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Most modern cars these days are pretty reliable The only exception is Fiat and Chrysler, who are laughably terrible in pretty much any study of reliability
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butterbar posted:Most modern cars these days are pretty reliable they are not the only exception. gm's turbo 1.5 might actually be the worst engine that has ever been produced.
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Jan 6, 2017 23:28
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my dad taught me to drive by taking me out onto some back roads in his 92 F-150 i'm really not a truck guy by any means, but that was a fun. that was 15 years ago and my cousin has it, and still drives it. when he's finally done with it, i hope the truck works its way to a third-world war zone somewhere so it can get blown up by a russian attack helicopter.
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Jan 6, 2017 23:29
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tenspott posted:I love car threads because it's like no one in GBS has driven a car newer than a 91 and they base all their knowledge off of something a dude at NAPA told them once. I love them because you know the people saying all American cars are poo poo own something like a 1999 Corolla.
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Jan 6, 2017 23:32
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Bum the Sad posted:Bullshit my Cadillac's Northstar V8 was leaking oil like a sieve and had to have all the gaskets replaced. It also had the starter motor between the cylinder banks and was poorly built. The Northstar was GM's attempt to make a V8 using fancy "modern" ideas like overhead cams. The LT/LS V8s use technology that GM has had almost 100 years to unfuck. (Something something pushrod has a good displacement vs. external volume ratio whatever)
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Jan 6, 2017 23:33
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someone name a good american car plz
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Jan 6, 2017 23:34
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Jan 6, 2017 23:35
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Wikkheiser posted:someone name a good american car plz Toyota Corolla
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Jan 6, 2017 23:36
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2001 Pontiac Aztek with pop-out sex tent
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Jan 6, 2017 23:37
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man you bought an srt8 lol im sorry dude there were SO MANY BETTER CHOICES ALL AROUND THAT PRICE POINT WOW
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Jan 6, 2017 23:42
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Wikkheiser posted:someone name a good american car plz Tesla 
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Jan 6, 2017 23:44
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scrubs season six posted:I love them because you know the people saying all American cars are poo poo own something like a 1999 Corolla. so what you're saying is that people who drive a car that has a reputation for being bulletproof and lasting forever make fun of american cars for being the poorly-constructed, unreliable shitboxes they are? is this supposed to be some kind of sick burn you're making or something
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Jan 6, 2017 23:44
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Wikkheiser posted:someone name a good american car plz Sir, this is a Honda dealership.
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Cubey posted:
im not defending gm but i see as many sunbirds and cavalliers on the road as i do old hondas from the same era but they are in no way in fair or even bad condition. they are barely functional and screech and belch oil smoke but they are on the road i do live in a poor rear end area where people could and probably would get jimbo to swap the blown motor for another motor on its last legs. ozark ingenuity
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Wikkheiser posted:my dad taught me to drive by taking me out onto some back roads in his 92 F-150 my dad taught me to drive stick on a base model mini cooper hands down without question the worst vehicle i have ever driven in every way
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Jan 6, 2017 23:53
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People seem to equate reliability with "will technically continue to run and drive" but if the rest of the car falls apart around the drivetrain is it really that reliable? "Hmm yes my 01' Sunfire is very reliable! The windows don't roll up, the interior is in pieces, the A/C quit working sometime around 9/11, but it still hesitantly lurches forward when I step on the gas."
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Kibbles n Shits posted:People seem to equate reliability with "will technically continue to run and drive" but if the rest of the car falls apart around the drivetrain is it really that reliable? this is basically the argument people use to tell me gm is reliable because i live in the american heartland and USA USA but thats what im sayin
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Jan 6, 2017 23:54
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Cubey posted:so what you're saying is that people who drive a car that has a reputation for being bulletproof and lasting forever make fun of american cars for being the poorly-constructed, unreliable shitboxes they are? I'm saying you poor.
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Jan 6, 2017 23:54
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I had a 91 Cavalier when I was driving under my Learner's Permit. The body was immaculate metallic teal and literally hours after it reached 100,000 miles, it burst into flames.
