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PrintableHereToRockYourWorld said: PANDURITO said: 
 What's that?
It's gotta be the ugliest car EVER!!!! Isn't that the one Homer Simpson designed?  I love it. Doesn't look like everything out there. Very modern. And it's a lot smaller than it looks in the pics. It's not SUV sized at all. Unlike the PT Cruiser, which I thought was kinda cool when it came out, but now it just looks kinda bloated to me. And what about aerodynamics? 100 years of theory flushed down the toilet. I mean THAT THING can't pass a wind tunnel test  Can't you see that? | |
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psychodelicide said: nurse said: My piece of crap car stopped on me ( not that I care anyway), but I'm considering getting either a PT Cruiser or a Jeep Grand Cherokee. What do you think? Keeping in mind the price of fuel lately, but the Jeep is very nice
 . Are there any other nice vehicles that you might suggest?I  PT Cruisers, they are so cool looking.
Every time I see one of these on the road, I have to look at it. PT Cruisers are just so stylish. Those look like Roger Rabbit cars  . I have a friend who rolled hers when she hit a patch of black ice. Thing crumpled like kleenex  "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"-Dr Seuss
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Consider the Yaris. It has an outstanding MPG.
I've been thinking about buying a car for at least a year... | |
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PANDURITO said: HereToRockYourWorld said: I love it. Doesn't look like everything out there. Very modern. And it's a lot smaller than it looks in the pics. It's not SUV sized at all. Unlike the PT Cruiser, which I thought was kinda cool when it came out, but now it just looks kinda bloated to me. And what about aerodynamics? 100 years of theory flushed down the toilet. I mean THAT THING can't pass a wind tunnel test Can't you see that?Aerodynamics doesn't really matter much when you're doing the stop-and-go traffic of mosty major urban centers. Unless you're frequently commuting on the Autobahn, you could drive a Model-T and not worry much about wind shear. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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nurse said: My piece of crap car stopped on me ( not that I care anyway), but I'm considering getting either a PT Cruiser or a Jeep Grand Cherokee. What do you think? Keeping in mind the price of fuel lately, but the Jeep is very nice
. Are there any other nice vehicles that you might suggest?I would NOT buy a car that's NOT made in Germany but ACURA really makes a dependable car....and gets decent gas mileage also. | |
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PurpleJedi said: JustErin said: I see those things everywhere around here. I can't believe how tiny they are. With the price of gas nowadays...is they Do hit the US, I'm trading in my GrandAm (lousy 17mpg) for one of them. hey...word to the wise tho....I spent 3 years in Germany and Smart Cars were everywhere....but they don't look too cute when they get pressed into scrap metal by bigger vehicles....saw one on the side of AutoBahn 6 on the way to Kaiserslautern that got mangled by a VW... 
...just a little devils advocate public service message.... He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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...I have one of these (Saturn Vue)....reasonably priced under $20,000...get great mileage... He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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my father has this sitting in the garage...
meanwhile i'm driving a gas guzzling truck that costs $120 to fill 
in a perfect world my parents could drive it in arizona for the winters and i could drive it up here for the summers 
somehow i don't think snowbanks would agree with this little puddle jumper  She couldn't stop crying 'cause she knew he was gone to stay | |
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PurpleJedi said: Wait for the SmartCar to hit the U.S.
I saw one parked on my street in Seattle just the other day. It was parallel-parked, and I couldn't see the plates, so I don't know if it was someone visiting from British Columbia or a grey-market car modified and legally imported into the U.S. Please note: effective March 21, 2010, I've stepped down from my prince.org Moderator position. |
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moderatorA Hornet would be a fine car to buy. ~ I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR ~
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PANDURITO said:  An MX-5 (Miata) is not a "chick car."  It's a pure sports car with incredible handling. I've done stuff in a Miata that would cause most other cars to lose control.Please note: effective March 21, 2010, I've stepped down from my prince.org Moderator position. |
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: HereToRockYourWorld said: Toyota/Scion makes some really good cars too. In fact, Scion makes this cool wagon thing that would probably be all-'round better than a PT Cruiser.
I would way go Scion before PT Having never driven a Scion, I don't have anything to say about them. But I once got a PT Cruiser as a rental car (I'd reserved an economy car  ), and it exceeded my expectations. To be sure, my expectations are always low whenever I get an American car as a rental. (Give me a Nissan Sentra from National/Alamo, and I'm happy.) But I thought the handling was pretty decent... probably the best of any American-made rental car I've driven. And the analog clock on the dash was a nice touch... it reminded me of the Fiat Spider I used to own.
My main gripe about the PT Cruiser was the layout of the controls. The placement of the window switches in the middle of the dashboard really bugged me. (And the one request by the Customs officer when I came back from Canada was, "Would you please roll down the rear window?"  )
Don't get me wrong -- I wouldn't buy a PT Cruiser if I were in the market for a car -- but you could certainly do worse. Please note: effective March 21, 2010, I've stepped down from my prince.org Moderator position. |
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HobbesLeCute said: A Hornet would be a fine car to buy.
...can we bring back the Pacer...? By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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nurse said: My piece of crap car stopped on me ( not that I care anyway), but I'm considering getting either a PT Cruiser or a Jeep Grand Cherokee. What do you think? Keeping in mind the price of fuel lately, but the Jeep is very nice
. Are there any other nice vehicles that you might suggest?you know theres like a $15000 difference between both of them? LOL | |
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Tom said: nurse said: My piece of crap car stopped on me ( not that I care anyway), but I'm considering getting either a PT Cruiser or a Jeep Grand Cherokee. What do you think? Keeping in mind the price of fuel lately, but the Jeep is very nice
. Are there any other nice vehicles that you might suggest?you know theres like a $15000 difference between both of them? LOL 
LOL...I totally missed that! By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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