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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 28th at 2:54am 2007

? quoting FatStrings
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Posted by FatStrings on Wed Feb 28th at 3:04am 2007

rofl <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Feb 28th at 3:05am 2007

2006 Ford Focus CL Hatch

Bought it new at the end of last year. All up about $24,000 AUS. Ended up going for the semi-automatic transmission over the manual, mainly cause I hate driving stick in city traffic, which is where I do most of my driving. The semi-auto means I have the option of shifting gears manually, which I generally use when the auto is being a bit sluggish or I want to gun it out of traffic lights <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">.

So far its been an awesome little pocket rocket thats big on comfort (I'm a tall bloke and there is plenty of room in the front and back).


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 28th at 3:07am 2007

They call them "Ford f**kus" around here.

I have no personal experience, and I kinda like Fords. Hows it been for maintenance?





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Posted by Stadric on Wed Feb 28th at 3:14am 2007

I don't own a car, but my Dad lets me drive his 1981 Fiat Spyder, because it's a convertible, and inconvenient for almost everyone else in the family. It's a manual, and the car that I learned stick on, I've gotta say I love that little thing.
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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Feb 28th at 3:14am 2007

Well I've only had it for 2-3 months, just hit the 3000km mark so I've booked it for the first service.

Like most new cars it looks like its going to be a case of actually going to a ford mechanic for any semi-major to major maintenance. My old Holden 1988 VN Calais which I traded in when I bought the ford was the kind of car that you could do most of the work yourself. I'll have to wait and see how it is with the Focus.

The build quality does admittedly leave a little to be desired, though that seems to be primarily with the interior rather than the body or mechanics. If I had more money I was considering going the Mazda 3 sedan, but in the end the Focus was already $4,000 outside my set budget, with the mazda being more than that.

Why the "ford f**kus" may I ask? I suppose its not really a big US model, its primarily a Europe based model.


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 28th at 3:24am 2007

God no, there are s**tloads of them here.

I dunno really, prolly just some anti-ford sentiments.





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Posted by Rumple on Wed Feb 28th at 3:33am 2007

I dont have a car.

Dont have a drivers license either, being legally blind means I cant have one (for good reason! <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">).

I'm glad I have family and friends that will drive me places <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Car my family owns:
2000 Toyota Tarago (called something else in the rest of the world), its a Van, fuel economy is pretty good I think (seeing as I dont drive <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">).


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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Feb 28th at 4:35am 2007

Yeah, you won't be getting behind the wheel of my car any time soon mate <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">.


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Posted by OtZman on Wed Feb 28th at 4:58am 2007

0mgz, I've 0 as well.

Wish I had one though, really hate public transport. It's such a joy to come running towards the bus just to see it take off when you're 5.146 seconds away from the door.




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Posted by wil5on on Wed Feb 28th at 5:27am 2007

No reason to own a car, public transport is cheaper and faster, and if youre into that sort of thing, better for the environment and our dwindling oil supply.


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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Feb 28th at 6:14am 2007

Wil5on, I'm not sure how it works in Adelaide, but public transport in NSW is absolute rubbish. I used public transport during the first two years of uni, a 15min trip by car took 1hr 30mins by bus on a good day, assuming there weren't brakedowns or other hold-ups.

Actually the reason I went for the Focus is its excellent fuel consumption and emission rating. Granted its not as awesome as an eletric car powered by the sun, but its better than my old car. I also tend to car pool with a couple of guys from the office, though just in my car.

I wish the f**king politicians would hurry the hell up and setup infrastructure and programs to make use of the sun for power, since its something we have in overabundance in Australia. But then again the sun is free, so if no one is making money off it then why should they even consider it. They can't get kick-backs and retirement plans from the sun.

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Posted by Bewbies on Wed Feb 28th at 6:51am 2007

how the f**k do you all go out? take ladies to dinner? jesus.

