I think I am going to test drive both the prius and the passat. I am thinking I may go through the Costco Auto program, just so I don't have to haggle.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Lee - May 11, 2013 12:58:54 pm PDT #22223 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Scrappy - May 11, 2013 1:08:53 pm PDT #22224 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I strongly recommend a Mazda 3. Comfy, great mileage, and endorsed by my DH, car dude.
sarameg - May 11, 2013 1:22:57 pm PDT #22225 of 30001
I had just finished lap 71 when the thunder started. So one lap shy and no cool down 6 laps, but I was mostly done. Glad I decided to go early!
So my car exhibited electrical-short like behavior today in a downpour. Considering it leaks... but it recovered. (It was classic low battery-like start, and when I first started moving, the wipers were....slow. And the radio fritzed and dash lights blinked randomly, but as soon as I travelled some distance, it all went away.) Guess I better get serious about seeing if a refi would free up enough more of the budget to fit in a car payment without getting all stressy. Sigh. I don't want a new car payment. We'll see if it starts in the morning. As noted, it is raining again.
Now I'm eating asparagus and mushrooms.
Amy - May 11, 2013 1:29:29 pm PDT #22226 of 30001
Because books.
I strongly recommend a Mazda 3. Comfy, great mileage, and endorsed by my DH, car dude.
That's what my dad actually has! It's a great car.
§ ita § - May 11, 2013 1:38:31 pm PDT #22227 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I enjoyed my V6 Jetta a ridiculous amount, enough that I would cheerfully tell people to look at a Passat if that's the body they like.
Except the mechanism to raise and lower the seat back was the most annoying ever.
sarameg - May 11, 2013 1:48:00 pm PDT #22228 of 30001
I am going to keep washing this sock until its partner reappears, damnit.
Calli - May 11, 2013 2:12:56 pm PDT #22229 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
You might want to compare long-term repair and maintenance costs of the Prius and Passat. I don't know which would be a better long term investment, but if you keep cars a long time, it can be an issue.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 11, 2013 2:20:05 pm PDT #22230 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Toyota used to have a great reputation for durability and rarity of repairs, but I gather that's been somewhat tarnished in recent years.
Steph L. - May 11, 2013 2:23:59 pm PDT #22231 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My 2000 Toyota Echo has lasted thus far without not much more than regular maintenance (it did need a new flange in the mid-pipe part of the exhaust system, but on a 12-year-old [at the time] car, that's not bad). Although the "regular maintenance" can have a hefty price tag (radiator flush and fill, transmission service, stupid brakes).
But I still love it and it still runs great, and averages somewhere in the 30-33 mpg range.
Jessica - May 11, 2013 2:34:13 pm PDT #22232 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
HOLY CRAP, I entered that living room at the speed of light, to find, thank all that's merciful, that she was looking at a box of small-to-medium overnight diapers.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.