CTMike
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Can’t unsee that...
OT: What kind of Car do you drive? Why is it better than the car posted above you?
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Otherwise it's a sound vehicle.
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2008 Hyundai Sonata. V6 with some bite to it. 259k with one catalytic converter replacement the only repair made to it other than the usual maintenance. Survived a commute from Plainville to Stamford for 9 years.
Cars aren’t my thing but this car owes me nothing.
Cars aren’t my thing but this car owes me nothing.
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Had the same 1992 Geo Prism. Blue. Nice car except for the fact everyone of the door handles ripped off.
Uconnrick
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2015 Ford Taurus SHO. I've got family in the car business and when I want a car, I just tell them roughly what I want. They will get me the best deal available on something similar, so I'm always into a car for a great number but it may not be exactly what I wanted. For example, I bought this in November of 17 and put $1100 into it to make it perfect. I could sell it tomorrow and net $6K, but will drive it for a couple of years and get out of it for what I paid for it.
As for the car, I was skeptical at first, but I really enjoy it. It's lowered and tuned and puts out 420 hp and 400 pound feet torque. It's a great sleeper, rides really well and is pretty darn quick. It's AWD and has a HUGE trunk, which I need for my work. If I can keep out of the pedal, it gets mid 20's for mileage. I've been impressed with it.
The best part is it's black on black and the Taurus is a very popular police cruiser. It's fun to watch people get out of my way and slow down thinking it's an unmarked police car.
As for the car, I was skeptical at first, but I really enjoy it. It's lowered and tuned and puts out 420 hp and 400 pound feet torque. It's a great sleeper, rides really well and is pretty darn quick. It's AWD and has a HUGE trunk, which I need for my work. If I can keep out of the pedal, it gets mid 20's for mileage. I've been impressed with it.
The best part is it's black on black and the Taurus is a very popular police cruiser. It's fun to watch people get out of my way and slow down thinking it's an unmarked police car.
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Yeah....but at the end of the day, you drive a Taurus.
Uconnrick
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True, but not just any Taurus. It could be worse, I could have to suffer with a Jeep.
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I wouldn't trade it for a single car so far listed in this thread.
Not sure you realize what some of these cars are or represent in the world of cars.
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My brothers first car was a hand me down '92 geo prizm from my grandparents. The ignition was messed up so any key could start the car. Naturally, my brothers friends like taking his car for joy rides because why the hell not? One day after school he came out to see his car was missing. After doing some searching he found it parked on the soccer field lol
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Nice...I went to high school in Italy in the mid eighties. We used to regularly lift and carry Fiat 500s as pranks...one time to the middle of a beach. When I was a junior, for the senior prank they lifted the headmaster's Fiat 500 and put it in the school courtyard.
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We have the same grandparents.
And my little pudgy friend Barney just puts his feet up and doesn't provide any horsepower. Barney doesn't believe in "ten toes in"
Eight toes, anyways.
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2007 here. Low maintenance, low taxes, low insurance. Still in great shape.
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Why don't you tell me, Mr "I drive an old Miata"? Did that car come with male pattern baldness and leather driving gloves, or did you acquire those on your own?
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2008 Toyota Tundra - gotta have 4 wheel drive in CNY. Once you have a truck, you can't go back, too.
Best vehicle I ever owned was a 1996 4Runner. That sucker could go through anything.
2008 Toyota Tundra - gotta have 4 wheel drive in CNY. Once you have a truck, you can't go back, too.
Best vehicle I ever owned was a 1996 4Runner. That sucker could go through anything.
Best vehicle I ever owned was a 1996 4Runner. That sucker could go through anything.
2008 Toyota Tundra - gotta have 4 wheel drive in CNY. Once you have a truck, you can't go back, too.
Best vehicle I ever owned was a 1996 4Runner. That sucker could go through anything.
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The Honda Odyssey is vastly underrated. May be a mini van, but it looks good, is a dream for traveling, and has surprising power. We had one for 8 years or so.
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Keep waiting for someone to post something less glamourous than the 2012 Ford Fusion with 47 K miles.
Loved my 1997 4Runner. Pricey, but I may go back once my Colorado dies.
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Best part of this thread, the guy who drives a Jeep Wrangler is taking digs at what other people drive. He loves it so much he's trying to sell it...
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I don’t have an online picture of my own, dummy. That’s the closest I could find on google images. You know, like 90% of the other pictures in this thread?
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Look at that resale value though? A wrangler will be my next vehicle!
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2014 Audi A4 S-Line
It’s a car and will be expensive over 100k miles.
It’s a car and will be expensive over 100k miles.
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They hold their resale amazingly well. I traded in a 2004 Wrangler last year. Soft top, 190,000 miles, no power anything, no AC, needed brakes and tires and got 5,000 from the dealer.