Sixty8panther

I forgot that Chevy, Pontiac, Dodge, VW, Mazda & Nissan do not make V6, FWD sedans any more. Cfuking Edmunds!

Anyone else got a TIGHT WHIP they want a sig. made up for? C'mon... maybe someone's 2005 GTO or a 1939 Ford COE?

Speeding Non-flying-Antarctic-Bird: I'm at home today with Sofia... Marica is going out tonight since I've been screwing around a lot lately and I have two big roadtrips coming up. Now as far as the Q.... where to start. I'm really being super indecisive. On the one hand having two Q45s would be pretty sweet I don't know if I want two 100+K mile luxury cars. The repair bills will be serious no doubt. Our Q has already had the MAF, 2 Knock Sensors & 1 Oxygen Sensor replaced. It was under the dealer's 1250 mile/30 day warranty but all that and the front brake pads was damn near $1000. I think a Cobalt SS with a blower wouild be fun but then again I could just hold out and buy a new Camaro in 3/4 years. In a few years I'll be less upside down on the Q than on the Cobalt. I'm really begining to fall in love wiht the idea of a 100% RWD fleet.

I'll get back to you on that. :wink: Serious;y I think everyone here who really KNOWS me is familiar with what kind of Japanese cars I despise. Riced out Civics, the entire Scion Division & most Lexuses. Even more so the upside-down-emblem Honda division is a great example of abull$h! product. Acura is the kind of brand that makes me want to hurl. Or how about the Lexus RX-Hybrid... there's a car for the people with more money than common sense. But most of all, by far, the one car that represents pure evil in the most anti-American way possible is the Toyota Camry. I think if you own a tan or silver Camry LE you have given up on life and any and all forms of individuality. Might as well put a barcode stamp on the back of your neck and get a frontal lobotomy.

Okay so for the past 4 years I've been driving 2/3 used cars of varying degrees at a time. Other than my Datsun the one commonality was they were all GM. From my 87 Fleetwood Brougham to my 83 Firebird, and from my 90 Suburban to my 86 Fleetwood Brougham.... lots and lots of buying and selling and I love it that way. Marcia had her STS for a daily driver but I wanted an all RWD fleet for myself. I did not need or want a modern car. I was happy having three cars that averaged out to over quarter of a century old. My Camaro was the toy muscle car, the Fleet- wood Brougham was my cushy daily driver/family car/baby limousine & the Datsun was for racking up business miles... well it was a second toy in all honesty, but the fuel economy savings made it justyfiable as a long distance road trip $h!box etc. In reality the point of the Datsun was I was bored of having three automatic equiped cars. But now I've found a really nice car I could see myself driving every day. The Infiniti Q45 has for the past few weeks been a great alternative to the modern B-body that never was. I wish it had a quick responding pushrod V8 instead of that high-reving-tuner DOHC boat anchor but other than that and a few other MINOR complaints the Q45 is as close as you can get to a 1996 Roadmaster while still having a "J" for the first letter in your VIN. In the late 1990s while GM was busy trying to make Japanese-wannabe cars, Nissan made a great ripoff of the big, luxurious, lower-longer-wider V8 powered RWD sedans of the American classics. I've said when the M45 (Infiniti) was launched that DOHC aside its embodies everything a 21st century Impala should be. Well now I'm going to go on record saying that if you want a big, cushy, V8 powered, RWD land yacht with BOF-soft Cadillac style suspension then the 1997-2001 Infiniti Q45 is the car for you... so long as you can deal with it being Japanese. Thsi has been a tough pill to swallow for myself. I mean it's a far cry from a Civic or Camry, nothing at all along the lines of the car of the masses but it still was manufactured by the rising sun. So now that we'veh ad the Infiniti for a month and about 3,000 miles we (Marcia & I) are seriously considering buying a second one. The oter day XP told me about a silver 1999 Infiniti Q45t at a local used car dealer. It's the same exact place where my buddy Duffy bought his 1991 Pontiac GTA. That Tunned-port 350 with a 136,000 or so miles is still his only ride five years later. So the dealer has good karma to me. Anyway as of last night Marcia is approved to finance the car and we're just trying to bring donw the interest rate & by extension payment down before we pull the trigger. If this happens, then the Cobalt idea is history. I'll finally hae my 100% RWD fleet. 1997 Infiniti Q45 1999 Infiniti Q45t (touring edition) 1984 Datsun Maxima 1968 Chevrolet Camaro (and a demolition derby 1983 Volvo 240, also RWD) I'd regret not having given GM a sale like I planned with a new Cobalt, but I'd have not one but two modern RWD, V8 luxo-chariots. That would be a pretty sweet fleet. After the excellent white-glove treatment I got at Infiniti of Nashua yesterday I think I could get used to driving an Infiniti Q45 as my daily driver. Here's a front & back picture of the car: My only question is this. If we were to buy this second Q45 would my eventual 1959 Buick ownership still balance out three Japanese cars. I mean I love Infiniti but the idea of owning three Japanese cars is kind disturbing. The Q45 is a very unique and rare whip but it IS still a product of Nissan Motors. Every time I drive the Q I get a little closer to justifying (in my mind anyway) the idea of us owning a 75% Japanese fleet. So I guess it's like this right now: The car that will eventually get traded for a 2009 Chevrolet Camaro will be a Q45, Cobalt base coupe or possibly a Cobalt Supercharged SS. In any case there will be a compromise made but I'll have two reliable & *gasp* modern daily drivers so that I can concentrate my efforts on a 1959 Buick hardtop of some sort. After all, that's te most important goal I've set up for myself this year... I want to own one before Halloween of this year.

