I personally suggested the 2nd Gen Mazda6 because it’s one of the few cars of its age to do well on the notoriously difficult small overlap crash test.

I don’t mean driver and passenger airbags. I’m talking side curtain airbags and side impact airbags.

2nd generation Mazda6. The ones between the tiny 1st generation and the 3rd (last) generation we all know and love.

My grandmother is 89 (born in February 1932). I often talk with her about climate change and how noticeable it is if people just bother to look outside of their own special interests.

Here for this article series. Excellent.

That’s exactly what he said when he bought it. So far, he’s been right.

Don’t know the APR but a friend of mine has a newer Tacoma with a 96-month loan. 

That was my first thought. I wouldn’t want to get my insurance company involved at all if I didn’t absolutely have to for fear of my rates skyrocketing.

1st gear: My friends have a newer Outlander Sport with 90,000 miles and it has given them zero problems. They’ve done nothing to it aside from normal maintenance items and they got a screaming deal on it in the first place because it was an undesirable model. It has since been paid off and I don’t see them getting rid…

Yes!

Correct! Z26 was available with the Quad 4 for 1994 only and was -5 HP. It was 3100 V6 and 4-speed automatic for the L-Body’s final years of 1995 and 1996.

GTZ. :) The GTZ, introduced for 1990, had the 2.3 “Quad 4” Oldsmobile engine.

Yes! My mom had a ‘91 Corsica when I was growing up. It was very reliable and  served us well. I was looking for an L-Body when I found my Sunbird in 2018. It was too good of a deal to pass up, so I went ahead and bought it even though it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for. Now, I’m glad I did!

Not the best, but not the worst.

Yep.

Yay for my paid-off 2016 Mazda6 that can push or exceed 40 MPG on road trips. Might take it on vacation again this fall instead of my wife’s crossover. We can afford the gas in the crossover (a Toyota Highlander), but less expense towards gas on vacation means more money for delicious oceanfront seafood.

There’s a “convertible tax” on the old J-Bodies. They were the only ones preserved, so they command higher prices. Granted, this one is about double what it should be, but still.

My ex-stepmother had one like this but it was a ‘99, so it had the older front end. It was an amazing car. Quick, smooth, comfortable, and the factory Bose stereo was great. It eventually blew its engine which made me like it even more because my ex-stepmother was/is a horrible woman. Anything that inconvenienced her…

*Would* buy? Or *could* buy? Two very different answers. Would buy, for me, is a red ‘89 Porsche 911. Could buy would be an ‘89 turbo Pontiac Sunbird. I already have a low mileage regular/base model ‘90 Sunbird that I love (for reasons no one understands - including me). A turbo one would be that much more fun.

Really digging this overall. Built one with all the stuff I’d want and the color I’d want (“Hot Pepper Red”) and it came to just over $33k. Might be a contender for my next vehicle someday.