My fun cars are in my sig.
I drive a newer generic GM SUV/crossover because I have 2 kids and my wife drives a '96 VW golf winter beater that I have about $600 into. Golf has 250K, km on the OD...barely broke in.
My wife puts on 50k kms (about 31K miles) per year on her car and her only requirements are it's reliable, everything works and it looks acceptable at 130kph.
Her past cars was a '99 passat 1.8T (300k, km) '95 golf (600+K, km), '71 superbeetle (400k miles), '82 rabbit turbo diesel (700K, km), '76 westfailia (250K miles).
The bug in my sig has been my daily driver since the early eighties, just finishing a complete rebuild, it should be good for another 20 summers.
We could afford new cars but driving beaters, that you can fix yourself, has certain financial advantages.