Sweet car! That color is like a dime a dozen around here though. 
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That second picture makes it look more yellow than orange though?
That second picture makes it look more yellow than orange though?
The picture's a little overexposed.
I love, love, loooooooove the current Mustang. Wasn't out when I bought my car, or I'd probably own one. I mention them so frequently on the road that Sigsbee has asked several times why I don't just get one.
Wait, so your SO is actually prodding you to get a Mustang, and you're.... not? DO IT.
Limo tint would look hot on those windows as well.
I'm headed out on Thursday morning to get tinting done. I won't go Limo (I work at the airport, and the airport cops here have a tendency to be either really cool with just about anything or total dicks about the littlest things, depending on which officers work on whatever day you drive through. I figure I'll go maximum legal tint for Kentucky on the three rear windows (It's worth noting that Ky is a little less restricting on tint than a lot of other states, KY legal is pretty damned dark), and then have them match that percentage on the two door windows. The fronts would be like 10% over and technically illegal at that point, but it's close enough that I doubt any cops will notice unless they're really out to get me for something. A friend of mine had it done the same way and he hasn't had any issues.
Nice Mustang Thin_J. Now you're making me want to get my tint done...
Thin - Yeah, but I drive a sports car already, and I believe my next car will need to be a sedan. The timing of the revamped Mustang just didn't coincide with my life, I guess. Maybe when I'm older I'll get one as a fun car.
Btw I've had cops in Houston check my window tint sticker to make sure it was legal. Well, one cop, twice. I was ticketed for speeding both times. : /
We come to praise Pontiac, and bury it.
We come to praise Pontiac, and bury it.
It's kind of weird that Pontiac finally has a couple of really viable cars in the G8 GT and the Solstice, and they go under anyway. Course it seems like most people bought the Sky over the Solstice, so I guess there's that whole "cannibalizing your own market with other brandings of the exact same car" thing. Then there's the G8, which I guess has very love it or hate it styling. Still, a shame we won't ever see a Firebird/TransAm version of the new Camaro. And the most amazing thing is that they chose to ditch Pontiac instead of Buick. I see tons of Pontiac vehicles on the road. G6's, G5's, the Torrent SUV thing... they're everywhere. I never see the newer Buick vehicles.
Sort of a baffling decision, at least for the american market. Supposedly Buick is huge in China.
Well there goes anything of value my Grand Prix has in it. Time to start saving up to replace this.
A Chevy pickup, an endless gravel road, a hot summer sun, a stereo cranked, my girl, and as the song says, doin' a hundred in a fifty-five and I don't know why I'm still alive...
I'm a Ford man at heart, but Chevy pickups will always have a special place in my heart.
Right now I'm lusting after:
But for a daily driver... a Mustang sounds good... Right now I drive a '99 Taurus. 
Two things I will own, once I get out of bloody med school:
An Edge 540. 720-degree per second rate of roll; arguably the most aerobatic aircraft in the world.
An Atom 3. 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. 0-100 in 6.8 seconds. 100% street legal.
No wife. No kids. No problem.
Has anybody ever driven / rented / owned one of those new Dodge Chargers (2006 and up) ?
Are they reliable? Do they feel cheap or is the finish pretty good? What about the power under the hood?
I was thinking of an Infiniti but ever since I saw the new Camaro and Challengers at a show I'm in love with American muscle cars.
An Atom 3. 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. 0-100 in 6.8 seconds. 100% street legal.
No wife. No kids. No problem. :D
Oh! Yes!
Right now I'm working on my 1991 BMW 535i. Needs a ton of work, but I've loved these things since I was a kid, and I got it at a steal.. If looked after it can be my family car for the rest of my life. I won't post pics in it's current state. 
The plan is to get it into slightly better than stock condition, then chip it. May drop a turbo in when everything else is done to the standards I want.
But the Atom is definitely on my wish list for my second car one day. The appeal of a stripped down racer can't be denied.
