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25 NX 450h+ / 24 Sienna Plat AWD / 23 Civic Type-R / 21 Boxster GTS 4.0 / 03 Montero Ltd
25 NX 450h+ / 24 Sienna Plat AWD / 23 Civic Type-R / 21 Boxster GTS 4.0 / 03 Montero Ltd
That's another reason why the G-Wagon is so good - real rain gutters for installing real canoe racks.
I have a feeling that the Rapide will destroy the Panamera though in the first head to head.
I will need an aircraft hangar for all my cars, I think I will move to Germany and start the fintail restoration center.
25 NX 450h+ / 24 Sienna Plat AWD / 23 Civic Type-R / 21 Boxster GTS 4.0 / 03 Montero Ltd
I'm hoping for no winners
But seriously, if I won, I could easily see myself with dozens of cars, if not dozens of Mercedes alone. And I think I'd give my old fintail a nut and bolt restoration.
We're talking $10's of millions here? I suppose upgrading my house (s) & having a big garage/warehouse on the property would be the 1st priority for me. And, you really need a full time mechanic, + somebody for waxing/cleaning, + a FT assistant to manage everything (I'm thinking what Leno probably has), once you get into dozens of collectible valuable cars.
Personally, I like simplicity, a LOT. I can't really see lusting for more than a new (ish) 911, a new M6, either a new 5 series or E500 wagon, and maybe a Land Cruiser to drive around my acreage. And probably a vintage land rover of some type. Then I'd probably start wanting some '60's American car....Shelby Cobra? Or at least Shelby Mustang.....
That's simplicity, right??? Only requires a new 5-6 car garage, with a lift, and.....then I might go a little nuts with the Griot's catalog, & then.....
Man, for $300 million you could probably BUY Louisiana...
Not that I keep up with this sort of thing. :shades:
Only caught it in passing. OK, who here is from Indiana?
Or about $95 million after taxes. :mad:
I know this is an old post but jeez, I was on vacation lol. If you do a lot of cycling, the hitch mounted racks are a great way to go, especially if any of the users are, eh, vertically challenged. I would look for one that folds away from the hatch to provide access, and also has arms that fold down making it a lot easier to park when there are no bikes loaded.
Was on a website looking at flatbed trailers ... could use it in place of a pickup truck bed when needed. A small one (5' x 8') runs $1000-1500, but I have no idea where to put it when I don't need it. I live in a covenant controlled neighborhood, so leaving it outside isn't going to fly with the HOA. Could put it in the garage, but that means that my car would be outside. Could find a storage lot to store it, but is it worth the money?
The U-Haul 4x6 open trailer is $10/day, the 5x8 enclosed trailer is less than $20/day, with no license fees, no insurance fees and no storage issues. IMO, no, its not worth it to buy one. I have never been unable to get a trailer from U-Haul within 20 minutes of my house on 1 day's notice.
These were all over in Hawaii. The rental car places had Caravans, Wranglers, Mustang convertibles, and Sebrings.
Personally I would have liked them to bring back their pick-up truck first, but the 4 door seems to be doing well.
Everytime a photo of a Jeep pickup (aka Scrambler?) is posted in the Wrangler discussions, there's always a few people insisting they'd buy one in a minute.
The itch is back - the newness of the VUE lasted all of two weeks. Stopped by a local Nissan dealer and took a close look at the Altima Coupe. 2.5S with the CVT and the convenience package ($5100!), which includes leather, sunroof, keyless start and a whole bunch of other stuff.
The one I looked at was white with charcoal leather. Not my favorite color combination, but the inside was nicely laid out. Plenty of room for driver and passenger, but I can't imagine anyone over 5'6" being comfortable in the back seat. Tilt and telescoping wheel was nice. Trunk space was abysmal - yeah, I know it's a coupe, and all that swoopy styling has to have a price paid somewhere, but that trunk was shallow.
MSRP was something like $26,xxx, which is hard to swallow for a 4 banger.
Wow, I thought I was bad. The Pilot is coming up on 6 weeks old and I'm still content with it, haven't even looked at another car. Still very much enjoy driving the Pilot, turned 3000 miles on Monday.
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Discounts on the CR-V are slim to none.
Mark
You must have not driven it for 5 of those 6 weeks.
She didn't .. went to the lower 48 to pick up some horses with a friend.
I only drive the VUE on weekends, so I don't really feel like I got a new car. The GO (AutoNation) dealerships are offering their semi-regular "120%" trade in deal, where you get 20% over trade in value, with the standard deductions for mileage, condition, etc.
If they use NADA (I can't read the fine-print on the TV ads to tell), then my L300 would fetch almost $11K in trade value. Gives me about $10K of equity to play with.
