It’s a different animal above 5k. That engine totally lives to be revved. At 5k the throttle body secondary opens and the fuel injection program changes to pulse mode, and suddenly you’ve got all the power. Redline is at 7500 so you’ve still got a little ways to go once the fun starts happening.
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It’s a lot of fun to drive and quite chuckable, but probably not to the degree of a CRX.
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Cheers to you. You sound like the true definition of a car enthusiast and that’s great in my book. So sick of people who claim to be car fans and then proceed to insult things they don’t like.
Thanks!
Nice thing about not liking the Sportbak? You can swap it back to the conventional hatch in 15 minutes. Plus the normal hatch is common as dirt while the Sportbak is rather rare, so if you end up with a Sportbak you don’t want you can easily sell it for a profit.
A Trabant. By all measure these cars are horrible. But they’ve got personality, and personality goes a long way. I want one.
Mitsubishi Cordia. It’s not fast and it’s not pretty but for some reason I’ve always really wanted one.
Is the Pulsar Sportbak a good car? No, probably not. It’s an ‘80s economy car. It’s a Sentra underneath. Even with a manual gearbox, I’m sure it’s a dog to drive, and that a Honda CRX from the same era will probably run circles around it. It’s hardly the most sporting Nissan from that time.
It’s never seen rain or snow because it has no eyes.
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No tire kickers! Serious buyers only for this $32,500 Plymouth Prowler.
1956 Chevy Hot Rod for $95,000 which the seller lists all the parts put into it, then claims it’s “original.” This car does not come with any capital letters.
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The nice thing about one of KBB’s “competitors” (I use quotation marks because Autotrader owns KBB) Autotrader’s Trade-in Marketplace is that they actually will buy the customer’s car for whatever number the online app gave them, provided the car matches the description given online. Of course their numbers have…
I don’t know how they come up with them, but I know why.
At that point, not a whole lot... but I was just pulling numbers out of thin air. When someone says “it’s got about 85k on it” and it actually has 105k, that matters. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into people who don’t know the mileage on their cars and just throw out the number they put on the registration…
How to calculate a trade-in value like the average car shopper: