Cars? What do you drive?

[Eddo Rogue]

Just dont get a corolla or camry, or maxima or altima. Bulletproof, but simply uninspiring. They are the epitome of point A to point B "car".

 

[fastpakr]

True, but that helps keep the magic bringing you back to the Ranger.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

True, but that helps keep the magic bringing you back to the Ranger.

Also true.

 

[Ranger850]

Corolla. May be uninspiring, but will beat a stock Taurus in a drag race. I owned an 04 Taurus, wife drove the 08 Corolla. We were at a stop light, wife gave me the signal, light turned green, we both punched it. I assumed I would smoke her, since I had a big bad V6 against the yota 1.8L. she left me. I have never been more embarrassed.

 

[rumblecloud]

We have a couple, but my fave is an 09 Escape. Lots of room in the back. 4 banger, front wheel drive. very maneuverable. Around here they.re priced anywhere from 3200 on up.

 

[rubydist]

I have a 06 Mustang GT for the nice weather days, and the Ranger for when I need to haul stuff or when the weather is poor. With a little searching one can usually find a decent one at a good price, especially in the winter.

That Jag would cost you thousands of dollars each year in repairs and generally make you nuts because you will not be able to rely on it. I agree that a Crown Vic or Marquis would be a good, cheap, reliable ride, but not exactly sporty to look at. The Toyota or Honda vehicles are very reliable, but I would avoid Nissan as their reliability has really gone down in the past decade.

 

[superj]

i just drove a surprise car that i had never really heard of or thought about that i think would be an awesome second car.

an infinity g35 sedan. its known as the poor man's m3 and it felt like an m3 when i drove it. six speed v6 and rwd with power/heated/leather everything and can be had for under 5k with less than 120k miles on an 05.

my son is looking for acar and wanted a speed3 or focus st but they are hard to find in decent shape for less than 10k. so i started just looking for sedans with standard transmission and hte g35/g37 kept popping up. we go to a car lot with an 04 g35 one owner with 128k miles and its spotless. it looks like a little old lady owned it, except its a 6 speed standard. we test drive it and my son is talking about how it feels so he asks if i want to drive it? i say yes and we swap seats. i get on the road and floor it and the back end slides out before the traction control kicks in and it comes back. jason and i look at each other in surprise. i smile and turn off traction control and we go again and the car drifts every turn i come to with ease and is amazingly fun and comfortable.

i am sure thinking of getting one

 

[fastpakr]

i just drove a surprise car that i had never really heard of or thought about that i think would be an awesome second car.

an infinity g35 sedan. its known as the poor man's m3 and it felt like an m3 when i drove it. six speed v6 and rwd with power/heated/leather everything and can be had for under 5k with less than 120k miles on an 05.

my son is looking for acar and wanted a speed3 or focus st but they are hard to find in decent shape for less than 10k. so i started just looking for sedans with standard transmission and hte g35/g37 kept popping up. we go to a car lot with an 04 g35 one owner with 128k miles and its spotless. it looks like a little old lady owned it, except its a 6 speed standard. we test drive it and my son is talking about how it feels so he asks if i want to drive it? i say yes and we swap seats. i get on the road and floor it and the back end slides out before the traction control kicks in and it comes back. jason and i look at each other in surprise. i smile and turn off traction control and we go again and the car drifts every turn i come to with ease and is amazingly fun and comfortable.

i am sure thinking of getting one

I've thought about a G35X/37X for years. Definitely great sleeper cars.

 

[19Walt93]

You guys all speak better about Toyotas than my friends in the local Toyota service department. Is pot legal in your states?

 

[fastpakr]

You guys all speak better about Toyotas than my friends in the local Toyota service department. Is pot legal in your states?

Have you considered that your friends in the local Toyota service department only deal with the ones that break?

 

[ryan]

I told the girlfriend I was going to mount Texas Longhorns on the hood.

I put some on my RRORC explorer, it was a fun conversation piece

Call me crazy, but the two cars I like the look of best right now are the Impreza and whatever the volvo is.

 

[19Walt93]

Have you considered that your friends in the local Toyota service department only deal with the ones that break?

Toyota claims they don't break, the techs just do maintenance. Apparently a frame swap on a six year old truck is considered maintenance. I worked in a Ford dealer service department for 42 years. The 78-80 Fiestas were typical European junk but people loved them. All wheel drive Tempos were a disaster because Ford built the awd system on the cheap and used tiny, non greaseable rear axle joints, Festivas, Aspires, and Probes were garbage. The 3.8 V6 was great in rear wheel drive applications and went down the toilet when they changed the coolant flow for front wheel drive vehicles. The first several years of 4.0 ohv's leaked oil everywhere until Ford upgraded the European spec gaskets. The modular V8's were flawless from 92-99 when Jack Nasser squeezed the head gasket supplier and caused a year of oil leaks onto the starter. Every vehicle has it's faults. Toyota, including the Lexus brand they created for people too pompous for a "regular" Toyota, Honda and Acura(pompous special), and Mercedes refuse to admit it.

 

[fastpakr]

Toyota claims they don't break, the techs just do maintenance. Apparently a frame swap on a six year old truck is considered maintenance. I worked in a Ford dealer service department for 42 years. The 78-80 Fiestas were typical European junk but people loved them. All wheel drive Tempos were a disaster because Ford built the awd system on the cheap and used tiny, non greaseable rear axle joints, Festivas, Aspires, and Probes were garbage. The 3.8 V6 was great in rear wheel drive applications and went down the toilet when they changed the coolant flow for front wheel drive vehicles. The first several years of 4.0 ohv's leaked oil everywhere until Ford upgraded the European spec gaskets. The modular V8's were flawless from 92-99 when Jack Nasser squeezed the head gasket supplier and caused a year of oil leaks onto the starter. Every vehicle has it's faults. Toyota, including the Lexus brand they created for people too pompous for a "regular" Toyota, Honda and Acura(pompous special), and Mercedes refuse to admit it.

That's a fascinating diatribe of personal vendetta against other brands that contained no logical argument whatsoever.

 

[Shran]

We have an '06 Prius... other than the hybrid battery replacement I complain about it's been a pretty good car. We just took it to Texas and averaged about 37mpg - it never gets 50+ like they were advertised.

The last car I had was either the 97 Malibu or a 2000 Crown Vic police interceptor. I really liked the Malibu but it got rear ended and totaled. The CV was a piece of crap.

Not sure what I'd be looking for if I had to get a car. Fusion, Challenger, maybe an older import. I don't seem to keep cars very long, they don't fit my lifestyle very well.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

That's a fascinating diatribe of personal vendetta against other brands that contained no logical argument whatsoever.

Pretty sure he was hateing on fords in that post as well.