What was/is the best automobile you've ever owned? :)
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Rickster is victorious
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2002 Dodge Neon... Never gave me any problems except for a dead battery a couple of times, and I once didn't change the transmission fluid until it was way past due, caused a breakdown... Other than that (my own fault) it was a great reliable car and could actually get up to 40 MPG at times! Got up to 98,000 miles and then got into an accident... it was totalled.
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A 1959 Standard 10, it cost me £5 and I sold it 5 years later for £50 the only car I ever made money on. It was not good looking it was small but for the day quite powerful and alot of fun!
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In 2000, i bought a brand new Toyota Solara. it was loaded with all the extras and leather seats. This has been the best automobile i have ever owned. i have owned many. 178,000 miles. have had no mechanical problems. just replaced the timing belt, regular oil changes and four sets of tires. 31 real miles per gallon and a Lexus 300 suspension system, makes this automobile ride like a dream on the interstate. I will soon buy another new automobile. This time, i think i will buy a Solara convertible. Ride, anyone?
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My 1994 Geo Prizm. First car I bought brand new. Manual transmission that never had a problem. Actually the only problem I ever had was one electric window motor that had to be replaced. I loved that car! Sadly, it was totalled about four years ago by some guys who made an illegal left turn onto my street and were also going too fast. They swung wide -- right into my car parked along the curb -- and the force of the impact between their car and the curb twisted the frame on mine. <sniff> :(
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'86 Suzuki Intruder. Ok, so it is not an automobile. That bike ran like nobody's business and was never a bother. Well, unless I pegged the speedo and went who knows how far past... the front tire tended to want to "float". Someone in a car followed me and I arranged to raise my hand when it started floating... it floated at 85 to 90. That was the only real design flaw I found in that bike. Oh, the image is not of my bike but one similar. Mine was maroon and did not have a ferring (windshield).
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1991 Dodge Shadow. I owned it for 12 years and never had to put any money into it. When I sold it, the man who bought it from me took it to his mechanic and had it looked over and the only thing he found was the brake light in the back window needed a new bulb. It was a good reliable car.
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It's a tie between an E-Type Jaguar and a Ferrari Testarossa, or was that just in a dream?
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A 1987 Chevy Sprint. It only had a 3 cylinder engine, but it weighed so little it still had decent acceleration. And the mileage was amazing for its time.
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2001 reconditioned Toyota Carolla Spacio. it's called has 5 regular seats and a bench type jump seat that folds down in the back. Small, economical, can seat 7 (not big people), but transport kids to and from activities so it's a good thing. Sits a little higher than a standard car, but not as high as an SUV. Purchased it in 2004 and hope I never have to get rid of it.
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Mine was a 1980 (?) Plymouth Horizon TC-3 hatchback (white with red pinstripes) that was my first front-wheel drive car (and first car of my own!) that would not go off the road in snow, even when I once momentarily dosed off and rode halfway up a snowbank - at the time was living between Montreal and New York's Adirondack Park :)
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The one I have now - new Ford Fiesta Zetec. It's cheap to run, tax and insure and goes like a bomb! Lovely to drive - a small car that drives like a big one.
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