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First impressions: that baby got power! Yeah! You can blast your A/C at full power, and engine does not seem to notice.
Originally, I came to the dealer, to buy silver 2.5X Premium. I wanted power driver's seat and telescopic steering wheel. I test-drove two different non-turbo versions: one Premium, another Limited. And both felt a bit underpowered, even in the "dyno" mode.
So I asked for a turbo version. It did make all the difference. And it's totally a beast in the "dyno" mode.
I'm now suffering from the buyer's remorse and am thinking I should have taken base X with alloy wheels package (16" alloys and roof rack), and save some money.
But then again - I've driven economical practical cars all my life, and by now I feel that I might just deserve this little "Beauty and the Beast", even though it cost extra.
And I realized I'm tired of silver color. Go red!
I was not sure I really want Touring version, but XT Premium are scarce in our area, and I did like feel of the perforated leather , and controls in the dash.
anyhow, back to crying (buyer's remorse)
Cheers pat.
Cheers Pat.
Bob
Bob
I'd like to utilize that big boxy opening where 12 volt charger is located (below climate control), to hold my GPS, but did not figure out exactly how to mount it there.
As for the Garmin, do you have one of these mounts?
http://www.staples.com/Garmin-nuvi-Automotive-Mount/product_647544?cid=PS:Google- PLAs:647544&KPID=647544
It's got a sticky/gummy base that just comes off so it's not permanent (although there is a permanent sticker so don't use that one!). I've used one for years and it allows you to put the Garmin on your dash without the big sandbag mount.
tom
For my Sienna, I fabricated a custom mount, bolted it to where some screws hold the dash in place.
Nowadays the in-dash GPS head units cost a lot less, you may want to consider those as well. I saw one at the Sony store for $500, plus $80 for professional install.
The only positive is no one would want to steal it! Although the backup camera I installed is nice, come to think of it.
tom
So to sum up, fingerprints are not a big deal, I have actually never seen any on mine but it does get wiped down regularly with a microfiber cloth, and gloves are not an issue either.
Now can I collect a fee for my research? :P
Cheers Pat.
Cheers Pat.
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'31 Ford Model A 4-door sedan, '51 MG TD, '54 Alfa Romero Guilletta Sprint, '54 Chrysler New Yorker limo (aka the "Green Latrine"), '55 MGA, '58 Fiat 600 Multipa, '59 Ford unmarked police car (with "3-on-the-tree), '63 Shelby 289 Cobra, and finally an original '64 Mustang.
Now match that folks!
Bob
No WRX.
I might add that my next door neighbor to the left of us, an elderly lady, drove a 1940 Mercury 4-door sedan. The neighbor on our right had a bullet-nose 1950 Studebaker Land Cruiser. In the garage behind our house was a 1937 Packard; never saw it driven.
And diectly across the street from us was some big shot who drove new Cadillacs. Who was this guy? Joe Ida, godfather of the Philly Mafia back in the 1950s (until he got deported).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ida
Yeah, I'm ancient...
Bob
Bob, you may not be.
My personal cars: 1928 Chev.,1932 Chev, 1936 Studebaker President, 1952 MG TD (2 of them), !954 Corvette, 1956 Olds, 1956 Ford Police Interceptor, 1961 Buick Electra Concertible,1965 Mustang, 1971 Camaro (horrible car), 1974 VW Dasher, 1975 Audi Fox, 1980 Rabbit convertible, 1982 Audi turbo diesel, 1984 Audi 4000S Quatro, 1987 Nissan Maxima, 1989 Maxima, 1993 VW Passat wagon, 1997 Legacy GT wagon, 2000 Passat 4Motion, 2002 Passat W8 4Motion, 2005 Legacy 3.0 VDC, 2010 Forester XT.
I have left out multiple motorcycles.
Does any one have a greater range of model years?
Bob
When I had to take an on-road exam (required for the elderly in Illinois) I arrived in a car and was notified that I had to bring a bike also for the motorcycle endorsement...so no more M on my license. If I ride a friend's bike, it won't be legal. I also dropped the large truck endorsement years ago.
