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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Ninja Spirit on March 23, 2006, 11:07:25 AM
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So, what kind of car do y'all drive?
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1995 Ford Taurus GL. Yun on the other hand has a connection with the license plate.
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Just sold my baby - 1970 camaro. Bought a PSP/games, plus a grip of PCE games. So I'm left with an '96 Altima.
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'00 Honda Civic SI- Electron Blue with an AEM intake, Greddy Catback, and Brembo Brakes- It's stock outside of that. I like some speed, but I don't like turning heads-
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No car for me. In fact, I am 18 and I don't even have a license! Sorry, just not into drving and cars :( .
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2005 Kia Spectra and 1997 Chrysler Silhouette.Both fully capable of speeds faster then the states highway patrol cars.They use crappy Chevrolet Impalas from the 90ies still.It was sad because one of them admited at a state convention center last year to me that they generally do a max of 125,and some wont even reach the end of their gage.Crappy line of cars to use for highway patrol. Reminds me of the Ford Torus.
Reminds me also,city of Sherwood uses some kinda small Honda from the early 90ies for alot of their cars.
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hahahhaa.
'89 Ford Festiva - manual transmission. This is a golf cart, folks. I love it. It gets 2 zillion MPG. It might even be a 3 cylinder engine. OK, maybe not :)
'96 Honda Civic CX hatchback. 270,000 miles and still going strong.
'06 Honda Odyssey EX. We got this 2 days before the neighbor's house blew up. We consider ourselves very lucky -- the van wasn't damaged at all.
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This here is my beast...
'02 plate Clio Sport
170bhp
0-60 7.1secs
138mph
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v114/NeilB/Clio172.jpg)
Does me fine...well it does until I can get my Integra Type R next year :D
Neil
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1996 Mitsubishi Mirage Technica, solid white. It had a rear spoiler but some assflower stole it. :evil: #-o :?
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1996 Mitsubishi Mirage Technica, solid white. It had a rear spoiler but some assflower stole it. :evil: #-o :?
Damn, how do you steal that? You'd have to pop the trunk and unfasten it, right? Bastards!
Lots of kids walk home from (high school) and pass our house. Well, one fateful day, one of the little kids pried the Honda badge off of my hatchback. Bastards! I really don't care, except that they made my car look even crappier than it already is. Bastards!
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Basted!
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They just ripped the f*cker off with no regard for anything but their own little thrill. And of course, our dogs, who bark at their own shadow, were sleeping at the time and didn't make a sound so we didn't even know the little bastards were on our lawn.
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I drive a '98 Honda Civic LX sedan. Completely stock including an AM/FM radio only...not even a cassette player! Damn Honda was cheap with their accessories. I've been telling myself I'm going to put a CD player in there for years...never happens. It's the only car I ever bought brand new, and I plan to keep it for at least another seven or eight years. It only has about 93k miles on it now.
If Ford is still making them when I get a new car, I'd like to buy a Crown Victoria. Yes, I'm rapidly turning into an old man, and I'd like a big, comfortable rear-drive V-8 American highway cruiser. Although with gas prices pushing three bucks a gallon, maybe not.
Haha, one of my friends had a Festiva when I was in high school. He bought it brand new, which was quite an accomplishment even though Festivas were so cheap. Those things had four cylinder engines didn't they? I knew someone else that had a Geo Metro, and that thing had a three cylinder engine. Sounded like a lawn mower about to explode when he really pushed it.
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I drive a '98 Honda Civic LX sedan. Completely stock including an AM/FM radio only...not even a cassette player! Damn Honda was cheap with their accessories. I've been telling myself I'm going to put a CD player in there for years...never happens. It's the only car I ever bought brand new, and I plan to keep it for at least another seven or eight years. It only has about 93k miles on it now.
If Ford is still making them when I get a new car, I'd like to buy a Crown Victoria. Yes, I'm rapidly turning into an old man, and I'd like a big, comfortable rear-drive V-8 American highway cruiser. Although with gas prices pushing three bucks a gallon, maybe not.
Haha, one of my friends had a Festiva when I was in high school. He bought it brand new, which was quite an accomplishment even though Festivas were so cheap. Those things had four cylinder engines didn't they? I knew someone else that had a Geo Metro, and that thing had a three cylinder engine. Sounded like a lawn mower about to explode when he really pushed it.
Holy cr*p, I hear you!
Old granny takes a drive...
Crown Victorias (and the like) are a nice smooth ride. The interior sound levels of Honda's are SOOOOO noisy compared to the old-fogie mobiles.
No frills Hondas, unit...
Yes! I love folks that get the no frills models. I bought my car (Civic CX hatchback) new, without any radio. As for your Honda, you can do what I did :( : get a boombox, stick it in the back seat. My girlfriend thought it was the silliest thing (you should have seen me fumble to change cassettes while driving -- buy hey!, I could record tapes while driving :) ). She eventually got me a proper stereo.
An option you might consider...
Had I known about it, I would have gotten one of those FM radio transmitter things instead of a boombox: it broadcasts onto an open FM frequency, so you can listen to your walkman, portable CD player, iPod, etc. through your existing car stereo.
mini-minis
Two friends in college had Festivas and Metros! I think that is where I acquired a taste for mini-mini-cars. The tires on those cars are the size of a normal sedan's doughnut. Sad but true.
