Dusterbd13 wrote:slantvaliant wrote: Hmmm ... My car is a Valiant. My son drives a Cavalier. The family car is a Volvo 850. See a pattern?you like cars with v's in them???
Good thing the Vega and Caravan have gone away, huh?
Dusterbd13 wrote:slantvaliant wrote: Hmmm ... My car is a Valiant. My son drives a Cavalier. The family car is a Volvo 850. See a pattern?you like cars with v's in them???
Good thing the Vega and Caravan have gone away, huh?
I don't like your waffle iron.......its too ricey yet bland
Yeah that Corolla is incredible.
My Toaster is awesome
stealthfighter1 wrote:http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011/09/toyota-camry-turbo-puts-down-728-horsepower.html
Damn it all to hell, even I have to admit that's hotness! Berk me! 
Wally wrote: My Toaster is awesome
Hey, that's my toaster!!
Yeah, that corolla is inspiring to say the least.
Silvefleet, not sure what was up with that 96, but my 95 was the best car I've owned. Super reliable, and stoopid easy, not to mention cheap repairs when neccessary.
It will be mine, oh yes, it WILL be mine.
Out of curiosity, where is all of this appliance car bashing?
In reply to rotard:
Well, it's certainly not over at CR.
rotard wrote: Out of curiosity, where is all of this appliance car bashing?
We are all pretty much in consensus that it doesn't even exist.
So for fun, here is some actual appliance bashing
4cylndrfury wrote: Yeah, that corolla is inspiring to say the least. Silvefleet, not sure what was up with that 96, but my 95 was the best car I've owned. Super reliable, and stoopid easy, not to mention cheap repairs when neccessary. It will be mine, oh yes, it WILL be mine.
My buddy's 96 just wasn't that great of a car. It just kept breaking in really annoying ways, and as the person who was on speed dial to fix it, it annoyed me too.
For instance, I was changing a headlight on it once, and that simple job resulted in me having to pretty much rewire the entire headlight harness. The harness itself was very brittle and fell apart! The car had lots of electrical gremlins over the few years he owned it.
Also, he tapped his garage wall with the front end at less than 1mph. That resulted in having to replace this structure that holds the headlights in that was made of brittle plastic that ended up costing him over $200 from Toyota. Every single one in the junkyard was cracked, too. Everything from Toyota was through the roof expensive, and at that time, nothing was really available on the aftermarket yet.
The other thing, and it's to be expected of an automatic Corolla, is that it was excruciatingly SLOW. Right after he bought it, he started to get into cars like the rest of our friends, and man, did he regret the decision to buy that thing. If he had bought one with a stick, like another friend did with his '93 Corolla (which he loved until the day it exploded), maybe it would have been a little more interesting. He learned his lesson and later bought a MR2 Spyder, a minty 2-door 2000 Impreza with a stick, and a 1988 RX-7. 
OK, Silver Fleet wants to bash on appliance cars. Twin Cam wants to defend the honor of all the econoboxes. You guys enter the cage and settle this. Only one leaves, the other becomes part of the patio.
[As someone with a history of autocrossing a geo, my money will be on Twin Cam]
In reply to JoeyM:
I wasn't really bashing appliance cars. I was just bashing my friend's. He got a good old-fashioned lemon. Well, except for the headlight support thing, that was a model-wide bash. That was stupid, but all cars have stupid things that can go wrong with them.
As a budding enthusiast, a 1996 Corolla automatic just isn't a good choice for a performance platform. That's why he got more interesting cars after that. Other people probably had better luck with theirs, but his was a turd.
Another friend had a 1993 Corolla with a stick that served him extremely well for years and years. He could not kill the thing, and he certainly tried! He loved that car.
Again, I drive a Mazda 3, which falls into the same class of cars.
I love this board. This thread went from "WTF is the OP talking about? This is a HARDCORE SPORTSCAR MAGAZINE forum fer chrissakes!" to "Look at all these cool appliance cars and back in the day I had an XYZ with a 1.1 liter 3 cyl and it was AWESOME".
Matt B wrote: I love this board. This thread went from "WTF is the OP talking about? This is a HARDCORE SPORTSCAR MAGAZINE forum fer chrissakes!" to "Look at all these cool appliance cars and back in the day I had an XYZ with a 1.1 liter 3 cyl and it was AWESOME".
To bashing appliances.....and back to bashing econoboxes
Oh, but with my not-so-new-to-me, but-new-to-me-currently '01 fukus the damn radio display doesn't work........BETTER JUNK THE CAR!!!! 
