There comes a time with every car when a new payment is cheaper in the long run (or at least easier to budget for). Repairs and parts today are expensive. Also, finding someone to do even basic things right can be difficult. My wife had a new battery installed at Sears last week and they did not even tighten the terminals . Her car suddenly would not start and I luckily knew right away the first thing to check.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:


lesbian this

right, but that is NOT an outback. Subaru makes some cool cars - but the outback is not one of them. Maybe I forgot to mention that my car was an outback?

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Originally posted by PWS_SmokeyJones:
right, but that is NOT an outback. Subaru makes some cool cars - but the outback is not one of them. Maybe I forgot to mention that my car was an outback?

I kinda of assumed as much from the lesbian comment. I've never heard it said about any other Subaru.

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Originally posted by Zcar:

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Originally posted by PWS_SmokeyJones:
right, but that is NOT an outback. Subaru makes some cool cars - but the outback is not one of them. Maybe I forgot to mention that my car was an outback?

I kinda of assumed as much from the lesbian comment. I've never heard it said about any other Subaru.

Yeah, but I can fit all my guns in the back...
I thought the Forrester was the lesbian car?

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That means I finally get to drive my Tahoe again and stop driving the lesbian mobile.

Subaru Forester?

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Wow, that's worse than a "chick's car".

What's a gay guy car, I wonder?

A miata..... No self respecting straight man should EVER drive one.

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Originally posted by walker77:

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Wow, that's worse than a "chick's car".

What's a gay guy car, I wonder?

A miata..... No self respecting straight man should EVER drive one.

Well, I'm well and truly fucked then- I've got both a Subaru *and* a Miata.

'Course, the Miata has a 220hp turbo kit and I regularly embarass Mustang and F-body guys, but, well... call me a queer I guess.

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Originally posted by walker77:

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Wow, that's worse than a "chick's car".

What's a gay guy car, I wonder?

A miata..... No self respecting straight man should EVER drive one.

Damned fun cars on the curvy roads. Performance cars are about more than straight line acceleration and, to me, a Miata and a nice mountain road is a hell of a lot more fun than a 10 second 1/4 mile (most likely in a car the Miata would eat for lunch on a curvy road).

I LOVE the new Miata's. I'd probably own one if I could justify a 2 door convertible at the moment.

Also the Outback seems a lot more "lesbian" than the Forester which is a great compact SUV.

People like to make fun of Subarus until it starts to snow,then watch all of the other cars put there tails between there legs and head for the garage.

my mistake yea the outback is the lesbo-wagon, as for the miata, all I can say is the best shooter I know has one and he drives it like a bat out of hell. and hes married to a smokin hot redhead.

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Originally posted by 9mmepiphany:
compared to a Subie, the Civic has no soul

So a Glock has no soul by your logic.

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So a Glock has no soul by your logic.

a Glock has NO soul...it's not quirky enough, it's too mainstream

it is only a tool...it can have bling, it can go fast, it can be dependable...but it doesn't have a soul

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A miata..... No self respecting straight man should EVER drive one.

how can you say that about the Japanese MG-B...it's not like it's a Porsche 924

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Originally posted by BlackForest:
People like to make fun of Subarus until it starts to snow,then watch all of the other cars put there tails between there legs and head for the garage.

Indeed - that is the one thing I will say about the Subaru. The two winters I lived in Colorado it completely rocked on foul roads. The down side was the very small amount of clearance between the tires and the wheel wells which would clog up pretty regularly with iced over sludge. doesn't matter though, the beast is gone and the wife is 100% happy with her new ride. '09 Civic LX w/Leather.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Wow, that's worse than a "chick's car".

What's a gay guy car, I wonder?

Prius

I have a friend who is gay and drives a Prius but his last car was a Honda Civic.

We kept our last Honda to 260,000 miles. The only thing wrong with it was the air conditioner.

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Originally posted by PWS_SmokeyJones:
That means I finally get to drive my Tahoe again and stop driving the lesbian mobile.

I'm not giving mine up. It's too damn fast.



It always surprises people how fast a stock '04 XT is...





-Tom

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Wow, that's worse than a "chick's car".

What's a gay guy car, I wonder?

VW Beetle.

No self respecting guy would drive a car with a flower pot in it.

Miata's handle well and I've seen one with a small block Ford V-8 in it.... I never thought of them as a gay car.

-Tom

I'd consider a Miata if I wasn't 6'3".

Gay car? Lesbian car? Silly ideas.

Sorry... but I think that a vehicle should go well beyond that mileage before it "dies". Toyota claims that the Miata line doesn't even start breaking in until the 100k mark. Other modern vehicles should be about the same. I had a old 1977 Impala stationwagon that ran until it hit 287k. It had just rolled over 100k when I bought it and I put nearly twice that on it over a decade. I'd expect that much out of a new vehicle.