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you're kidding, right? that alfa looks like a chinese or indian car as for the insignia, it's a kind of passat/altima blend and the interior is quite dashing. maybe in europe it'll tank, but here i think it will do ok if they advertise and promote it and if they give it the insignia badge. it looks as good as a current passat, but with a nicer interior and will be priced better. ah, but it won't have that import badge. argh.

wonderful interior pretty nice exterior but a tish bland. classy car, clean, nice interior. hope it does well here.

conversely, if you plan on keeping the vehicle a long time, those first 10-20-30k miles on the new car vs. the used can be the cheapest miles you will put on your vehicle. they are all pretty much maintenance and trouble free. CPO cars sell for higher prices than non CPO cars, often far too much. why pay 23k for a used volvo from a volvo dealer i can get from an exec lease return specialist for 18? check the finance options, do the math, and sometimes you can justify the new purchase more easily, if discounts and rebates are involved when you compare the cost of those 'first miles' vs. the ones in year 5,6,7, when youa re replacing $h! constantly. some cars need tires at 40k, and for some cars that amounts to 1000 bucks. buy a used car and put 1000 into it right away? Not always the way to go. You need to understand the motivation for car salesmen wanting to push the used.....higher profits, harder to sell. they don't want the used car in inventory very long. they are spoiled by high markups on used cars typically and even more ludicrous margins on CPO cars. sometimes you find exactly what you want used with CPO with maybe 10k on it and in that case it's definitely something to consider. But a 1-2 year old CPO car even though it may be 20% cheaper, keep in mind its even worth less as well because the moment you drive that off the lot too now its only worth auction value, which may be 20% less then the car that was just driven off the lot new.

mine havent

even new cobalts are cheap right now if he can swing the financing. might be a better purchase for him, actually. he won't find a used car with a payment as cheap as a new, unless he's got some cash. warranty means a lot where he is at in life right now.

that actually helps me. thanks.

yup. x2

hope its not a piece of sht like the tundra

my first thought when i saw the pictures was i figured you might like them!

yeah, imagine how ugly that cadillac vue is gonna look.

50% improvement, supposedly.

every ecotec i have driven has been a pleasure for a four cylinder get around car. revs, nice torque, pleasantly powered. not perfectly smooth, but very good. the worst example of an ecotec i drove was an HHR automatic and i think that was as much from tall COG and sloppy handling. as anything.

yeah, and i won't be caught dead in this grotesque hideous ugly pilot. BTW yesterday again, another compliment on the 500, when people get inside my car, they love it.

ecotecs can often get even better mileage. back in 01 or whatever, it was typical for L series saturns with sticks to get 35+ on the highway. One ecotec malibu owner with automatic told me one time he got north of 35 mpg on the highway.

the Limited model has a chrome strip on the door of the Edge that i hate. SEL vs. Limited with fords means wheels usually are different but cabins are darn close to the same. on my 500 you can't get memory seats/mirrors/pedals on the SEL, so maybe the Edge adds a few goodies like that to make the price difference work. I think Sync is std on the Limited and not on the SEL. Ford's bundles annoy me but they seem to get away with it.

journey interior is mondo crude, even if functional. AWD is almost exapcted for resale in a vehicle like this. It's one thing to lease but if you have to sell it in the future, there may be payback to get AWD.

I am irate that the orange color will not be available on the new FLEX.

exactly. my point exactly. thing is, my aztek is a more functional CUV than many of the new ones out there, too.

wow, i didn't know this made the front page...woohoo! can i put this on my resume now? i'd like to get a new profession and i'd like to think i could get a job doing something like writing, you know, less work.

now if we could get oprah and dr. phil off the air and get some CARBIZ on tv we'd be making progress. i think a lot of what you say is true, but the forces counter to that are in constant conflict, i.e. the social pressure to be monogamous etc. reagrding the original thread question, technically, no i do not think i have, technically. now if you are just talking thinking about it, then it's at least hundreds of times a day you probably have the thought cross your mind. i.e. the inner animal. you final analysis, what makes you happy says a lot. i told a friend who is going through a breakup recently, it's not that he/she didn't love you, it's that you could not find a common ground on things including physical expectations. i try to deflect it as much as possible, but for me, when a friend relationship starts to veer into the type where you find out too much about the other and you think about them too much and you can't wait to see them or you NEED to see them, you share personal info etc......then you have gone to a very similar place as well. but sometimes it's damn hard to keep away from going there, as bad as it is. shame sometimes you can't have like 5 relashunships going on and have it be ok with everyone. argh. so, how do you manage to steer away from liking someone in that way, even though you are not supposed to, don't really need to, but can't seem to help it because you've maybe intimated in an encrypted way some feelings already each way and have a bit of the sense that the vibe is indeed or would be reciprocal if conditions were ok for it? I think trying to focus when your mind is effed up like that and getting back to doing the right thing is very very hard. and i don't like cold showers thank you. at some point you just have to wise up i guess, suck it up, and screen out any extra feelings you might have, realize its not real or just temporary, especially when the cooking at home is just fine to start with.

yuck, male treasure trail.

i probably have it easy compared to people who have to raise like 3 or 4 kids, or who are single parents trying to raise kids.

holy crap OC, your life is not at all dull lately, is it?

quest had some appeal but i think its weirdness made lots of folks check it off the list. nissan needs a cx-9 3 row more right now.

they will get equal gas mileage, so get the one that's the Ford. it will drive nicer, is larger and more functional, looks a lot better, and will end up being more reliable. JMO. EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE i like the daewoo vue, but the edge is really in another class up. get the AWD. !