I was just curious to find out what kind of cars y'all are driving, do you like it, and what's your all time dream car? I drive a 2003 Volvo S60, and it's my third Volvo and I don't think I'll buy anything else. I've never had a problem with any of them, but my first Volvo (1987 Volvo 240) was the best! It was like a tank, and if you hit something it was more than likely going to put a dent in the thing you hit. My dream car, however, is the Mercedes SL600 Roadster, but alas I don't have $126,000.

95 Toyota Previa....Love it!

My dream car keeps changing, but anything small, sporty and room for two people and two sets of golf clubs....oh yeah, topless too....

Room for you to be topless? Sorry mistress, couldn't pass that up!!

I have a 95 Accent, love it, totally reliable, great gas mileage. We also have a 2001 Suzuki XL7. It was a great price for the size of vehicle it is. Just doesn't have a very big engine. But we don't do a whole lot of off-roading, so it's pretty good. Especially lugging all the soccer gear, and usually a couple extra players who hitch rides with us. We had a Saturn LS, which I really liked, too.

My dream car? A sebring convertible. Well, ok, that's relatively attainable. Real dream car is Benz 2 seat convertible that's truly dreamin'!

I have a 2003 Ford Expedition and I love it. Especially the heated seats. My dream vechile is a Hummer. Hopefully they get all of the problems resolved with the H2 and put a diesel engine in it

Cars are not that important to me. I just want one that starts every time I turn the key and stops when I need it to stop! Currently I drive a 95 Escort wagon purchased used. The body is a perfect canvas for posting a variety of stickers to promote my causes. As these stickers easily identify me, I must be especially careful to follow all traffic rules! My dream car would be one that got terrific mileage as well as being extremely safe.

Right now I'm driving a red 2000 Toyota Echo. Good gas mileage which is important now . I also have a red toyota pick-up and apparently hubby just bought me some kind of Bronco thats automatic with 4x4.Havn't seen it yet. We needed something bigger to pull the camper cuz we got rid of the pop-up.
Don't really have a dream car but, a few years back I saw at a car show a red, rag top, Ford Falcon which at the time was $7,000.But didn't have the money . It was absolutely beautiful inside!

I have a 94 Fullsize4x4 Chevy PU. We also have a Subaru Sportster. I have to say the Subaru is better in the snow than my truck. My dream car is a 32 chop 3 window coup with a big block Chevy engine 2 fours. But i`ll settle for a 68 Pontiac convertable Tri power.

My wife and I have a 2000 Honda civic sport and a 1996 Hyundai Accent (Both very reliable). My work truck is a 2003 Toyota Tacoma (I love it).

My dream car would have to be a 1968 Camaro SS. Black with racing flames on the front quarter panels. I am a sucker for the old Camaro's.

mstubble, you must really love those gas sucking monsters! You must not have to commute to DC everyday!! Or maybe you have lots of $$$..can I borrow some?

I've come to the decision that as long as it gets me from A to B and back, and doesn't make me take out a second mortgage, it's a great car!

Dragonlady, you got a new camper?? Cool! I'm jealous. Looked at some at the mall when they were on display. Our truck would barely tow a pop-up.

We found a 1967 Serro Scotty Travel Trailer for $800! We're doing some re-model just because we don't like some of the interior.Everything works,but we want to put a microwave in and we're putting in a new small fridge. It's 15ft. long. Kinda like a pop-up but with hard sides. It's so old that the manufacturer doesn't make them any more, they make those small houses that fire companies use for fire safety! I'm threatening to paint "hippie" flowers all over the outside and put up some curtains that I'm making from some old 60"s material I found at the Goodwill. It's cute.Our truck JUST pulled the pop-up so we're getting the Bronco for this one.Also I need something 4x4 for to drive to work come winter. If you look hard and in every kind of paper you can probably find something in good shape. Hubby kept seeing the Scotty sitting in somebody's driveway with a "for sale" sign in it and just stopped one day to see how much it was. Called and the guy let him check it out inside and the rest is history!

Currently I drive a 2001 PT Cruiser not a bad car but now everybody's got one also I have a 1999 Dodge P/U truck but with the cost of gas I drive it as little as possible. Dream car a 1970 ragtop Plymouth Baracuda or Dodge Challenger with a 426 Hemi and 4 speed of course good old american mussle....

