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How picky are you about your cars?

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ElZoidberg

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How picky are you about the car that you drive? If it functions from point A to point B is it good enough or does every little detail have to be just right for your personality and driving style?

I've been bugged lately by my car, but only by little things. I love the car's style, color, interior options, comfort, and sound (with an aftermarket exhaust). I've got a Plum Crazy Purple Dodge Challenger R/T Auto. I've been bugged lately though because I wish it was a 6-speed. When I bought my car I'd never driven a manual and I decided I needed a winter beater so I got a 2000 Mazda Protege manual. I figured it would just be a useful skill and helpful in winter, but it turns out manual is a ton of fun even in the Protege. The manual has the fun factor but it runs lower rpms at highway speed so you can get a good sound out of the car and have a nicer ride at 75mph.

So how picky are you about your car's style, interior, comfort, handling, manual or auto transmission. I'm guessing some of you have to have at least one or two of the items to be happy but some of you have to feel you have the whole package.

My situation, I can afford the car as is fine, but I can't take the hit on trade-in without being irresponsible with my amount of debt. I might sell it private party and just drive the beater a year or two. I'd like to eventually go to a car payment under $250 or pay for my future cars in cash. I just hate to give up so much I appreciate with the car for one thing I question. I figure maybe it'd be helpful to hear from others about their preferences and what goes or stays in the garage.

So comment on my situation or your own. What do you have to have, want to have, or could care less about in a car.
 
Doppel said:
Damn, both of mine fail all four of those criteria!
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They your a woman, not a man. Unless it's like a beater that you're just using to get by.

You can swap turbo for V8 or whatever. I prefer turbo for fuel consumption. But FWD and auto are a joke. Unless you're a girl then they're ok.
 
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Absolutely has to have more power or be well known to be modified easily to have more power than 99.9% of cars I'll likely ever end up next to at a light or merge. Probably why my top two cars would be the Supra TT and 03/04 Cobra.

I'm not an aggressive driver at all. It's purely defensive. People being high and mighty competitive dicks on the road because they have a slightly better/faster car than average is the one thing I have never been able to let go. I need to be able to respond with unconditional annihilation and return what they started 100 fold if I become the target of their smug ego. I'm a fond believer of the speak softly and carry a big stick philosophy.

You know what I'm talking about, when someone in a little beater Corolla or something is just waiting for the light, and some little "I'm too cool for myself" prick in a POS 328i or similar purposely and aggressively swerves and brakes into the wrong lane at the intersection clearly marked "LANE ENDING" before the 2 to 1 merge and is creeping as the light begins to change. I can't stand those kinds of people, they need a 600+ HP serving of justice.

Don't really care about much else if the car can't get out of it's own way and some Mexican in a Escalade on 26's with Magnaflows feels empowered to glare you down with this smug look on his face as he makes it a point to ride his bumper into your rear window like he's trying to rub it in how slow your car is every time you're trying to accelerate.

People are just animals, and nobody fucks with the lions in nature. People only understand power and being bitchslapped in the face when they stick their nose where it doesn't belong.
 
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sunroof
leather
manual (if available)
at least 300 HP
enough trunk space for 3 dead hookers
 
RocksteadyDotNet said:
Do you own a petrol station or something? 😛
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I don't understand how people can whine about $50 a month more to fill the tank of a car that makes their life more enjoyable when they pay $200+ a month for more worthless things like cable TV and every package under the sun for their cell phone. Seriously, people castrate themselves with a Prius to "save money because gas is expensive" but they will eat out every single night.

Gas is cheap compared to a lot of things that deliver far far less smiles per dollar.
 
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exdeath said:
I don't understand how people can whine about $50 a month more to fill the tank of a car that makes their life more enjoyable when they pay $200+ a month for more worthless things like cable TV and every package under the sun for their cell phone. Seriously, people castrate themselves with a Prius to "save money because gas is expensive" but they will eat out every single night.

Gas is cheap.
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Maybe where you are.

I mean, it's cheaper here than a lot of other places, but it's not cheap enough that I'd drive a V8. Let alone a turbo V8.

🙂
 
I like cars. I like hot rods. For a daily driver though, if it moves under it's own power, it's a good car. If all the doors and windows work and a/c and heater work, it's a great car.
 
exdeath said:
People being high and mighty competitive dicks on the road because they have a slightly better/faster car than average is the one thing I have never been able to let go. I need to be able to respond with unconditional annihilation and return what they started 100 fold if I become the target of their smug ego.
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Do you have any idea what sort of hypocritical d-bag you sound like here?
 
madoka said:
Do you have any idea what sort of hypocritical d-bag you sound like here?
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Self defense when someone brings a fight to you is the same thing as bullying and picking on the weak just because you can? I don't do the latter. I'm very self conscious about being "that guy". There needs to be clear unprovoked targeted aggressive to deserve an ass whooping. I don't even go after ricers if they are just being chill and minding their own business.

Learn the difference between being the bully vs. responding to a bully, k thx. I'm not the one cranking my stereo to 150 dbs and revving and peeling out at every stop light every time a Geo Metro or Honda Odyssey rolls up next to me.
 
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I'm pretty damn picky though I will be swayed by an *incredibly* good deal. The 335i wasn't what I was shooting for but it has turned out really well.
 
exdeath said:
Self defense when someone brings a fight to you is the same thing as bullying and picking on the weak just because you can?
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How old are you? Five?

No one is picking on you. No one is bullying you. No one wants to fight you. They are driving their car. The fact that you even view it this way says a lot about your insecurities.
 
30+ mpg and air conditioning

oh and manual. Take your auto slush boxes and send them to florida for the old folks
 
<-- Hey guys, Off Topic is that way.

I'm picky within my budget. About the only thing I really have to have is manual transmission and something that hopefully won't break down (no older cars for me, don't know how to fix 'em myself).
 
RocksteadyDotNet said:
They your a woman, not a man. Unless it's like a beater that you're just using to get by.

You can swap turbo for V8 or whatever. I prefer turbo for fuel consumption. But FWD and auto are a joke. Unless you're a girl then they're ok.
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I'd rather be able to use proper grammar than have a turbo.
 
I had a hangup about making sure that I bought every option necessary so that there wouldn't be any blank buttons in the cabin to remind me that I cheaped out for the next several years. I was fine buying what I needed from Lexus and Mercedes, but Porsche's ridiculously extensive options list changed my mind about that policy.
 
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