dump the rotary idea, but I'll take the hybrid. I was driving a Highlander Hybrid for a while last week - it drove just like the regular version, except a _LOT_ faster. Better fuel economy, too...
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@Bustedknuckles: The 1st gen Insight is a car I'd honestly love to drive sometime. I drive 2nd gen Insights / Prius all the time, can't help but be curious how an all-aluminum teeny little hybrid would be. Must be fun =)
@maximum_sarge: right next to the "airbag" logo? Come on, spend the 100 grams and gimmie real handles, not ones that will be black with dirt and hard to clean in no time. Stupid.
funny tidbit: we buy Vibes at work, purely because GM gives a wicked fleet discount on them (and Toyota gives virtually no discount at all). They are exactly the same car, for quite a lot less cash ($3-4k less) a lot of the time. Good fleet cars...
@smokyburnout: Well, there's at least a 2.0L engine, auto climate control, navigation and a bunch of other tidbits added to it - so it's at least significantly higher trimmed than the Civic EX-L...
couuuuldn't care less. They dropped the brand altogether in Canada back in 1999. Nobody noticed.
Yes!
Hyundai Stellar.
@Rust-MyEnemy: Ehh I dunno.. It understeers a lot for sure, but it's predictable and pretty linear...
@calzonegolem: I drive an '08 Cabrio all the time (also at work..). I love the little thing! The limits are really low - put it into a corner quickly at all and it will understeer like a pig, but the general driving dynamics of it are surprisingly good. Enter a corner at a reasonable speed, WOT in 2nd gear through the…
oh, tons of stuff. Auto climate control, auto up/down windows, tire pressure monitors - especially ones that are really sensitive, steering wheel audio controls. Sure, some people will argue that this stuff is just heavy and silly - but in all honesty, it's really damn convenient.
oh, tons of stuff. Auto climate control, auto up/down windows, tire pressure monitors - especially ones that are really sensitive, steering wheel audio controls. Sure, some people will argue that this stuff is just heavy and silly - but in all honesty, it's really damn convenient.
only if it's actually any good... At this point, I'd still take a new Civic over it in a second. Specs on a sheet of paper are great, but the overall feel of it still isn't there.
@quayzar: no surprises there - highway fuel economy isn't where hybrids come out ahead. The Prius does better in the city than it does on the highway in real-world use...
A good friend of mine's father made a very low wage as a motorcycle mechanic for years - his pay cheques were -just- enough to cover the mortgage on the house. In order to pay the bills and feed the family, he had to be clever. He knew the Metro/Swift/Firefly inside and out - he could fix literally anything on one in…
oh christ, lots and lots of them.
hehehe, awesome. The same TI speech chip was used in both of them, so it makes sense that they would sound the same..
Lol, I just happen to LIKE small cars. Cheap on fuel, simpler to repair, fun to drive!
Oh wow...hah! At the shop I do contract work for, we have to manually put cars in neutral fairly often. Usually it's as simple as "pop out the obvious plastic cover on the shifter trim, and stick a key into the hole". Mazda, Honda, Toyota,Nissan cars all work that way. I've never had to do a Prius, mind you... that…