There was a great special about RV's on the travel channel awhile back. There were some great ones all decorated with certain themes, hippie looks, and so on. It was neat what some of those people did with 'em!

Okay, for us non-engine gurus....What the heck is a hemi? All of sudden Dodge is promo-ing the heck out of it. Is it just a brand name or does it actually do something special??

Way back in the 50's Chrysler Corp. invented the " Hemi " short for hemispherical.
It's the shape of the combustion chamber. All other engines have flat type combustion chambers. It's just the new rage at Chrysler the new Hemi is not even a true Hemi the combustion chamber is not even dome shaped. Are you confusied yet It's a man thing... you know more power....

Nice choice Gman. New Hemi's = Old Hemi's =

I drive a 2002 Nissan Frontier....the wife has a 2002 Toyota Camry.

Both are 4 cylinder/5 speeds....we work in Reston so we chose
gas mileage over performance.

I don't really have a dream car, unless they make one that
doesn't require gasoline.

I drive a '89 Jeep cherokee lifted,geared and locked .I also have a '98 full size chevrolet 4x4 pickup.Both gets crappy gas mileage.But in the summer I can make up for that '82 suzuki GS550MZ Katana and '98 suzuki GSX750F Katana.

In a year or two would like to get a '01-'02 Land Rover Discovery series II.

As far as dream car I would go with a dodge viper or a classic '69 GTO.

I don't like automobiles. I wish I could say I didn't even own one. Mine is paid off and gets me where I want to go. It's a white 2000 Pontiac Grand Am. My dream car would not require gas, oil changes, tire rotations, taxes, paperwork, licenses, registrations, insurance, air in the tires, windshield wiper fluid, or cleaning. And it would look really cool.

That is a dream...or a pogo stick

2001 Chevy Camaro 3.8L V-6, Y87 perf. pkge.

GMan I'll take that Hemi 'Cuda oh yeah!

The stats on the new GTO seem pretty impressive. But the price tag is astronomical. Will have to check it out though.

Honda and Toyota are getting some local press for their hybrids. At what point does the extra cost balance out the gas savings??

Now if Mstubble hits your hybrid going 40 mph head on with his 2003 Ford Expedition.I think the cost balance is in his favor.

I can remember wanting a del sol when I was in high school. My father said NO WAY and called it a death trap. But Dad it's so cool looking! Of course I didn't win out on that one.

momsapilot - "mstubble, you must really love those gas sucking monsters! You must not have to commute to DC everyday!! Or maybe you have lots of $$$..can I borrow some?"

It's not that I love gas sucking monsters, I like trucks and SUV's. If I am in an accident, I don't want to be in a little tin can. My husband used to work in Reston and he drove a Ford F250 every day. I don't work in DC or Reston; and since my husband and I are DINKS (dual income no kids - unless you count our doggies) we get to spoil us.

Yeah I'd give my left n... arm for one. but the cost is way out of my leauge. brand spankin new in 1970 Cuda or Challenger 426 Hemi ragtop 4 speed with shaker hood about $4,000.00.... now in mint condition about $350,000.00 not a bad investment if I'd only been smart and old enough I would have bought one..

Whatcha got a bunch of N.O.R.M.L. or "free mary jane" stickers on it?
Greatful Dead?
Bad cop.No doughnut?
Question Authority?
Jesus fish with legs and DARWIN in it?
pro-choice?

Just wondering my XJ's back window is full of stickers and I have never been pulled over for that.

Gee, thanks Greedy! Now see, if everyone drove the economical tin cans, no one would have to worry about getting squashed. But I understand the spoiling, aspect as well. It's nice to do something for yourself every now and then. (Wish I could more often!) I like the ride and comfort of our SUV, but I doubt if we would have one if it wasn't for owning a home and needing to haul things from Lowe's!

welcome

I've heard really bad things about ALL Chrysler products saying they don't hold up, and aren't realible at all, is this true?

