HansGruber
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It took us a couple of years to have any effect on rickhamilton, too.
You may have a tougher time with HighVoltage. The force is strong with that one. :lol:
It took us a couple of years to have any effect on rickhamilton, too.
You may have a tougher time with HighVoltage. The force is strong with that one. :lol:
It is not a willing partner, it doesn't do what I tell it to when I tell it to. It struggles and balks and does what it wants instead. And as best I can recall, I have never met anyone who could honestly refute that.
I'm not saying he should like Jaguars. I just take offense to his promoting Volvos as proper drivers' cars (which he has done in the past) when they aren't. Same kind of thing with rickhamilton when he had that awful Saturn.
It's one thing to have something like the Volvo and say, "Well, it's just something to get me around, not something for entertainment." That's fine. It's another to push it as a performance car or a driver's car when it just isn't (something else rick used to do - claim that his Saturn was a good car to drive. It wasn't. Neither are FWD Volvos.)
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I would also point out that I am far from the only one that's pointing out the problems with this, even leaving out Argatoga.
Eh, it's something to do.
Of course, the fewer Volvo drivers that are out there, the less chance there is of me getting run over by an obliviot ovloV driver while on my motorcycle.
Spectre, you're giving this too much thought. HighVoltage likes Volvos and doesn't mind the way they drive. People have different tastes, no matter how varied they may be. I don't understand the persistent jabs you keep taking at him.
Says the guy with a turbo brick in his avatar
I don't know what the problem is - every time I mention a Volvo it is either Spectre or argatoga feeling the necessity to automatically attack the car based on already established truths and deficiencies of the FWD platform. Shortly after it descends into a rather meaningless session of bickering with no productive result.
Maybe it is my fault in fueling this futility - like I said I don't actually plan on buying a yellow T5-R, it's just a fantasy of mine. Same as owning a Countach. And I'm sure that if that day ever comes, there will be similar discussions with people pointing out how bad the Countach is as a car.
The fact of the matter is, we drive the cars we want for different reasons, but it's a matter of personal choice and self-expression. I have reasons for not wanting to buy a BMW for example and they have nothing to do with how they actually drive.
That's not the point.
Thing is, that hammering on about Volvos being god's gift to motoring is an insult to motoring. And that's something worth some and all persistent jabs.
Of course my perception of the issue is somewhat clouded by my hatred of Volvos and the general Volvo-driver. But that only makes it more fun to use HighVoltage as a target.
That's a bit of an overstatement because I don't act like this.
In general I do agree with you - a lot of Volvos models are pretty bad/boring/bland and in general the people who drive them are the worst drivers on the road.
With that said, there are exceptions to both - they had some good models and some Volvo owners are more informed about what's happening around them.
It's tough to get a boner over reinforced passenger cells.
Someone called? When I was 16 I wanted to get a Nissan Maxima and I did - a 97. Best handling in its class according to all the reviews, 3.0L VQ30 V6 that was continuously present on Ward's 10 Best Engines list, 190hp and 205lb*ft. Hell yes! I thought I was driving God's own chariot. The car was faster and sounded cooler than any of my friends' cars, including I-4 Camrys, Altimas, and Accords. Really all Hondas were, in my mind, ricer crapboxes and I vowed that I'd never have one. Miatas were little fag cars for hairdressers and the like. The only car I wanted more than the Maxima was a newer Maxima with the 265hp motor.Methinks our resident Bulgarian expat needs to step away from the bricks and detox in the setting of some other, more interesting cars. Truly a case of Stockholm Syndrome that he's suffering from. Life with a Miata for just six months will transform your perspective for the better; just ask LeVeL about his conversion.
You have some strange (read: wrong) opinions on those cars then. The 2nd/3rd Gen MR2s are bullet proof (1st gen had rust issues IIRC but thats to be expected from old Japanese car), in fact 2nd gen had a non-interferences engine so it was very hard to break. In fact when I researched them the ONLY issue that is constantly reported on them is freezing e-brake cable. Pretty much same goes for the Supra, the only issue I ever managed to find on the MkIII is some head gasket issues that can be easily fixed by torquing down the head to higher spec than factory, also rust could be an issue with something that old. The FM platform is 100% bullet proof I have more than a few friends driving those cars and they are either near or over 100K w/o any issues. 240s are quite reliable as well, S14 slightly better due to better rust proofing but again no major issues and parts and knowledge is a plenty.And the only ones I would trust as far as I could push, out of warranty, would be the MX-5 and maybe the S2k, depending on how well it was treated in life. You could keep the rest.
Point is that you would be VERY hard pressed to find fun AND reliable FWDs outside of the old and cheap bracket...
Mazda3 has electric power steering, which I hate with a passion. They have some reliability issues and really outside of the Mazdaspeed model nowhere near the RWD cars on the list in peformance department (uncle had one).I was this close to bringing up the Mazda3 but remembered that they seem to have rust issues that most Japanese manufacturers have fixed. They are my all-time favorite rental compact, if that means anything.
Mazda3 has electric power steering, which I hate with a passion. They have some reliability issues and really outside of the Mazdaspeed model nowhere near the RWD cars on the list in peformance department (uncle had one).
Mazda3 has electric power steering, which I hate with a passion. They have some reliability issues and really outside of the Mazdaspeed model nowhere near the RWD cars on the list in peformance department (uncle had one).
I'm talking about production cars like the crazy M?ganes or Citroens...