Thread: Looking For A New Car, Suggestions?

Ooooooo.... Corvette.....
I have an old Jeep that is really starting to show it's age, so a late model "summer car" would be nice. Split the miles between a couple old cars and I'm bound to get the same reliability of an expensive new car.

I would stay away from the RX7. Although it is a VERY nice car, you'd have to find someone in your area that works on rotary engines (and depending on where you live that may be hard).

I would get the Honda Prelude...its not as fast but it will last you 200K+ miles with ease.

You can also look around for an early 90's TT 300zx or maybe if you get lucky find a Supra in that price range. If you really want straight line acceleration go for that. I would stay away from domestic cars for reliability sake.

Hey Squeezer, care to explain my s-10 with 230k miles that runs great besides a tapping valve (which I am fixing very very soon) ??

Originally posted by alan889
" I would stay away from domestic cars for reliability sake"

Did you learn that driving your rice burner? Why don't you look for a Japanese house and a Japanese lawnmower to mow the grass and a Japanese wife to read the writing on the side of your Japanese car parts?

Just kidding

AL

No, my family has been domestic for many years (and still is).

In the 80's we were chrysler products and then in the 90's till present we are ford (dad's side of family) and GM (mom's side of family). So we've been to every end of the spectrum with domestics and they just don't hold up like our 2 Hondas have. The chrysler product were always having carbourator problems.

We had a 95 accord bought in summer of 94 and the only thing to happen to it was the thermostat went out and the AC clutch+compressor went out. It had 194K miles and still going strong. But my sister's now ex-bf totalled it 2 months ago.

I now have a 2000 Honda S2000 with 42K miles and never had a problem with it.

My best friend in high school had a 97 Pontiac grand am. At about 48K miles the transmission (Auto) would slip shifting into every gear and when it engaged the whole car would jerk violently to one side and the low traction light would come on. He finally traded it in on a 98 Accord EX and has had no problems with it since (this was about 1.5 years ago).

In my experience, imports have been more reliable then their domestic counterparts. Your experience may have been different, but I am just saying what my experience has been.

Currently we have in the family a 94 cutlass that burns a quart of oil a week, a 92 Astro tha tis on its second engine and had the AC fan replaced 4 times, the fan motor replaced, the emissions light is on 24/7, and many other small things. We also have a 2002 Silverado and a 2000 Blazer but they haven't had any problems yet, but they are both still new. (These are all on my mom's side). Other cars we had were a 94 Jeep Cherokee that ran pretty well, and a 96 cavalier which didn't give major problems but had to go back to the dealer a few times for some warrently problems (hole in the muffler when brand new and some other things) and we had a 91 pontiac grand am. Don't get me started on that piece of ****. It was in the shop more then it was on the road. I think EVERY part in it had been replaced atleast once and in many occasions more.

On my dad's side we have a 92 Explorer and a 96 or 98 Expedition (Can't remember which). The Expedition has held up good but the Explorer has about $1.5K in parts new on it in the last year.

So my family has had a lot more domestics then imports (what is that, like 10:2) and the imports have been holding up a lot better.

So...please don't tell me about how all i have is a bunch of jap cars and i'm a rice burner. I think you should get your head out of your *** and come to the realization that domestics just are not and have not caught up to the reliability level that japanese imports are at.

Originally posted by lstrunk
Hey Squeezer, care to explain my s-10 with 230k miles that runs great besides a tapping valve (which I am fixing very very soon) ??

lstrunk, you just recently bought that S-10 and for all purposes you don't really know if its on the original engine, 2nd engine, etc...

And so it "runs great" but has a tapping vavle? Kind of an oxy moron....might not be blowing smoke, but if it has a tapping valve, then something is wrong.

Originally posted by alan889
come to the realization that domestics just are not and have not caught up to the reliability level that japanese imports are at

Just to fuel the fire -
How about Jap cars made in the US?