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| Thread ID: 68646 | 2006-05-06 07:52:00 | Cars - your thoughts? | Lizard (2409) | PC World Chat |
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| 452647 | 2006-05-06 22:26:00 | I've had three Mitsi and they were all great except the Cordia with a chronicaaly unwell gearbox. Depends what you want a car for really. Shopping basket, long - distance tourer, boy-racer, building materials/tools/machinery transporter? That's what matters. The there's what you pay for it. Being in the under 2 thousand market I buy privately. |
mark c (247) | ||
| 452648 | 2006-05-07 02:14:00 | Ever driven a fairmont made in the last ten years? From my point of view it kills the 2004 Skyline GT-R we have, a car I can barely fit it, Ladies car. Well if you don't want the GT-R anymore, you can always give it to me... :D |
Sick Puppy (6959) | ||
| 452649 | 2006-05-07 05:56:00 | I was wrong , its a 98 GT (no R that I can see), Anyhow, It belongs to Mrs Metla..... | Metla (12) | ||
| 452650 | 2006-05-07 06:55:00 | Go diesel. | Vallis (8886) | ||
| 452651 | 2006-05-07 08:17:00 | Per a previous post I made some time ago, if you are out driving and you smell or see smoke up ahead, 90% of the time the source will be a Mitsi exhaust pipe. The other 10% will be a mix of Nissans, reamed out boy-racer Hondas and old Ford Lasers. For some strange reason it is never the Mazda 323 equivalent. Toyota and Mazda make the most economic to own and operate second hand cars, Honda are good but price and servicing costs increase their TCO by too much for my liking. Peugot do make good cars but again you pay a premium price and the servicing costs are excessive. I'd stick to Toyota and Mazda, they are economic to run and their TCO is reasonable. Cheers Billy 8-{) BTW, TCO = Total Cost of Ownership |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 452652 | 2006-05-07 08:30:00 | BTW, TCO = Total Cost of Ownership Thanks for that. Gee, you had me panicing there for a moment.:D |
mark c (247) | ||
| 452653 | 2006-05-07 19:43:00 | Toyota's also have excellent resale value. Of course this means they are more expensive to buy. | Strommer (42) | ||
| 452654 | 2006-05-07 21:40:00 | Toyota's also have excellent resale value. Of course this means they are more expensive to buy. I've had one for $800 and one for $950. The first was great until I broke it. The 2nd seems fine so far too. Both needed an adjustment to the timing and have a tendency to be slightly less inclined to start when hot, but nothing major. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 452655 | 2006-05-07 22:10:00 | ...tendency to be slightly less inclined to start when hot, but nothing major. Was a common complaint when I was servicing a fleet of toyota's in the early 90's. Solution: no accelerator when starting hot. Toyota's by far the most reliable. All the toyota's I have owned have been bought when they were about 5 - 8 years old (would love to own one from new if I could afford it) and keep them for a further 5 - 8 years. The only cost was general servicing. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 452656 | 2006-05-07 22:52:00 | Have been looking at cars, to replace a rapidly ageing and decaying Honda. Perhaps you can offer some thoughts and wisdom on the following examples: 2002 Mitsubishi Galant GLS S/W, 2.0L, tiptronic, 86,214 KMs, ABS, airbags, $13,990This car still looks good after 10 years. A real credit to it's design. A lot of my collegues has said this is a very smooth engine. Get it. However, I am biased as I have the VR-4 model of this one. |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
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