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Nodoze posted:Buy none of those I would have no problem driving any car in that list except maybe the Honda and the xB because they're ugly. The Matrix is especially great, my Vibe has done much more than I'd ever expect a Corolla-based car to do. I've loaded it with multiple engines/trannies, my work toolbox (single-bay Beach, loaded with tools), 4 22.5" truck tires (at a time for 4 trips), used it as a camper, autocrossed it, been rear-ended with it a bunch of times, and driven it like a pissed-off teenager for 5 years. I had to do brakes and shocks one time and I change the oil once in a while too.
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I'd be afraid of falling asleep at the wheel with any of those. Just reading the list makes me sleepy.
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Powershift posted:I'd be afraid of falling asleep at the wheel with any of those. Not for me, it's for her. I doubt I'll ever drive whatever we buy.
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Rhyno posted:Holy crap did she drive a lot of cars today. 12k for a 4-5 year old econobox with 50k miles seems ridiculous.
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angryhampster posted:12k for a 4-5 year old econobox with 50k miles seems ridiculous. I posted a link earlier to a recent NYT article -- used cars prices are artificially inflated right now because banks are sub-prime lending again, this time with car loans. If you're shopping for used cars right now, buckle up, they're crazy. I just sold my wife's old 2007 Rav4 -- V6/FWD/Limited/73k miles for almost 15k. That's loving nuts. I bought it for less than 16k 2.5 years and 25k miles ago. Edit: Here's the story again: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/in-a-subprime-bubble-for-used-cars-unfit-borrowers-pay-sky-high-rates meatpimp fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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angryhampster posted:12k for a 4-5 year old econobox with 50k miles seems ridiculous. Not really. Not compared to the local market. And nobody tell me to buy a car out of state, that is not in the cards for this purchase as I have explained before. I'm still pushing for the 2012 Fiesta. $12.5K, 33K miles.
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Banks never loving learn. And as long as they're allowed to be too big to fail, they'll just get sweet sweet tax dollars when they go belly up.
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Rhyno posted:Holy crap did she drive a lot of cars today. You can't fool me; these are all the same car. OK, not quite, but close...how do manufacturers distinguish their own shade of beige from everyone else's?
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I don't think the Fiestas are very reliable but you should do some research on it.
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blk posted:You can't fool me; these are all the same car. With swooshy body panels and hip interior lighting. Seriously, what the gently caress is up with the cupholder lights in the xD?
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Rhyno posted:Better suggestions? Mazda 3
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Rhyno posted:Better suggestions? Have you considered a Miata?
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Nodoze posted:Mazda 3 Nothing within in the price range we want to stay in. I've looked. Every one is either too high mileage or CPO and overpriced. meatpimp posted:Have you considered a Miata? Of course I did. I am not a fool good sir.
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Rhyno posted:Nothing within in the price range we want to stay in. I've looked. Every one is either too high mileage or CPO and overpriced. What about a heavily modified 2006 Charger or a V6 2007 Mustang?
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HotCanadianChick posted:What about a heavily modified 2006 Charger or a V6 2007 Mustang? Oh poo poo, those sound awesome!
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7th gen Civic Si? You know, the one with the hatch?
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blk posted:7th gen Civic Si? You know, the one with the hatch? She sat in a Civic coupe. She wasn't impressed. She want's a sedan for passenger utility.
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You can get a nice 92x for less than 12 grand.
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blk posted:You can get a nice 92x for less than 12 grand. There's a single one with 192K miles over 100 miles away from me. Also I am not Viggen.
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Here's one in LA for $6900, though it is an auto: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/pts/4560301912.html
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keykey posted:Here's one in LA for $6900, though it is an auto: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/pts/4560301912.html Probably not a clean title at that price, but who knows.
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Did I miss anything in the last 5 pages other than beige car talk? Here's how you check to see if you bent the tie rod back to straight enough. Dad got a little sideways in a corner and got hit. We pulled the wheel, bent it back (with a jack and big hammer) then sent him back out to finish the race...time in pit under 3 minutes.  Maybe one of you guys would know. We're looking for a way to see how much fuel we've burned more accurately than using the low fuel light in our car. A basic flow meter won't work because it constantly circulates fuel through the fuel rail and dumps excess. NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Woohoo four new shirts from blipshift's sale that just started, plus a six speed stress ball.
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CharlesM posted:I don't think the Fiestas are very reliable but you should do some research on it. I did some quick looking and it sounds like the biggest thing is the DCT, maybe some other stuff I can share if you are interested.
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Rhyno posted:She sat in a Civic coupe. She wasn't impressed. She want's a sedan for passenger utility. Maybe it's time to look at PRICES ARE CRASHING!! http://jalopnik.com/prices-plummet-on-gm-cars-recalled-for-ignition-defect-1615894690 IT'S A FIRE SALE!!! DON'T WEAR YOUR SEATBELT AND DRIVE DRUNK TO YOUR NEAREST USED GM CAR DEALERSHIP!!! No but seriously I know where I'm going for a semi-modern FWD car when rallycross comes back. I wonder if it's dented the resale for Cobalt SSes and Ion Redlines. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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On the last season, nearly the last episode of OZ. I guess the whole point of the series is just this: Gingers have no soul.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Maybe it's time to look at In all honesty, I'd really like to try out an HHR SS. I don't ever want to be seen in one, but I am curious enough to want to drive one.