Could be WVU-M. I was just reading on another forum about Chrysler/Dodge Intrepids with a certain V-6 engine. Seems they develop sludge in the oil circulation system because the oil overheats and breaks down. Intrepids only 2 or 3 yrs old have needed either engine overhauls or completely new engines. Chrysler fails to acknowledge the problem so the owners are stuck with the repair bills.

See, I've heard stuff similiar to that, like Dodge Caravan's engines sometimes have to be replaced at like 50,000 miles! I was just wondering since Mercedes-Benz bought them out that maybe their were gonna use their parts.

We had a brand new 87 Dodge pick-up and as soon as it turned over 50K the brain box died right there on the King St. exit!! Needless to say we got rid of it as soon as we could afford to.

A friend has an older Caravan ('95 I think) and has had to replace the transmission twice. I was with them at Hershey when it went out in January. Granted they put a lot of miles on it, but they are very meticulous about routine maintenance and such.

The missus had a '97 Plymouth Breeze....the 4 cylinder had a poorly
designed head gasket that was guaranteed to fail around 40K miles...her
brother and I replaced it and unloaded it as a trade-in for my truck.

I will never own another Chrysler product.

I will never own an American made car. I used to have a Honda Civic, now I drive a Nissan Maxima. I drove my civic into the ground and plan to do the same with my Nissan. They just seem to last longer than American cars. I know they're more expensive, but they end up being worth it in the long run.

My '88 Camry is still going strong. A little rust around one of the rear wheel wells, and the driver's side electric window is starting to work only intermittently, but it gets 38mpg on the open road, and knock on wood, passes emissions with flying colors.

I read in the Wall Street Journal where Buick's are actually some the best on the road, and you do see a lot of them and I've never heard anybody complain about them. Although since they're owned by GM you'd think that all GM products would be that way. I also think American trucks are by fart he best, friend bought a new Ford F-250 Lariat and it's awesome!

I didn't realize you could say "fart" here.

He said 'fart'...heh, heh-heh, heh, heh...

Yossarian, my son was just given an '89 Camry that
his grandparents owned...the thing only has 86K on it !!!

Get ready for this the5car: I have about 78K on mine! Great cars! If he takes good care of it, it will last many more years. My paint job looks almost brand new, no dulling at all; except for the 15 years of parking lot dings and normal scratches.

I would have figured a B-17...Cap't

lol, Greedy. That's my road trip transpo!
Can I interest you in one of my friend's chocolate covered cotton balls?

"PHISH: I will never own an American made car."

Then you better get rid of your Nissan. There are Nissan production plants in Tenn.(2) and Mississippi. The Maxima is built at the Smyrna, Tenn. plant.

Just like the Honda's are built in Birmingham, Ala and somwhere in Ohio, some BMW's in Spartanburg, SC, and Toyota's in West Virginia.

folks,
As far as a dream car, mine would be a Jaguar XKE convertible. They , in my mind, remain one one of the most beautiful autos ever mass produced. Horrible electrics and prone to have mechanical problems, but absolutely gorgeous! Also, way out of my pocketbook!

Jags are very nice indeed.

Absolutely! The XKE was always one of my favorites. In British Racing Green colour of course.

Well, let's see..I got rid of my 1995 Ford Windstar...but I got my moneys worth..it had 170k miles on it..before that I had a 1992 Chrysler Minivan--at precisely 92k it fell apart..I replaced the transmission and it still died...last one by that company I will ever buy...we just got rid of the 1991 Toyota Camry with over 200k on it..it still ran, but it was getting old and hubby has to go to the DC area every day..so we just got a new Kia small car--hubby calls it disposable...I now have a Kia Mini-van why? Because you could not beat the price and the power you got for said price...
My dream car--a 67 red mustang...yes, I owned one and sold it when I was young..now I wish I had one again--I loved driving it the best...it was such fun! Maybe when the kids leave home...

They build top notch bikes.I know their Sami was tough as nails and a great 4x4.

No complaints with the XL7. Although I was a bit disappointed with the way it handles in less than ideal conditions. If it's raining, you HAVE to have it in 4. I learned the hard way. Went into the median of 81 in January, couldn't get back out, even in low 4 because of the snow and incline. Totally humiliating 'cuz someone phoned 911 and out came the fire and rescue people. But really like it once I figured out how to deal with it. It has a personality all its own!