I think I've got my car all planned out now. Tint this thursday, CAI+Hand Held tuner in the next few weeks, and an exhaust upgrade of some kind shortly after. At that point I"ll be back to exterior stuff. I want to kill the little vinyl decals that are on the sides right now and get the boss 302 decals from Ford, and then get the Classic Design Concepts shaker hood package. Then I want to switch out the stock spoiler for the one from the 07-09 GT500, and have that painted black.
Maybe some louvers for the back three windows. Not sure on that because of how much they tend to affect daily drivability.
I'll probably never be willing to go forced induction or anything else that will seriously hurt my gas mileage. Right now driving the mustang the way I always drove my focus I'm averaging about 22mpg. It was up at 26 and 27 for a few days, and then I hauled ass down some back roads near my house a couple days in a row. I figure 22ish will be my average mileage, the way I tend to drive. Add FI into the mix and that drops so significantly I don't really want to think about keeping gas in the thing.
I can see some suspension/handling upgrades down the road, but it handles nicely enough for now. I can't hurl it around at 80 or 90mph like I did the focus (that car murdered crazy twisty back roads like no other car I've touched to date, including my buddy's WRX) but it's close enough to be a lot of fun. And it's way cooler on the interstate. I've always been of the mind that if you have a fun car and your passengers aren't grabbing the oh sh*t handles or bracing their arms against the dashboard, then you're just not doing it right.
Note: If I ever get to drive a top of the line Atom on an actual track or road course, I think I could die happy.
Thin, where in IN are you? I can find you a nice strip to run it at, hell if you are western IN I will bring the cobra out and run with you.
Right now I'm lusting after:
But for a daily driver... a Mustang sounds good... Right now I drive a '99 Taurus. :D
I was just drooling over one of these in Red the other day. Damn nice rig.
You guys are lucky to have nice new cars... I'm stuck with a leaky water pump. 
With the current state of the economy and with my job not paying so high, I most likely can't afford the car I've always wanted (a Lancer Evolution) until a couple years down the road.
You guys are lucky to have nice new cars... I'm stuck with a leaky water pump.
With the current state of the economy and with my job not paying so high, I most likely can't afford the car I've always wanted (a Lancer Evolution) until a couple years down the road.
I feel ya brother. I'm stuck with a crappy 06 Ford Focus and a slightly less crappy 04 Malibu Classic. However, the Focus will be replaced with a minivan for the wife early next year, and if we get sent overseas, the Malibu will get sold at the end of this year, with the proceeds going towards the aforementioned Van. At best, I'll be able to get a new car for me sometime in 2012 when I reenlist again.
You guys are lucky to have nice new cars... I'm stuck with a leaky water pump. :(
Still driving a 17 year-old Jeep with 241k miles on it and broken A/C here. So you're not alone. 
Shazam wrote:You guys are lucky to have nice new cars... I'm stuck with a leaky water pump. :(
Still driving a 17 year-old Jeep with 241k miles on it and broken A/C here. So you're not alone. :)
That's why I picked the path I'm on. It will cost me a lot of money to get the car into the state I want, but I will be able to smoke anything on the road that is less than 10 times what it will have cost me. And I'll be able to do it in air-conditioned luxury with 3 passengers.
And without vehicle finance, in a high interest rate environment that is important.
An old Jeep is a great base for a DIY project.
I was just drooling over one of these in Red the other day. Damn nice rig.
Good to know I'm not the only one to appreciate a real truck around here. 
Aries wrote:I was just drooling over one of these in Red the other day. Damn nice rig.
Good to know I'm not the only one to appreciate a real truck around here. :cool:
How much does that sucker weigh? That is just screaming for over weight ticket or a new revenue stream of out of route miles for the trucker.