Joe Gearin wrote:evildky wrote: At present in the GRM fleet, there is a Camry, Volt and a Fiesta. FWIW I'm pretty sure JG's volt can in fact make toast.Close....but I fixed that for ya
That clicked in my head after the fact. What I meant to say is "some souless Ford econobox". Lets not forget the "race van" and the Ridgeline
I'm starting to wonder just what kind of sports car magazine this is!? Are there any sports cars in the fleet? Is the name going to be changed to "Grassroots Econobox, The Hardcore Appliance Magazine"
David does have a 911 but it seems to be a commuter that recieves only maintenance and repairs, yawn.
Meh, I find the "no one makes cool cars, but even if they did I wouldn't buy it, because only suckers and idiots buy new cars" attitude WAY MORE annoying/pretentious.
yamaha wrote:Matt B wrote: I love this board. This thread went from "WTF is the OP talking about? This is a HARDCORE SPORTSCAR MAGAZINE forum fer chrissakes!" to "Look at all these cool appliance cars and back in the day I had an XYZ with a 1.1 liter 3 cyl and it was AWESOME".To bashing appliances.....and back to bashing econoboxes
I highlighted the problem.
z31maniac wrote: Meh, I find the "no one makes cool cars, but even if they did I wouldn't buy it, because only suckers and idiots buy new cars" attitude WAY MORE annoying/pretentious.
We don't buy new cars? Is there not a new Abarth, and FR-S, and an Elantra here by dorks this year? I seem to recall at least 3 Mazda Deuces as well. Plus a new Chrysler van, someone bought a Mazda5, and there's been at least 2 Mustangs.
I'd say GRM'ers probably buy quite a few new cars...
In reply to Bobzilla:
Nah, the problem was the brilliant engineer who put a removable faceplate(for 4 numbers) on a factory cd player..........Normally, I'd want to wish that guy a slow painful death(preferrably under the daewoo of death), but it gives me reason to use that spiffy pioneer headunit out of the '92 sho.....
Btw bob, I absolutely loathe your refrigerator......
Javelin wrote:z31maniac wrote: Meh, I find the "no one makes cool cars, but even if they did I wouldn't buy it, because only suckers and idiots buy new cars" attitude WAY MORE annoying/pretentious.We don't buy new cars? Is there not a new Abarth, and FR-S, and an Elantra here by dorks this year? I seem to recall at least 3 Mazda Deuces as well. Plus a new Chrysler van, someone bought a Mazda5, and there's been at least 2 Mustangs. I'd say GRM'ers probably buy quite a few new cars...
There are members on this board with the mentality he describes....I'm not one of them. Thanks to the wife buying a used audi at one point we now always have at least one car with a warranty on hand. Three new cars since 2006.
However, I don't want to keep that schedule up. Got the extended warranty on the Jeep, so she'll have it awhile lol.
Javelin wrote:z31maniac wrote: Meh, I find the "no one makes cool cars, but even if they did I wouldn't buy it, because only suckers and idiots buy new cars" attitude WAY MORE annoying/pretentious.We don't buy new cars? Is there not a new Abarth, and FR-S, and an Elantra here by dorks this year? I seem to recall at least 3 Mazda Deuces as well. Plus a new Chrysler van, someone bought a Mazda5, and there's been at least 2 Mustangs. I'd say GRM'ers probably buy quite a few new cars...
Did I say NO ONE buys new cars? No.
But that seems to be a prevalent attitude on this forum. You do understand I was making a generalization, right? It cracks me up the way you interpret peoples posts so that you can make one to the contrary.
z31maniac wrote: Did I say NO ONE buys new cars? No. But that seems to be a prevalent attitude on this forum. You do understand I was making a generalization, right? It cracks me up the way you interpret peoples posts so that you can make one to the contrary.
Generalizations that do not support someone's opinion automatically labels one as one of "them". And, THEM must be marginalized, humiliated and shamed into submission.
All hail the interwebz and the bamf's who reside there......... Because everyone is right; right?
In reply to oldsaw:
I'm offended, delete bob.....
The problem is, a person's mindset will interpret written words differently than someone else, so you can make a normal statement, 90% of people will laugh or get what you were saying, 9% will be trying to figure out WTF was even said(drunken stupor), and that lowly 1% will be butthurt for no apparent reason and lead to more questions being raised.
yamaha wrote: In reply to Bobzilla: Nah, the problem was the brilliant engineer who put a removable faceplate(for 4 numbers) on a factory cd player..........Normally, I'd want to wish that guy a slow painful death(preferrably under the daewoo of death), but it gives me reason to use that spiffy pioneer headunit out of the '92 sho..... Btw bob, I absolutely loathe your refrigerator......
make fun of my wood paneled fridge all you want, but it keeps my beer icy cold.
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