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Originally Posted by Gustoo
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And I'm a honda guy through and through. My first car was a 1988 honda CRX got 50mpg and I sold it to my dad and he took it to 290,000 miles and it still got 54mpg on the highway at that time.
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My first car was a Sedan de Ville I bought for a song--practically new--when the original purchaser barely used it then rudely died, leaving it to be repo'd. Beautiful thing, soft ride, open airy interior, huge seats, steering light as a feather--and the perfect car to be dating in when most of my peers foolishly wanted cramped-up sardine cans like Camaros or Porches. It demanded premium gas and if I drove it gently I could finagle 20 MPG or so out of it in normal driving, but gas was cheap. It met its end when some dweeb in an Accord decided to run a stop sign and I broadsided him at ~50 MPH. Car did its job--broke his Honda in half, protected me nicely. Other dude would've lost his legs if he was about 18 inches farther forward.
Bought it after trashing the hell out of dad's Mercury. Teenage boys are such jerks. I'm glad I have a daughter.
I've only ever owned Cadillacs and Buicks, up 'till the present Dodge van I use as a daily driver (and do not love). Worst car the wife and I had between us was a Lincoln Continental of hers that blew head gaskets on about an annual basis. Ford never seemed to fix that particular problem. We ended up ridding ourselves of the stupid thing and she bought a new Grand Marquis instead....even that's a few cars ago, now. Time flies.
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Blake: Not only are modern trucks huge, but most of them are jacked up so high now that they're difficult to actually use for work, loading and unloading. I'm tall and I have a hard time reaching over the bedside of some of them. It's silly.
I don't care for stick shifts, though. An F-600 flatbed cured me of that particular affliction.
Danth