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Title: New Ride!
Post by: btp2k2 on October 07, 2007, 01:16:37 pm
Bought a new car last month.....

(http://www.edmunds.com/media/reviews/top10/trucks.suvs.worst.residual.value/06.mitsubishi.endevour.500.jpg)


I frikking love it. With the back seats down, I have enough space for a cabinet to slide in on it's side.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: bfauska on October 07, 2007, 01:59:45 pm
Nice new ride, now every time I see one here in Seattle I'll wonder if it's you.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: tommy on October 07, 2007, 04:46:01 pm

 I have enough space for a cabinet to slide in on it's side.


If you're married, you know the wife will never let you put a dirty, nasty, big machine in that new truck.  ;)
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: shardian on October 08, 2007, 07:43:54 am

 I have enough space for a cabinet to slide in on it's side.


If you're married, you know the wife will never let you put a dirty, nasty, big machine in that new truck.  ;)

Thats what plastic is for.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: boykster on October 08, 2007, 01:33:11 pm
give it time....when we first got our Lexus SUV (RX300) the wife was ADAMANT about nothing dirty going in the back.  Now I take it to the dump, go get lumber, sacks of bark/dirt/etc all the time.  I DO put a tarp down in the back, but for the most part, it's just an SUV.

I do get funny looks when I roll up to the lumber yard in a luxury SUV.... :D
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: Chris G on October 08, 2007, 01:48:25 pm
Nice car - congrats!
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: boykster on October 08, 2007, 01:53:29 pm
oh yeah, NICE RIDE!  :applaud:
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: ChadTower on October 08, 2007, 01:56:11 pm

You can definitely move cabs in much smaller cars, too... I've moved big Atari cabs in a Legacy and just moved a Tempest in an Elantra hatchback.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: danny_galaga on October 09, 2007, 03:12:08 am

You can definitely move cabs in much smaller cars, too... I've moved big Atari cabs in a Legacy and just moved a Tempest in an Elantra hatchback.

amen to that!

Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: ChadTower on October 09, 2007, 09:15:06 am


 ;D
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: Havok on October 09, 2007, 11:36:31 am
Haha - if you cropped the curb out, it might look more like a regular size car...

Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: danny_galaga on October 10, 2007, 03:18:36 am
Haha - if you cropped the curb out, it might look more like a regular size car...



it IS a regular sized car. that happens to be next to a jumbo sized curb  ;D
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: boykster on October 10, 2007, 01:54:39 pm
Haha - if you cropped the curb out, it might look more like a regular size car...



it IS a regular sized car. that happens to be next to a jumbo sized curb  ;D

 :applaud:
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: ChadTower on October 10, 2007, 01:59:58 pm

Someone needs to mow that 10 foot grass.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: btp2k2 on October 10, 2007, 02:45:28 pm
I saw a Subaru Brat with a Pacman in the back the other day.

We've already had the "Cabinet in the new car" discussion.....shardian hit the nail right on the head.....plastic!

This is the first brand new car I've ever owned....had 34 miles on it when I rolled off the lot.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: shmokes on October 10, 2007, 02:54:39 pm
Yeah . . . doesn't that 34 miles bug?  I ordered mine directly from the factory.  No other potential customers had ever even taken it for a test-drive.  But it still had 12 miles on it.  The dealership takes all their cars out to make sure everything's working on it.  How great would it be to get to watch the odometer click up from 000000 to 000001.  Is that too much to ask for something that costs $35,000?  I think they ought to work like Circuit City.  There should be a floor model that people can test out, but you get the boxed unit that's never been used.  And when they finally decide to pull the model off the floor, some lucky bastard will get to buy it for $27,000.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: boykster on October 10, 2007, 03:17:15 pm
My most recent car was a direct factory order and it still had 6 miles on it....still, was cool watching it tick up from there  :cheers:
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: btp2k2 on October 10, 2007, 05:15:54 pm
Well, most places around here drive their cars from the port when they come off....since we are so close. The dealer we bought it from is about 30 miles from the port, and the rest was our test drive.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: bfauska on October 10, 2007, 05:25:53 pm
We test drove one from the lot, and then because of the color took an untouched one from the storage area, 6 miles.  I think we test drove about 15 so we were definitely ahead of the game.
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: danny_galaga on October 11, 2007, 05:31:22 am
Yeah . . . doesn't that 34 miles bug?  I ordered mine directly from the factory.  No other potential customers had ever even taken it for a test-drive.  But it still had 12 miles on it.  The dealership takes all their cars out to make sure everything's working on it.  How great would it be to get to watch the odometer click up from 000000 to 000001.  Is that too much to ask for something that costs $35,000?  I think they ought to work like Circuit City.  There should be a floor model that people can test out, but you get the boxed unit that's never been used.  And when they finally decide to pull the model off the floor, some lucky bastard will get to buy it for $27,000.

unfortunately, they are driven out of the factory so i bet if all they did was drive it onto a truck and then unload it at a dealer in the same town you would still have 1/2 mile or so on it...
Title: Re: New Ride!
Post by: Chris on October 12, 2007, 10:00:54 am
If you're married, you know the wife will never let you put a dirty, nasty, big machine in that new truck.  ;)
Thats what plastic is for.
Wrapping her in plastic helps?