Elder ,'Power Play'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
P-C, I know you don't want to buy the car that everyone has, but there *is* a reason that everyone has Camrys -- they really do last forEVER.
Unless, of course, you don't want to keep a car forever; I know plenty of people who prefer to have a new(er) car every 3-4 years.
Camrys are also the cars that get stolen the most.
Mom~ma, Aims.
Aims, how's your mom doing? All kinds of ~ma your way!
Tonight, work is renting the space out to the Museum, since the King Tut exhibit is too big. So I'm running sound on a poetry thing. Pretty cool.
PC, there are some car rental places over near the Oakland Airport that sell rental cars after X,000 miles. Several people at work have bought cars there and been very, very happy with them. Course, most of them bought Camry's or Corolla's. Toyotas are very good, speaking as someone whose owned 2 of them. Or, there's this guy who only sells used Subarus up near Santa Rosa: [link] I love my Forester.
Camrys are also the cars that get stolen the most.
Heh. In that case, buy you a Ford goddamn Tempo (the car that is responsible for my own lifelong grudge against Ford). Ain't nobody going to steal that thing.
I guess the Camry theft makes sense statistically, given the sheer numbers of ownership.
My dear departed Camry (Sherman) was a 1991, and I drove it until 2000, so it was old enough that I never thought of it as thief bait.
Toyotas are very good, speaking as someone whose owned 2 of them.
Totally! Toyota won me over with my old Camry, and Spud the Echo is continuing the trend. I fucking LOVE my Echo.
I'm one of the freaks who knows that Toyotas score so high but I've never liked their interior designs and am not partial to their ergonomics. I feel the same way about their Lexus brand.
Not that I'm in the market for a new car, but when my trusty Accord dies (my fourth, two inherited from parents and two bought used), I'm tempted to look at a Honda Fit.
(That should've been "who's")
Honda have terrific back support, the best, I think. I miss that in the Sub. The seats kind of suck, but at least they don't send me to the chiropractor the way certain Volvo station wagons or Mitsubishi Monteros do/did on older models.
A friend bought a new Fit and she loves it. It's adorable! She says, though hasn't demo'd it to me, that the seats fold completely flat, so it actually can haul around quite a bit of stuff.
Interior design matters. I love our Saturns because I can reach and see everything. They passed the crash test by being great protection in a accident. And they didn't lose that much in value. And they work pretty well for the conservative driver ( me) and for the driver that likes to find the edges of the car ( DH). If you are a more careful driver -- the easier it fits you from the beginning the better.
Ma~~~ to Aims mom.