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especially when the mazdaspeed 3 starts slapping the wussy civic si all around. Let's see, the mazdaspeed 3 will have 250hp and great handling. the cobalt ss will get a boost to 260hp. the caliber srt-4 will peg 300hp. guess which one will win the magazine comparos despite 132 lbft of torque, only at full throttle.

i'm sure there are a bunch of clueless urbanites who grab their CR and head for the toyota dealer and they are much more than happy to pay 50 bucks for the dealer oil changes and like 1000 bucks for a 30,000 mile service. then there were those morons who didn't change the oil in their camrys and stuff and they got sludge. and all the honda transmissions that went bad......... buying toyotas and hondas is how the 'educated' class of people, the pottery barn and crate and barrel set, mainstain their visual 'superiority' over those who have to spend their money on more important things. it defies logic to them to spend less and keep some money in their pocket because they work in jobs that make lots of money. A lot of those industries and stuff are self created. Things like 'consultants', etc......the other group that buys hondas are the youngsters who may have liked civics and honda motorcycles and stuff. GM for example just does not sell to the crate and barrel set nor the 'import performance' crowd. but the MYTh has become so large now , that groups who never bought toyotas before are starting to buy them. Example, an 80+ yo retired farmer in my dad's condo....he has like a 12 yo S-10 with about 200k miles on it, its his tooling truck. He wanted something new. He drank the Kool aid and bought a tacoma. He likes the new Toyota but never drives it. He keeps driving the S-10. He bought the Toyota because of the media and personal influences from outside. He was a happy lifetime GM owner. You can see it in the numbers. toyota goes up 6% one month when Ford is down. Now I don't know if he got a good deal ont he Tacoma, but I bet it was several thousand more than the Chevy. Yet he still drives his chevy that's over a decade old with 200,000 miles and its still going. It's those people GM and Ford cannot afford to lose unless they conquest sales themselves and they still can't do it even with good cars like the Cobalt. Hell, why is it Mazda can oly sell 70,000 3's YTD and the lousy ugly Civic sells like 3-4 times that? The Mazda3 is so much more appealing all around. It just goes to show how the buyers can be a big joke sometimes.

well, i test drove hard and it sucked. proof enough for me. rode like a train car and felt like driving a bus. the quest had much better driving dynamics.

that car makes the camry look like an Audi. holy crap that car is f'ed up looking. just downright UGLEE. A definite 2 bagger......

i wish my monitor was horizontal. i could pull up TTAC on screen and leave a Hot Carl all over it.

if you own a ford or chrysler, 75,000 miles out of an atuo tranny is a godsend........

interesting......there's no excuse for the 4 speeds anymore...... ward's auto sorry if there's already a topic on this. translation, Ford fans, you can still expect this thing to be like those Ford trannies you remember.....won't shift, lazy, etc.........the ford engineers had to leave their indelible touch on it I'm sure despite the best effort of GM to make it great the Ford guys I am sure will bless it with the inability to downshift or the PENCHANT to hunt endlessly for gears.

someone posted this tonight in GMI from wardsauto. i don't have ward's auto so i can't get the whole article but this is what it said apparently. interesting......

must have been the current odyssey because the last version of odyssey drove like as much of a tank as most other minivans.

between all his tunes and shania twain, mutt sure has done quite well under the radar.

wikipedia soul bossa nova composed by Quincy Jones

only sly knows in his heart if what he has with Marcia has legs for 'eternity'. that's about all i can say. if he sees a lifetime of unhappiness and there doesn't appear to be a chance of reconciliation, well......we all have the need to be happy somehow. i would think its best repair what you have but sometimes that just isn't possible.

you still end up paying more for the imports, even if the resale PERCENTAGE is better. the higher price and cost of interest of it makes it more spendy. and then when you have to fix the honda it costs you twice as much. Anytime anyone tries to use the 'resale' card to me to justify their purchase of something like a honda or toyota i first, just shake my head, because I'm like, you don't have to explain to ME why you bought something. But then I figure since they are trying so HARD to justify it and get me to agree with them they must feel from the outset like they were getting screwed and they need to get their affirmation from somewhere.

let's get a couple of those ladies and we'll grab the marauder and go fer a ride!

no, because they already took a bigger bath when they paid 28-30 thou and overpaid by about 6-8 grand for a small slow 4 cylinder hatchback. honda owners always sent to forget how much they get bent over at the start. its like my friend who blew far too much cash for their odyssey. 33k and got less than 18 in trade for it after 30 months on a new Pilot, which I am sure they overpaid for as well. Now that's RESALE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH that amounts to a 6 thou loss per year. oh yeah, that's resale. that's some tasty koolaid. Jesus said to pray for those in need. I think we should all bow our heads and pray for those CRV intenders, that they get a shred of a clue, and at least take their stolen cash and go get CX-7 or even a RAV4 instead. Something with some MERIT.

yupand two weeks after they bought it they will be wondering where those 2 extra cylinders are......

actually, that car really caught my eye. i know marauders are dog slow, but for a crown vic, this thing really looks sweet. funny thing, there's a donut store literally almost across the street. i bet some of the cops sit in the donut store parking lot munching chocolate iced rings adn fantasize about this thing for their own cop car.

yesserie

its like two little baskets of goodness you just wanna hold on to. it's not obsession. just 'high admiration'. its not obsession, my parole officer got rid of the restraining order now for quite some time.

swap the verona and galant and i like that list! push sonata down there also. LOL

the pizza peel makes a much louder WHACK!

crap, you're right. she might notice that. but i suppose as long as it didn't make her take down the antonio banderas pic.......

NICE! 36 inch hips on a 36 year old DIVA. Croc's being shy. Damn I need a shrine for her in my house. a 16x20 of that pic would rock out. or this damn that pizza peel would come in handy right about then

this hit the lot at the local chevy dealer by my place and for some reason i thought of you.....not sure why.........