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blk posted:I've only driven in Virgina once and had no idea. Never doing it again if I can help it: Yeah I was basically trained to think of 5 over as the limit of sanity, except in the People's Republic of Falls Church in which anything over two below the limit is insane. Now I start going nuts anytime I'm stuck at anything less than ten over. Here's another one. Parking ticket in a minute, you say? I may have been gone for about 20 minutes while I was busy paying a parking ticket, during which time I of course got another parking ticket. While paying the last one I got. That one I just took inside the office and said something more polite than "dude, seriously?" and they dismissed it. Protip: Don't get a parking ticket in Arlington. Friar Zucchini fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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blk posted:In all honesty, I'd really like to try out an HHR SS. I don't ever want to be seen in one, but I am curious enough to want to drive one. I drove a panel van HHR SS once. It was pretty nice, except the lack of rear windows made it feel extremely coffin-y. Torque steer out the wazoo, but I got the impression that after a few months I'd have it bang on. Surprisingly nice shifter considering it was the same trans (Getrag F23) from my old Cavalier.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I drove a panel van HHR SS once. It was pretty nice, except the lack of rear windows made it feel extremely coffin-y. I believe the term you're looking for is rolling sarcophagus.
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CharlesM posted:I did some quick looking and it sounds like the biggest thing is the DCT, maybe some other stuff I can share if you are interested. I drive a 2012 Focus with the "Powershift" DCT for work and while it has 75K hard stop-and-go city miles on it I don't mind the transmission at all. It feels completely different from a traditional torque converter automatic (especially at low speeds) and I'm sure that's where 99% of the complains come from. Occasionally you can feel the clutch engaging/disengaging and doing work. Once you get used to how the car drives it's not a big deal. Having actual engine braking is nice, too. My work car is a base Focus but higher option packages have sport shift which let you select gears on the fly with rev matching. Honestly the 2012 Focus is so much more solid feeling than the the 2011 Matrix I was driving previously I am really considering a Fiesta or Focus for my next car. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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iwentdoodie posted:Woohoo four new shirts from blipshift's sale that just started, plus a six speed stress ball. I was excited about the sale only to be disappointed in the selection. I haven't bought a blipshift shirt before and thought there would be a couple that I would be able to choose. Turns out I was wrong. The only one remotely interesting was the monster truck one.
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Previa_fun posted:Honestly the 2012 Focus is so much more solid feeling than the the 2011 Matrix I was driving previously I am really considering a Fiesta or Focus for my next car. That's what some of us have been trying to tell Rhyno: the current small Fords and Mazdas are so much better than the last 5-6 years of totally phoned-in Toyotas and Hondas that it's no contest. And I say that as someone who's owned a total of five Toyotas and one Honda and have never owned a Ford or Mazda in my life.
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HotCanadianChick posted:That's what some of us have been trying to tell Rhyno: the current small Fords and Mazdas are so much better than the last 5-6 years of totally phoned-in Toyotas and Hondas that it's no contest. And I say that as someone who's owned a total of five Toyotas and one Honda and have never owned a Ford or Mazda in my life. If this was my car I'd already be rolling in a Fiesta ST. That said I am pushing for the Fiesta we drove.
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Tommychu posted:Actually, no. I didn't.
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Welp, uncle had a quadruple bypass today. They had to go digging into both legs to get enough veins to complete the surgery. He was swearing up and down he'd be out by tomorrow; preeeeetty sure he'll be thinking differently when he wakes up. This lit a fire under my rear end to get some weight off even more than the doctor, the diabetus, and my ugly rear end bloodwork. He still tried to turn down the surgery.  meatpimp posted:Then you get a few years down the road and recognize that you want to be alive for your kids... and you start changing your ways. It's amazing how some of the high-fat stuff starts to look repulsive when you get it out of your system/routine. And then you want to get rid of the gut and find out that it can be a loving bitch to get rid of. And then you put in the work. Speaking of... it's now been 2 1/2 months since I was diagnosed with the beetus. Blood pressure that day at the dr's office was 160/100ish, blood sugar was 260. I haven't lost any weight, but my blood pressure is consistently under or at 120/80 now (last check was 118/70), and resting pulse has gone from 110 to mid 70s (still a long way to go there). Blood sugar is way down (still a bit high, but generally in the mid-high 100s instead of high 200s+ - I got as low as 104 a few days ago), and I've taken up walking/jogging. Actually my weight has gone up - I've put on 5 pounds in the past 2 weeks (sitting at 180, my goal is 155 - peak was 230).  I think more because my appetite has skyrocketed since I ditched the booze, but at least I'm trying to eat healthy. Still drinking soft drinks, but they're the "manly 10 calorie" versions of 7-Up and Dr. Pepper. They're not quite as offensive as the full on diet versions.And yeah the gut is a bitch. I'm down to 4 months pregnant instead of 9, at least. I still eat out entirely too much (mostly just because I don't like to cook), still even tacos, but it's a taco like this now: quote:#12 BLACK BEAN TACO Vegetarian It's goddamned delicious. Especially with habanero sauce, and it's only $2. One of them with some water is a good lunch for me. 2 is a good dinner. They have a couple of other vegetarian ones, but they don't appeal to me as much. I've chilled way out on meat in general - when I do eat it, it's generally chicken or turkey. Seat Safety Switch posted:I drove a panel van HHR SS once. It was pretty nice, except the lack of rear windows made it feel extremely coffin-y. The SS actually got the F35, just like the Cobalt SS (the non-2.4 SS) and Ion Red Line. The F23 isn't rated anywhere near the power that the LNF cranks out. The F23 still has the "rowing through gravel" feeling in the newer cars as your Cavalier had. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Just watched the Falcon 9 launch in my backyard; one of the very few times I unironically love living in Florida. Clear skies all the way to the Cape, and the exhaust plume stood out bright as hell against the night sky. ROCKETS YO
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