What kind of car do you drive?

[Matt308]

Enjoy that vehicle while you can Erich. The tree huggers are going to ban them because in a car crash scenario with a 400lb Yugo, your 1-ton for some reason wins every time. And well that's not right. The only obvious solution is everyone must be forced to drive 400lb Yugos. Your just selfish with your well being and they just won't stand for that.

[Erich]

let them come !

I've had BMW's rear end me driving too close, and I ain't going fast in this overgrown beast. I win every time as you have pointed out

time for some Lebkuchen

[Matt308]

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I had this chick in a Ford Mondeyo drive right into the back of Jeep at a red light. Dented her whole front end in, tore up her engine and she had to be towed away. What happened to my Jeep...

...Not a scratch!!!

[Nonskimmer]

Generally, the vehicle that does the ramming gets the sh*ttier end of the deal as far as damage goes. Front end damage is the worst. An old woman cut me off once, and I ended up breaking her tail light and slightly denting her bumper. Meanwhile, my old Nissan truck had a nice big 'ole crumpled left fender. Sweet.

At least my insurance rates didn't go up. It was her bloody fault.

[mkloby]

I had an 04 wrangler w/ a steel rear bumper - had some lady back into me - cracked her rear bumper and all i had to do was flick her paint off my bumper. I was quite pleased.

[Stuka-Pilot 44]

This is my Sunday auto....85k miles...(in July 1985 - cost was $16,545.)
The great gas miles comes from 5-in-line-cylinders.
No major repairs...only wiper blades, oil/and filter, brake pads, timing belt-at 60k.
The German's build them great.

[Erich]

my bug ugly truck has had the whole outside bed and rear end done over in 2-4 inches of steel ream and plate many a moon ago and with the rear end slightly higher than the front, besides my way cool look down the road and small low riders that hit me spells the death knell of all. I've probably had at least 6-8 incidences with each time the goof offs hitting me not watching what they were doing, one guy, and I will shorten this up, stole a classic Mustang one eve an came around a corner in slightly foggy weather and decided to rip the right side of car from nose to tail, i watched the whole mass come clean off like opening a tuna can with a can opener, it flayed that sucker of a car, tore out the radiator in part and the fool tried to jam it around the next corner and roads up north ......... I was laughing my head off as the police just followed the trail of coolant on the road to the scoundrels home. it just flicked a bit of black paint off the steel plates on the left side of my truck.

I do wonder about people sometime

[R-2800]

Still gets 32mpg on highway - not sad for a 1985!

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This is my Sunday auto....85k miles...(in July 1985 - cost was $16,545.)
The great gas miles comes from 5-in-line-cylinders.
No major repairs...only wiper blades, oil/and filter, brake pads, timing belt-at 60k.
The German's build them great.

Can't beat German engineering

[pbfoot]

Originally Posted by R-2800

Can't beat German engineering

sure you can Japanese cars are miles better ask anyone who drives one

[R-2800]

well there real good to probly same level as a German car but German cars are safer i think and would prefer a German car, it all depends on the person, but hey for me if has 4 wheels and won't break down every 2 miles fine with me!

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Jeep and then Mercedes. The best there is.

[mkloby]

Originally Posted by pbfoot

sure you can Japanese cars are miles better ask anyone who drives one

I think all new cars are very reliable - it's just a matter of personal preference and specific options you want in your vehicle. I've never had anything go wrong w/ any of my newer American cars, or my wife's japanese car.

[davparlr]

Originally Posted by mkloby

I think all new cars are very reliable - it's just a matter of personal preference and specific options you want in your vehicle. I've never had anything go wrong w/ any of my newer American cars, or my wife's japanese car.

I was watching autoline detroit and the emcee said that the car with the worst reliability today is better than the car with the best reliability ten years ago.

DerAdlerIstGelandet-
Jeep and then Mercedes. The best there is.

I learned to drive in a 1947 Jeep-civilian version. What a wonderful vehicle. Goes anywhere (although I do remember digging it out of a Florida swamp where sank up to the body), but not very quickly. Use to run sand dunes on Perdido Key before there were back-to-back condos. My older brother got it when he got his license, I got a 1954 Ford four door. Talking about the opposite ends of cool!

Mercedes reliability reputation has been hit hard lately. I think they are working hard to improve it. Overall, European car reliability has been slipping down a bit. You have to note my first comment on reliability above, however. Some American makes have been making great strides. Buick has been right up there nudging Lexus for the top spot in reliability. I drove a rented Ponitiac G6 a month or so ago. First GM car I was impressed with in 30 years.

My selection of greatest American traitors? American auto maker CEOs and Directors and Labor leaders of the 1970s and 80s. In the 70s GM had almost 60% of the American market. Now they are what, 28%. All due to incompetence, greed and feather bedding. In the 70s, Olds Cutlass was the no. 1 selling car in America. Now they don't even exist! Amazing collapse. I'll bet all those Directors and CEOs that allowed this to happen have a really nice retirement because of selling the future to boost stock prices. I used to be a big Olds fan, now I drive Hyundais (made in America). Not because I want to be, but in the 70s the American cars were junk and they seem uninspired since.

[102first_hussars]

Originally Posted by pbfoot
sure you can Japanese cars are miles better ask anyone who drives one

Well i drive a '95 Acura Integra which is basically a Honda, i can go a week and a half on a tank of gas its a good car, i kept it nice and pretty too