Weird that my phone auto corrected to that. I’ve searched and been to a few places with the name due to a near by road being named after John James Audubon (wraps around UB in WNY), and the near by parks and society office. Maybe a little less condescension next time?

Ended up being a wheel bearing. Then the trans was having an issue and I rear ended someone at low speeds. It was enough to put it out of commision.

I thought I remember hearing a while back on unlimited parts of the Audubon, the average speed ends up around 120mph. Going up past 150 things can get sketchy with the nature of aerodynamics and whether a car was designed to do that, but in the pursuit of mpgs most cars today should have no trouble hitting 125.

Nah, a standard focus will probably do that. New cars are so aerodynamic hitting 125 isn’t all that hard. Granted going up from there gets progressively harder as force due to drag increases to velocity squared.

I had a 95 Escort with that same engine, you sir are a braver man than me. I only ever got up to 90, though this is after it was almost 15 years old and in need of some repair. It would start to shake quite a bit about 75. For such a low hp junky little thing I always kinda miss it.

2001 Bonneville SE can hit 105 before it tells you to slow down.

I second a Volvo, the new S90 is so gorgeous too and within her price range. It’s definitely not common. The other recommendation I’ve seen is picking up a Jaguar. Both companies produce good looking cars that don’t blend in with the sea of German luxury out there.

GM stopped making cars and engines? Parts will probably be an issue for some of the specific pieces, but then again I’ve had rarer older cars, and parts aren’t impossible to find. In the age of the internet everything is just a few clicks away. You just might have to wait for it.

Repair costs?

Woah, woah, woah. Developing and selling a small market practically 2 seater coupe in a world of hatchbacks and crossovers built between two companies (one which is known for hatchbacks and crossovers, and the other known for boring cars) isn’t considered taking a chance on a niche market!? Do you have a gambling …

Than add your own turbo. There is a very small market for these, the fact that this thing exists in the first place as basically a one model year car with a unique platform and engine, built as a coop between to companies, is an incredible stroke of luck. Stop bitching and enjoy it.

Sometimes I just put in rare. It’s entertaining for all the interesting cars you find and for all the boring not at all rare ones you can ridicule.

I think after the Fusion’s recalls he wanted something that wasn’t going to kill him in repair costs...

Well a lease for a CTS-V for 24 months comes in around $1000 with about $1900 down. Add in insurance and rentals for when you need a different car and this is easily affordable for someone in the market. Sure you don’t own the car ever, but people signing up for this probably get a new car every 2 to 3 years anyway.

Maybe it’s because I spent so much of my childhood up there, but I never found places in the Adirondacks weird. We did have one guy with a general store that was pretty weird, boxes of food taped shut, and the to just go in the store you probably needed a tetanus shot. But other than him, the town was really pretty…

Meh, they are just using it as stock footage, hardly important enough to be called incompetent. I’m with you on CNN general incompetence, I’m liberal and their news bias is a bit much.

I locked myself out of my Miata more times than I care to admit. It was easy to get back in as there was a tear in the top that you could only see from inside the car. I’d just unscrew the antenna and pop the door unlocked.

A Mustang drives through a cars and coffee...

I think most of us who give a damn don’t like the term. But there is a subset of my peers that are clearly less tuned in to the world at large and are far more interested in their on self serving desires. From what I have read is that people of this age bracket are in fact more entrepreneurial and harder working than…