Posted on 11/01/2008 10:18:06 AM PDT by Spktyr
You got a lot of life left in that Tacoma. A friend of mine drove his Toy pickup 185K before he sold it, but it was still running great.
Minor maintenance I do on my cars myself — saves a lot of money. If it gets to be significant, then I take it to a repair shop I trust, which does not include dealerships. I hate dealerships & don’t trust them — never take my cars to them. Just me, I guess.
Fair enough- but when I lived in CA, the dealership where I bought my Tacoma had a high-up senior management guy who was a personal friend. I had great luck with them, and reviewing my service with him- never had to invoke his name. It legitimately cost a little more, but they did treat me right.
In general- I’ll agree with you about service at dealerships. This one however, was pretty good.
Thanks to all the safety regs and mandatory this that and the other, this Versa probably weighs about twice what your Chevette did.
Versas are okay to drive on the freeway, Smarts are just deathly slow on the freeway.
Don’t care about that. I’ll keep my pickup truck for the weekends and for hauling stuff. As for my daily commute to work, a “lawn mower with windows” is all I need...with Sirius radio.
I haven't read one report that says that's true but if you have a source I'll be glad to look at it.
It tops out at 90mph.... but it takes forever to get there and they seem to have problems holding speed on even slight hills.
The terrified looks of the few Smart drivers I’ve seen on Dallas highways seems bear that out.
I was an Escort wagon guy too.
Egads. We had one and it was a lemon. It was in the shop so much we thought Ford was an acronym for "fix or repair daily." We bought it because we wanted to buy American. The final straw was when it died while my wife was taking the kids to school. We took it to the dealer for repair. We called to see if it was done and they said yes, "but it don't run so good." When we arrived to pick it up, we discovered that meant they had to push it out of the service bay.
Then and there we decide we would never buy another Ford. Bought Hondas ever since. Will continue to look at them and Toyotas. My daughter just bought a Corolla - we did a road trip from Rochester, NY to Tallahassee, FL on just a bit over 2 tanks of gas. It was surprisingly roomy and peppy - but a tad underpowered on asteep hill. Still, I am quite impressed.
Another problem with the Smart is 1) my motorcycle has more cargo space and 2) the ForTwo, the only model sold here, only seats two.
The Ford 500 has been renamed the Taurus. It is based on a Volvo because Ford owns Volvo.
I have the slighty smaller Ford Fusion which also comes as the Mercury Milan (same car). The prices on both are very good. It is a great car. It comes in a V6 or 4. I have the 4 and it is great. Pickup is fine and the gas mileage is very good.
WRONG. Nissan has safer cars than Honda, and the Versa is highly rated for it’s safety. I own a ford so I’m not pimping the Versa for personal reasons, but I’ve been looking to get a new smaller economical car that’s safe, and I’ve done the comparison.
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