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I have had a few cars over my 44 years. Many were "Meh" but a couple stand out.
We used to have an MG Midget, stupid little car, constantly banging elbows if you had two in the car, not all that fast, choppy ride, noisy, but I would have it back in a heartbeat.
I used to have a lightly modified 240Z and drove it to work for a decade, and ALWAYS arrived with a smile.
I currently have my sisters S15 200SX on loan (Absolutely stock) I just arranged her a cheap but good car to drive to work so she and my brother in law don't have to contort themselves time wise to avoid driving the 200 to work and leaving a theif magnet in a supermarket car park. In the hour and a half driving it home to my place I remembered how I used to enjoy driving (I do 50,000km a year for work and driving has become pretty mundane)
Hopefully the current arrangement on the S15 stays as is for a while which is if I maintain it and pay the insurance and rego I can drive it. But I don't drive it too far as the driving position is actually a bit clumsy and I find it tiring after a while. Now it is in my hands maybe it is fixable.
Looking at the above, pretty much everything that I have enjoyed has been what I would regard as a "Sports car". Small, light in the context of the day (Given the S15 weighs about twice what the Midget did) lithe handling and good steering feel and a moderate amount of power, just about enough that you feel the car could use a bit more.
The most mundane thing I have driven? An early 90's Corvette ragtop with manual gearbox around Winton raceway, only used two gears for the entire lap as the gearing was moon shot tall and the car just understeered away unless you provoked it with wheelspin to do something else, and even that took timing as it would usually just spin the inside tyre.
I had a passenger ride in an Alfa 4C on track recently and I reckon one of them would float my boat.
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