i'm getting a car what kind should i buy

[Happy Panther]

 

 

Oh yeah....the GM even threw in a $300 gift card to Ruth Chris Steakhouse so that I could take my wife out to a nice dinner.

 

 

 

I could use a lobster. I'll do cocktails and transportation for all of us.

 

Will be bringing a hooker.

[PanthersClinic]

honda fit

basically a clown car... i fit so much poo in my '07. back seats fold flat, which was a major selling point to me. since the wife and i go to several camping festivals a year, we had to be able to pack a ton of poo in the car.

i average about 38mpg's... on the road trips i can pull 42-45. just rolled 150k miles last weekend and have had zero necessary work done outside of regular maintenance. my brother bought an '09 and has had the exact same results with his

 

 

Honda Fit offers a lot of bang for the buck. It's about the best value you can find for a car. You get space, gas mileage, it's a very affordable car, esp the 07 initial model if you can find one.

 

Don't know why the hatchback style hasn't taken over. For practical people nothing beats that style of vehicle.

[Kurb]

So, I gotta fill you guys in on the whole wife bought a new car story. 

 

She bought the car on Friday and brought it home.  I was watching TV at about 9PM Friday night and heard her yelling in the other room.  I just assumed that she was at it with my 14 yo daughter again.  So, I came out of the bedroom to tell them both to cool it.  She was on the phone yelling something about the car.  I asked her what was wrong and she showed me an article that she printed from the internet.

 

It was a notice from Toyota to their dealerships (dated 2 days prior) to stop selling Siennas, Corollas, etc becuase there was a safety issue with the heated seats and the foam used in the seats....that the seats could catch on fire. 

 

So, now I am pissed.  She also showed me the sales contract that she signed (car in her name).  They backdated the contract 5 days to Jan 26th.  So now I am really pissed.  They backdated a contract to sell a car that they were not allowed to sell.

 

I headed out the door at 9:30 pm heading to the dealership to raise holy hell....got there 5 min before they closed.  I was not a person they wanted in front of other customers so they shuffled me to a back office.

 

They made every excuse under the sun as to why the back dated contract.  First saying it was a computer glitch...then suggesting that my wife requested it to get a payment date that she wanted.  The same guy kept making the stupid suggestions.  I told him to get his ass out of the room and the GM kicked him out.  I threw out words like fraud, willful intent to to commit fraud, lawyer, and lawsuit.  I had them puckered tighter than a snare drum.

 

They offered to correct the contract, put my wife in a rental car, and fix the seat....which is what they were supposed to do in the first place.  I told them that would have been sufficient about 12 hours earlier.  Now, not so much.

 

The car comes with the 2 year service package as standared (covers oil changes, tire rotations, services, etc).  They offered the 5 year plan to me for free.  I told them that was a start.  I told them they were also giving her the 5 year extended warranty....the nav package...and the DVD package as well....for free.  They started balking, so I got up to leave...telling them the next time they would see me would be Monday morning with my attorney (my wife's brother) and Channel 9 News.  They could decide whether the lost profit from the  bad publicity from backdating a contract to sell a car on the stop sell list was worth less than the options they were going to give me.

 

To end the story, they caved and we got everything...about $5k worth of poo.

 

Oh yeah....the GM even threw in a $300 gift card to Ruth Chris Steakhouse so that I could take my wife out to a nice dinner.

 

The dealership with Scott Clark Toyota.

[MadHatter]

 

 

 

They were balking at a lot of it until I started talking about contacting Channel 9 News.  Then, they got very worried.

 

Story on the 6 o'clock news about a dealership lying to a customer....back dating a contract....selling them a car on the no sell list....would not look good.

[TheRumGone]

i'm in the market for a new car too (the tank is failing on me phillyb :( ). been looking at these

 

2011 honda element

 

 

and the 2013 subaru impreza

 

 

 

One of my buddies has an impreza and loves it. He mentioned something about the transmittion being computerized or something? i have no idea about cars but that was his only concern down the road. Got a great package with the purchase.

 

My other buddy told me Honda's are great bang for your buck, hes a big car guy. And i love the look and what the Element brings to the table. I'm looking for something relatively brand new, but the Element was stopped being made after 2011. I'll look at any suggestions though. I'm getting something new in the next couple of weeks.

 

[TheRumGone]

So, I gotta fill you guys in on the whole wife bought a new car story. 

 

She bought the car on Friday and brought it home.  I was watching TV at about 9PM Friday night and heard her yelling in the other room.  I just assumed that she was at it with my 14 yo daughter again.  So, I came out of the bedroom to tell them both to cool it.  She was on the phone yelling something about the car.  I asked her what was wrong and she showed me an article that she printed from the internet.

 

It was a notice from Toyota to their dealerships (dated 2 days prior) to stop selling Siennas, Corollas, etc becuase there was a safety issue with the heated seats and the foam used in the seats....that the seats could catch on fire. 

 

So, now I am pissed.  She also showed me the sales contract that she signed (car in her name).  They backdated the contract 5 days to Jan 26th.  So now I am really pissed.  They backdated a contract to sell a car that they were not allowed to sell.

 

I headed out the door at 9:30 pm heading to the dealership to raise holy hell....got there 5 min before they closed.  I was not a person they wanted in front of other customers so they shuffled me to a back office.

 

They made every excuse under the sun as to why the back dated contract.  First saying it was a computer glitch...then suggesting that my wife requested it to get a payment date that she wanted.  The same guy kept making the stupid suggestions.  I told him to get his ass out of the room and the GM kicked him out.  I threw out words like fraud, willful intent to to commit fraud, lawyer, and lawsuit.  I had them puckered tighter than a snare drum.

 

They offered to correct the contract, put my wife in a rental car, and fix the seat....which is what they were supposed to do in the first place.  I told them that would have been sufficient about 12 hours earlier.  Now, not so much.

 

The car comes with the 2 year service package as standared (covers oil changes, tire rotations, services, etc).  They offered the 5 year plan to me for free.  I told them that was a start.  I told them they were also giving her the 5 year extended warranty....the nav package...and the DVD package as well....for free.  They started balking, so I got up to leave...telling them the next time they would see me would be Monday morning with my attorney (my wife's brother) and Channel 9 News.  They could decide whether the lost profit from the  bad publicity from backdating a contract to sell a car on the stop sell list was worth less than the options they were going to give me.

 

To end the story, they caved and we got everything...about $5k worth of poo.

 

Oh yeah....the GM even threw in a $300 gift card to Ruth Chris Steakhouse so that I could take my wife out to a nice dinner.

 

The dealership with Scott Clark Toyota.

 

amazing

[PhillyB]

i like the older, late-2000s subaru outbacks