1st - '80 Toyota Cressida
2nd - '93 Mazda MX6
3rd - '01 BMW 325i
1st - '80 Toyota Cressida
2nd - '93 Mazda MX6
3rd - '01 BMW 325i
95 Isuzu Trooper LS
97 Chevy Tahoe
99 Ford Expedition (we just keep getting bigger, huh!)
99 Dodge Durango
Soon to be: 02 Acura TL Type-S?
1987 Ford Tarus Station wagon
1965 Mustang GT Fastback
1995 Jeep Wrangler 4.0L
1997 GMC Sonoma SS
1995 Eagle Talon Tsi ( lots of mods )
Maybe a WRX soon....
-Mike
1985 Porsche 944
Maybe a 944 Turbo soon...
What can I say? I know what I like.
Maybe you should step up to a real Porsche someday...
Talk about a huge upgrade. haahaa.Originally posted by Ice-9
1985 Porsche 944
Maybe a 944 Turbo soon...
What can I say? I know what I like.
I think my next car (aside from another bmw) will be porsche though. But it will have to while a while...a long while...
a bunch of loser cars...
'87 Chevy Impala (the rolling boat)
'91 Hyundai Excel (I learned how to drive a stick when I had to drive it home)
'95 Chrysler LeBaron (somehow I got one that was pretty problem free--until I decided to ram the car in front of me [actually I think it was an accident])
'95 Infinti Q45 (made a nice battering ram as well, but stood up very well in the accident)
My parents once owned a Vega...
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The car that rusts in the carwash???Originally posted by TheLoneGunman
My parents once owned a Vega...
Here's my list:
1987 Nissan Sentra Hatchback
1989 Volvo 740 Turbo (actually, I forgot what year it was)
1993 Toyota Camry LE (eventually went to my sister)
1995 Honda Accord EX (this should last me a while)
'Scuse me? Punk, you've driven, what, 4 giant, unwieldy, slower-than-a-dead-sloth-on-a-cold-day SUVS? FYI (I just found this out and felt the need to let everyone else know, too), the 944 Turbos had conservative factory chips designed to limit their performance to just below the 911s of the same years. Can't have your upstart water-cooled front-engined car beat out your flagship, can you? So switch the chip and the 944T makes 260 hp, same as the 911, except minus a few hundred pounds and with much better weight distribution. So HA!Originally posted by pennypinch
Maybe you should step up to a real Porsche someday...
Whew. I guess I'm just in one of those ranting moods.
- 1982 VW Rabbit which was SOO cool. i loved that car
- 1984 Audi GT Coupe which was soooo nice, and i would probably still have it today (well, maybe not) if my sister didn't wreck it.
- 1987 VW Cabriolet. i drove that sucker cross country a few years ago
- 1986(?) Vovlo 240 Station Wagon. I really always wanted one!
- 2001 Saturn SL1 (it is the lamest car on the list, i know, but its new
)
Now for the list of cars that i drove right immediatly following the destruction of my nice cars. (the first three on the above list were all totaled, and the vovlo was just old and broken when i got it.) And i didn't consider any of these my car because i didn't buy them or want them.
- 1986(?) Honda Civic hatchback which i totally despised
- 1984 Chevy Chevette, "Ya wanna ride in my vette?"
- 1986 Audi 4000... This rode really nice, but none of the doors or windows opened.
- 1980 Audi 5000 (see above)
- 1984(?) HUGE BOAT CAR and i can't even remember what it was cause it was so tramatizing having to drive it.
i'd rather be down the shore
OH SNAP! guess where I am?
I was living down the jersey shore before Jersey Shore.
How does anyone even watch that show???
Oh, come on. ALL Porsches come outta the house with conservative chips. You chip up a 911, and it'll blow the doors offa a 944!Originally posted by Ice-9
'Scuse me? Punk, you've driven, what, 4 giant, unwieldy, slower-than-a-dead-sloth-on-a-cold-day SUVS? FYI (I just found this out and felt the need to let everyone else know, too), the 944 Turbos had conservative factory chips designed to limit their performance to just below the 911s of the same years. Can't have your upstart water-cooled front-engined car beat out your flagship, can you? So switch the chip and the 944T makes 260 hp, same as the 911, except minus a few hundred pounds and with much better weight distribution. So HA!Originally posted by pennypinch
Maybe you should step up to a real Porsche someday...
