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Robert Hall

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  1. Do you have any comprehension of geography? It’s over 2000 miles. I wasn’t going to buy something in Ohio, ship or drive it to Az then drive it back to Ohio.. .I hadn’t sold the house in Az yet, had to move the dogs to Ohio and needed a new vehicle..my old Jeep had 170k and I didn’t trust it for the long drive that was looming in my future....I had had it 17 years, got my money’s worth. (I had bought it new, by the way.) No point trying to explain anything to you, you can’t understand. Different reality context..I had a unique situation...it works for me...
  2. And I didn’t downvote you because you said Quebec cars rust, but for your shitty attitude and the inaccurate assumptions you make. And your long, rambling incoherent posts.
  3. Yes, I bought a California car because I was living in Arizona. Arizona dealers get a lot of California vehicles. I needed it to drive cross country to my house in Ohio. Wouldn’t have made sense to buy it in Ohio...
  4. @oldshurst442 as an aside, do you ever have short, condensed responses? Too long and rambling. Anyway, yes life is hard in Canada and you have shitty winters and everything rusts. We understand that. You are just whining at this point. There was nothing smug or arrogant about my post; just stating facts. CPOs can be a good deal. Maybe Canadian car dealers don’t have CPO programs? I don’t know. I’m presenting facts as I know them in my reality context.
  5. I had an Uber X driver w a very clean 9-3 wagon recently. Neat looking cars.
  6. By buying a 3 yr old CPO from California w/ 25k miles I got a rust free pretty much spotless like new Jeep that had only trivial differences from a new one, at about $15k off the new price. New car smell isn’t worth that much for me. ( I have a very poor sense of smell anyway)
  7. Ah, good point... many do seem to be CJRD dealers nowadays (that's all I've seen in NE Ohio and the Phoenix area)...so they probably they don't need a Dodge version. Maybe Voyager is the strategy to replace the current Caravan... Dodge if it's around in 5 years will probably just be the Charger and Challenger, since the Durango will probably be replaced by the 3 row Jeep.
  8. The way I look at it, under $30k-40k, most anything new is a 4cyl FWD generic--just boring gray interior point A to point B transport..disposable appliances. I'd rather have something more substantial, comfortable, and nicer equipped for a daily driver, and don't want to spend $40-50k on a new vehicle. I'm not trying to impress anyone, I got what I wanted. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I like Jeeps. Grand Cherokees specifically. I wanted an American midsize 2 row RWD/AWD SUV, since I don't do FWD/AWD transverse engine CUVs. Not many choices. Had a good experience w/ my previous one, having a good experience w/ my CPO. Vintage stuff is nice to look at at a car show, but not something I want to spend time dealing with, and since I don't have extra garage space, vintage is out of the question.
  9. My next door neighbors have an older F150, and a Sienna and an Odyssey, both around 10 years old..now that their kids are both driving (one in high school w/ an FR-S, one in college w/ a Compass), I assume they will get something else eventually. Speaking of minivans, I wonder if they will eventually drop the Caravan or rebadge the Voyager for Dodge dealers. It's still selling...
  10. Well, it's not my truth, so I really couldn't care less what you think. I'd rather buy a used clean luxury car or SUV than a new 4cyl FWD shitbox w/ a CVT and despair gray interior.
  11. Bullshit..it's a bad investment to buy new, a depreciated 3 yr old vehicle with 25k is a much better purchase. I don't buy your Quebec argument either--are people too lazy there to keep their cars clean? We got a lot of salt and bad weather here in Cleveland also, yes cars are worn out here after 10 years also if you don't take care of them...but you can have a daily driver look great here if you keep it washed and get the salt off.
  12. Went out for taco Tuesday and custard...saw a variety of interesting cars---a very clean red C4 convertible, a sharp silver '67 Corvette coupe, a primered '63 Ford Galaxie boxtop w/ a healthy rumble, a bright yellow slammed '68-72 C10 longbed, an orange Hellcat Challenger, and a white wide body Hellcat Challenger.. Oddest sight was a black Audi Q7 sitting up on 4 jack stands in a driveway of a modest house...looked like the guy was doing a brake job. Also saw a sharp red '59 Edsel convertible, rolling in traffic, top down. Saw a house with a pale yellow '65 Mustang coupe in the garage and a blue w/ white top Lincoln Mark III in the driveway being polished.
  13. That is sweet...love the central courtyard.
  14. With my tiny garage and the stairs of the split level, I think I'm going to be looking for a new house sooner than later...more garage space and a single story ranch...
  15. The biggest frustration I have with my central air (and heat) is more of a factor of the house...being a split level, I have 4 separate levels, and there is a lot of temperature variation between upstairs, the central level (kitchen, dining room, living room, the sunken family/tv room, and the basement. tv room is always colder than other other parts, the bedrooms upstairs always warmer...
  16. I've heard of heat pumps, don't know how common they are here, though. They would replace both furnace and A/C units?
  17. Yeah...and the height of a minivan is big part of the difference for an adult getting in the third row..I recall getting in the 3rd row of an Uber Burban in SF a few years ago, was awkward even with the size of the Burban...
  18. They make a lot more sense as a family hauler than the CUV or SUV..taller inside, power sliding doors, etc...
  19. Cruel
  20. Benz buyers want 'The best or nothing', so they are waiting on the next 'best' to be available.
  21. Could explain why the current one is down, people waiting on the new one.
  22. Is the next gen GLS on sale yet in the US?
  23. There is a closed former car dealer around here filled with overflow Rams.
  24. Speaking of the Pacifica, haven't seen any mention here about the return of the Voyager name for the lower Pacifica trims.
  25. Saw this on the FB...it's funny even if it is a fake story..I can imagine someone clueless about cars saying that.
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