Bought a New Car

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Was going to pull a prank on my Wife for Retirement but didn't get the chance with the covid19 garbage. Had it set up to buy a car have it delivered to school, pick up her car and at the end of the day.. well where is the the mustang ? Someone stole it.  So three weeks ago I ask her what kind of car she would like??? She told me and we went and traded the mustang in. Something economical, bells and whistles, lane departure, radar to keep you from running over a car in front of you. Oh the new car smell....  Y'all can start guessing and I will tell you if you are close to what make model. I will give hints ...

Sam06

Fiat 500

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Not a chrysler product ..

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Has a lot of airbags.

Sam06

Mini cooper

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Decided on a Volkswagen Jetta.  However the Dealer in Charlotte went to Stone Mountain Georgia to get it. We were to go pick it up on a Sat night but they got back too late. So Monday morning I am up early just looking at Jetta's online and found a problem. They have a lawsuit pending on their transmissions. That deal feel right off the apple cart real fast. So we stayed local looking for something else. Those Germans almost had a customer.

Don McManus

Jaguar F-Pace, only because you do not seem like and E-Pace kind of guy.

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Getting warmer.. it is foreign but not British.

SW0320

Ford Escape

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Not a Ford product

hillbille

I could see you in a Kia soul.......

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hillbille said:

I could see you in a Kia soul.......

As far as I am concerned  I would like to see a Kia dropped on N korea with a hydrogen bomb attached to it.  Not a Korean car .. at all

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Getting warmer it is foreign.

Don McManus

hillbille said:

I could see you in a Kia soul.......

Not SS,

He will never give up his Subaru Brat (the Japanese El Camino).  I think he bought a European make for his bride.

Nanuq907

Used to drive a Muskrat ....   Beemer 3-series.

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Our 44th  Anniversary is coming up end of this month. I went with a 10mm.  Not a Euro car. Vehicles cousin is in the shed and has a bucket attached to the front of it.

BobJudy

Baby Benz?

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No swedish vehicles.  lukewarm.... foreign wrong make

Don McManus

Interesting.

Most likely candidates are Honda/Acura or Mitsubishi.

Unless, of course, you bought her a Kabota side by side.

How did I forget Toyota/lLexus?

hillbille

fords have a bucket and a lot are made in Canada, foreign enough???

Nanuq907

Bugatti Veyron.

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Don McManus said:

Interesting.

Most likely candidates are Honda/Acura or Mitsubishi.

Unless, of course, you bought her a Kabota side by side.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.  GM just went partnership with Honda for the future to share tech. Wife liked the Honda Civic and is what we got.

RobOz

Hyundai

Smitty500mag

Renault Dauphine

 

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Dealerships are hurting. We were there for about an hour and a half, time they got the car washed and showed us what all the features on the car were. Not one customer on the lot or inside. 

Bubba Jr.

Bentley-Mulliner-Bacalar

Oh, Never Mind.

Congratulations!!

jimdeere

The suspense is killing me!

Don McManus

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Don McManus said:

Interesting.

Most likely candidates are Honda/Acura or Mitsubishi.

Unless, of course, you bought her a Kabota side by side.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.  GM just went partnership with Honda for the future to share tech. Wife liked the Honda Civic and is what we got.

Honda Civic....memories...

A friend of mine had one of the very early Honda Civic CVCCs with a 3 cylinder motorcycle engine, IIRC.  Early to mid 70s vintage.

Took it to an outdoor concert, kind of a monsters of rock type of thing.  Only one I remember is Joe Walsh, but then, Life's Been Good.

The clutch went out pretty much as we were leaving my house, and at every stop light, I had to get out and push start the thing to get us going, run up alongside and hop back in the passenger seat.  At 6'5" and around 200 lbs. the push starting was not an issue, but getting folded up and squeezed into the stupid thing had to have been a bit comical to watch.

hillbille

jimdeere said:

The suspense is killing me!

look 5 posts up........

dunbarboyz

My wife has a Ridgeline. Probably the best vehicle we ever bought and she drove a Nissan Extera 265,000 miles.

nmyers

Civic Touring?  It has leather seats.

Neal

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South Carolina gets hot. Black interior with leather seats.. No way. Went with the 2.0 engine not the 1.5 Turbo.

Smitty500mag

Don McManus said:

A friend of mine had one of the very early Honda Civic CVCCs with a 3 cylinder motorcycle engine, IIRC.  Early to mid 70s vintage.

They were also chain drive. They would have had more power if they had cut holes in the floorboard so they could have been powered by the passengers feet like the Flintstones cars.

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Funny I told them I hadn't had a Honda since High School and it had 2 wheels. They upgraded at no charge to a 100000 mile warranty. Had it over 3 weeks and it has less than 250 mile.

ruger41

Honda’s are very reliable. Had a 98 CRV that my parents bought used in 2001. My mom gave it to my wife when my dad passed in 2009. I sold it last year with 149K miles on it. I had a 2008 Honda Fit that I had for a while as a commuter car. Paid $4000 for it and got $3800 for it after driving it for two years.

jimdeere

We’re a five Honda family, including an HRV bought new last years. We’ve had some Toyota’s, but they had nit picky electrical problems.
Maybe Honda can teach Government Motors something about reliability.

Ditch-Runner

 good choice , my wife and sons all have Honda's   no complaints  just normal maintenance  
 I spent 25 +years at the big H shop retired 7 yrs ago  my  wife still does part time there . 

 

neacpa

Couple of weeks ago, I got rid of my 2011 Tahoe with 185k miles and bought a Honda CRV-EX.  Wifey has a Honda Pilot EX-L and youngest son has a CRV.  They both seem to be good vehicles thus far.  I drive about 80 miles a day back and forth to office and decided I was ready for 30 mpg instead of 18 mpg.  Plus it seemed like the transmission was getting a little weak, shifting in and out of overdrive more than I thought it used to. 

Warbirds

Congrats on the new wheels.

montanajoe

Cool,congrats.
How will it do on the dyno??

grdad45

Been considering a VW Passat. We drove one for a day, liked the back seat leg room and the generous trunk. They make several different styles of that model. We want to drive the SE, but they didn't have one in stock. A 100K mile warranty is nice. The wife is currently driving a 2011 Chevy Cruze with 66,000 miles on it, but it has had some minor problems crop up, making me not trust it completely. Our 50th anniversary is coming up in November, maybe she would like a gold VW???