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“#QOTD: What Car Did You Unreasonably Love As A Kid?
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Humans are emotional creatures and, against our better judgment, sometimes we take a shine to cars for no logical reason. As the guy who wrote about a fancy C-HR yesterday<\/span>, I\u2019m acutely aware of this. But when I think back to my childhood, I\u2019m reminded of so many cars I loved as a kid that I simply don\u2019t think about all that often anymore.<\/p>\n

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At the top of that list is probably the second-gen Mitsubishi Eclipse. Every time I\u2019d ride around with my mom in our blue Dodge Caravan and we\u2019d pass an Eclipse, I\u2019d beg her to buy one. I wanted it in red. And when I played Gran Turismo<\/em> for the first time, the red Eclipse would always be my go-to.<\/p>\n

The Eclipse was by no means a car unworthy of anyone\u2019s love; you could get it with a 210 horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder and all-wheel drive, which is impressive for a mid-\u201990s sport compact. But I\u2019ve moved on, and if I could choose anything from that era or segment to drive today, it probably wouldn\u2019t be that Eclipse.<\/p>\n

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But there are weirder, less-deserving objects of my affection from my childhood too, like the first-gen Camry Solara. I can\u2019t explain why anyone, much less a seven-year-old boy, would ever find a Camry Solara cool, but that\u2019s the funny thing about kids right? There\u2019s no use explaining it, you just feel <\/em>it. And evidently, I felt like a retiree with a desperate need for the least exciting convertible imaginable.<\/p>\n

So then, what cars do you remember unreasonably falling in love with in your youth that just haven\u2019t stuck with you into adulthood?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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