Yup... cops were there but they told him to make it quickk and they'd look the otrher way. I guess they felt the $400 tow bill and a effed up rear quarter panel was punishment enough. The cable tore up the trucks' rear quarter as it pulled it out.

I know one person who had a Beretta for 180,000 miles, ran like a top. 3.1 -5-speed. Pretty rare I think. It was not even a GTU or GTZ. He sold it to a dumbass kid who blew it up in like 500 miles. He's got a habit of doing that. Another friend has a 1993 Beretta with 206,000 miles and it runs like a champ. He's got some cosmetic issues and has replaced some of the interior and thrown on AR rims but other than that it's still a great commuter. My dad almost bought a Beretta in 1989. We also almost bought a tripple-black Corsica but it had a small dent in roof for some odd reason and my dad felt a brand new car with a defect like that should have been discounted more than it was. The dealership where all this happened (in Boston) is now a Toyota/Scion store. I remember riding the green-line back to our house as a little kid dissapointed that we did not buy the black Corsica and clutching a Camaro sales brochure. The Tunned-Port intake looked SO damn cool back then. I thought it was the equivelant of the effin ZL1 aluminum big block or something.

By "construction site" do you mean the Bob the Builder kids TV show or Legoland? XLRCaddy: People who drive Toyotas learn to harness such incredible ability through the power of superior engineeering.

I want a quad, esp. since Kevin bought his Kawasaki but I'd get a 2wd one on purpose. I'm weird like that.

No promisses, but I'll try to be nice and keep that in mind.

As always you are amazingly impartial & level headed as a moderator. Way to use PMs for personal attacks just like you're always preaching.

Good to hear you like it 76. Fly: Let's not go there. :wink:

Good car... we (my parents and I) had a 1997 Grand Am from 1997 to just a few weeks ago when it got traded in on a 2006 Cobalt coupe. Their biggest problem with it was a $h!ty aftermarket anti-theft system. Had it not been for that and some emissions issues they might have kept it longer. It only had like 115,000 on it.

Both off the WZLX website: Is this really necessary?

I have two roadtrips planed for April. 15th - NYIAS 22nd - Albany, NY (Datsun-Nissan Gathering)

Look at page 4 in this thread, your revised sig's been ready for like a week.

Edge of my seat....

If people were buying millions of cars like the Lexus IS/GS, Infiniti M45/G35 coupe/FX45 & Mazda RX8 it would be slightly insulting that Japan's stronghold on the USA marketplace is growing. But what pisses me off is that it's $h!boxes like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camrys & Lexus ES that are selling like hotcakes. WTF!?!?!

So true. I think from the mid-1990s to today Ricky was too busy justifying the cancelation of the entire B-body line, putting the F-body on "hiatus" while trying to convince everyone that the Pontiac Aztek will be the next big thing.

Oh... now I feel like a retard. Sorry.

I saw my first FJ yesterday, the Infiniti dealership is right next to Toyota of Nashua and they had a yellow one up front for display. Honestly without letting my Anti-Toyota bias kick in I cn say it's ugly and looks like a fisher price toy... esp. in loud colors. I like "loud" cars that stand out but the FJ is just plain ugly and uninspired. I wouldn't buy one if it cost $8000 brand new.

Well, two days ago Boy Wonder managed to get a wrecker over to the Tewksbury Dump and they yanked the Blazer out of the swamp. Honestly I think the $400 he spent was well earned by the tow truck driver. The curse of "Tetanus Shot" is not over for myself however. I got poison ivy all over my right arm form the tree that I used to straighten the frame. I've been scratching it and making myself bleed for three days now.

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That's just the thing. Either I sell out to ANOTHER Japanese car and go 100% RWD and buy the Q45, which we just might do, or I buy a new GM car and give them a sale but bitch about the FWD for the next 3/4/5 years. Ex-cab Duramax.... sweet, shoud have gone for it.

Anyone else coming out to the NY auto show on Saturday the 15th?