I was just wondering how many people out there get as emotionally attached to vehicles as I do?

Don't get me wrong, if a car is wholly unreliable and all-in-all a terrible purchase I will have no regrets in getting rid of it, but if a car starts every morning and requires minimal repairs for a long period of time, it will gain my respect and I will become emotionally attached to it.

This happened with our old Ford Fiesta (as seen in my avatar and signature - I cannot bring myself to remove it and doubt I ever will) and when push came to shove and we had no choice but to sell it last year when the MOT failed on over £400 worth of repairs, I felt a great sense of loss for a long time. Even to this day I still have fond memories of that car and swear that I will buy it back someday when I am in a financial situation to do so and, of course, if I can track it down.

I hope I am not alone here, but fear I may be!!

I do, I give it a name and it becomes part of the family, I feel its pain and something so small can seriously make me feel l ike I just kicked my child.

I certainly do. As Jeremy Clarkson said, machines have souls. He was dead right. My Mk 1 Focus will be up for sale soon to be replace with a 2.5. I feel like i'm cheating on it!

It has give me no issues at all in the 7 years I've had her and she is high up in my emotional attachment. As Jeebo says, I feel it if something isn't right. It makes me rage as well when she gets mistreated by some careless knob.

I want to massacre the fool who keyed my car and now I'm trying to repaint sand and polish it and guttered that I can't make it as it was before...

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Mine has been keyed, reversed into, driven into, scrapped against, !Removed! on. All have left me wanting to hospitalise those responsible. I know who did the reversing in to bit. They got rid of the car before I could prove it and attack it with brake fluid.