I'm definitely looking at a Fit for my next car.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Sep 08, 2011 5:51:18 pm PDT #24999 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
flea - Sep 08, 2011 5:53:37 pm PDT #25000 of 30001
information libertarian
WE looked at a Fit (bought a 2010 Toyota Matrix) and I liked it a lot, but it was small enough (on the outside; it's like a Tardis inside!) that I'd probably pee in my pants every time an 18 wheeler passed us on the highway.
lisah - Sep 08, 2011 5:54:49 pm PDT #25001 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I'll have to actually drive some cars before I decide. What I hate most about a lot of cars is how slope-y they are. I have a hard enough time seeing without my car getting in my way! Really I'd like a more square car but still want great gas mileage and not too spend.
But, really, I'm hoping to hold on to the Protege for a while yet!
sarameg - Sep 08, 2011 5:55:31 pm PDT #25002 of 30001
Loki is in a box. Normally, he's on me. But there is the box.
I'm pretty simple in my car wants: it runs, good gas mileage, reliable, and it doesn't annoy me. Which is why I've driven stanzas and sentras of various vintages. I know their quirks. Axles, cvs, etc, Now the used market has all these fancy pants cars, I figure when I give up on mine, I'll have a shit fit.
lisah - Sep 08, 2011 5:56:17 pm PDT #25003 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
but it was small enough (on the outside; it's like a Tardis inside!) that I'd probably pee in my pants every time an 18 wheeler passed us on the highway
I've been driven in one by a crazy New Jersey driver in crazy NJ/NY traffic and it didn't feel less substantial or more small than any other normal car I am ever in.
javachik - Sep 08, 2011 5:58:53 pm PDT #25004 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Sarameg, a Honda Shit Fit perhaps?
Cass - Sep 08, 2011 6:00:00 pm PDT #25005 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
My issue is that it seems popular for the night-time glowy color to be RED these days. And...I don't like that. It makes me feel like my dashboard is evil.
Plei said being in my car was like being in an evil!Civic. And it needed the mustache. Because the Si has the red glow whereas all other Civics, I think, are the blue. Though if the hybrids were green, that'd be amusing.
If the seats weren't picked out in red thread and other details, I might mind it, but I don't. I don't dig it in rentals though.
Last summer I had a rental where I could adjust the color. So I matched my sandals and pedicure by finding a silver-y purple. I find my own amusement when forced to drive in California.
sarameg - Sep 08, 2011 6:00:16 pm PDT #25006 of 30001
Bwahahaha!
Allyson - Sep 08, 2011 6:00:39 pm PDT #25007 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm having PTSD about cars.
billytea - Sep 08, 2011 6:01:10 pm PDT #25008 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My issue is that it seems popular for the night-time glowy color to be RED these days. And...I don't like that. It makes me feel like my dashboard is evil.
I had exactly that reaction with, of all things, the Pontiac SUPREME BEING I rented in Arizona.
(Ok, Grand Am. Same diff.)