountain roads.  Have driven it in just about every condition imaginable and really the only time I feel remotely uncomfortable is when I'm surrounded by other cars in bad weather.  I don't trust other people to not be terrible drivers (and more than once have had to make some crazy swerves/accelerations/brake slams to avoid idiots trying to kill me by not paying attention to what the fuck was going on around them/local wildlife by way of 700 lbs of bull elk jumping out in front of me at night).

[Mizhara]

Ah yeah, one of the nicer sedans I was considering for a second car. Volvo's always been one of my favorites when it comes to driving comfort and performance in its price-class, especially when you take road safety into account. How is it when it comes to working on it though? Some of the 2k and onwards models of various cars can't even have their freakin' oil changed by the owner. Hell, the Volkswagen ambulance we have needs to be taken into the shop when you need to change the lightbulbs in one of the headlights.

[Lyn Farel]

Nothing atm 

But my dream would be to own a Civic because i fucking love the design of this car (though no clue if its really good).

[John Revenent]

I use my feet 

[Myrhial Arkenath]

Nothing atm (would be a bike but that still needs to move from the old house), but when I still had a car it was a Volkswagen Polo. I've had a Citroen C1 through work and absolutely hated that piece of plastic junk. They let me drive a Toyota Aygo first, which was marginally better, but also felt rather meh.

I'm not a fancy car person at all. I have standards to the point where I get annoyed by the extremely cheap and non-solid feel of small budget cars, but other than that I'm happy when the thing just drives. I admit I do like a fast acceleration speed, which neither of the work cars had, because it is fun and also makes me feel slightly safer when on the highway. Oh and I may enjoy being able to pull up faster once the light hits green than the person next to me 

[Mithfindel]

Let's see. My current car is a Ford Fiesta. Before that one I had a Ford Fiesta, and before that one, I drew my mom's Ford Fiesta. You may be able to spot a trend here. Current one is with a 1.4 litre engine, so while it isn't exactly a rocket, it moves when the pedal is pressed, and can do 100 klicks mixed highway and city with six litres (during summer - cold weather, electic heating etc. take their toll at winter).

[Victoria Stecker]

1998 Ford Escort, 2.0L 4-cylinder 5-speed sedan. Had it for the last 6 years, driven it between VA and MD and MI dozens of times (fucking ohio turnpike), put about 65k on it, it's got 150k and still rocks and rolls up and down the road wonderfully. Mazda engines don't die, so I'm happy. Just wish it had cruise control, the 10-hour drives without it can get tedious.

I'm going to miss it when it finally dies, that car has gotten me around in everything from hurricane rains to west-michigan lake-effect snow. however, I long for something with just a little more power and cruise control so that the hundreds of highway miles go by a little easier.

Looks like this, only black and with a few dents:

[Streya]

This is what I use to get around!

Primary vehicle:
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Secondary vehicle:
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^^

[Louella Dougans]

I have one of these:

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1998 vauxhall corsa breeze 1.4 hi-torq. 59 hp, can get 50 mile to the uk gallon average.

had to get a new back axle recently after teh old one bent due to corrosion. this corrosion was not spotted at the MoT inspection, which i was not happy about.
Got a nearly new one from an accident-damaged wreck at the local scrapyard, which was alright.

has a few dents and scratches, cos we have a bit of a vandalism problem here, but still running strong at 115k miles.

bought for £2500, in 2004, with 55k miles, so we've had plenty of use out of it. \o/

[Desiderya]

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I love my japanese plastic car and I am amazed that it is still running. It looks like that in the picture just with different hub caps, one missing, small dents and some suspicious scratches.
'93 and 145k kilometres on it. It's an awesome car with as much space as it has plastic. 112 BHP is enough to move it reasonably fast and it does even an insanely economic 8 to 10 l/100km.

Also it does not  have an airbag, so you'll still be able to die like a man.

[Z.Sinraali]

Electric blue 2010 Honda Insight. It doesn't go very fast, but it does get 45+ mpg in the city, and 50+ on the highway.

[Dex_Kivuli]

Hyundai i30, bought it new earlier this year. First New new car I've ever owned. I give it 10/10.

[Shae Tiann]

1997 Nissan Altima. Possibly the most inconspicuous car ever: I've walked right past her in parking-lots and the only way I can tell it's mine are the Connecticut dealer's sticker on the back and my vanity plate on the front. Despite that, she's solid, handles really well and hasn't let me down once in the year+ since I bought her, even on the thousand-mile move South.

[Akrasjel Lanate]

Would drive but don't have a car... i use those things that are attached to my ass