Car Buying
Monday, 12.04.06 @ 12:03AM 
Do you dread shopping for a car? I do, too. I don’t do it often. My cars are usually driven til they are useless for even a trade-in. But eventually, you’re going to have to go shopping. New or used? Lease or purchase? Is it more important to have room for the kids and their friends, or to save money on fuel? Will the latest innovation be the best investment, or will it be obsolete next year? I don’t know the answers. Who does?
If you’ve got $200,000 to spare, and want to really feel macho, try the Ghurka
. Its way more than a Hummer.
Supercars! With slideshows.
The future of cars? See the Russian Quattroflex, pictured here. (via Spluch)
The Useless Men have advice for women trying to buy a car.
Peter gives us an overview of the Automotive History of Australia.
Bad day at the Lube Shop.
For sale: Ukrainian second hand car. More pictures at Just Elite, where they note that they don’t know who is selling it, because they figure the original owner must be dead.
Honest car advertising. Audio NSFW!
AUTOMOTIVE ACRONYMS
(lifted from It Occured to Me)
BMW - Big Money Waste
BUICK - Big Ugly Indestructible Compact Killer
CHEVROLET - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips
CHEVY - Cheapest Heap Ever Visioned Yet
DODGE - Drips Oil Drops Grease Everywhere
FIAT - Fix It Again Tomorrow
FORD - Found On Road Dead
GM - Grinding Metal
GMC - Gotta Mechanic Coming
HONDA - Hold On, Not Done Accelerating
JEEP - Just Enough Engine Power
KIA - Killed In Action
MAZDA - Made At Zoo by Demented Apes
MG - Mostly Garaged
OLDSMOBILE - Old Ladies Driving Slowly Making Others Behind Increasingly Late Everyday
PINTO - Powerful Incendiary, Neatly Toasts Occupants
PLYMOUTH - Please Let Your Mother Out from Under The Hood
PONTIAC - Poor Old Nebraskan, Thinks It's A Cadillac
PORSCHE - Piece Of Rusty Scrap, Cost Highly Expensive
SUBARU - Still Usable But All Rusty Underneath
TOYOTA - The One You Ought To Avoid
VW - Virtually Worthless
USED CAR DEALERSHIP
It was a small town and the patrolman was making his evening rounds. As he was checking a used car lot, he came upon two little old ladies sitting in a used car. He stopped and asked them why they were sitting there in the car. Were they trying to steal it?
"Heavens no, we bought it."
"Then why don't you drive it away."
"We can't drive."
"Then why did you buy it?"
"We were told that if we bought a Used car here we'd get screwed .... So we're just waiting.”
Thought for today: I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
PS Happy Birthday today to my favorite dirty old man, Carl (actor212) of Simply Left Behind! Go over and wish him a good one.
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WARNING!! Not for the pious, very coarse language! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015r1WBckn0&mode=related&search= Note, there are still some honest car dealers. Good luck!
As a driver of a Virtually Worthless Passat, I'm OK with that characterization.
Just means the secret is safe of how much fun they are to drive ;-)
"Major Asshole Zipping Down Alleyways"
My favorite rendering of "Oldsmobile," incidentally, is "Old, Leisurely-Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Inferior Leftover Equipment."
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