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Jan 6, 2017 23:56
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scrubs season six posted:I'm saying you poor. well i drive a second-gen mr2, for one. for two, poor people need transport and if i was hard up for money, you bet your rear end that i'd buy a corolla before even considering a neon or cavalier or whatever.
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Jan 7, 2017 00:00
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Some people actually don't buy the most expensive car available to them. Mind blowing but true.
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Some people actually don't buy the most expensive car available to them. Mind blowing but true.
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Jan 7, 2017 00:18
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numberoneposter posted:I HAVE EXACTLY $3987.23 PLUS $1500 OVERDRAFT LIMIT IN MY CHECKING ACCOUNT GIVE ME CAR SUGGESTIONS. 99' Toyota Corolla
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Jan 7, 2017 00:19
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numberoneposter posted:I HAVE EXACTLY $3987.23 PLUS $1500 OVERDRAFT LIMIT IN MY CHECKING ACCOUNT GIVE ME CAR SUGGESTIONS. The new Cadillac service where it's $1500 a month to drive and keep any Cadillac
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Jan 7, 2017 00:22
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is hellcat good or no
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Jan 7, 2017 00:27
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thathonkey posted:is hellcat good or no The porn? 
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Jan 7, 2017 00:28
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nah like the challenger srt hellcat looks pretty dope on the outside i gotta admit i bet it's fast too but will break down and has a crap interior
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Jan 7, 2017 00:30
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thathonkey posted:is hellcat good or no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNgb_BUsOs4
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i actually have a fairly reasonable savings for my age and location, but the reason i have it is because i don't make poor decisions like buying too much car.
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Jan 7, 2017 00:31
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I dunno guys, I had a 2016 Dodge Dart as a rental earlier this year and it was actually pretty nice if a bit cramped due to my height.
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Jan 7, 2017 00:46
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Riscas posted:I dunno guys, I had a 2016 Dodge Dart as a rental earlier this year and it was actually pretty nice if a bit cramped due to my height. Isn't the Dart essentially a rebadged Alfa Romeo?
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Jan 7, 2017 00:47
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thathonkey posted:nah like the challenger srt hellcat I can think of zero reason you wouldn't be better off with just a chevy SS.
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thathonkey posted:nah like the challenger srt hellcat Hmmm it's a little batmobile tbh but I bet that kitty purrs.
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Hmmm it's a little batmobile tbh but I bet that kitty purrs.
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numberoneposter posted:only if u rub it the rite way bb You know I'd treat her right. 
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if you buy an american car then wow..just lmao
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Wikkheiser posted:someone name a good american car plz Ford Crown Victoria
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Salt Fish posted:I can think of zero reason you wouldn't be better off with just a chevy SS. I can think of 292 reasons you wouldn't be better off with just a Chevy SS.
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My Man Shran posted:It also had the starter motor between the cylinder banks and was poorly built. The only really bad problem with the Northie is the oil leak issue between the upper and lower block and they fixed that by ~1999 or so. Other than that, they were very solid engines, built by GM's Premium engine division and ran well. They can start to pull the head studs slightly out of the block and lose head gaskets at high mileage(150-180kmiles), but that's about the extent of any issues. GM did a great job overdesigning the valvetrain and timing chain setup, issues with the top end are extremely rare. Every fuckin' online idiot likes to whine about the starter location, but they really don't take a tremendous amount of time to change, don't go bad very often, and guess what other motor has the starter in the same exact spot? The Toyoxus 4.0/4.5 V-8, and nobody bitches about that one. The main hassle with 'em is, like you said, that they're goddamn enormous and were never updated much. They came out in '91 and ran great compared to the existing SBC, but after the much tinier/more powerful LSx arrived, the handwriting was on the wall. Source: I'm a mechanic and serviced about a zillion old people's Caddys, plus owned a couple over the years.
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Wikkheiser posted:someone name a good american car plz mustangs ford rangers crown vic huh i guess thats all ford. their cars are mostly Really Bad though. basically the ones where they kept making the same model for a long rear end time and thats 'good' not Good
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