prizrak
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V6 Mustang convertible, that's what all girls drive
If it wasn't for the 1st one, a Jetta would tick all those boxes. #3 and #5 are going to be hard to reconcile, though maybe a compact crossover like a Rav4?The car should:
1. be safe and reliable
2. have an automatic transmission
3. be a 4-door
4. be equipped with a decent radio (must have phone/music player jack)
5. be somewhat stylish (in 19-year-old girl-think)
6. get decent fuel mileage
7. cost less than $6,000
V6 Mustang convertible, that's what all girls drive
When you find me that 'safe and reliable' 4-door Mustang V6 convertible, let me know!
If it wasn't for the 1st one, a Jetta would tick all those boxes. #3 and #5 are going to be hard to reconcile, though maybe a compact crossover like a Rav4?
No mileage listed has me concerned.
https://huntington.craigslist.org/cto/d/ford-fusion-v6-sel-model/6386094455.html
This seems more promising. Blue seat inserts seem weird.
https://huntington.craigslist.org/cto/d/2010-ford-fusion-sport-low/6370928994.html
This is the first decent-looking prospect I've found. I'm not a big Hyundai fan and don't know a lot about them, except that my friends who have purchased them are NOT 'car people'. I do have on autocrosser buddy who has a Tiburon that he's turbo-ed and generally thrown gobs of money at without any good results, but that one really doesn't count.
So, any and all comments are welcome:
https://huntington.craigslist.org/cto/d/2012-hyundai-accent-gls/6387802177.html
SL
19-year-old female will drive the car to a local college.
It's not THAT far away, so she'll be living at home.
The car should:
1. be safe and reliable
2. have an automatic transmission
3. be a 4-door
4. be equipped with a decent radio (must have phone/music player jack)
5. be somewhat stylish (in 19-year-old girl-think)
6. get decent fuel mileage
7. cost less than $6,000
That's a pretty wide set of parameters, but I don't want to recommend anything that doesn't have a good track record. So far, I've found them a Sentra and a Corolla, both of which have been exceptionally reliable. This Accent just looked very clean...
Edit: For certain reasons, the car I recommend should be close to home, so I'm limiting my Craigslist search to the Huntington, WV one. I'm also looking at ebay & cars.com, but I'm mostly relying on Craigslist and local newspapers.
SL
When you find me that 'safe and reliable' 4-door Mustang V6 convertible, let me know!
Kids today are just different. I didn't know about the 4-door thing until we were doing the search that ended in their purchasing the Sentra. I found a really nice Honda Civic coupe - which was immediately shot down with: "Two-doors are soooooo inconvenient. I don't want my friends having to crawl over the seats to get in the back." Lesson learned and remembered.
SL
They usually do help when it comes to convertibles. I'm looking through ads and I've yet to see a single one that has pictures of the underside showing what they came with originally.
Oh interesting. I remember seeing some front bracing on late XJS convertibles, so I figured they'd carry over onto the successors.Oh, they don't have any external underfloor bracing from the factory. It's all accomplished through unibody revisions.
Oh interesting. I remember seeing some front bracing on late XJS convertibles, so I figured they'd carry over onto the successors.
GRtak;n3553732 said:Please remind me of why a 99 XJ8 with a bad engine is a bad idea. My nephew found one for cheap, and I don't think it will be cheap to repair which ever way we tried(stock, block need liners, or LS swap).