Even as a child, I dreamed of the days when I'd have my own car. And it's not just cars, either. I think boats are my favorites.
Boats provide a much slower, much more stately sort of travel.
The laws of physics keep most boats from moving very fast, which adds to their grace. It also causes people to forge a deeper relationship with them than they do with a car or a plane, both because they spend so much more time on a boat, and because it carries them through dangerous realms they could not cross alone. To those who ride on them, boats have personalities. They have names. You don't see very many cars with names.