Curses. Now I have to send a “Thank You” note to Nissan for selling me an extra special Non-Carjackable key fob. My stupid fob fails to “pair” with the car about every third time.

His jump shot looks more like a two handed bounce pass at the rim.

Why is it so ugly? Is it cheaper to design and build an ugly car?

Next year - Cobb Tuning shift kit!

My mistake. I assumed that you had gotten a full-on Honda mower with the composite deck and everything.

I ended up finding the junction box for about $165 at the pick and pull but it took me 18 months to find it. During that time I had no horn.

Wow! Slow down! No one said anything about a fancy Honda mower. I haven’t seen a Honda mower for less then $500. This gives it a $/HP ratio of closer to $185/HP. That’s some fancy power there, young man.

Is it a 2.3l with the 5 speed stick? From my reading that seems to be the “magical” combination.

I had a ‘14 as a rental car and it was a Rolls Royce compared to the tin can ‘04.

Not even Ford reliability. Ford used that 2.3l in everything and had decent succes with it. The Mazda was just a turd.

Actually, that was the most disheartening part of the whole ordeal. Ford has put that exact same 2.3l in millions of vehicles so why is it failing at such an astronomical rate in this particular application?

2004. Both the 2004 and the 2005 had issues with the 2.3l engine as well as the aforementioned junction box issues. They both also had the weakest A/C units fitted to a vehicle in the last 20 years. 

Buy a Mazda3 hatchback they said. It is the best handling FWD drive car they said. Japanese reliability they said.

As much as I love this new “Law and Order - Car Dealership” series I am positively giddy for the required spinoff; “Law and Order - Insurance Salesperson”.

Sorry. Can’t. The oil is most likely cross contaminated with gluten.

I had a similar experience in leasing a vehicle from out of state. My issue was that the F&I guy took forever to get all his paperwork filed so my temp tags expired and he still hadn’t submitted the info to my state of residence. His take was that I had gotten a “free” month of a lease and now my term was 37 months.…

Why are we so shocked at a price tag of $42k. My stupid Nissan Quest from 2005 stickered at $42k once I added the DVD screens and Nav. If anything, that seems pretty cheap for the amount of equipment you get.

1,083 miles. Back in 2010 I wanted a small truck to replace my behemoth Dodge 1500 (all 9 MPG of it). I searched high and low and finally found an Ebay auction for a brand new 2007 Chevy Colorado, Extended Cab, 2WD.

I had a Colorado with the 2.9L and loved it. I am looking for another but am trying to find one with the 5.3L just because I am concerned about parts availability down the road for an engine family that has been discontinued.

Wait. When did they put a transmission in this thing? My understanding was that they had the electric motor for off the line and then a direct drive final gear for freeway cruising.