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Posted by Crono on Wed Feb 28th at 9:07am 2007

I saw something fairly interesting today. A company which was (one of the ones) responsible for mapping the human genome has ideas of how to apply things we will find out from the sequencing. Specifically in how bacteria works in the ocean to fuel the atmosphere (I would imagine partially, since I thought volcanoes contributed a great deal to the atmosphere as well). In any case, they're very efficient at what they do and technologies are being pursued to take advantage of that ability.

To note, at the least in the US, the nations ability to adopt alternative fuels does not rest on the government. It will probably end up being a government demanded focus, or some idealistic cooperation will take the financial blow and flood the market with their own product ... whatever that may be. The second option doesn't seem likely any time soon.

Does anyone know any more about what I'm talking about? I just briefly heard about it.


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Posted by reaper47 on Wed Feb 28th at 6:16pm 2007

lol, you should really add 0 to this list. I don't know anyone who has more than 3.


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 28th at 6:49pm 2007

The main reason I have so many is that I just cannot stand to depart with them. I invest a small fortune into each, and know them so thoroughly that I can usually fix them with ease. Learning a new cars problems sucks ass.

Still it goes to show the American mentality and how its ingrained. It honestly never occurred to me that anyone over 16 wouldn't have a car.





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Posted by RedWood on Thu Mar 1st at 2:08am 2007

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I have a car my parents bought back when I was 15 so I could learn to drive. It sort of pissed me off because they implicitly wouldn't let me use our other car which has a manual transmission (I have no qualms or problems driving stick). My mom picked out the car, because it was suppose to be hers but ... that's another story that I'm not telling. Anyway, I still have that car because I'm broke.

The car is a piece of s**t. But the thing is, it shouldn't be because of its age. It's a 1998 Mercury Tracer. With all the glory of crappy ford car design.

Before the car hit 60K miles it broke down ... twice. Both times something major happened (blew a map and busted the fuel pump)

I hate the car. It's fuel inefficient and the way it measures gas is absurd. (Not as bad as ford SUVs though) It only gets, maybe, 22 MPG on highway. However, I've never been able to test this, since that's going on 10 Gallons for a full tank. It would seem the tank is much larger than that. When the thing reads "E" there's actually still 2 gallons in the tank!

Knowing this one time I ignored it for a few days before filling up ... guess what ... there's not than two gallons left at that point, more like 3. So it's a 13 gallon tank (though all documentation says 12)

It doesn't matter, past the E point you can't tell what's left of those 3 gallons.

I f**king hate this car. It has so many problems that's it's ridiculous. If/When it breaks down, there's only two people in my entire state that will touch the vehicle, Ford dealerships (three times as expensive) or this local guy, the local guy is pretty good so we take it there, but he can't fix everything. The car is made to be workable on Ford only, other major repair shops wont touch it because it's designed so worker-unfriendly.

(coff)

I drive a 1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. It's not fun to drive but the parts are dirt cheep. The good rooters are $12 a pice, the good shocks are $14 each, i think the struts were $25 each. Alternator was only $60. water pump was $15. I'm just waiting for my trans to drop now.



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu Mar 1st at 2:32am 2007

I don't have a car yet but as soon as I can afford to get a new pair of glasses I'll get a UK licence as my Canadian one ain't much use over here apart from confusing bouncers outside the pubs and clubs.

But as soon as I got my licence I plan on getting a cheap Metro so the insurance is cheap and hopefully it will be one over 25 years old with the majority of it being original parts so I don't have to pay road tax. Hopefully it wont cost a s**t load on the MOTs as well.


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Posted by pepper on Thu Mar 1st at 3:24pm 2007

You can only get a drivers license here when your 18. And, you got to take roughly 20+ lessons from a certfied instructor, then a theoratical exam, and a practice exam. Most people spend between 1500 and 2000 euro's on there license, and so am i.



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Posted by reaper47 on Thu Mar 1st at 4:53pm 2007

Yup, they don't let 16-year olds drive here, also (although they may drink and smoke :/ ). It's 18 for a license.

The reason I don't own a car is the good public transport, which simply works too well for a car to be of much use.


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