CHANGSTAR: Audiophile Headphone Reviews and Early 90s Style BBS
Non-Audio Stuff => Car Talk => Topic started by: funkmeister on September 22, 2013, 03:48:57 AM
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Let's hear about if you gravitate to some brands and how that shapes your car shopping experience.
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So I'll start off. I'm partial to Mazda and have been for over a decade. As a teenager I was always preferring the American stuff but when I found out that Ford had controlling stock of Mazda I broadened my horizons. Now I don't care about nationality but I like Mazda because of a few things. First, their rear windows go down much farther than anyone else's I've seen. Second, they have enough rear seat legroom in their compact cars. So I got my new wife (at the time) a Mazda Protégé and we still have it after 11 years. We also have a Mazda MPV 'cause the family grew a bit a few years back.
When testing minivans, I liked the ships (Honda Odyssey and such) but my wife hated them. Then we found a used MPV and it drove nearly like a car. Sold!
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I'll give my spiel later, but here's what I was working on yesterday. 1929 Packard.
(http://i.imgur.com/4OlRuq9l.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/HP7l2Ibl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/NF8Eo3Hl.jpg)
Forgot to take pics of the interior, but the clocks at Jaeger-LeCoultre.
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So I'll start off. I'm partial to Mazda and have been for over a decade. As a teenager I was always preferring the American stuff but when I found out that Ford had controlling stock of Mazda I broadened my horizons. Now I don't care about nationality but I like Mazda because of a few things. First, their rear windows go down much farther than anyone else's I've seen. Second, they have enough rear seat legroom in their compact cars. So I got my new wife (at the time) a Mazda Protégé and we still have it after 11 years. We also have a Mazda MPV 'cause the family grew a bit a few years back.
When testing minivans, I liked the ships (Honda Odyssey and such) but my wife hated them. Then we found a used MPV and it drove nearly like a car. Sold!
Not about me, but since you brought up Mazda I thought I would mention my friend. You want to talk about brand loyalty? His whole family has Mazda cars. In like 11 years he himself has had a 626, two Millenia, Speed 6, Mazda3 hatch, Speed 3, and now a Miata. His family adds an RX-7, another Millenia, a Mazda6 sedan, and now a Mazda5.
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Does the Packard have a tubeless conversion or do you have to track down tubes and tube repair stuff? That thing looks awesome, btw.
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If Citroën came back to the US, I'd give them a hard look. Ditto Alfa Romeo.
I'm partial to Mazda, too, because the NA and NB Miatas are probably the best driver's cars not made by Lotus in the past 50 years. (The NC is a little softer and a little...less.)
I wanted to like the new Mazda3 so badly, and true to heritage it's a beautiful drive for a toaster. But Mazda tarted up the interior with this nasty faux-bon fiber overlay in exactly the wrong places, and the stock cloth is so horrid that "leather" is the only real option.
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hello,
my daily driver is a 1992 Ur S4. my lawyer (actually, my best friend from university, who has owned approx. 75 cars since turning 18) bought it with the intent of selling it to me when he was done with it (he recycles cars like most people recycle beer cans). i love this car.
being working poor, a 20year old German factory hot rod is not the most rational choice. however, i have access to an insane old skool (through in the extreme and cantankerous as hell) mechanic who makes it go with aplomb and (mostly) reasonable bills.
when i win the lotto, my plan is to buy every S, RS, and R variant that AudiUSA ever imported. in silver over grey for all with the exception of the RS4, which HAS to be black (over the sexy, sexy two-toned red and black that was exclusive to it).
so, yeah i suffer from brand loyalty.
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The Audi factory in Ingolstadt, Germany remains the only auto fab I've ever toured. It was pretty sweet and put me on an Audi kick for about 1 solid year and I was even dreaming ways to get an RS6 when it was newly announced.