How many cars/trucks/motorcycles do you own?
What makes/models?
Are they economical or gas hogs?

Why do you own them?

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0 of course.

I have a 2002 Hyundai Elantra GLS- My present tow car.
I have a 1998 Saturn SW2- My one of my previous tow cars.
I have a 1996 Ford Ranger XLT- My previous tow vehicle that smashed into the wall.
I have a 1976 Chevrolet Short bed pickup- A fixer upper.

I own the Hyundai because of my job. The Saturn my wife inherited, the ranger because I need a truck for my horses and the fixer upper because I wanted a 76 Chevy.

The Hyundai gets 30-40 MPG depending on wind and terrain. The Saturn still gets 30+ mpg even at 395,000 miles on the motor. The Ranger gets 24-27 mpg depending on weight being hauled.

The 76 Chevy doesn't run.

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asterix_vader said:
0 of course.

That option is indeed missing.

i haven't got one either but i'm saving up to buy one this year.

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i'm with the zero's. apparently, i'm not to be trusted with a car.

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Zero.

I use public transport... joy..

since i still haven't graduated high school or bought one of my own i'm going to tell my families

so here goes:
I'm driving a 1995 Toyota pickup (they didn't have a model name that year)
My mom has a Toyota Prius
My dad drives some sort of big Chevy Truck, not sure make or model, for his veterinarian things
My Brother drives a Toyota Camry, 2000 i think
we also have a Toyota Maxima, 1975-ish, that our grandparents gave us because they didn't want to sell it and get sued

i'll get the pickup in 2 months when I graduate and a camper shell to go with it

1 92' Celica

I'am however in the process of looking for another car ATM. Preferably a Mazda 3, however money is something of a rareity to come by these days...

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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.

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1986 V8 305 Chevy Camaro.. my daily driver. My baby.



1982 V6 Chevy Camaro.. Currently lying dormant. (The radiator blew up, so I bought the '86. lol) I keep it around for parts, and maybe something to fall back on if (when) I total the other car.

They're OK on mileage.. Not great, but if I wanted great, I'd have some rinkydink import.

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my parents made me learn to drive on a stick, which didn't bother me much, neither does the fact that my truck is a stick, the only thing it lacks is air conditioning, but then, windows exist

1 car for the family: 2003 Mazda MPV. Guzzles gas. It's rough for us too, 'cause there was a fire at the closest refinery to us, so for the last 4 or 5 days, most stations are out of gas, and only the lowest grade fuel is left at those who have any. So the prices have skyrocketed.

I presonally don't have a car, but I will get to use my mom's citroen c3 as soon as I get a driver's license. :smile:

You know, it saddens me that I never thought about someone not owning a car. Its just so ingrained in the teen youth society around here.

At least I added "other"

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One car, a 1990 Toyota Corolla. It only cost me $900 because it had 400,000 km on it and looked like it had never been serviced since it left the factory. It runs just fine now that I've changed the oil, water, transmission fluid, brake fluid, oil filter, air filter, fuel pump, spark plugs, thermostat, timing belt and tires.

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Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

To my knowledge, Ford has never made that car.

You sure?

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I meant Toyota Corolla... no idea why I typed Ford... Stupid brain, why won't you work properly?

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Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

FORD = Found On Road Dead
FORD = Fix Or Replace Daily

(Not to dis anyone with a ford, I just find it funny, because my family owns one and we acknowledge that its a fix or replace daily).

Any others I should know about?

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'89 Silver Chevy Corsica

Cost me $200CAD, has worked perfectly over a year and a half so far. Looks somewhat decent, has some hilarious beater-aspects. I've also got a "Jesus Saves... and takes half damage" bumpersticker.

i almost got an "impeach bush" bumpersticker off my mom but she was afraid the town would lynch me

FatStrings said:
i almost got an "impeach bush" bumpersticker off my mom but she was afraid the town would lynch me

Why? They got something against dwarf peach trees? Shoot, I'd like a tree that I'd not have to use a ladder on.

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rofl :biggrin:

you know where i live

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 :smile: .

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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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

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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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.


The only problem is that it's currently California's rainy season, and I can't see s*** through the back of the top.

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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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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

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

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

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I dont have a car.

Dont have a drivers license either, being legally blind means I cant have one (for good reason! :smile: ).

I'm glad I have family and friends that will drive me places :biggrin:

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 :smile: ).

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Yeah, you won't be getting behind the wheel of my car any time soon mate :biggrin: .

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

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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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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• My yr11 Economics teacher

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.

f**k I hate John Howard.

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

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

"Wow.. thanks for opening the taxi door for me, but chivalry can only go so far.."

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the marching band refused to yield

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

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Why snark works.

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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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.

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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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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The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

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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Why snark works.

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

Wow... that sounds... logical!
As opposed to saying 16 year old kids are responsible enough to get behind the wheel of a two ton rolling machine of death, but they aren't responsible or grown up enough to smoke cigarettes for 2 more years and drinking is out of the question for 5 more years...

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It's only a two ton rolling death machine if you're a s**tty driver. Luckily, they came up with a brilliant solution known as a test to weed those ones out. On the other hand, cigarettes and booze are bound to kill you.

Plus, if someone wants to drink or smoke, the age restriction isn't going to get in their way. I've smoked plenty of things and drink all the time, but it's still 1 month before I can get behind the wheel.

I think that US drivers are known to be rather cautious compared to Europeans (outside spectacular police chases, that is :wink: ).

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I take it you've never driven in the US?
Even more reckless than our drivers, are our bicyclists. I'm sure Orph can tell you more than one tale of a bicyclist with a death wish.

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German Autbahn-Raser anyone? :biggrin:

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Why snark works.

us cyclists are angry people, the only place there is to bike is the road though so i understand them

I have

Chevy C10 76 - A pickup with a nice Chevy 350 and 4 barrel carb, to bad it runs like crap becuase it hasnt had a correct tuneup in like 30 years. havent passed smog yet becuase my mom doesnt understand why it would need new sparkplugs sparkplug wires and a tuneup.

Datsun 280z - My favorite car although its not going to run for awhile once i get my check from my car accident im going to make it a real autox car

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us cyclists are angry people, the only place there is to bike is the road though so i understand them

Really? I cant imagine that.

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The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

is that sarcasm i hear?

I dunno about nationwide, but the cyclist around here have death wishes.

Walking a bike across the street.. NO f**kING WAY.

I have seen more cyclist run red lights than cars. :eek:

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