You just jogged an old memory. I must have been 19-20 years old, I was traveling on the southside of 465. It was late at night and I hit a dog. I love dogs so this really messed with my head. I was headed to some girls house I was friendly with but never hooked up with. It was a good 30 minute drive from the north side to her place. She felt pretty horrible for me, rolled us a joint, gave me a hummer and sent me on my way. Not sure we ever talked again afterwards. Dog effed up my front pretty bad. I'd have happily given that hummer back for the dogs life.I hit a deer head on at 55 MPH a few months back and totalled the wife's car. She does alot of commuting for work and the grandkids so she needs something we can count on. So I broke down a got a new (to us, 2 model years old) car for her. I didn't want any input really as it was for her and I will rarely be driving it, but she picked a Subaru Forester. Drives like a dream, but everywhere I look all I see is expensive repair bills when one of it's modern "features" breaks. Puckers my buttshole I tells ya. Put half down and financed the rest for 3 years (will probably just get tired of the payment and pay the thing off next spring).
I still prefer to drive the 04 Buick LeSabre myself, but we also have a 08 Ford Explorer that we use when we need to. But both of them are over 200k miles so I couldn't keep her in one of those for long. My next vehicle will probably be a late 60's early 70's F100 with the 300 inline 6. Something super simple that I can fix myself when something breaks.
@receipt-keeper I’ll go with a Chevy Silverado
LOL I have a GMC Sierra in my driveway right now. But it's a '99 that my FiL wanted us to have. I drove it across country after putting $3500 into it to make it safe. Got it here and realized that we didn't have all the Cali paperwork squared away to title it here, so it's got an expired CA plate and it can't be driven. I refuse to deal with it because I didn't want it to begin with. My MiL totaled it and it has a salvage title, but wifey didn't want to hurt her dad's feelings and I didn't want wifey mad at me. When she gets back from taking care of her Dad, we'll figure it out. If we can't, I'll get my brother to dig a big hole for me at the farm and I'll drive backroads all the way up there and bury it.
I just bought her a Honda CR-V that's the most expensive vehicle I've ever purchased. I drive a Kia Sorento that I bought used for $7500 and now has over 200K miles on it. It hauls kayaks, canoes, guns, tree stands, fishing rods and camping gear just fine. Whenever I travel for business and drive instead of fly, I stop by Enterprise to pick up something. Way cheaper than buying something nice for me.
The Kia is about to be retired, though, and I'm looking at used Toyota and Lexus SUVs.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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@eppy99 I do tend to not flashy, but even your options are way too fancy for me. I look at MPG when I buy a car. I'm currently driving a 2018 Cruze.
@receipt-keeper damn not a bad guess. Didn’t take you as a lover of Korean vehicles.
Whenever I travel for business and drive instead of fly, I stop by Enterprise to pick up something. Way cheaper than buying something nice for me.
^^^This^^^
These are the best practices of a man who knows his shit.
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@eppy99 Besides bodies in the trunk: lawnmowers, moving boxes, bikes, tubes for the river, coolers, camping gear, supplies for Helene relief, and best of all: bodies in the backseat (remember, I'm single again. Found that a few women get turned on by car sex. Works for me too!).
@receipt-keeper so basically, we're all just way cheaper than Eppy gave us credit for!
@kkott Ha, I suppose those are reasonable explanations. Some better than bodies in the trunk.
@receipt-keeper so basically, we're all just way cheaper than Eppy gave us credit for!
That's what I'm getting out of it.
And @eppy99 I'll never buy another Korean vehicle. Lesson learned. If Honda made something that could tow any weight, that's what I'd buy. Since they don't, I'm going with other Japanese auto maker. I put over 270K miles on an Accord. I drove the wheels off of it, then gave it to my son. He ended up buying a Camry, so I took it back and we sold my wife's older Accord and she drove it until it finally gave up the ghost with an oil leak that became an oil gusher.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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@receipt-keeper when our kids were little our first minivan was a Kia Sedona. It was cheaper than the Honda or Toyota and had a decent entry price. It was fine for a 3 year lease. We eventually bought a Honda Odyssey. To this day that Honda was one of my favorite vehicles. As close to luxury without being luxury. Extremely comfortable ride for road trips. Kids have decent room, great car. When I wanted to drop to a more fuel efficient car I struggled finding anything as comfortable without paying a luxury price. That’s when we decided to buy the used Audi. Still miss that van.
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@receipt-keeper My GF just bought a Mini Countryman. Like it: sporty and roomy, 30MPG highway and believe it or not, it has a 3500lb tow capacity. We wanted the hitch for a bike rack, and I'd never approach that capacity, but good for a trailer, maybe jet ski.
I have a red Mazda CX-90 plug-in hybrid SUV and a red Mini Cooper convertible that my wife mostly drives.
Before the Mazda I had a 20-year run (400,000 miles!) with a Honda Pilot SUV. I needed one good-sized car to haul around kayaks, bikes, and on very rare occasions to pull a pop-up camper.
The PHEV is super efficient, but in 2 years it has been in the shop more often than the Honda Pilot was in 20 years. All under warranty, mostly recalls, but still it's becoming a pain. Mazda parts are always backordered.
The Mini is a blast and is solid (BMW engine).
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