As for your bally-hooed weight distribution, the weight distribution is EXACTLY what makes the 911 great. They absolutely emasculated the 996; I'll never buy one. Give me a 993 C4S (or a Turbo S
Whatever. There was a reason you never saw 944's and 911's in the same races...
1956 Chevy
1957 Chevy (Still Own)
1956 Corvette
1962 Corvette
1959 VW with Corvair Engine
1960 VW
1968 VW
1968 Charger
1964 Chevelle
1970 Chevelle
1968 Corvette(Still Own)
1961 Econoline Van
1966 Chevy Van
1978 Skyhawk
1979 Mustang Pace Car(Still Own)
1964 1/2 Mustang(Still Own)
1983 Chevy Stepside Low Rider(Still Own)
1972 Vega
1968 Buick Skylark
1993 Dodge Spirit(Still Own)
Huh? Maybe a 911 Turbo. But you just don't get that much additional horsepower out of chipping the NA engine - maybe an additional 10 or so, and if you do some intake work, etc., sure, it'll be faster. The chips that really work, though (from what I've seen), are the ones on the turbos, because the real power to be gained is from adding boost. The 944 Turbo engine holds up to about 16 psi of boost, stock, and the factory chip only provides for something like 11.5. You get a pretty huge jump from kicking that up, although the 944T does get taken in the low end because of the 911s superior torque. But when you chip a 911, you just get slightly more aggressive throttle and engine timing, and a slightly higher redline. There's just not that much more horsepower to be squeezed out! Now, if you do some other engine work at the same time...Originally posted by pennypinch
Oh, come on. ALL Porsches come outta the house with conservative chips. You chip up a 911, and it'll blow the doors offa a 944!
As for your bally-hooed weight distribution, the weight distribution is EXACTLY what makes the 911 great. They absolutely emasculated the 996; I'll never buy one. Give me a 993 C4S (or a Turbo S
All right, I could see your point on this one. I don't know how to drive a 911 - if you gave me one, I'd probably wind up in a ditch very quickly. The 944 is a much more forgiving car, and it's possible to drive fast with much less effort than a (pre-996) 911.
Whatever. There was a reason you never saw 944's and 911's in the same races...
Oh, I won't argue that the 911s get waaaay faster when you start working on em. The 944 still does only have an inline 4, and the 911 has had probably 100 times the R&D budget of the 924/944/968. But if you go to the PCA track or DE events, there are some guys in 944s who will blow away all but the top 911s. 450 rwhp in a 944 Turbo S. That's not bad by anybody's standards, am I right?
1990 Ford Escort (3 accidents and 130k miles)
1991 Ford Tempo (had power steering AND AC!)
2000 Honda Civic LX (has a big "H" sticker on the back, neon license plate holder and fake chrome. does 0-60 in just under 5 minutes!)
Next car will be a hybrid or fuel-cell
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Anyone driven a Skoda? My dad used to own one of those.
You want to know what's moronic? In LA, a pass into the carpool lane is worth it's weight in gold. SULEV (Super Ultra low emissions vehicles) qualify for them...EXCEPT HYBRIDS! For some reason known only to the chimps in office, hybrids do not qualify for a carpool pass, even though they meet the numerical qualifications. My chiropractor was going to buy two just so he and his wife could cut that time off their commute. Now, he's ordering two SUV's. Way to go, EPA, DOT, whoever. Ya really screwed the pooch on that one.Originally posted by ironchef
Next car will be a hybrid or fuel-cell
that's extraordinarily moronic. great way to get public acceptance! on a slightly more positive note, i noticed in doing my taxes this year that there are some deductions possible for folks using alternative fuels and things of that nature. someone's got the right idea.Originally posted by pennypinch
You want to know what's moronic? In LA, a pass into the carpool lane is worth it's weight in gold. SULEV (Super Ultra low emissions vehicles) qualify for them...EXCEPT HYBRIDS! For some reason known only to the chimps in office, hybrids do not qualify for a carpool pass, even though they meet the numerical qualifications. My chiropractor was going to buy two just so he and his wife could cut that time off their commute. Now, he's ordering two SUV's. Way to go, EPA, DOT, whoever. Ya really screwed the pooch on that one.
these things are just cool. there's a Honda Insight driven around town (alexandria, va). yeah, they're funny lookin, but they're so neat. the guy got into into it and just drove away. no noise at starting it up or anything. i'm looking forward to the Ford hybrid SUV (i think?) i saw advertised.
