I drive an '08 Cabrio 0at work all the time - I _love_ the little thing. It's really fun to chuck around - the limits are very low, it understeers like a pig if you chuck it into a corner hard at all, but ease into a corner and WOT through the exit in 2nd gear, and it's huge-grin worthy, especially considering you're…

Mk3 Jetta/Golf odometers roll to 0 from 299,999km. Seriously.

Uggh, my motor mounts are cringing right now... those aren't bulletproof!

I've definitely owned cars with none of the above features before — and both of them received stereos within days of ownership. Can't go without that, at all.

Clean. Not just "I washed it and gave it a quick polish" or "it went through a detailing shop" - that stuff is always obvious. I mean clean, like you can tell that the previous owner gave a shit. Like "the leather isn't worn to shit on the bolster", "it smells like nothing at all", "the headliner isn't gross", "the…

LOL, actually I've recommended those old Sentras to numerous people - for the exact same reasons. You can usually get the newer upside-down-bathtub body style '91+ for <$1000, and they really aren't bad cars at all. I also recommend the 323 and early Proteges - both with manual transmissions (the autos are brutally…

Absolutely. Most of the time, trucks aren't towing things or hauling things - just bring driven around by people. Plus, how often does the ordinary Joe need the full capacity of a fullsize truck? I used to own an S10 with the 2.5L inline-4. It was perfect. Did the job it needed to do, consistently returned 10L/100km…

'06+ Civic (fantastic little things), used TSX, Nissan Cube (really practical, cheap, neat!), used S2000, used Yaris... Lots and lots of good cars on the market.

virtually anything american, unless it's -disposably- cheap. Had our ninth (!) focus drop a valve and blow up at work yesterday. We only had eleven of them to begin with. GMs with intake manifold gasket problems, chryslers just being shitty overall.. had enough of the fucking things. They're cheap as hell used, and…

It looks like a fat woman on wheels, and those are about the only people you ever see driving them. Yes, it's hideous.

Pontiac 6000, Chevy Celebrity. Anything with the Iron Duke 2.5L in a FWD chassis.

@GoPadge: Corsica/Tempest - Eh, aside from being HORRIBLY bland, they weren't all that bad. Those were the de-facto standard taxi cab around here for years - and most of the cabbies were happy with them. They'd churn out 600,000km without too much hassle.

Lexus RX. Preferably an RX450h. Mmmmmmmm. I love 'em.

@MushyHeirloom: Ah, but the way Toyota has designed the shifter, slap it to the left and it's in 3rd. Slap it downwards, it's in 2nd. And, you see.. I really, really don't care about the...erm, "longevity" of the transmissions in the cars at work =D

@micromachine: I drive Yaris hatches at work all the time - I totally agree, they're good fun to drive the living hell out of. They remind me a lot of the old civics — lightweight and nimble.

ever driven a TSX with the 2.4L and an auto? It's fantastic. I don't see the problem here...

new drivers in BC use these, they're big reflective magnets. You have the "L" for a year, the "N" for two years...

Yup, it's the fattest and largest - but I'd take the 8th generation Civic over any of the previous ones (having driven all of them...), any day of the week.

Looks like this guy wants his son dead, and wants to spend "the price of a new Camaro" to do it. I had an '85 S10 with the 2.5L Iron Duke as my first car — and I can very honestly say that if I had my S2000 as a first car, I'd be -dead- right now.

Eeeek. Stripping a GT-R is something I just wouldn't have the heart to do.