It’s hard to buy a truly horrible car in terms of reliability these days. But if your argument is saving $15k, then looking at resale value should be part of the equation. But otherwise it’s a useless comparison in too many ways.....in fact so useless that pointing out the obvious details seems as useless as comparing…

definitely good PR, and good on Mazda. I am with the camp though that figures Mazda will take the wrecked one and do some investigating on it to see if there is anything they can improve on or just curiosity. I wonder if this type of thing has been done before by a mfg. with one of the first few wrecked new models.

sweet

I’d recommend learning to drive a car, and learn driving it defensively. Learning to drive can be daunting enough, and only experience can train you to become a good driver. It takes double the awareness and quick thinking to remain unharmed on two wheels. Also, youth comes with a certain sense of invincibility and…

in cases like this the warranty company may have given them a wink nod that they would be OK with getting a few known issues for them selling a certain percentage of the warranty to their customers. If 90% of buyers get the warranty, the company still makes out in the end, even after a few repairs.

no such thing as a sale in the car business. Mfr. cash and financing incentives are the only “sale” that exist.

no, I got it on the white horse pike some 20 years ago toting a friends band equipment in a ratty van with out of state tags. Out of state tags always seemed to be key, first 3 times to NJ I got pulled with no citations. This particular case we were looking for the club, which was on the left and far before the days…

The popularity of loaded Grand Cherokees, to me, are responsible for upmarket SUV’s. I did a lot of work at a Jeep dealer and a MB during this era (still do at the same Jeep dealer) and the Grand Cherokee was very much considered a luxury SUV and they couldn’t keep them on the lot. Early ML’s were littered with…

they should have kicked in a few more horse powers to lug that 3500 lb thing around. I think the biggest issue with those Chinese knock off cars is rust. But for the money it’s not bad if you only need it occasionally. I’d drive it.

that things like Armor All protect, they don’t . They just make things shiny and sticky thus trapping dirt. But the biggest sham in car cleaning products is anything marketed as leather cleaner/conditioner. Aside from King Ranch Ford trucks automotive leather is top coated. All the conditioner does is sit on it and…

this is simply wrong. Don’t mislead people with wrong information.

low mileage version of an unmolested SC probably won’t bring that much. You can get a v8 bird anywhere and do shit to it. I had a 92 (in 98) low mileage with some mild work that I ran a few times in the low 14’s. Looked like this one.

The e38 is probably the most perfect 7 series for any enthusiastic driver and I’m considering replacing my E320 with one. But I have an extremely soft spot for the Hartge tuned H7s e23. I’m fortunate that a friend owns one, and should he ever rid himself of it, and I have a garage to keep it in, I’d own it in a…

I happened upon a 98 Subaru Legacy Outback that was donated to a local vo-tech school’s auto body program. I knew the teacher and we agreed it was probably best to fix it and drive it since the issue was mechanical, not body related and it was really clean. My kid was 16 and approaching being able to drive with no…

ever work in a body shop? Have hands on experience with this stuff? I have. If the parts are available it’s not an unreasonable fix to a qualified tech. Sure, there are bad ones out there as with any skilled profession and I hope that it’s not a bad tech intending to slap it together poorly to sell. But I’ve seen far…

who needs 300 bhp? Give me that thing with 200.....hell 160.

only a ‘nightmare’ to an unqualified person who thought a few body panels would fix it. This car is repairable to the right person.

car doesn’t have a frame...and it’s annoying that ‘frame damage’ is considered a death knoll. a qualified tech can fix this, it’s just that the cost of parts/labor surpass the insurance companies threshold for it’s replacement value. I’ve seen worse.....the stickler is monetary.

12o bhp, 170 lb.ft. torque. Also, apples/oranges. Sometimes it’s not what you can buy, it’s what you want to drive.

I much prefer the “big”6’s.