Too bad you couldn't bring the '36 HD and see the jaws drop.
The examiner also inspects your vehicle for lights, brakes, etc. The very modified Harley would not have passed. :P
'62 Honda 305cc CB77 Super Hawk (w/flat bars)
'68 Honda CL350 Street Scrambler
'70 Kawasaki 3-cylinder 500cc Mach III
'72 Kawasaki 3-cylinder 350cc Mach II
'74 Honda 4-cylinder 550cc CB550 (traded it in for one of the very first '76 Honda Accords)
Bob
You only live once, and the FE isn't really that much worse in the XT.
Glad you traded in the bike; you're still here! Overly aggressive and drunk auto drivers have made bikes a bad bet. I lost a friend from the engineering department who was broadsided by a drunk running a stop sign some years ago and watched a woman force a bike into the oncoming traffic lane two months ago.
My brother still has a '72 Kawasaki 3-cylinder 750cc Mach III.
I drove it into town one day and wound it out a little too much between gears and passed a cop doing a wheelie. :surprise: I got out of town real quick.
All those 2-strokes eventually got replaced by "cleaner" 4-stroke engines. The 4-cylinder 900cc Z1 being the first. That bike picked up where the 750cc Honda four (CB750) left off.
Bob
!939 Vauxhall 12,1947 Austin 10. 1949 Austin A40 Devon, 1954 Austin A30 Country man, 1951 Austin A40 Devon, 1954 A40 Austin Somerset, 1960 Morris Minor, 1964 Morris Minor, 1967 Vauxhall Viva These cars I owned in Belfast .
Cars since coming to Canada.
1970 Ford Cortina GT, 1974 Ford Capri,1978 Ford Fairmont (first brand new car) 1981 Chev. Malibu Classic, 1982 Plymouth Reliant, 1979 Honda Accord4 door, 1983 Honda Civic wagon, 1983 Honda accord Hatch, 1986 Mercury Topaz (total junk) 1988 Honda Accord LXI, 1989 Honda Accord SEI, 2001 Honda Accord EX, 2003 Honda Accord Wagon EX, 2001 Subaru Legacy GT wagon, 1993 Mazda 323, 2002 Mazda Protege 5, 2010 Mazda3 Sport Gt.
Quite a list EH!
Cheers Pat
Bob
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"8 speed" CVT only.
1932 Ford Model B
1938 Pontiac Business Coupe
1949 Ford
1951 Chevrolet Coupe
1957 Studebaker Hawk
1956 Ford Fairliner Convertible
1955 Ford Fairline
1954 Ford Wagon
1955 Chevrolet
1958 Pontiac Catalina
1960 Chevrolet Impala
1968 Datsun Pickup
1969 Datsun Pickup
1970 Datsun Pickup
1971 Datsun 210
1965 Plymouth Belvedere
1973 Mazda RX3 Wagon
1965 Chevrolet C10 Truck
1977 Datsun Pickup
1979 Jeep CJ5
1981 Saab 99
1982 Subaru GL Wagon
1982 Fiat X19
1984 Chevrolet Astro Van
1987 Pontiac Bonneville
1986 Suzuki Samauri
1990 Mazda Miata
1991 Chevrolet Cavalier
1993 Eagle Summit Wagon
1995 Dodge Neon
1995 Nissan Frontier
1997 Auda A4
2000 Subaru Forester
2002 Jeep Liberty
2005 Ford Ranger
2007 Suzuki SX4
2010 Honda Fit
2012 Subaru Impreza
First car 1932 Ford was owned by my brother, but after he left for the Army it was mine to use. The rest were owned by me and leter my wife and I. There may be some missing the 60's were just a blur!
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I seriously doubt I will come anywhere near owning that many cars in my life time. I've only had 11, and I still have more than half of those today. Of course, I've only had cars for twenty years, but that's likely a third of my car-owning years right there.
