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New car shopping :whee:
June 9, 2012 at
05:23 PM
There is at most a 50/50 chance we'll buy something this year, but we hadn't driven any new cars in almost five years so we thought we'd check some out.
Wife drives an '08 VW Eos - that's the car we would replace. Shockingly, it has been a very reliable car, and has only 36k miles on it. So we're in no hurry to sell it. But we decided to drive a couple of cars today, just for kicks: an Infiniti G37 and a Lexus IS350 and IS250. As expected the Lexus was a bit more sedate, but more fun than to drive than expected. Wife prefers the IS350 to the G37...
We would most likely buy a late model used, around a '10 model. I love my '06 TL and so does my wife, so we would also drive an Acura before making any decision (though we're not driving the new butt-ugly TL - it would be a TSX, or even the new ILX if we bought new).
What other comparable cars should we try?
Wife drives an '08 VW Eos - that's the car we would replace. Shockingly, it has been a very reliable car, and has only 36k miles on it. So we're in no hurry to sell it. But we decided to drive a couple of cars today, just for kicks: an Infiniti G37 and a Lexus IS350 and IS250. As expected the Lexus was a bit more sedate, but more fun than to drive than expected. Wife prefers the IS350 to the G37...
We would most likely buy a late model used, around a '10 model. I love my '06 TL and so does my wife, so we would also drive an Acura before making any decision (though we're not driving the new butt-ugly TL - it would be a TSX, or even the new ILX if we bought new).
What other comparable cars should we try?
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Might look an a IS350C (convertible) too - but that would definitely be purchased used (sticker is ~$54k for new)
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I will have made it one year in 11 days.
On another note... how they heck do you guys remember models of cars when they're just a series of letters and numbers?
On another note... how they heck do you guys remember models of cars when they're just a series of letters and numbers?
We can't have exhausted the animal names yet. Those are way cool! Like Mustang and Sting Ray and Impala and Ram and Bronco and Cougar and Jaguar, etc.
What's wrong with those?! What about Lion? Or Tiger? Or Wildebeest? Or Giraffe? I don't think those are taken yet. Just SOMETHING other than just numbers.
We can't have exhausted the animal names yet. Those are way cool! Like Mustang and Sting Ray and Impala and Ram and Bronco and Cougar and Jaguar, etc.
What's wrong with those?! What about Lion? Or Tiger? Or Wildebeest? Or Giraffe? I don't think those are taken yet. Just SOMETHING other than just numbers.
/biased answer