Giant answer post (of doom)
Giant answer post (of doom)
(I hope, or should we offer our condolences because your parents managed to find something even crappier?)
This...almost happened. My parents were dead-set on an American car at first and had narrowed the list down to a Cobalt and a Focus without bothering to look into what
I thought of either one. I...wasn't happy about that. I'd driven a friend's Focus before and found it pretty awkward to sit in, and I got a G5 (Pontiac's Cobalt in a party dress) as a rental when they totalled my Grand Am and it wasn't so great, either. The two-door Cobalts had massive blind spots in the back where the roof swoops down and the four-doors looked like the backseat was an afterthought. The less I like a car, the more I care about silly things like seats and blind spots. There wasn't anything particularly attractive about either of those, so the little things were deal-breakers, man. Did not want.
Much whining later, I talked them into looking into Mazda3s ("they're sorta-kinda connected to Ford and I actually
like those!"). There was a Mazda3 hatch I
really liked, but it was used and my mom really, really wanted a new car with a massive warranty attached to it. (We're all sick of my car being in the shop all the time.)
We stopped in at the Subaru dealership because we'd seen a blue WRX in traffic and all sort of liked it (!), but sadly, there wasn't a single Impreza on the lot.
But there
were a bunch of Lancers that I liked. "That one looks angry. Want."
The other thing I kinda liked from the day was the Fiesta, but dadgummit if it didn't have the same awkward manual seat adjustment system I didn't like from the Focus. Worse, the bottom of the seat was flat like a barstool, while the top had big bolsters that stuck out of the sides. Awwwwkward. Both of the ones in town were sedans (boo--the trunk looks awkward on that car and I had learned to
love deal with the cargo shelves by now) and in rather sedate colors (I much prefered the radioactive booger green on the brochure). I would love to do devious, terrible, hoontacular things to that little car, but not with that seat in it.
By that point in the day, I was pretty set on the Lancer anyway because it had everything I wanted AND comfy-enough seats.
Your name looks so much like "ninjacoco" that you've probably fooled a few people just by posting in this thread.
There's good reason I go by "coco" in IRC
Nice car coco (allthough no stick booo)
Don't ruin it......and as well, Adu started off with a red Mitsubishi too - and he owns his second Mercedes by now
My parents wouldn't let me get a stick.
I was totally up for stalling my little brains out, but...no could do.
Oh, well. I can always play with other peoples' sticks! (Wait, that didn't come out right...)
What's a Pommestheke? Candy apple? Poison apple? Apple con queso? Apple Finland?
Pls. advise.
Also, all fail is covered by warranty
I hope the vast majority of it is. At least if it turns out to be
Nightmare on QR Street 2, I'd hope that they'd take care of that crap so I don't have another self-destructing engine under my hood. I hear these warranty things are kind of like "don't ask, don't tell" when it comes to certain kinds of fail, though.
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Congrats on the new car, coco! One question though: Can you see anything other than the spoiler through the rear view mirror?
I have a nice view chopped in half by a big, huge red wing. It's pretty much a constant reminder that I'll be brutally violated by every small town Buford T. Justice with the usual grudge against twentysomethings should I get caught misbehaving.
This must be why Mom let me get the red one with the giant wing.
edit: d'oh! Ok its not the same exact Lancer, my cousin has the touchscreen sat-nav (which almost never gets used). Nevertheless, congratulations! I hope you love it.
Ah...they had one of those on the lot, but I figured I'd rarely (if ever) use it, I'd get confused by it if I did try to use it, and it'd just be one more thing that could break.
After one too many bad experiences with Google's directions, I think I'm going to go old-school and whip out the paper map the next time I have to figure out how to go somewhere. Post-it navigation FTW!
Hmm, does it have a break in period?
It...did. I decided to take care of as many errands that I'd been putting off as possible right after I got it and that worked! I got things done AND got the "be slow and careful" period over with! w00t.
Ugly resizing is ugly
Blame stupidbook.
Here's the full-size version: http://pic.armedcats.net/n/ni/ninjacoco/2010/10/04/DSC00910_ed.JPG
I wish that stupid power line wasn't there.