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ok, my list will be really short if i don't include my bikes...
'85 Honda Shadow VT500c (after a year, a drunk girl hit me and totaled it)
- (Loaner) '95 Nissan pickup (my Bro. was nice enough to loan it to me since he just fixed his other car.)
'96 Geo Prizm (It's really a Toyota ok?!?!?)
- (8 months after this I fixed my '85 Shadow)
'93 Honda CBR 600F2 (4 months later I sold the Shadow to a co-worker)
I still own the last two, and am looking to get another car for doing autocross this season.
In general carpool lanes fscking suck. Taxpayers pay to build these roads but are forced to carpool to use them.
1987 Toyota Celica
2000 Acura Integra
How can you rail against environmentalism? Are you actually not convinced the stuff that comes out of cars is, in some shape or form, bad? Get real!Originally posted by sbp
In general carpool lanes fscking suck. Taxpayers pay to build these roads but are forced to carpool to use them.
Yes, I've paid for them, but that doesn't stop an elected REPRESENTATIVE from encouraging or incentivizing certain types of behavior that are in the best interests of everyone involved.
Oh, I forgot. Carpool lanes run contrary to Georgie-pooh's personal interests. Then they are stupid.
I don't suppose your Celica lasted you 13 years, did it?Originally posted by giambona
1987 Toyota Celica
2000 Acura Integra
Having cars stuck in traffic is not good for the environment pennypinch.
1986 Toyota Cressida
1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo
1999 Honda Accord EX V6 Coupe
2001 Mercedes C320
I can get you the statistics that demonstrate that having a carpool lane actually enhances the overall flow of traffic - my friend is working for a transportation systems researcher here at Berkeley. Plus, it IS better for the environment because it encourages people to share fewer vehicles. Therefore, instead of having many people in many vehicles being even more stuck in traffic, you have the same people in fewer vehicles, and therefore less traffic. No matter which lanes it happens to be in.Originally posted by sbp
Having cars stuck in traffic is not good for the environment pennypinch.
oh god
Some of these are a bit lame but here I go in order from 16 to 27 years of age:
1-77 Jeep CJ7 ($500 sold for $1500)
2-83 Dodge Charger 2.2 ($500 sold for $500)
3-87 Ford Tempo 2 door ($500 traded in for $1000)
4-93 Ford Ranger Brand New ($9500 sold to take over payment)
5-84 Toyota Celica GTS ($2000 sold for $2200) Best car I have EVER owned
6-90 Toyota SR5 Extracab Truck ($500 w/blown engine worked at Toyota dealership at the time, so fixed real cheap if ya know what I mean). Still own, 257,000mi, I rebuilt the motor myself at 220,000
7-92 Nissian Sentra ($1800 still own, up for sale soon) Awsome reliablity with this car
8-92 Mazda MPV (just bought over the intranet, have to pick it up in a few weeks)
Thats it. I buy cars real cheap, because I am a tech. I fix them and drive the shit outta them.
1962 Olds F85
1956 Chevy 210
1978 Datsun B210 GX
1965 Chevy Impala SS
1980 Toyota 4x4
1995 Geo Metro
Currently shopping for a Gen 1 Rx7 to swap a Ford 5.0/AOD into.
-OC
1989 Nissan Hardbody
1991 Honda Civic
1991 Honda Cr-x Si
1992 VW GTI 16V
1997 Chevy S10
1999 Chevy Silverado
1994 Nissan Sentra
2001 Ford Expidition
1st - 1981 Ford Fairmont
2nd - 1987 Subaru GL
3rd(current) - 1995 Dodge Avenger
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
from 1993-1995
'86 - toyota celica gt
RIP - telephone pole
1995-1998
'91 Nissan Pulsar NX-SE
almost died guard rail, and 80mph curve
almost died rear ended redneck pickup
died after selling it to some punk...no oil
1998-present
1999 VW jetta wolfsburg edition
Neuspeed P-flo
Neuspeed P-chip
Eurosport stainless tip exhaust
55k miles...shitload of repairs...should have bought a GTi (made in germany as opposed to my jetta, fabrique in mexico)
2002?
Mitsu Lancer EVO or
Subaru WRX or
GTi 1.8t 4-motion (if it ever hits US shores)
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