My new ride

[Callaway]

That's a nice car, Jman.

It's a pretty powerful car for a teenager's first car, though.

I hope your brother is careful.

My brother's car that my other brother and I wrote on with shaving cream at his wedding was a Camaro, but it was brown.

[Alex179]

My first car was a 1995 Pontiac Sunfire.   Basically a reward for getting a college scholarship.

My current car is a 2007 Honda Civic.  I bought it last year.

[odeon]

OTOH, I don't want a car that I *need* to fix. I know of better ways to spend my time.

For me fixing things is better than meds at calming me down

I've owned enough do-it-yourself cars in my time. I prefer to fix other stuff.

[DirtDawg]

That's a nice car, Jman.

It's a pretty powerful car for a teenager's first car, though.

I hope your brother is careful.

My brother's car that my other brother and I wrote on with shaving cream at his wedding was a Camaro, but it was brown.

I read that twice as "blown,"  because I thought you were talking about its power, still.

 



Every brown car I've had has been a fader. The top surfaces (exposed to more direct rays from the sun) have always turned lighter over time.

[Parts]

OTOH, I don't want a car that I *need* to fix. I know of better ways to spend my time.

For me fixing things is better than meds at calming me down

I've owned enough do-it-yourself cars in my time. I prefer to fix other stuff.

For my own saintly I would have to have one car at the house that was not a do it yourselfer

[odeon]

Every brown car I've had has been a fader. The top surfaces (exposed to more direct rays from the sun) have always turned lighter over time.

Mine, too. Sort of sad, but then, most of them have had more serious problems.

[Teejay]

I owned a car for a while, a 1982 VH Holden Commodore station wagon got it for $400, it was working, however I just did not have the time to do the repairs to get it pass a road worthy test. Apart from a oil leak it was running pretty much fine.

It looked exactly like this



I am planning on buying another car in a couple of months. Since I can only drive automatic transmission vehicles, small cars are out for me because
a lot of them on the market are manuals and automatic transmission ones I want to stay away from.

I am either going to buy a 10-15 year old Toyota Camry or a Mitsubishi Magna (the top end ones the Veradas got exported to the USA and were called the Diamante). I can get a 10 year old Magna with less than 150,000 kms for $5000 for a dealership, the only small cars which are that age and cost that much are Hyundai's, Daewoos and Kias.

My budget is only $5000 because of the amount of money I will have to pay on insurance, up to $30 a week.





All these cars come with the same engine V6, around 3 liters, although some of the Camry's I have been looking have a 2.2 liter 4 cylinder engine. But considering the size of the vehicle, The Camrys which came out after 1993 were quite large car the fuel consumption savings would be tiny. Generally when a car reaches a certain size, a V6 engine provides more power for only minimal extra fuel economy and latest V6 cars are quite fuel efficient averaging 10 liters per 100km or 24 MPG in a combination of city and country driving.

[Phlexor]

What we use to decide which car to get is to ring up wreckers and ask which car has a better availablility of parts and which has cheaper parts.

[Mr Smith]

My car can only go up steep hills at 60kph tops.  :lol:

[ANTON_UBER_ALLES]

I once got MY car up a steep hill at 60 MPH!

[Tesla]

I used to have to be going down a steep hill to get my old car up to 60mph.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

[Icequeen]

  Can't beat the extended cab.

[Jack]

Congratulations. Husband had one just like it years ago, red and white. When he first brought it home, had to insist he get it painted as soon as possible. The white stripe down the sides were riddled with primer spots, where damage had been repaired all except for the painting. Told him it was obvious the previous owner had an enemy, because someone had clearly walked around the entire truck beating the hell out of it with a crowbar or something. Didn't want some random stranger beating up his new truck.