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In late 1983 my girlfriend (now wife of 39 years) found a 1973 Bavaria. I sold my Arrow GT and bought the Bavaria- a car that I had wanted since I saw this ad in Car and Driver in 1971:
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
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I know I have blabbed about it before, I have always liked those 626 coupes. A true hardtop, and the end of the line for both Japanese hardtops and RWD. Pretty rare today. I remember when I was a little kid, maybe 5 or so, a neighbor woman had a hot looking yellow fastback Fox Mustang, then a late model car, and I admired it. I remember she replaced it with a bronze colored (I think) 626 coupe, would probably have been 1982 by the house I associate with the memory.
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But, the MR2? Man, I wanted one of those. I took the salesman on the ride of his life.
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Anyway, we shared a moment as she gave me a ride home from a party, alas we would only remain "friends" after that brief moment in time.
I also have a memory of the passenger seat being quite uncomfortable!
'21 Dark Blue/Black Audi A7 PHEV (mine); '22 White/Beige BMW X3 (hers); '20 Estoril Blue/Oyster BMW M240xi 'Vert (Ours, read: hers in 'vert weather; mine during Nor'easters...)
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
I had gone in yesterday, thinking I wanted to rethink getting a 'compact', which they said would be something "a little bigger than that Spark right there". I had reserved the car a couple weeks ago and ordered satellite radio, which costs a bit extra--I'm thinking $5 a day.
I get there, they said, "We'll give you this new Highlander, you'd be the first renter....oh wait, it doesn't have Sirius". Huh? Then he says, "How about a new Tacoma? You'd be the first renter of that too". I said, "If a Highlander doesn't have it, what makes you think a Tacoma will?", LOL. He said, "Uh, right". So he calls the place ten miles away and says to me, "How about a Malibu, 10K miles with Sirius?". I said 'yes' and he drove me there and is taking 10% off my bill for the inconvenience. I'm OK with a Malibu--I like the size, think it looks okay, and lights/HVAC/radio controls are familiar to me. After driving a few miles, I can tell it's been smoked in at some point--not horrible, but it's there. Planning on using a lot of Febreze fabric on it today, LOL.
It's a greenish silver, light color of course, black interior.
I will say, the oil level was full, unlike the VW SUV (Atlas? Toureg?) I rented there a year ago. I got in and the "Service Soon" light was on and I checked the oil and it was a quart low. Is that my job? Yeesh. I also never got satellite to work in that vehicle, so they had to take it off at the end.
I'm looking forward to this trip and need it now. More later!
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Bon voyage.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
My maternal Granddad smoked, and I'm sure back in the day, their '85 LeSabre and '85 Silverado probably smelled of it at the time. It's just that I was used to it. Maybe not the LeSabre so much, since Granddad mainly drove the truck. Still, I remember the LeSabre having a cigarette burn on the driver's seat. Granddad died in 1990, and the LeSabre didn't get handed down to me until 1999. And the Silverado, late 2002. By that time, the cigarette smell was long gone.
I always find it interesting, how inconsistent the passage of time seems to be. Granddad had only been dead for just under 9 years when I got the LeSabre. He died in late April 1990, and I got the LeSabre in either Feb or Mar of 1999, when Grandmom couldn't pass the eye test anymore. And he'd only been dead about 12 1/2 years when the Silverado finally got passed down to me. Yet, at the time, it seemed like he died "a long time ago." Meanwhile, it's been over 25 years now since I got the LeSabre, and over 21 since I got the Silverado, yet sometimes it just seems like a couple years ago!
Looked like it was in very good condition.
I couldn't find my other pictures of the 80 626, only this.
2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech, 2006 Acura TL w/nav
Danger, I've been in my stack of car pictures. Apologies for the fair picture quality. 73 Grand Am 400 2bbl, Dweezel the black cat.
72 Toyota Corona Mark II in the background.
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A better car than most admit. 99 Cutlass GLS. The car my daughter came home from the hospital in.
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89 VW Jetta Wolfsburg. Note the GTI wheels that were standard and rare electric windows and locks. 5Sp, cruise, sunroof. Great car.
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71 Olds 98. Flip. While in college paid $250, sold $600. Cleaned up nice. The big girl would move, especially the gas gauge.
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92 Miata. Great weekend car.
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Will have to respectfully disagree with the Cutlass. Bought a used one for my M-I-L. Did not go well.
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Early prototypes no doubt.
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The actual product doesn't look bad from some angles, and a 442 with a wing on the rump, helps balance out that slope a bit.
Those taillights look like they're off of a later Vega wagon.
I thought it would have been better if they took a '97 Century and badge-engineered it into a Cutlass for those couple years, but perhaps Buick might have protested over that.
