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Anybody slower than you is an idiot. Anybody faster is a maniac.
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Lets all just get to where we're going, and do it at a speed each of us is comfortable driving.
With a steel dashboard and no whiplash protection I'd have to agree on the safety part. One thing it did well, it could carry ten cases of beer in the trunk. I'd like to see that done with any sedan today.
Finally a Dividend
I have a friend whose Mom had a 1973 LTD hardtop coupe when he was a little kid. It stalled out constantly, was hard to start, left them stranded on occasion, etc. He and his brothers nicknamed it "Mommy's Hunk O'Junk"
My dad had a 60 Ford with a 352 and a 68 Ford with a 289 around the same time - I don't remember either having any similar issues. The 289 car ran sweetly, from what I remember.
On bad starting days you'd have to pop the hood, remove the air filter cover, insert the hair brush I kept in the car specifically for holding the butterfly open. Jump back in the car and it would start in an instant. To think that dad had traded a '68 GTO for this hunk.
My Dart wasn't too bad though, for the most part. It seemed to get the most cranky on cold, damp days when temps were in the 40's or 50's. If it was warmer, or colder, it usually seemed to do better.
One of my friends, who once owned a 1998 Tracker, had seen me do the screwdriver trick to start various cars. One day, his Tracker wouldn't start, and he asked me how to do it...unfortunately I had to tell him that you can't do that with modern cars.
Back in 2005, I had taken my '76 LeMans to an all GM show in Carlisle, PA, and I remember there was a teenager there with a '66 or '67 LeMans, and it wouldn't start. I showed him the screwdriver trick, and it did manage to fire up.
My '76 LeMans used to be pretty cranky, as well. I'd have to prop that butterfly valve at just the right angle for it to fire up. A couple years ago though, the mechanic finally got it sorted out, and now it runs about as good as you can hope for a car from that era.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/autos/new-toyota-corolla/
"Customers emphasized the overwhelming importance of vehicle design on product perception in the marketplace," Toyota said. "The 11th generation Corolla makes a much stronger design statement, with more compelling exterior and interior executions that challenge the preconceptions about Corolla."
2014 Toyota Corolla Takes Some Risks With Redesign
If they manage to hit 40mpg, then the maw won't matter much.
It'll still sell by the millions and give plenty of people the perfect seat for yapping and texting while driving, merging onto a highway at 46mph, keeping a white knuckled death grip on the wheel at 55 in a 60, etc.
The current model is rated 26/34 with the 1.8/auto. Getting it to 40 mpg seems like a pretty big jump. I wonder if the mass-market version will see an increase in fuel economy?
Hard for me to see how they could pick up 6 mpg hwy with a CVT, but then again, I'm not an automotive engineer.
I don't own a GM at the moment, but anyone have access to a new GM car maintenance schedule? What does it say needs to be done?
Not a whole lot of things to do on a modern car for the 1st couple of years or 24 K miles. Seems much more of a marketing ploy than anything of real substance...at least, to me.
Me, too.
Although, on the Equinox and Terrain 2.4's, they were saying now to get oil changes at 5K miles, so that would be just under four free oil changes.
I own GM's and enjoy them, but I'd say 'la de freakin' da' to this promotion! LOL
I guess we'll see...
In the end, folks prone to buy a Corolla probably won't care if its 40, 38 or even slightly less. Corollas pretty much run until the body falls off the chassis, and while mpg is important to buyers, they really key in on the "runs forever" aspect.... That is, the Corolla owners I know.
She went back to her vehicle, started to see smoke coming out of the dash and glove compartment area, and ran for help. By the time help put out the raging fire in the passenger compartment up front, it was pretty bad. The fire was definitely concentrated in the glove box area, and was not an engine fire.
WOW! Reminds me of those pictures of the Chevy's burning up on the side of the road.
But this is a $40K+ BMW. Even the lady said she could just get a Malibu if she was going to put up with this kind of non-sense.
I've not heard or read of a single recent Malibu that has burned.
I just did a google search of "Chevrolet fire" which yielded 75 million web results.
The same search for "Audi fire" yielded 105 million results.
The same search in google images yielded more pictures of Audis on fire than Chevys.
Honestly now, how many cars have you personally seen on fire in your lifetime. I can only think of 2, and that includes this recent event.
The first one happened when I was so young I don't know nor remember the make and model.
I've probably personally seen two or so. The ones I remember, long ago, were old beater-looking POS's too.
I know others on here have seen late model GM's on fire.
The neighbors in back have a similar vintage Corolla that has over 300,000 miles on it, and still looks pretty good.
Even though it's past its prime, the Corolla does still have a lot going for it. My only beef with the '03-07 model is the driver's seat room/comfort. Legroom is so scarce that I practically have to tuck my legs up under me, and the steering wheel is so low it's between my knees, so I bump it when I take my foot off the gas and apply the brake. And, while legroom is scanty, the steering wheel is almost too far away. You have to be built like an ape, with long arms and short legs, to be comfortable driving this car. I don't have much seat time in the '08-13 model, but it does seem a bit roomier on the inside.
Even though it's rated 26/34 by today's standards, using the metrics of the time, it was rated at 30/38. My uncle would usually get around 32-34 mpg in mixed driving...lot of highway, but also lot of rush hour traffic jams. I drove it up to Carlisle PA once, and managed something like 37.8 mpg.
The new one is pretty ugly, IMO. But, it's still probably a good car. Just an ugly one. But, what's that old saying? Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder? :P
I do remember seeing a burning car on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway about 2-3 years ago, but it was on the other side of the highway, and I couldn't tell what it was. It was a small car.
I just purchased a new 2013 Silverado, and the dealer threw in free oil changes for the first 2 years / 24k miles. Note that this is the dealer, not GM. I read the fine print, and you have to be at 20% or less on the oil monitor. This would probably get you two oil changes in 24k miles. I am not impressed.
So maybe Toyota has an eco version? Or it's the base model that has a manual trans and very few options available?
Have they shed a few pounds with this redesign?
Just goes to show that people are people and people are subjective. That is a pretty dramatic difference though. And I have to believe that the cars were similarly equipped in both mags; e.g., loaded versions as is generally the case when new models are tested in a mag.
There are two versions of the 1.8 engine and two different transmissions, one 4-speed and the other a faux 7-speed CVS.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
That sounds like it may be related to a current recall affecting tons of BMW cars. They are replacing the cable end that terminates at the fuse/equipment panel (only if found to be defective), and this junction panel is behind the glove box. I wonder if this car had been examined yet.
I think any car is capable of burning, under the right circumstances. I actually saw a 3-4 year old Jeep Cherokee fire being extinguished last fall. Funny (not to the owner, I'm sure) that it was in the parking lot of a car title-loan business. I hope he got his cash before the collateral actually went up in flames.
Well THAT'S a real left-handed compliment, isn't it?
Sorta like saying: "Gee, if I wanted a car that caught fire, I would have bought American!"
Not a stunning commentary on the public's perception of US automakers
I think that WAS what she was saying.
Actually, of course I wouldn't wish this on anyone...anyone.