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From: Delaware
[quote name='Dazy' date='Jun 21 2005, 07:51 PM']Mustangs suck ***. I drove one and hated it with a passion. Drove the 8 right afterwards and the world was right again.
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i was a mustang owner for 5 years.. thought it was a great car... till i drove the 7 and 8.. won't ever own a mustang again.. not only that.. the depreciation on a mustang is terrible
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i was a mustang owner for 5 years.. thought it was a great car... till i drove the 7 and 8.. won't ever own a mustang again.. not only that.. the depreciation on a mustang is terrible
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From: Denver, CO
[quote name='rowtareh' date='Jun 21 2005, 07:28 PM']Why not get a new Mustang? Phins has one, he can chime in with that, and I have driven the V6 model, and it is a GREAT car. It has alot of power, it looks good on the eyes, retro dash.
Check out the Mustang just for your sake Sinful. And it is Ford, I have had one Ford break down on me. That is out of 2 Fords though. lol The 94 F-150 I have right now needs the power steering pump replaced, that is the only major maintenance done it so far. It is coming close to 163k miles.
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Check out the Mustang just for your sake Sinful. And it is Ford, I have had one Ford break down on me. That is out of 2 Fords though. lol The 94 F-150 I have right now needs the power steering pump replaced, that is the only major maintenance done it so far. It is coming close to 163k miles.
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From: Orange County, NY
[quote name='phinsup' date='Jun 21 2005, 10:58 PM']I covered that comment when I said "when I was younger I used to think".
You've been driving for 6 years... I didn't have high blood pressure when I was 16, didn't mean it was never going to happen.
I decided to have at least one car with a warranty when Amy was going to school and driving home at 11PM by herself each night. It worried the hell out of me driving our 84 GSL-SE even though i rarely had problems with it... it only takes once for her to be stranded on the side of the road at midnight by herself.
And her car before that was a 88 Acura Integra, sooooo.... wherever you were going with your "spoken like a domestic owner" didn't go anywhere.
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Hmm. Whatever your point is about being younger, my only point was that there was never a whole lot of "Free time" taken up by these cars in the first place. And it also very much depends on what you view working on a car as...work vs. a chance to hang out with some friends and gives you something to do.
Regardless, you mentioned 2 very old cars, an 88 and 84...and while I am an advocate of saving money and buying a dependable brand regardless of a Warranty, it doesn't mean you have to buy a 15+ year old car either.
This kind of relates to my friend Amber. She's weighing her options of either buying a used 2000+ Celica for $8-10k with 75k miles, or spend above $17k for her favorite Scion. She'll drive it for maybe 75k miles, by then in her life she'll need a van or bigger car for a family (so she hopes) but at least that $8-9k she didn't spend on the "new" car with the warranty can go toward a $10-15k down payment on a townhouse, or pay back college, or yadda yadda.
I was only taking a guess at the domestic comment, since, based on multiple (Multiple, lots, several) times I've been shown and proven the generalizations to be true (As far as compact cars are concerned...).
Blah blah blah, in the end I just think, given the big difference in price, buying a 20-50k mile used Toyota/Honda/Acura/Mazda is probably a better route than new for the sake of a warranty, well...even those low mileage used one (if from a dealer) could have warranty's as well.
You've been driving for 6 years... I didn't have high blood pressure when I was 16, didn't mean it was never going to happen.
I decided to have at least one car with a warranty when Amy was going to school and driving home at 11PM by herself each night. It worried the hell out of me driving our 84 GSL-SE even though i rarely had problems with it... it only takes once for her to be stranded on the side of the road at midnight by herself.
And her car before that was a 88 Acura Integra, sooooo.... wherever you were going with your "spoken like a domestic owner" didn't go anywhere.
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Hmm. Whatever your point is about being younger, my only point was that there was never a whole lot of "Free time" taken up by these cars in the first place. And it also very much depends on what you view working on a car as...work vs. a chance to hang out with some friends and gives you something to do.
Regardless, you mentioned 2 very old cars, an 88 and 84...and while I am an advocate of saving money and buying a dependable brand regardless of a Warranty, it doesn't mean you have to buy a 15+ year old car either.
This kind of relates to my friend Amber. She's weighing her options of either buying a used 2000+ Celica for $8-10k with 75k miles, or spend above $17k for her favorite Scion. She'll drive it for maybe 75k miles, by then in her life she'll need a van or bigger car for a family (so she hopes) but at least that $8-9k she didn't spend on the "new" car with the warranty can go toward a $10-15k down payment on a townhouse, or pay back college, or yadda yadda.
I was only taking a guess at the domestic comment, since, based on multiple (Multiple, lots, several) times I've been shown and proven the generalizations to be true (As far as compact cars are concerned...).
Blah blah blah, in the end I just think, given the big difference in price, buying a 20-50k mile used Toyota/Honda/Acura/Mazda is probably a better route than new for the sake of a warranty, well...even those low mileage used one (if from a dealer) could have warranty's as well.
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The only domestics I've ever driven were my Dad's Jeep, Grandfather's Windstar, and friend's Colorado. Never have gotten the chance to drive any American sports car. Weird that I never realized that until now...
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[quote name='Rob x-7' date='Jun 21 2005, 08:17 PM']you obvously dont know the price of M3s then, they are over $50,000
hardly compare to a $32000-$35000 car.
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look around, you can find m3s for that price too: http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/searchresult...color=&x=86&y=7
i know id rather spend that money on an m3, even if it had a few more miles
hardly compare to a $32000-$35000 car.
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look around, you can find m3s for that price too: http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/searchresult...color=&x=86&y=7
i know id rather spend that money on an m3, even if it had a few more miles