So the "appliance" car bashing...it's gotta stop

oldsaw wrote:

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?

Precisely!

Or possibly I'm just trying to justify my own new car purchasing habits?

My appliance (that mr bob zilla dogs on all day. Hehehehehehhehe)

Bobzilla wrote:

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.

If you get sick of it, send it my way. I've got a use for it.

i refuse to drive an appliance. appliances are for my kitchen. the only thing that i drive that some would consider an appliance is my burb, but i have already modified it and bought it because i carry a baby, ladders, tools, and a trailer almost every day.

i had once upon a time what most would consider an appliance. a chevy lumina. but it was bright ass red, and i put in a bigger engine because it bored me. it did have a soul when i sold it. because i gave it one.

some people are made to drive beige sedans, i am not one. that is why i am here.

I see plenty of appliance bashing on here. Any time a Camry is mentioned, its followed by comments of "OMG, how can you drive one without dying of boredom!?" and various claims of how it is a terrible car because its so boring. Who the berkeley cares if its boring? It's an appliance. This is what I thought when I read the OP. Why criticize the Camry for being such an excellent appliance?

All of the pictures of modded econoboxes in this thread: not appliances. Appliance = stock, boring, car to get back and forth to work. The GRM project Camry is a project car. The $2K challenge cars are former appliances.

I DD a 98 Saturn. I love it for what it is: A cheap, reliable source of transportation. When driving in stop and go 35mph traffic on the way to work, its not like a sports car is any more fun.

Eurobeaner wrote: My appliance (that mr bob zilla dogs on all day. Hehehehehehhehe)

Fix the stretch on them tires and you got somethin'.

patgizz wrote: some people are made to drive beige sedans, i am not one. that is why i am here.

Quoted for excellence.

that fit is fit, i like it.

Wally wrote: My Toaster is awesome

My toaster is more awesome than yours

Lulz... only on GRM does Miata ownership form a basis for elitism.

I want to nominate my wife's 2007 Corolla as the best appliances car on earth. It's never broken & goes 80 K miles between brake jobs + gets 40mpg consistently