A Horse With No Name

Sorry that life sucks so badly. Can understand your frustration with banks. It's a Ford, but it's really clean....I have a Co worker selling a nice extended cab F250 4X4, think it s a 96 (last of the square body style) and it's got a 460, so it should move some snow. Amazingly it gets about 14-15 MPG. And it's in really decent shape. He doesn't have it officially listed, but wants to get rid of it to get a Tahoe. Interested? Chris

So what if it was a fast truck? What good is a fast truck if it's so ugly it makes you functionally celibate by driving it? Chris

+1 on the Credit Union thing. My Miata is financed through the Honda Credit union...great people. Thinking our next car may be a Volvo C30...will have fun financing that through Honda as well. Chris

For a demo derby car in an all Toyota demolition derby...HELL YES!

Damn, son, I already qualify. My wife drives a first gen xB (the original box.) Our family motto is "The family that thinks outside of the box rides around in one." But don't worry, we're thinking of trading it in. Just got back from a dealership trip, actually. Chris

What will happen with the house you just rented in OZ? Too bad you couldn't spend some time there, cool place to live. Congrats! Chris

Keep us posted with lots of pics! Chris

Good luck and keep us posted. This makes me think twice about another car loan! Chris

The Jetta and A4 are much better now than they were 5 years ago. Still glad to see this in the Regal, though. Chris

Agree that the volt should work much better than the E-MINI. ...and what have I been saying all along about the morons at BMW dilluting and killing the MINI brand equity by spreading it out around too many cars? ~off topic but... VW will be the main player in the premium compact segment...which is fine. Will open up the market for Buick when they bring out their premium compact. Chris

Came out from the Columbus Blue Jackets hocky game (Toronto spanked us 6-3) and in consolation for watching the Blue Jackets bomb, a beautiful SS Camaro in black was parked next to us in the parking garage. Thought of you, Derek, and your mother and your quest for a Camaro. I need to show that car to my wife...hmmm... Chris

I was more interested in learning about what type of people you guys were attracted to...rather than just making it a thread about nekkid people. Akso, I was being a little bit sarcastic because it's not in the rated R forum. Chris

If it's solid...dammit man...I think I'd be $1800 poorer. So I'm assuming the interior gets redone in Pink in a Barbie theme when you finish the resto... Chris

GTD gets the 170 HP diesel...which we won't get. However, the Golf TDI does get the sport suspension from the GTI, so we are good! Chris

...and closing the door on a GTI VS. closing the door on a Camry is why my next non GM car will probably be a GTI or a TDI...if I can talk myself out of a Cooper S first. Thinking a gently used Astra three door with a five speed might well be my next GM car. Close the door on an Astra and close it on a Camry. Hell, close it on a nu Bu and close it on a Camry. And it's not like I'm a Total Toyota H8R from the Toyota H8R's club. My wife drives a first gen xB and I know a lot of local Scion and Toyota guys. I just prefer reality to fiction...and the reality is Toyota is pretty much wildly over rated. Okay...as a TDI VW fan...maybe I enjoy H8ing on the Prius a little bit. Admire the Prisu fuel efficiency...but it isn't a drivers car like the TDI Golf or a whole bunch of other cars. Chris

Actually Mercedees Benz is one of the longest lasting vehicles on the road...properly maintained they will run forever. Friend of a friend runs a garage that is specialty mostly older Benzes...lots of cars from the 80's still rolling along like it was still the Reagan era... ...and don't tell the VW reliability thing to any of my VW TDI friends...the ones with 300,000+ and 400,000 plus miles on them. Were you in Ohio right now I could take you to a bunch of high miles VW TDI's that still run great. To these guys, 150,000 miles is just getting broken in. Chris

Actually I think Toyota is going to loose customers as a result of its getting so deadly boring. My middle daughter goes to high school at a school for the arts, and the principal, Paula is a very artistic, creative, thoughtful woman. She drives one of those edgy last generation Celicas. (Paula the principal, not my daughter) she has 160,000+ on the Celica and is going to be looking for another car. She's not a car person but she has a brain and a creative side. She's really turned off to everything Toyota is building right now, and will probably be looking outside of Toyota for her next car. Even though the Celica has run flawlessly for 160,000 miles. Chris

I think we are seeing a huge shift in the automotive market...and that the GMW 1 series isn't well matched for the curent market. We have one that's part of our local autocross group, and a few more that come out to play once in awhile. Kind of a neat little car. And remember, I'm grading on a curve. I'm not saying I would rather own it than a 65 GTO or a 57 Olds, I'm saying it's better than a Cube, Crosstour, Soul, Camry, Avalon, Sebring, et al. Chris

I dropped by a local Toyota dealer to check out the new Venzia or whatever the hell it is when I was in North Carolina. It felt as craptastic in the details as a Corolla. When you think about it, driving a Toyota is sort of like sleeping with a fat woman who's really not into the whole sex thing. Chris

Depends on the era of the car, I think. The older GM stuff isn't as well built as some of the "New GM" era stuff. Chris

...and sweet car, Rocket! Chris

Utter automotive lust material for me, my friend. LOVE that bodystyle Olds. One of the best looking GM styles ever, IMHO. Chris

They need small cars as part of the puzzle. Cruze will help, but not enough. Chris

....one last post...and then I'll shut up. Why should we trail the Brazilians of all people in biofuels and alternative energy? Nothing against Brazillians, they are great people...but aren't Americans supposed to be leaders in this world? Never thought we'd given up our need/seeming natural calling to be leaders. Chris

Ummm...I have a wife and three daughters...and I'm kind of in the protective male mode. ASs I said before, we do electrical service for several body shops, so I see these cars being fixed. I've also spent more than my fair share of time in salvage yards. MUCH prefer most of the GM and Euro stuff when it comes to safety. Agree with your brother, caddy cruiser. And actually the car that suprises me is the Cobalt. I've seen a bunch of them hit hard...and they don't have a very good safety rating...but all of the ones I've seen in body shops and salvage yards seem to have protected the passengers/Driver VERY well. Chris