When I bought my 2000 Intrepid, I looked at a couple Malibus that were on the lot. This was a Chevy/Dodge/Isuzu dealer. It was sort of meh, in my opinion. Not a bad car, but it just didn't do anything for me. They also had a 2000 Stratus sedan on the lot, well-equipped with the V6, leather, and a sunroof, for about the same price as what my base Intrepid was. But, the Intrepid won me over, for being bigger, and a newer design. And, the financing. They were offering 0.9% on the Intrepid, but not the Stratus.
I did have a 2001 Malibu as a rental. It was one of those cars that initially, I was thinking, "this sucks," but the more I drove it, I either liked it more, or at least got used to it. Probably one of those types of cars where it's not the most cutting-edge or class leading, but still a decent value. And, like my Dad's '03 Regal, a good value as a slightly used car.
There was nothing wrong with that generation or Malibu and Cutlass … had many as rentals. Maybe they weren’t a Camry or Accord… but one/two year old ones were bargains and were pretty reliable.
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I still see a few of those Malibus around, and there's a Cutlass in the neighborhood.
I drove Malibus of the vintage discussed; don't remember them driving bad or being unreliable as rentals but the styling did absolutely, and I mean, absolutely, zero for me.
The Malibu rental I have now drove nicely. I hardly even notice the CVT, and I'll say, for the same engine, it seems quite peppier than our '19 Equinox with 6-speed. Often yesterday I'd look down and I'd have crept well into the eighties without realizing it.
One first-impression thing that I think is a downer, is that the instrument panel is similar to my old '17 Cruze, which had chrome on the cloth insert on the right part of the dash, and around the AC vents, but on this Malibu, they're painted flat silver, definitely bland.
No surprise here, but the shape and styling of the dash of that Jetta shown above, I think is so bland. Being German, it's high-function I'm sure.
I spent the night at Wildersville, TN, where the Parkers Crossroads Civil War battlefield is. Off in a bit for the last 100 miles to Graceland. Thanks for the good wishes! I drove past the Corvette plant yesterday. I had to laugh as just down the interstate on the same side was "World HQ of Fruit Of The Loom". The only place Corvettes are built, and world HQ of FOTL. There's a joke in there somewhere.
On a rural stretch of I-71 in KY yesterday, I passed a road sign that said "Site of Fatal Bus Crash May 14, 1988". I googled it last night and it was the drunk-driver, wrong-way accident where a guy hit a church bus and killed 27 people. I remember that story. Horrible.
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The boxy body had incredible room inside. The best feature was the rear seat bottom cushion was hinged at the lower front to let you flip it forward, which then allowed the rear seatback to fold all the way down to footwell level. That gave you an incredible amount of cargo space.
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I nearly bought an Intrigue once .. but the dealer offered too good a deal on an 88 so I ended up with that. Was a lemon 🍋 so didn’t have it long.
Always thought it was the best looking of the GM trio for that platform. Mine was a deep burgundy with very light beige leather. Having a tough time finding good pictures of one just like mine
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I used to get lots of Aleros, but not nearly as many Intrigues.
One thing that I always liked about Olds of that era is that they went to a true double din sized stereo like the imports rather than the 1.5 din GM and Chrysler used forever.
It made the cars feel more modern.
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2000 Jetta GLX VR-6. Probably VW at its best. Beautifully appointed interior. Real wood, memory seat, leather,auto climate, Moonsoon stereo. I especially liked the wood shift knob
. It had a solid feel of quality. The VR-6 was a gem. I sold it to my SIL soon after we found my wife was expecting and needed to pull in the purse strings. That is when the cheaper 99 Cutlass was purchased. My SIL loved that car and kept it until she bought a new 06 TL, which my daughter now drives.
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90 Passat GL.
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95 Jetta GLX VR-6, 5sp, leather. The BBS wheels were a pain to keep clean but looked great.
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87 VW Cabriolet Wolfsburg, triple white, 5sp, cruise, ac, leather. A pain to keep the white leather and white headliner clean but I did! One of the few cars I wish I kept. I traded it for the 89 Jetta Wolfsburg I shared previously.
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My stack of pictures. I apologize for the fair picture quality of these as I was taking pictures from my phone and glare was an issue due to the lighting. Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed and I didn't overstay my welcome.
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I remember admiring those Passats when they launched - around then my grandpa was thinking of a new car for grandma, and I recommended one of those. They have a rep for being pretty finicky and are quite rare today, so probably good for my cred that he held off and didn't go for it. (Grandma would later have her Ciera replaced by a Taurus then another Taurus at recommendation of my uncle - she was always more fond of the Ciera as it had a low trunk, and she had to back down a driveway.)
I recall the 4th gen Jetta launched when I was still a student, and was a very modern and somewhat upmarket car then - especially in that trim. A co-worker later had a new 2004 facelift model, diesel, it had some quirks but the diesel had enough desirability that he was able to part with it during the 2008 gas price hike and had some positive equity. While a student, a friend had a late model Jetta III - I remember the chime clearly.
And a white on white Cabrio, what a period piece. Makes me think of this classic:
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