What DID you see yourself driving in the future, in th past?

Apologies for cryptic title, but all will become clear. The post below the dotted line is a thread I started on 7th Feb 2007. I'm writing this edit now, on 7th Feb 2017, exactly ten years later. I thought it'd be fun to bump it as a sorta "time capsule" kinda thing, so we can see how many people posted accurate predictions of their future motoring life, and if any wacky ideas came true etc. Did you get what you wanted? Do you still have the same car from ten years ago? Were you too young to use a computer ten years ago? (depressing thought, I know!)

I still have my capri so I was partly right, but I do have a boring modern daily too - 2007 me is probably very disappointed in me!

With any luck, 2027 me will have won the lottery, and I'll have a 68 mustang and a Ferrari F40. Failing that, with any luck, I'll STILL have my capri, and something else a bit cooler. Car technology is progressing so quick it's a bit harder to predict what I'll have for a daily car ten years down the line, but realistically, it's probably something they're making now rather than an electric car.


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As title ^ - define future how you choose, be it 5 years or 50. do people still see themselves driving the same car they have now? or something that will be retro in the future but is a new or current car atm? or just the first hovercar to be released onto the market?

Just something I've wondered about, as in a while ours are gonna be the equivalent of the oldies* doing the london to brighton run, and i can't quite picture myself with a handlebar moustache, pipe, flat cap and driving goggles, but yet I don't see myself being capri-less or driving a modern thing, at least not one retro-ified, such as possibly a newer escort or vectra type thing, matt blacked with wide black steels and ratty or something.



*cars that is, I wouldn't be so un-pc