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Awesome Welles posted:yeah I have a 2013 focus and it loving owns, and a few years ago I loving laughed at the idea of buying american
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Yes yes, the Opel division of GM puts out some great cars. I wouldn't mind test driving a Cadillac ATS.
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NihilismNow posted:Diesel is a terrible idea in a small car used for short distances. Nah, plenty of small diesel cars around. Seems like it's pretty efficient.
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turdriver posted:a smart (more like dumb, really!) car gets like only 30 mpg lol at that point I would just give up and get a knockoff vespa on craigslist
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Dely Apple posted:Why rent a PT Cruiser when you can rent a white Ford Taurus and have everyone think you're a narc car not a problem anymore  http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-21/good-riddance-pt-cruiser-car-rentals quote:Late last year the four largest American rental companies—Hertz, Avis, Dollar Thrifty (now part of Hertz), and Enterprise Holdings—agreed to stop renting any cars under recall. The companies made the announcement in the face of federal legislation sponsored by Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), which was brought on by the death of two California sisters killed after crashing their rental PT Cruiser. It was a model that had been recalled for a power steering fluid issue. Also: quote:Even local car rental providers such as Continental Rent-A-Car in Florida and Action Car Rental of New York, which still list PT Cruisers in their online fleets, confirm that the car has been cycled out. But several are available on relayrides.com, a car-sharing site. “Mr. Mojo Rysen” in Lake Placid, N.Y., offers his 2001 model, custom-painted orange with purple flames, for $10 a day. The description reads: “Heads turn when you drive this car down the road.
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Baronjutter posted:Why do rental agencies always have terrible cars? They don't sell well and get heavily discounted when sold as fleet vehicles
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Incidentally, if you want a terribly bland used car, the cheapest way to get one is often from a rental agency.
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honda fits are ugly as poo poo but they get good reviews. worth the price or should i just get some other dinky car like a ford?
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Honda Fits have weird little batteries and the wheels are difficult to buy outside of a dealer. But the mileage is great and they're pretty reliable. And if you're in a bad area people love to steal the wheels off the car.
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:honda fits are ugly as poo poo but they get good reviews. worth the price or should i just get some other dinky car like a ford? they are good, but when the ladies say they want your car, they aren't hitting on you. they actually want your car.
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Baronjutter posted:Why even bother calling it a vw bug if it's nothing like a vw bug? Why not actually make a simple dirt-cheap "people's car" with an aim for simplicity, reliability, and ease of repair? VW has been positioning themselves as a premium brand for some time now, at least in Europe. The affordable people's cars are now made by their Czech subsidiary Skoda, with mature last-gen tech and engines.
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:honda fits are ugly as poo poo but they get good reviews. worth the price or should i just get some other dinky car like a ford? Honda fit is basically the best car ever made, and I think the post 2009 models look great, but I think most cars "car people" think are sexy look ridiculous and pretentious.
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i dont remember ever opening this thread but it says i have unread posts. i didnt read them, for what its worth
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I haven't read this thread, but have you guys figured out what series of unfortunate events and poor decisions led to someone buying a PT Cruiser?
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Sid Vicious posted:i dont remember ever opening this thread but it says i have unread posts. i didnt read them, for what its worth u missed some real gems ,friend
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Fastidious Toes posted:Actually a light truck Yes, this. PT Cruiser is not a car. It's a truck. It was introduced to boost the average fuel efficiency of their truck line to not get huge fines from the government. It's a piece of poo poo government scam car that people actually buy. 
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DUNCAN DONUTS posted:I'll gently caress you up real bad. You're worthless. gently caress you. You look like poo poo. I hate your stupid rear end. I'll drop-kick you. I'll punch you straight to Venus. I'll wreck your rear end up. I'll throw you out a loving window. gently caress you. I'll put goatse on your computer. gently caress you. gently caress you.
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I have a Chevy Cruze and its a p. nice car. Too bad its axle is gonna fall off and kill me in the middle of a highway at some point  How can you issue a recall and then say "oh yeah that fatally flawed part...we don't have any replacements yet. Whoops!" I just hope I can wrangle a free oil change or something out of it. Of course I've had my car nearly a year and only drive ~4,100 miles so maybe I don't even need the oil changed.
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Preteen Cruiser
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The PT Cruiser alone is a reason why we should have let American Automakers fail in 2008. A poo poo awful hideous car that noone wanted to buy.I remember rumors about how the PT Cruiser's steering column would jam into your stomach in a head on collision. Confirm/Deny?
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shut up netface posted:The PT Cruiser alone is a reason why we should have let American Automakers fail in 2008. A poo poo awful hideous car that noone wanted to buy.I remember rumors about how the PT Cruiser's steering column would jam into your stomach in a head on collision. Confirm/Deny? I can confirm. A PT Cruiser steering wheel killed me. I am actually ghost postin'.
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shut up netface posted:The PT Cruiser alone is a reason why we should have let American Automakers fail in 2008. A poo poo awful hideous car that noone wanted to buy.I remember rumors about how the PT Cruiser's steering column would jam into your stomach in a head on collision. Confirm/Deny? It's certainly a death box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpOjRCbm88M
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sauer kraut posted:Can't believe no one posted this yet Well, you can't fault his taste.
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when was the last time crysler released a good car i don't get why anyone wouldn't buy a mazda 3 these days tbh
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THE RED MENACE posted:when was the last time crysler released a good car Pretty ugly, but I heard the Mazdaspeed 3 is actually really good.
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I think I'm going to buy a new beetle. What is the back seat like?
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I drive one of these. It's a bad car. I want to get rid of it.
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various cheeses posted:I haven't read this thread, but have you guys figured out what series of unfortunate events and poor decisions led to someone buying a PT Cruiser? "being Mexican" ???
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technically the last good car we sold was the avenger, which is why we stopped making them. double technically it was the stealth and that was techno-technically a Mitsubishi 3000gt. there you have it, the last good chrystlet was a mitsubishi
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I test drove a turbo model PT Cruiser. Felt great and the interior was surprisingly roomy. Too bad about the outside of the car.
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Bacon Hat posted:technically the last good car we sold was the avenger, which is why we stopped making them. double technically it was the stealth and that was techno-technically a Mitsubishi 3000gt. I heard the 300 is a good car. Is this true?
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a previous coworker, like a 25 year old dude, made an excel of HP versus dollars for every new car on the market and sorted by dollars per HP, low to high and then blindly went out and bought that car and came home with a shiny new 2011 HHR SS the turbo blew 700 miles in
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The PT Cruiser's dumb cousin the HHR has the battery in the back. You can't open the rear hatch if the battery dies, because it has an electrical touch-sensitive door, not a regular one you can just unlock and open. So if you need to change or jumpstart your battery, you have to cut a hole in the door and stick a screwdriver inside of it and poke around blindly until you hit the internal latch that makes the door open. It's literally the stupidest thing I've ever seen in a car.
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rcman50166 posted:did we already forget the massive toyota recalls on cars for their brakes being obstructed? the funniest post in LF history happened when someone, in the thread about this, said the accelerator wasn't a problem because you could just open the door to create drag and slow your out of control corolla down enough to get it into the grass.
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