Forum: Car Reviews
06-07-2011, 07:59 AM
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Re: $20,000 gift for new car
FWIW I wasn't interested in the auto-dimming mirror in my GMC, but it's by far the least annoying auto-anything I've ever used. It's dim when I want it to be and not dim when I don't. So, even though...
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Forum: Car Reviews
05-18-2011, 05:07 AM
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Forum: Car Reviews
03-12-2011, 02:49 AM
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Re: $20,000 gift for new car
That's not too awful. Others tend to be more severe. It helps that they put a decent 6th gear in the MT, even better than the one in the auto.
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Forum: Car Reviews
03-11-2011, 12:07 PM
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Re: $20,000 gift for new car
Well, what you posted supports it quite strongly, but it's also only half of the story. Check out the ratios in the transmission, especially high gear.
4.333 is a very short ratio, 3.065 is pretty...
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Forum: Car Reviews
03-11-2011, 09:20 AM
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Re: $20,000 gift for new car
I enthusiastically second the manual transmission vote...the only downside, for fuel economy, is that (mostly foreign) automakers tend to gear their manual transmissions too short. It's probably done...
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Forum: Car Reviews
03-09-2011, 10:00 AM
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Re: $20,000 gift for new car
I imagine that if they put a 6 speed in they'd do the same thing VW does - just make the ratios closer, leaving the low and high gears the same.
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Forum: Car Reviews
03-07-2011, 05:15 AM
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Re: $20,000 gift for new car
Yup, right there in the first post:
...don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The car is a gift and the giver wants it to be brand new. We should all be so lucky!
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Forum: Car Reviews
03-03-2011, 09:49 AM
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Re: $20,000 gift for new car
I imagine that you'll want to stick with Honda and probably with a car similar to your old Civic. What about a Fit? You can get a well-optioned uplevel Fit for $20,000.
Since you're planning to...
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