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  • #46
    It all depends on how much driving you intend to do, really, and what type of space you need.

    I do highly recommend Hondas - they're just good cars. I know they have the Honda Civic over there. Good solid little car with good gas mileage (I get ~32mpg using it almost strictly as a commuter car. A tamer driver would do better). Ditto Toyotas.

    You should probably buy used (~2yrs).

    -Arrian
    grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

    The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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    • #47
      Get a long wheel base ford transit and deck out the back as a mobile party van with minibar, sofabed and sound system.
      Safer worlds through superior firepower

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      • #48
        I'll echo Dis and say get a Toyota Corolla. Not too large (which is good in a city - in the country it doesn't much matter) and good gas milage. The 2007's look pretty nice as well.

        I'm not fond of Civics. They drive like a cow to me... and the new ones look like someone thought it'd be fun to make a car for geeks (you'll understand if you see the interior - especially the door handles, window controls, and the spedometer).
        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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        • #49
          The newer civic design is ugly as sin, it's true. I have a 2004, which is fine (bland, but fine). It handles rather well, actually. My Accord (2002) is a little cow-ish.

          -Arrian
          grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

          The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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          • #50
            Yeah, I don't understand why they didn't just make some minor modification to the older Civic design rather than make it some hideous monstrosity that seems to be geared to the teen male market. Sure teen males tend to drive cheaper compact cars, but plenty of older folks do so as well, and Honda just sent them all to Toyota (the '07 Corolla is really nice and actually roomy).
            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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            • #51
              I don't really get it either... but Honda alternates between what I call the "rounded" and "angular" designs. 1990-1994 was rounded, 1995-1997 angular, 1998-2004 rounded, 2005-present angular... and so on and so forth.

              Civics are unfortunately one of those cars you often see pimped out. Probably because they are relatively cheap (for a Japenese car, anyway) and for whatever reason easy to customize. Ugh. Pimping out a Civic should be grounds for being summarily shot. It's a Civic, ffs, not a sports car.

              Anyway, I like mine. It has served me well, so I recommend it. And it really does handle well - honest. The only thing it lacks is mid-range power (accelerating from say 30mph - 60mph), but really, it's a commuter car.

              -Arrian
              Last edited by Arrian; October 24, 2006, 10:32.
              grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

              The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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              • #52
                No, it's ok that they pimp out Civics... then I know who the morons are before they even say a word .
                “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                • #53
                  Buy a Mini.
                  Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                  • #54
                    You don't need a car

                    or at the very least, you should drive some electric car.
                    “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

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                    • #55
                      Well I am keen on my Japanese cars so I will probably buy something similar to what I had before. I could go mad and get something fancier but I doubt I will...
                      Speaking of Erith:

                      "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                      • #56
                        I also like the Mini Coopers

                        JM
                        Jon Miller-
                        I AM.CANADIAN
                        GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by SlowwHand
                          You need a Hummer. After that you can think about a car.
                          Classic redneck comment. Hummers are useless and for texans.

                          Spec.
                          -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                          • #58
                            /me ponders whether it's possible that Spec really didn't get Sloww's joke
                            grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                            The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                            • #59
                              "The receiver of oral sex may find it pleasurable if the giver hums or sings at the same time, sometimes called a hummer. "

                              From Wikipedia

                              JM
                              Jon Miller-
                              I AM.CANADIAN
                              GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                              • #60
                                The Wikipedia crowd doesn't seem to really understand either. The term is quite obviously inspired by the perceived sensation, not whether or not one's partner breaks into a rendition of Carmen or not.

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