'72 Mercury Montego MX Brougham 2 dr (first car)
'79 Ford Fiesta (first new car)
'76 Ford F-150
'79 Datsun 810 (odd looking but technically 1st class for the day) - new
'87 Chevy Nova CL (dubbed the Novarolla) - new
'90 Toyota Camry LE V6 wagon - new
'93 Toyota Corolla wagon - new
'97 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport - new
'00 Ford Windstar SE - new
'02 Subaru OBW - new
'02 Honda Odyssey EX - new
'08 Toyota Sienna LE - CPO used
My brother had the same first car.
I bought it with the mods and fixed most of its many problems including an off=angle driveline that robbed power. I had free-to-me custom parts that I designed and had made in the corporate mil spec machine shop. Chevy panel truck rear leaf springs with (from the factory) clamps cured a loose rear end.
I actually drove that car on business trips many times!
Pat.
57 Chevy BelAir (with an auto transmission! - my grandmother's old car that I drove when I was in high school. I LOVED this car even if I drove it in Houston with no AC!)
67 Dodge Coronet (parents thought I needed more "reliable" transportation when I was commuting to University of Houston every day)
70 Buick Grand Sport Stage 1 (1st husband's 'sports car' he bought when he returned from Vietnam and I 'inherited' it when he wanted to buy a pickup truck - it was a COOL car with a BIG engine - 455 - don't accelerate without your seat belt on or you'd suddenly be sitting in the back seat)
75 (?) Chevy Nova - as I recall it had "blow away" blue paint on it
77 Chevy 3/4 ton pickup truck (with a small camper on it)
78 Chevy Suburban Silverado
81 Chevy Malibu
88 GM Suburban (mid-level trim - don't remember the badge name - This one had "blow away" gunmetal gray paint on it and I actually ended up having it repainted under a recall after I'd had it quite a few years - maybe 8 or so. What I remember is that the Suburban didn't have any dents, etc. in the body when it was repainted and the body shop even remarked at how well it had been taken car of. About 2 months after it was repainted, I had a neighbor who "repositioned" a mailbox and I didn't know it and I backed straight into it and creased the rear doors!)
Somewhere in here my parents 'gave' us a Dodge Aspen (76?)
93 Olds Cutlass Ciera S (while I was the car-shopper, dealer, haggler, and payment maker, this car was the 1st one that I bought without husband co-signing and he was surprised that I could DO it! ... yeah .. the 1st husband ... don't have that husband OR the car anymore as we donated it to the local Center for the Homeless last month!)
98 Chevy Suburban (pretty much top of the line model)
Along with all the rest there were a number of pickup trucks that really belonged to the husband and I didn't drive them
01 Subaru Outback Wagon (finally came into the fold!)
91 Mitsubishi Montero - new husband's car lol
97 Lincoln Town Car - his replacement for the Montero
98 Cadillac DeVille - father-in-law's car that he has beaten around the last year or so when he shouldn't have been still driving and we brought home Thanksgiving weekend
Most of mine aren't all that exciting .. but for so many years I needed something to haul kids, their friends, church youth, Girl Scouts, band kids, groceries, etc ....
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The Camry wagon was unusual for the time. We searched for months for the high line V6 with ABS. Odd thing is when we couldn't find one, our #2 choice was the first generation Legacy wagon. We came that close to being Subi owners before we located the Camry a few states away and had it transported here.
A friend of a friend bought an '81 810 sedan, new.... I think that was the first year they used the term Maxima, though that might have just been the top trim line, at the time...
That Gen II Camry might have been the best car ever made.. except for motorized seat belts.. (though not all years have that)..
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"Real" 810 production ended in 1980. The '79 & '80 810 coupe was essentially a 280ZX with a more sedate body and the smaller bore L24 EFI 6 cylinder engine.
The achilles heel of these cars was the complex semi-trailing arm IRS, with replacement parts for the limited production coupes near impossible to find in the US by the late '80's. The U-joints (7 in total) were welded to the shafts, and when my center finally went in 1991, my local Nissan couldn't order them. I found a shop that could custom fabricate, but before I could act, my car got caught in a flooded parking lot and we were forced to total it. Very sad ending.