Shazam wrote:You guys are lucky to have nice new cars... I'm stuck with a leaky water pump. :(
Still driving a 17 year-old Jeep with 241k miles on it and broken A/C here. So you're not alone. :)
Wow, mine is 9 years old and already has 170k on it, never had AC. So in 8 years if it lasts that long, I could have 300k or something? Nutty. I was thinking of replacing it with this thing:
I saw one of these parked at a funeral home, and it looked like it belonged there:
Wow, mine is 9 years old and already has 170k on it, never had AC. So in 8 years if it lasts that long, I could have 300k or something? Nutty.
That depends. Last month the brake line split and I almost drove into traffic. So there's that.
Thin, where in IN are you? I can find you a nice strip to run it at, hell if you are western IN I will bring the cobra out and run with you.
I'm not actually in Indiana, just fairly close to the state line in Kentucky.
Appreciate the sentiment, but I'd be pretty useless at a drag strip, especially right now. Part of it is the dead space in the gas pedal that wasn't there on the Focus. There's a good couple of centimeters worth of pressing the pedal before it starts actually doing anything, and it's making it hard to get used to a couple of things, downshifting in particular. I always over or under gas going from higher gears down in to first or second because I can't quite get used to that dead zone in the gas pedal yet.
Is there a quick way to fix that?
WiredAsylum wrote:Thin, where in IN are you? I can find you a nice strip to run it at, hell if you are western IN I will bring the cobra out and run with you.
I'm not actually in Indiana, just fairly close to the state line in Kentucky.
Appreciate the sentiment, but I'd be pretty useless at a drag strip, especially right now. Part of it is the dead space in the gas pedal that wasn't there on the Focus. There's a good couple of centimeters worth of pressing the pedal before it starts actually doing anything, and it's making it hard to get used to a couple of things, downshifting in particular. I always over or under gas going from higher gears down in to first or second because I can't quite get used to that dead zone in the gas pedal yet.
Is there a quick way to fix that?
yes i will post that mod tomorrow from work.
Drag strip on test and tune is just fun. No real point but having fun driving fast.
Some of you gearheads should check out my race car construction thread. Especially if you're in the Ohio area
Here is the gas pedal mod (free) i was thinking about Not sure if this helps you.
Has anybody ever driven / rented / owned one of those new Dodge Chargers (2006 and up) ?
Are they reliable? Do they feel cheap or is the finish pretty good? What about the power under the hood?
I was thinking of an Infiniti but ever since I saw the new Camaro and Challengers at a show I'm in love with American muscle cars.
I think an Infiniti G35 coupe or sedan is one of the best cars on the road for the (negotiated down) price (you can get them fully loaded new for around 35, not the 42 on the sticker). Price/performance ratio is huge, AND it's a lux car with all the amenities and safety features. I loooove the Camero, and I looove the price/performance ratio of the one with the vett engine - but it's definately NOT a luxury car. Not a big challenger fan, and chargers are nice, but by the time you get one that's an SRT-8, you'd be better off in an Infiniti, IMHO. If you want to drop a little more - Mercedes C63 AMG ... DROOOL!
The G35 is an awesome car. I drove two and they were extremely nice. I just gave up when after three months of digging I never once found one with a manual transmission that was remotely within driving distance for me to look at and also in my intended price range. There were a lot of automatics with roughly 25-30k miles on them in there, but not a single manual transmission to be found for me to test drive.
I may never own another automatic, barring maybe a car with a really high quality tap shift setup or me moving into a city where traffic is a nightmare.
I may never own another automatic, barring maybe a car with a really high quality tap shift setup or me moving into a city where traffic is a nightmare.
Yeah I've never owned a automatic. I commute into Chicago everyday now but I don't really mind driving a manual. I guess I'm just used to it now. I love manual but some of these auto-manuals are getting pretty slick.
I drove my friend's GTI with the DSG auto-manual. It's nice its rev matches on downshifts and its fast....quicker than I am in a manual.
I feel all my heel toe and shifting practice worthless.
I feel all my heel toe and shifting practice worthless.
If you ever get involved in a case of mistaken identity and chased by mobsters while driving a ratty old stick shift car, you'll be glad you know how to heel and toe downshift. Have action movies taught you nothing?
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