Perhaps I'll hit the GO Nissan dealer at lunch today and see what they would give me for it in trade.
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"Book value is based upon Kelley Blue Book Trade-In value including deductions for equipment, mileage and condition of vehicle. Offer not valid on damaged vehicles. Negative equity applied to new loan balance. See store for details."
The Pilot sat for over 3 weeks while I was gone, otherwise I'm afraid I'd be painfully close to the 6000 mile mark. Trying to stretch it out a bit, need to get the ESC before 6000 miles.
Cute, but not gonna happen. :P I'm very happy with my Pilot. Its averaging 20 mpg in mixed driving, would probably do better if my leadfoot stayed out of it.
Discounts on the CR-V are slim to none.
I got $3800 off of mine, would have gotten more if it wasn't for the trade. GM was trying to hold some profit in order to deal with a trade he didn't want and didn't know what to do with. Not sure what he ended up doing with it, but its gone.
I liked the CR-V, but I think it would have been too small, we are very happy with the size of the Pilot. Any smaller and the Labor day bet would come true, lol.
kbb.com shows my car valued at $8925 for "good" condition. So, 120% of that is $10,710. I owe about $1400 on it, so the equity should be $9310.
guss - at the moment, I'm looking at the Nissan Altima Coupe, but since I'm fickle who knows. GO has 17 makes that they sell in the metro Denver area, including Lamborghinis.
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KBB "excellent" is $9600, and "fair" is $7745. Anyone want to guess which value I'll be given at the dealer?
But, when "push comes to shove", would you really buy anything other than a Saturn?? I predict......another Saturn.
(Not that fantasizing about & considering lots of diff. cars isn't 1/2 the fun).
This came out to a trade in value of about $8300.
They were a bit pushy about knowing my timeline and what I wanted to buy. There was a 2.5S Coupe in the showroom that I liked (silver with black cloth - MSRP was just under $24K), but I told them a lot of my decision making process was based on the value they placed on my trade.
Told them we had a difference of opinion. Salesman wanted to call me, but I asked him "why? I know what you want to give me on my trade, and it's not the number I was thinking".
I'll be curious to see if they call and bump the trade in number to get my interest.
My problem is that I don't really know what I want, or even if I want to get something new.
woody: At the moment, Saturn doesn't make anything that I'm interested in - at the moment. I could get an Aura, but I'd be trading in a 4-door V6 sedan for another 4-door V6 sedan. If there were a coupe or wagon version of the Aura, then I might be interested.
Found out that the Pontiac G6 GTP Coupe comes with the same 3.6L V6 and 6-speed automatic as the Aura (and the wife's VUE, for that matter).
Am just thinking of something .... different, this time around.
I looked at the Altima coupe too. It seemed kink of overpriced for what you are getting. For much less I think the Civic Si is more of a sports car. The rear seat is just about as useful as the Altimas.
Were they asking MSRP for the Altima ?
The Sandman
I'm a bit confused by that statement... Do you mean that the standard coupe should be pillarless?
I like the lines of the G6 coupe and Solara coupe--they're much nicer looking than their sedan counterparts--but for a daily driver, I'd end up buying a four-door version for the extra room and easier ingress/egress in tight parking spaces.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
I took a close look at that when it came out last summer. Wife and I both really liked it, but you couldn't fit more than a ream of paper in the trunk when the top is down.
Guess that's what you would use the back seat for.
The coupe is still reasonably practical - decent rear seat room and 12 cu. ft. in the trunk.
The Astra 3 door hathback looks very interesting from Saturn. It's probably a month away though.
Actually, I've heard that the Astra may not arrive until the holidays. I'm intrigued by it, but not sure if I want to go back to a 4-cylinder.
Were they asking MSRP for the Altima?
Never got that far .. I do qualify for Nissan VPP, and that is invoice minus 2.87%, then some fees added on .. works out to just under invoice.
I've briefly looked at the Civic Si and the MS3, but not the GTI or A3 ... yet.
Exactly right.
You normally only see a pillarless coupe with roll down rear windows on much more expensive cars like the Mercedes CL. Pontiac has already done all the design and engineering work for the G6 Convertible so it would be easy to do that on the Coupe as well.
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I may have to take a look at it when it becomes available.
I've heard many good things about it, but the only downside is that the options are kinda pricey and you can easily top the $30K mark if you're not careful.
I guess I have too wait another 15 years before I can look at them again. Hopefully the 2023 Camaro will have the bugs worked out by then.
'78 Pontiac Sunbird
'85 Honda Accord LX
'91 Nissan Sentra SE
'99 VW New Beetle
Everything else has either been an SUV or a sedan.
So, yeah, I'm thinking that since the wife has the "family" car with the '08 VUE, I can get something perhaps a bit less practical for myself.