2000 Rav4. It left the factory 10 years ago as of next week. Still going strong, no problems other than routine maintenance.
1996 Ford Ranger. I miss my truck, warts and all. I drove it off the lot and it already had an oil leak. But the dealer fixed it and I drove it happily for years with no problems. It did like to bounce around a lot, though. It handled like... can't think of an anology. A large mass of Silly Putty on wheels? Had to get rid of it because there's no safe place in it for small children.
A 1993 Toyota Corolla. I never had a problem with this car except for some annoying wind noise around the front right windshield. I will say that it was the most boring car I have ever had. When I bought the house I decided I wanted a truck.
My first new car was a 1988 Honda CRX. I paid $12.5k and mounted a very expensive bike rack on the roof. I put tens of thousands of miles on this car driving to various bike rides around Texas. For a Honda it was a piece of crap. The exhaust system was very prone to rust, and the water pump exploded on IH-610 during rush hour. After less than 40,000 miles.
My first car was a used 1978 Datsun 200-SX. I bought it in Pasadena for $4500 when I was 17 and I got ripped off. Remember those stupid louvers people put over the rear windows? I had 'em. The A/C broke down after a year or so, and it got to a point during my senior year in college where I'd have to park on hills in order to start the car. Nacogdoches is hilly, so I never bothered to get it repaired. (I was also broke.) Come to think of it, the car lasted me through college and many miles of pizza/sandwich shop deliveries, so $4500 was a bargain.I am an oddity in many ways. One of which is I prefer manual. I've never owned an automatic and don't plan to. I'll probably be forced to go automatic once everything on the road is a hybrid or complete electric.
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I'm with you on the manual vs. automatic thing but I'm a Brit and nearly all of us drive manuals. You just feel a little more in control (and it's more fun!). In fact our company insists on people being able to drive stick shifts up and down the mountain and I think it's a little safer - most of the accidents I've witnessed up there involve automatics losing control on the way back down from the summit.
Tom
PS. Word verification for this comment was rentrucc - somewhat amusing!
I had to look twice at that Datsun. At first glance, I thought it was an AMC Matador.
As a typical American I gave up manual when I realized I could drink a cup of coffee, eat my lunch, floss my teeth and talk on the phone while checking my notes if I had an automatic.
When will you have pics of the new house?
Learned to drive a manual when I bought my first car, a 1973 Super Beetle. Had a bunch of automatics since then, some good, some POSs.
Bought a 2006 Kia Rio last year, cheap, because it was a manual. Decent but boring car. DD is learning to drive it.
I prefer manuals. Also, it's fun to slow down for a turn with a dumbass tailgater by downshifting without applying the brakes, lol.
Weird, the only automatic I've owned was in... the UK of all places! It sucked.
I hate automatics, or maybe as some of my friends tell me, underpowered automatics. If you have an underpowered car with manual, you can manage OK; with auto, it just converts petrol to noise as it downshifts and yet still gains no speed climbing hills.
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