Well, I sold my car
Don’t have a new one lined up yet
Hope Toyota starts making the GR86 in something besides green again soon
Edit: well maybe I will have to get a BRZ instead - literally 90% of the GR86s available within 100 miles are thegreen Hakone edition with leather and crap I don’t want, which also means a BRZ would be like $10k cheaper
I came across a 2002 toyota camry with a deeply worn exterior that was sitting in a relatives driveway and everyone claimed it was the best car and deeply coveted.
Now i’m like… do I need a camry? I never thought of this option before.
People love them
achi mama, I finally replaced my 2007 Toyota Battle Yaris hatchback (a partially murdered out Yaris) with another mildly warm hatch, a 2018 Toyota Corolla iM. it’s a weird one for the US; they only did this “iM” for one year before redesigning the Corolla hatchback in 2019, so it’s actually just a Euro/JP (manufactured in Japan) Toyota hatchback that they sold as a “Corolla” but that has no Corolla badging on it whatsoever. anyway, I adore this thing (especially with hatchbacks becoming less common in the US). feels downright luxurious having all these fancy amenities I was missing out on (but while still having a physical button option for just about everything) – I guess I just gotta buy a Toyota hatchback once every 17 years I’ll be good to go
anyway, lemme know if anyone near Dallas needs a deal on a low-mileage Yaris, like the one from the Xbox
Wow it’s crazy how much better the shopping experience is for a Subaru instead of Toyota even though they are the same car. Anyway sold this
Hell yeah! That colour is so slick.
I lusted after a BRZ for a good while, almost bought one but home buying got in the way for now.
For @exodus and other sickos like me:
Yes got the old wheels on and this is what I had in mind when I got them, very pleased and maybe I don’t even care about the ride height. Maybe!
So the problem with this for me is it’s a prelude only in name and body type (sedan). It doesn’t take through any of the prelude visual design ideas and simply does not look at all like a prelude. Like even the 4th gen, the sleekest one and my least favorite, looks like a prelude in the back end and windows.
This is a fine looking modern electric car but it sure doesn’t look like a prelude. On the one hand, I’m glad Honda is making an electric car. On the other, if you’re gonna make a prelude you’d better make it look like one! I feel mildly betrayed!
This is a direct lineage of design:
This, while still a concept (they could fix it but why would they) has nothing to do with the cars above.
Betrayed!! Just call it something else!
I haven’t given it much thought before, but what strikes me from the image you posted is how long and low the hood lines for all of those cars are. Low hoods aren’t really possible on new cars these days but they could have at least made the hood on this new one less stubby. It’s almost closer to a 2nd gen Eclipse.
Hmm hey if Honda and Nissan merge then maybe this could also end up being a new Eclipse thanks to the Nissan-Mitsubishi relationship
Looks like a dang Tesla (not a complement)
Every time I’m watching an old movie and I see just like some regular old Corolla from like 1992 parked on the side of the road in the background I’m like whooa cars used to look so fucking good and real!!
But then I remember the new bubble look is very good for safety which I’m totally fine with. Now lets just remove 98% of SUVs and Trucks so I can comfortably cruise around in a tiny car. (It’s a pretty bad ratio in Wisconsin)
So since my last post in June my partner and I got a car! A 2017 Chevy Bolt EV. It has been such a pleasure to drive so far and it works really well for what we need. The charging infrastructure in philly is lacking, but between an extension cord off of our porch, and our neighbor who graciously lets us use his setup it has not been that difficult. Charging overnight off of a regular outlet at $0.07 per kwh means you can fill the battery up for under $5. That gives you a range of 250 miles in summer, and approx 190 miles currently.
The Bolt doesn’t have any of the cool features that Tesla’s have, but I very rarely need any of those features anyways. And it actually has handles knobs and buttons for the most used things like volume so in that way it is a design marvel over a tesla. And it’s in METALLIC ORANGE (not my picture). Also, with the newly released tesla NACS adapter our charging potential just doubled.
It’s a cute car and would recommend it to anyone who can figure out an at home charge setup.
You don’t want any of those tesla features anyway! and the Bolt has like… handles you can just use. and windows! you can see out of all of them. Pretty cool. I think you made the right choice.
I finally finished the break in period and got to take a drive up in the canyons. That was a lot of fun. Somehow my most surprising takeaway is that it is easier to break traction on the rear wheels with stability control on in the new car than it was with stability control off in the old car.
Eyy this thread got the forum update TLC from @Tom which threw me a notification right when I got back from my second time to the American Honda headquarters. This time I got to take a peek inside the onsite museum:
How did you get to go? You have to be part of some sort of honda group and arrange a tour, right?
Hmm I was there for work but the building with the museum display seemed to be open to the public as far as I can tell. Not sure though.
Interesting, that was definitely not the case previously - I’ll have to look into it. My impression was it was open to the public in that car clubs could schedule appointments, but individuals couldn’t just walk up and see the place.
This topic is awesome! I wish I had more to say about cars, as I’ve only ever owned two in my life, with another on the way soonish - but it’s so nice to see and hear the stories people have had (and currently do) with their cars.
