I guess the title’s self explanatory, but if it’s not, welcome to the car talk thread! Talk about cars - what you own, what you’d like to own and/or drive, car news and anything about the fascinating form of transportation known as an automobile.
Me personally… well, you should know by now, but I own a 2004 Saturn L300 wagon, the very last front-wheel drive wagon GM introduced in North America (but not the last one sold by them; the Saab 9-5 wagon would last until 2009, while the 9-3 SportCombi would last until 2011, past the time GM sold the company off). GM would introduce a wagon version of the rear-wheel drive 2nd-gen Cadillac CTS and an AWD Buick Regal wagon known as the TourX.
It was one of the most based things ever, but there was just too much wrong with it. It was fixable, but I know myself well enough to know there’s no way I’d get around to it.
Oh yeah, I guess you wouldn’t know about that yet since I didn’t post it anywhere other than Discord. I got a 2012 Focus SE in Frosted Glass Metallic almost exactly 3 weeks ago. Solid the LaCrosse on the 4th, bought the Focus from my dad literally the same instant (or rather put down $2800 of the $4000 he wants total), and then titled it on the 6th.
EDIT: Added picture because the paint is BUSSIN right now. It needs work (it has some currently-surface level rust I need to tackle ASAP, the headlights are cracking and clouding, and I DESPERATELY need to crack the door panels off because they rattle terribly with music) but I love this little car. Been on like 3 200 mile round trips with it and the mileage slaps.
It just hit 95,000 today. Not ideal considering it is in fact the PowerShift and it’s on original clutches and TCM as far as we know, however it’s shifting good enough so I’m not worried about it. Besides, apparently the warranty on the TCM was extended to 150K so I shouldn’t really have to worry about the trans while I have it. I look at the Focus as a medium-term car where the LaCrosse was a short-term car: I plan on having this guy for at least 2-3 years, but possibly more, and hopefully by then I’ll have some financial stability in life and I can trade it in for a new-new car (hopefully a Civic Si?) so it should do just fine for that.
EDIT: ooh you probably meant MPG mileage lol. If you’re cruising at 70-75 with the AC on with an ambient of around 85F you can just break above 40MPG.
I would think having an extra vehicle would be worth more than the $11.50 that you’d get in trade, but most people aren’t me. also I have no idea what trade value it’d have
If they hold their value reasonably well I could still probably squeeze 4 grand out of it when its time comes, as it sits right now I could do those minor-ish things right now and get about 6 on the used market.
Also yeah the mileage is stupid, I’m sure if I did 65 the whole way and didn’t need the AC on I could hit 45 minimum, it’s so great. Even with my mostly-city or sticks driving that I do it still consistently hits 32 which is a helluvalot better than the LaCrosse’s 20-21 average.
Did some janky fixes for my sagging headliner and door panel rattle so I’m not embarrassed to have other people in the car. Amusingly the rattle isn’t as bad in person which is odd.
This is how it was at roughly the same volume beforehand, but this one sounds about right for how it was IRL. Still don’t understand why the “fixed” version sounds more rattly in video.
Indeed it is Frank! Also that’s weird, it works on all my stuff so I’m not sure what’s going on there. SB;CL (shit’s broke, can’t listen lol) it sounds real good compared to before. Now if anything you can hear the air moving around from the bass instead of the door panels rattling from it lol
