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Old 03-14-2011, 08:42 AM
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Mines a 2000 AWD Astrovan. Gotta say i love my van and wish they would not have stopped making em. So whats yours ?


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Old 03-14-2011, 08:58 AM
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Old 03-14-2011, 09:26 AM
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Right now, my wife and I are sharing her 2003 Buick Century.

My 1996 K1500 Suburban is still setting at the house, DEAD.
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Old 03-14-2011, 09:29 AM
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My significant other and I are also sharing a vehicle. 1999 GMC 1500 4X4. We purchased the Chevelle so one of us each hada vehicle to drive when it was cold or raining. We have five motorcycles.
The Chevelle should be done right around hot season.
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Old 03-14-2011, 11:01 AM
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Mine was my 72 Chevy truck ,but its being taken apart for rust repairs. I now get to drive my wifes old 96 Ford Explorer since she got a Sport Track.
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Old 03-14-2011, 11:28 AM
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07 Malibu, that's mostly Lynda's and an 02 Chevy Z71.
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Today is my LAST day daily-driving my wagon...



I love the car, but I'm sick of using 3 gallons/day just to get to work...

I just bought a '99 Oldsmobile Intrigue, and will transfer the title & put insurance on it today, then start driving it tomorrow. It's a boring V6 FWD sedan, but it'll save me almost $4/day in gas.
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Mine was my 72 Chevy truck ,but its being taken apart for rust repairs. I now get to drive my wifes old 96 Ford Explorer since she got a Sport Track.
Did you switch out the Firestones? HAHA
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Old 03-14-2011, 01:36 PM
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Those original Firestone tires were the best tires Ive ever had ,got 65,000 miles out of them with no problems .Cant say that for the last 2 sets .
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My daily driver may make a few people upset, so I am going to give you a little back story on it.

About 3 years ago David and I decided that we were going to buy our first brand new car. Gas prices were on the rise, and we wanted to have something that got decent gas milage. I had just given my son my Chevy Venture, and we actually looked at buying a used one, but people were ridiculous on what they wanted for one, so we started looking for a new car. It had to be able to fit the 5 of us, and of course David at 6'4" had to be able to fit in it and be able to drive it. Believe it or not there are a lot of cars and trucks that he just couldn't fit into.

We looked at the Chevy HHR, it was too small and too much money. We wanted an Impala but they wanted way too much money. We spent 3 months looking on line and going to dealerships. Many of the dealerships told us they were NOT dealing/haggling on the prices of anything we wanted. So we went back to what we needed, room for the 5 of us and good gas milage.

We finally walked into a Toyota dealership, and test drove a Yaris. It fit everything that we needed. The one we looked at had a broken side window and they were waiting on parts, but another dealership had another Yaris on it's lot and we went and looked at it, and bought it. At the time we bought ours, the car was rated at 39mpg. I honestly think that I have gotten over 42mpg on the highway.

The recession hit hard three months after we bought the Yaris. So if we had waited for another 3 months to buy a car, we could have gotten anything that we wanted in our price range.

So my daily driver is a 2008 Toyota Yaris, 39+mpg. I hope nobody is too mad at me.
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