I'm researching cars, and I just read this sentence in a user-review:
I had this Ford since I bought it....Ok, yeah. Next...
posted by Greg | 11:19 PM
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Actually, it's a good indicator of what type of person you're dealing with. For example in previous places I've lived, the article would have said "I've owned this car since I found it..."
Whereas here, it's likely they would say "I've owned this car since I stole it..."
It's equally likely to get something like "I've never owned, seen, or heard of the car...but I'm going to give you an opinion anyway."
You're dealing with the creme of the crop, I'd take their comments seriously.
Out of curiosity, why are you researching cars? We just paid $900 to fix various things on Beth's. If that keeps happening, we'll be researching cars too.
Hey Tim--you raise a good point. :)
I'm looking at cars because we have a subaru forester and a toyota supra. the subaru is fine, albeit a little small for 4. the supra is a 1993, thus making it 16 years old. So, uh... it's having some (electrical) problems that are driving me crazy. Further, it only seats 2, and it cannot seat a kid's seat of any kind.
So after tenure comes, I'm looking to get something. I like subaru's quite a bit, so maybe the Legacy. However, being in the deep-south, i'm really seeing the utility of trucks. So i was looking into the F150 (w/ a full-size back seats); I was also looking at the Explorer Sport Trac, which is like a pick-up version of an Explorer.
Your Saturn is a good many years old--is that the one that needs the work?
However, being in the deep-south, i'm really seeing the utility of trucks.
Help this Yank understand. Is it that Southerners "need" trucks more than Northerners do? If so, what for?
I concede that there is something intangibly appealing about A Man And His Truck, but I don't think of them as "family vehicles." If I were still single I very well might have bought one myself by now. (Though they're not exactly known as being fuel-efficient.)
Well--first off, being in the south, there's much less truck-prejudice. (Let's face it; that's a fact.)
Second, there are much less turn-key services down here. There's just no market. So a lot of stuff is, you pick it up; you haul it. It's really cultural. Don't pay for things that you can do yourself.
Third--as a homeowner, (and you'll find this out), it's just damn convenient. Feel like buying 8 25-gallon plants? Not in a Corolla. Even our Forester is too small.
Finally--if we're going to continue to go to AL for Christmas, it would be nice to get a vehicle that can actually tow.
So if it's got a backseat--it's a family vehicle. (Relative to my two-seater.) And given the roles and responsibilities, our family choices, etc... the cargo and towing capability is just convenient.
The Saturn Vue is 5 years old - a coil was failing and it needed other 80,000 mile maintenance. So, ~$400 of pieces parts and about $500 of labor for taking the thing apart and putting it back together.
Now to Greg's point of owning a truck: One of the deciding factors for getting the Vue 5 years ago was "will it carry drywall?" (and 2x4s /4x4s or other stuff from Home Depot) The answer was yes so we picked it over something like a hybrid. The Vue was a nice balance between having a truck and having a smaller vehicle that would still carry lots of crap.
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