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CharlesM posted:A four-door sports car. Pretty fan-loving-tastic. They've shared parts and designs for a long time so it's likely got some mazda stuff in there too.
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CharlesM posted:That's a Ford. Can't you read? Pretty sure it's a Kia assembled in South Korea with a Mazda engine and Ford badges.
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Mar 23, 2015 23:15
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IOwnCalculus posted:YOU CAN'T STOP THE PARROTING IOwnCalculus posted:
Nice avatar, by the way. 
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Mar 23, 2015 23:34
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CharlesM posted:A four-door sports car. Pretty fan-loving-tastic. My mother had an MPV, the transmission went out at 70k. Not started to get tired out went out. Wouldn't go above 2nd went out.
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Mar 23, 2015 23:38
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Parrots and cars? Toucan play at that game! 
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22 Eargesplitten posted:My mother had an MPV, the transmission went out at 70k. Not started to get tired out went out. Wouldn't go above 2nd went out. Your mother obviously didn't change the fluid at 60k like she was supposed to and killed it.
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CharlesM posted:Your mother obviously didn't change the fluid at 60k like she was supposed to and killed it. No, she had it in for service pretty religiously. And from cursory searches on the internet when it happened, it was a common problem. fake edit: Or maybe they didn't change it when she took it in. Looking around again it looks like Mazda never specified a service interval for the fluid. So maybe instead of making a bad car, they made a bad manual. Like GM didn't make a bad car when the Fiero caught fire, they just got the oil capacity off by 50% in the manual. The transmission also took like three seconds to downshift if you floored it doing right around 60. Which meant that I had to abort a lot of passes on two-lane roads before I learned to expect it to take significantly longer than it should to pass. Which has kind of soured me on automatics in general, fairly or unfairly.
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Mar 24, 2015 03:21
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A literal improvement over how it came from the factory
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Which has kind of soured me on automatics in general, fairly or unfairly. Manual trans ftw always
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The ACR is extremely impressive considering what it's based on.
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I forever blame dodge for kicking off the brodozer fad in the mid nineties and forever ruining trucks 
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22 Eargesplitten posted:No, she had it in for service pretty religiously. And from cursory searches on the internet when it happened, it was a common problem. I thought it would be very obvious but I was fakeposting! Same reason I bought the manual in my Mazda 3 though.
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This thread was ugly to begin with, but boy did it super quickly poo poo the bed in like eight different ways. much like a Chrysler
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Adiabatic posted:This thread was ugly to begin with, but boy did it super quickly poo poo the bed in like eight different ways. Oh come on your posting isn't that bad, don't be so hard on yourself
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Human Grand Prix posted:The ACR is extremely impressive considering what it's based on. Ahhh the ACR. Forever defining torque steer into a tree
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Cat Terrist posted:Ahhh the ACR. Forever defining torque steer into a tree It's like drifting but the opposite end
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My Dad's Dodge Caravan is a huge pile of poo poo but it's almost endearing how it keeps going. The dash lights don't work and the wipers randomly turn on and off. AC is dead and climate control is stuck on max heat. It has epic rust on every body panel and the transmission solenoids sound like a whole table of christmas crackers being pulled at once when it stops. It leaks a host of fluids and destroys its brakes once a year somehow.
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Open Letter to Chrysler Heaters posted:Please stop dumping coolant on my floor mats.
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CharlesM posted:I thought it would be very obvious but I was fakeposting! Same reason I bought the manual in my Mazda 3 though. Eh, it probably should have been. I haven't been all that perceptive lately.
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Nyc_Tattoo posted:Parrots don't just drive, they fly too. REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT
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Cat Terrist posted:Ahhh the ACR. Forever defining torque steer into a tree I think that's the SRT4. The ACR actually handled worth half a poo poo and wasn't turbo.
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~Coxy posted:REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT Squawk 7500, Squawk 7500 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I think that's the SRT4. The ACR actually handled worth half a poo poo and wasn't turbo. See it's confusing because IIRC there was an "SRT4 ACR" model at the end of the Neon's run.
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The first-gen Neon wasn't a bad little car, compared to its competition. The second gen... yeah, that was a pile of poo poo.
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Well theres your problem!
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StandardVC10 posted:See it's confusing because IIRC there was an "SRT4 ACR" model at the end of the Neon's run. This is true. I had forgotten about that.
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~Coxy posted:REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT Buckle up your birbs, especially when riding in Chrysler products. 
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CharlesM posted:A four-door sports car. Pretty fan-loving-tastic. Quite. 
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I will say this..... After owning a chrysler jeep and a CJ-7... Chrysler has been trying to kill Jeep since 1987. With the exception of the TJ (which if AMC didnt run out of money would have been the CJ's replacement in reality) Hopefully all subsequent jeeps i own will be AMC era at least you KNOW where they cheaped out.
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I should definitely tell my parents to get a new cherokee instead of another rav-4, right?
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Dacheat posted:I will say this..... Hey apart from the 4.2's e-carb (that was also available in the CJ-7), the YJ was a perfectly fine successor. The YJ was designed entirely by AMC. Heck- most people forget that AMC built the YJ for in 1986 for the 1987 model year.
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Extra posted:Pretty sure it's a Kia assembled in South Korea with a Mazda engine and Ford badges. whoops i confused it for the Festiva, which was actually a mazda, and was called the ford aspire outside of the US
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jamal posted:I should definitely tell my parents to get a new cherokee instead of another rav-4, right? lol no. Unless you want to be the guinea pig for the 15 speed auto trans.
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atomicthumbs posted:whoops i confused it for the Festiva, which was actually a mazda, and was called the ford aspire outside of the US
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Kia the other K car.
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Automotive Insanity hating on the company that brought us the Hellcat? The same guys that routinely thumb their nose at CAFE by releasing offerings with aggressive designs and great HP to cost ratios? Who cares if they're in the shop half the time. Just think of it as the Mercedes AMG experience without the prestige but also without the cost. More like Automotive Rationality. SMH 
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More like "Birbs in FCA productsanity"
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IOwnCalculus posted:More like "Birbs in FCA productsanity"  I was looking for that one.
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