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Ah, the boombox in the back seat. I am certainly familiar with this technique. My friends and I used to "cruise" around town with a boombox in the back in high school. Of course, we were always short of cash, so the gas tank going dry or the batteries going dead often quickly ended our rides. Actually, I could put a new head unit in my car if I wanted since I've installed plenty in past cars, but I'm just too cheap and lazy to do so. Plus, I hardly listen to music anymore (inside or outside of cars). If I listen to the radio at all I'm probably tuned into talk radio, for which an AM/FM unit is fine. The only times I really wish for a CD player is on long drives through the back country when the only stations on the dial are hard-core Bible-thumpin' preaching. Although "REPENT! FOUL SINNERS!" blaring from the speakers does tend to keep me awake on late-night drives.
I also used to have a love of small cars. The very first car that I bought with my own money was a 1980 Honda Civic. That's back when they were still really small. I could reach out the front window and open the gas tank in that car, so I used to joke about having a remote gas lid release. In those days, Honda used a really strange engine head/carburetor setup (CVCC) to control emissions and increase fuel economy. By 1980 I think pretty much everyone else had gone to catalytic converters, but Honda was still using that CVCC system along with a whole raft of emissions plumbing. I had all kinds of problems with that car especially vapor lock since CVCC caused the engine to run pretty hot. I think vehicles during that time (pre-electronic engine controls but still having to handle emissions) had really reached the nadir for driveability/reliability. Great time to learn how to work on cars then! Well not really as more often than not I was stuck on the side of the road trying to figure out how to get home.
One of my neighbors used to have a really cool/interesting small car...a Honda Z600! Check this out:
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I tried to buy it off him since it was just sitting under a cover in his yard, but he would never sell it. The car was ridiculously small, by far the smallest car I've ever seen in the US. It had something like a 600CC two-cylinder air-cooled engine. Yes, I'm pretty sure that was really one of Honda's motorcyle engines. :lol: The tires looked like they belonged on a riding mower (about 9 or 10 inches). Crash safety was probably nil, but I wanted it badly. It was even bright yellow like the one in the photo above. Maybe that's the only color they came in, I'm not sure. Anyway, that was right around the time the Wayne's World movie came out, and of course being stupid and easily impressionable in high school, I wanted a "cool" offbeat little car to tool around in like the Pacer in that movie. Never mind that the Pacer was actually probably twice as large as the Honda Z. :wink:
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This here is my beast...
'02 plate Clio Sport
170bhp
0-60 7.1secs
138mph
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v114/NeilB/Clio172.jpg)
Does me fine...well it does until I can get my Integra Type R next year :D
Neil
LOL I forgot UK/England/British cars have the driver's side on the right.
The only cars that are like that here in the USA are ones that deliver the mail.
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The only cars that are like that here in the USA are ones that deliver the mail.
I've seen a few euro imports here in the states over the past few years. It's still weird for me when I see them driving around though :lol: Same thing too when I see cars scenes in a British movie - and no I don't mean an American made movie with all British actors :P I wonder if it's it the same when people in the UK/EU watch American flicks?
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The only cars that are like that here in the USA are ones that deliver the mail.
I've seen a few euro imports here in the states over the past few years. It's still weird for me when I see them driving around though :lol: Same thing too when I see cars scenes in a British movie - and no I don't mean an American made movie with all British actors :P I wonder if it's it the same when people in the UK/EU watch American flicks?
My friend, from England, has no problem driving here (in the States). He was really good when he started: he rented a car shortly after arriving and only had 1-2 slight mishaps (minor stuff).
I, however, almost got into a bunch of accidents when I tried to drive in London and the surrounding suburbs (or whatever they're called). I just couldn't adjust that quickly (a few days). Perhaps if I had more time it would have been different, but I felt like a total dolt. My apologies to the dolts.
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I needed to drink heavily after driving around south of Manchester for a few days (Stone, to be precise -- that is the city I was in, not the condition I was in, by the way).
I drive a 2000 VW Jetta VR6 (dark blue). Pretty easy to spot in central North Carolina as it sports a vanity plate that reads MINDREC (someone had already beaten me to the BT one).
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I drive this exact car except my car has the Mazda logo still intact on the front nose area. It's a 96 Mazda Miata. My next car will likely be an RX-8 or RX-9. :twisted:
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2000 Chevy Blazer LT, black, charcoal leather interior, with Pac-Man fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror so I can REPRESENT! :P
And unlike the majority of SUV-driving America, I bought it because I can actually use an SUV like it was intended: Firstly for hauling arcade games, and secondly because you're a frickin' idiot if you live in Wisconsin without 4-wheel drive in the winter.
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Pac-Man Fuzzy dice, sounds nice :D .
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I have a 1990 Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo. Its my baby, have owned it for about 7 years now. Just bought some new wheels this week, but cant afford to get tires yet :lol:
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I drive this exact car except my car has the Mazda logo still intact on the front nose area. It's a 96 Mazda Miata. My next car will likely be an RX-8 or RX-9. :twisted:
Copy and paste this link into a new browser window to see pic of car.
http://uploader.ws/upload/200605/DSC01035.jpg
Awesome. I drive a 96 Montego Blue Miata myself. Believe it or not, it's my daily driver, my FUN car is...
1984 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE with intake and exhaust mods, beefed up brakes, Tokico struts with Racing Beat springs, and about 25 more horsepower than it rolled out of the factory with.
Right now the RX-7 is down, it needs some new tires badly, and I still haven't aligned it after putting the suspension on. I kinda spent the money that should have gone on the tires buying a Turbo Express and stuff to go with it. Oops.