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D19allisowner 
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Posted: 21 hours 48 minutes ago at 7:59pm |
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DMiller
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Posted: 5 hours 40 minutes ago at 12:07pm |
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Stated this for years. TOO much Demanded of too small an engine. Enganears do not care.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 5 hours 36 minutes ago at 12:11pm |
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Don’t blame the engineers. They do a helluva job making the stuff the government and management and bean counters tell them to make work as good as it does.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 3 hours 30 minutes ago at 2:17pm |
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The only worry I have with new cars is all the computer stuff, so you get the longest warranty
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 2 hours 45 minutes ago at 3:02pm |
too bad they can't design a RELIABLE engine ! Get RID of the VVT and other hitech nonsense...make a GOOD engine.. ..then get rid of the 2 extra doors on a pickup it's now 2-3 ' shorter ! ), trash the 4WD, toss out the automatic tranny, don't install 4-5 computers that control 'stuff' NOT needed, get rid of heated AND A/C seats,6 or 7 airbags........ probably another 200-500#s of stuff NOT needed which more than makes up for the MPG. Hmm..if you need a station wagon to haul the kids around, buy a station wagon AKA a van.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 2 hours 39 minutes ago at 3:08pm |
FYI my '97 F150 has done me just fine and I can toss $1,000 into it every year from now until the cows come home and I'm much further ahead than buying a new POS 'pickup'. Had I known 20 years ago I was keeping it, I'd have oil sprayed it every year or two. OK, I bought a southern box and drivers door for it,2 years ago, hopefully installed this summer. Yup $2K for the pair...so I'm 'on budget'. NO fancy computers, NO 4WD, 2 doors and it'll haul 7000# of ponypoop as required. to each,their own, but while I've got 5 decades design/build computers...I hate to see the repair cost to 'fix' new rides.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 1 hour 50 minutes ago at 3:57pm |
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too bad they can't design a RELIABLE engine ! Get RID of the VVT and other hitech nonsense...make a GOOD engine.. ..then get rid of the 2 extra doors on a pickup it's now 2-3 ' shorter ! ), trash the 4WD, toss out the automatic tranny, don't install 4-5 computers that control 'stuff' NOT needed, get rid of heated AND A/C seats,6 or 7 airbags........ probably another 200-500#s of stuff NOT needed which more than makes up for the MPG. Hmm..if you need a station wagon to haul the kids around, buy a station wagon AKA a van. |
Pretty much anyone who has tried this in the past 30 years has not stuck with it. Why? No money in it. Bean counters and managers.
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DMiller
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Posted: 1 hour 41 minutes ago at 4:06pm |
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Far too few can even drive a stick nowadays, no one can deal without AC for even a 10 minute drive in general world, all those bells and whistles are what sell did you not know that Jay, ask any used or new car sales person.
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DanWi
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Posted: 59 minutes ago at 4:48pm |
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Wife has a year 2025 Chevy trailblazer. I like it for driving around. I do have some concern about how long the little 1.3 liter engine will last. We kept her Pontiac 20 years, had to put head gaskets in the V6 at 140,000 miles. I will say that the trailblazer doesn't get exceptionally good mileage unless you are on a long highway trip with a tailwind. Just think the 3.8 liter was a good motor although it may have had its own problems. But they got good gas mileage in a midsize car. Went with a friend to an auction one time 4 hours away so had his wife car. Exceeding the speed limit all the way there and didn't have to stop for gas till we got there. I thought that was pretty good. For what it took to fill it when we got gas. I wonder what it would be like to take that new trailblazer like my wife's and have that 3.8 GM in it hell if you wanted you could even turbo it like a Grand National. That would make one nice ride.
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