GM vs. Ford vs. Chrysler vs. Imports

I'll stay with my F-250 SD Diesel.

Rich, I'm with you... till the economy improves and my wife finishes her second degree, my F350 PSD will be my truck of choice.

Maui Cruzaahas are the only way to travel.

Does this answer your question?

My fun car is an import but i get to work daily in a ford van and have a GM truck for the daily grind. Hard to say. I really like the looks of the new camaro but have a feeling every joe out there is gonna get one. A tricked out 370Z would work for me....In the weeds with a huge single turbo and a silent exhaust....Oooh. Sleeper.
If i had to replace the daily grind/ work horse i would probably get a Dodge Sprinter van. What a great multipurpose vehicle. Use it as a rv or a hauler.

This is a huge part of my screen name

That definitely is no Maui Cruzaaha. Too clean and no Alabama chrome.

Would that be duct-tape?

turbo-cat-
I love Z cars, I had a 76' that I'm still pissed about selling. Look up Darius + 240Z. Its some dude in the bay area that dropped a SC350 into a Z. The thing looks like it F-ing moves. Greddy, HKS, one of those had a pretty reasonable twin turbo kit, not compound, for the 350Z, I think it was less than $5k and 500hp in a mild tune. That's pretty cheap fun too.

As a general rule I don't drive anything with a plastic dash board. <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />

I'll be driving my TDi Jetta for a very long time, its hard to give up 50mpg. That being said I am a die-hard Subaru fan and if the rumored rwd coupe from them comes out I could be swayed to move on...

Last November, when I had to replace my beloved Isuzu Vehicross, I was looking at several options. I was looking at Nissan Xterra, Toyota FJ, and the H3 specifically.

All were competitively priced, with the H3 being slightly more expensive but still well within my budget. The Toyota had the better safety rating, and the best mileage of all of them, plus the

cool

factor.

I ended up going with the FJ over the H3 in the end because of the impending financial difficulties that GM was going through - and a good thing too, since the dealer that I was going to buy from is now boarded up on account of the auto task force nazis.

The H3 is a dinosaur that deserves to die. The American consumer killed it, not the auto task force.

Since one of my Volvos is a 2007(#5) and the other is a 2008(#6), I won't be in the market for another car for at least 8 - 10 years.

Since my Tacoma is a '97, I won't be in the market ever.

Not around here it wasn't anyways.

There were only two on the lot when I was looking at them.

Only one had the options that I wanted. The other one sold in the week that I was making my decisions.

Funny that after the whole $4/gallon fiasco, the plants cranked up making SUV's again - and they reclaimed their top-selling vehicle crown.

The H3 amongst them.

Volvo's are great cars.

My isuzu's lasted 315,000 miles, 225,000 miles and 125,000 miles respectively when I sold them.

The last two are still on the road, well, the second one is an offroad rig right now but still ticking.

The first one, an 89 Trooper had the 2.8L Chevy V6 in it. That damn thing leaked oil but as long as you changed it ever 3,000 miles it was fine. I sold it to my friend's sister for $1200. I knew it was a mistake doing that since she had previously blown up her ford pinto by not putting oil in it. I heard that it died shortly after I sold it to her due to her not putting and effin oil in it.

You all got it wrong. Too many wheels. That's my ride:

Here are my favorite imports. I took these pictures of all the vintage sports cars that came to Put-in-Bay last week following their racing at the Mid-Ohio track. They had a reunion and race simulation on the old

track

they used to race here on the island during the 1950's.
When you get to my facebook page, click on

Photos

and then click on the

Old Sports Cars

album.

Whoops! Forgot the link to my page: www.facebook.com/maw42

Just click on the first car to make it big, and then keep clicking on each successive frame to make it like a slide show going through all of them big.

They are all SO beautiful, all so different.

There is no option for

I have been a Ford man all my life and will probably stay that way.

93 F150 long bed Ext Cab, 4x4 170,000 miles and still runs strong.

also ride a 2005 Suzy C90t. Great bike

Sam

Mary, only

friends

can see your page/profile. If you go to the photo album, there is a link at the bottom you can post. we can all view that albums images (as long as it isn't set to private) that way.

Isuzu Amigo. My boat and trailer are twice as long as the car. I miss my Chevy Van.

Ah yes Darius....His car is now a widebody totally custom monster. Same procharged LT1. The silver car i posted above will give him a run for his money( the turbo can eat small children). It would definetely be a drivers race. My other half just picked up a 2008 350Z convertible out the door TTL and all that good stuff brand spankin new for $32K Its the grand touring model that normally goes for right at $42K. The new 370Z was coming out and they were able to give her a killer deal she couldnt pass up. Unfortunately she thinks its fast enough as is and wants to keep it stock.

SWEET!!!!!! Ive always been a huge vw van fan. I have had a few. There's a guy down the street from me that has a split window with a Subaru motor in it. He said it was expensive but totally worth it. His a/c blows ice cold and it gets great gas mileage. There's a company called kennedy engineering that makes the swap kit.

Turbocat:

Play the video here for the other half. The Nismo 370Z will be bad!!!!!

Nismo 370Z

Doug

I second the notion that sleeper cars rule. Tweeked an old 300ZX TT (1996 model year - 3rd generation body?) up to around 400hp but you'd never know by looking at it or the noise it made. Except for the little blowby hiss when you let up the throttle.

I'd love to work on another one or maybe the '97 supra TT

I will give Ford and maybe the other american manufacturers some credit for closing the quality gap, but the designs are still outdated and inefficient. Viper excluded of course (great style, poor quality and practicality).

They should hire someone from Lotus to design their cars. I mean, jeeze, why can't we design stuff like THIS

And don't most engineers (foreign and domestic) all go to the same engineering schools? Why can the foreign engineers outperform domestic engineers when working out these cars?

My old Chevette had an engine with the front half standard bolt fittings and the back 1/2 was metric... Wha?

They must have

contracted out

the back 1/2 to Europe.

I had a ford ranger that was a 4 cylinder with 8 spark plugs.
Ends up it was the Pinto engine and the only way to get it to pass CA emissions was to add another spark plug. Sure was a tight fit under the hood and almost IMPOSSIBLE to change out all the plugs..

Okay, so does this do it?
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2011531&id=1258027372&l=5aaab04451

I want that one... and that one.... and that one...

Mary:

Sweet cars. I drove one of the old MG's with right hand drive. Was a bitch passing cars. Hard to see around.

Doug

yes, thank you.

WOW!!!! Sweet

But who the heck puts a nfl sticker on a classic car?

Current rides, 1997 Mountaineer for pulling boats, and regatta sleeper, 2006 Honda Accord, family car, 1992 Corvette for fun.
And locally, car shows most weekends http://www.triplexrootbeer.com/

Caleb

A big ole Ford E350 diesel van for pulling the toys. And the '93 300zx TT for in between regattas. It's stock on the outside, and plenty of mods under the hood.