Car Shopping

[Dunkopf]

Misread your last post.

 

[vfem]

Well here's my baby!

Taking it in tomorrow to get detailed

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

No matter how much I hate Pruises...I will admit...Those things are pretty comfy. I rode in one a few years ago and I nearly fell asleep in that thing. It's nothing that I would buy in particular, but if you want it, go for it. And plus, it's a Toyota, they last forever.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[cackydoodledoo]

I wouldn't have any problem keeping it under a 100 as I would spend more time on the side of the hiway with the red and blues behind me than I would actually driving it!!! Exactly why I don't have one!!!!

 

[hennyannie]

I have a 2002 ford taurus at present. It has had one fairly minor repair(Sensor replaced). My next car will be another truck however, I cant haul anything in the taurus. I do love the ford 500. I would get one if I was getting another car.

 

[Dunkopf]

Quote:
Nice car vfem. It's very practical and I know they have good acceleration and handling. Also heard if you do jackrabbit starts it really decreases mileage, by a much higher percentage than a conventional car. They can modify those cars to get up to 100 per gallon. You gotta really do the blue hair imitation for that though.

 

[Mattemma]

Dh got a prius for me. Love the mpg,but I don't like the way the trunk glass is. I also don't like the loss of control/jolt I get when I hit a bump or slick spot.Otherwise good to go.

 

[NGT ANGL]

Get the Prius. We have one and LOVE it!

 

[GarlicEater]

The new Priuses are indeed fugly. Mine was a 2005, and no I didn't have to put on my blue wig to get 60+ mpg.

That being said, if I were to do it again my choices would have been:

Used Toyota minivan I could pay off within a year. You can't be reposessed and thus homeless out of a car you really own.

Or if I had to go new, a Honda ..... what was that thing they were calling a dorm room on wheels? Marketed to college students, turns out middle aged moms were buying them, was that the Pilot? Paid it off as quickly as possible and had a nice stealthy live-in vehicle for when I lost everything.

I bought in 2005, I lost everything in mid-2007, if I'd gone all-out I'd have been able to pay off a big chunk of a Honda Pilot or a Toyota Matrix, and the payments would have been lower - not too hard to play street music, wash windows, collect cans for enough to make a car payment, hard but do-able. In fact little did I know I could have kept my Prius, I know a guy like 2X my size who was living in his, and the secret is you get a car cover. People can't see the condensation on the windows from you sleeping in there with a cover, and no one messes with Priuses anyway, they know Prius owners are prissy clean-car people who never leave anything worth stealing on the seats, and besides, the cars are WEIRD.

I'd suggest to anyone now to carefully weigh gas mileage, carrying capacity, cost, and the possibility that you may need to live in the dang thing, into your car purchase decision.