I love my VW Jetta V6 to absolute pieces, but since they don't make it anymore I a) can't recommend it for purchase and b) will get it repaired every time.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 25, 2010 12:22:51 pm PST #11245 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gudanov - Feb 25, 2010 12:23:46 pm PST #11246 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
My cousin and her husband really like their VW Passat TDI, but they might just put up with random little things to fix in exchange for the mileage. Don't know.
Polter-Cow - Feb 25, 2010 12:24:27 pm PST #11247 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I feel like my friends who've had VWs through the years were always having to get random little things fixed on them. It totally, possibly irrationally, has taken any VW off of my possible future car list.
My boss has had a number of issues with her Rabbit in the last year, after only having had it for three or four years. It's to the point where she's thinking of selling it and getting something else, definitely not a VW.
Gudanov - Feb 25, 2010 12:27:34 pm PST #11248 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Another good thing about that fuel economy site is that it gives the economy of everything using 2008 EPA ratings so you can compare apples vs. apples with used cars.
Jesse - Feb 25, 2010 12:28:58 pm PST #11249 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, msbelle. I'm sorry you can't run away.
Cass - Feb 25, 2010 12:31:35 pm PST #11250 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
But I am now willing to try fancy-schmancy cocktails made with gin, so I may be stepping back from my Gin = Ew stance.
Sure, you're willing to try them but you always make the EWWWW face when you do. It's cute.
msbelle - Feb 25, 2010 12:32:51 pm PST #11251 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am pretty sure I am taking a personal day tomorrow. I may just get drunk tonight after he goes to sleep.
Hil R. - Feb 25, 2010 12:37:39 pm PST #11252 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just searched a bit to see if the Gus Raley I found last night actually exists, but there seems to be nothing anywhere besides that one comment and the LinkedIn profile. I found some birth, marriage, and divorce records for a Guy Straley of about the right age, but those seemed kind of irrelevant even if it is the right guy.
amych - Feb 25, 2010 1:03:07 pm PST #11253 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We have an '07 Mazda 3 hatchback that we adore like the precious that it is. The mileage isn't up there with hybrids, but it's good for a gas-only car, and it's a solid and handy critter.
The fact that I, let's just say, STRONGLY SUSPECT WITH NO ACTUAL PROOF that it might be persuaded to go way faster than any of my past cars if I were to ask it to is just a bonus.
(But seriously, in neither room nor handling does it feel like a compact critter. And it's purty. And fits multiple fencing bags, although that's of less relevance to people who are not me.)
Polter-Cow - Feb 25, 2010 1:08:44 pm PST #11254 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have a couple other friends with Mazda 3s, and they love them.