Citation X-11

The Citation, Chevrolet's first front-wheel-drive car.

We've veered far from the sports car category with this week's pick. Maybe it's the car’s very normalcy that helped keep it in such great shape. After all, I don’t remember ever simulating a high-speed chase with the X-11, at least not in its Hot Wheels form.

Coincidence, maybe—but a bit of foreshadowing—that about eight years later, I’d find myself driving my sister’s real Citation in a sort of high-speed race with friends. That evening ended with me and two others in the hospital, my stay lasting several weeks.

If only I had treated my sister’s car as well as I did the model version.