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I personally love cars and so do a lot of people in my family. Even though I am only 13, I have my own car already. It's a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. As I don't play any sports and sports never interested me, my parents decided that they would let me mess around with cars as a hobby. My parents have a 2012 Buick Enclave (purchased in 2012 for $51,980) and a 2009 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 (purchased in 2009 for $48,400). Most of my family members have GM cars. My grandma and my uncle both have Cadillacs and my other aunts and uncles have GM vehicles. Except for some of my cousins have cars such as Lexus's and Mercedes-Benz's. Cars are my passion other than vacuums. What kind of cars fdo you guys have or want?
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We have a Chrysler 300C which I got new in 05 and it has never missed a beat. My wife uses that now. We have a Merc Sprinter van for the shop as well. 


 


I have a Range Rover Sport now. I'll stick a photo here of it and the van as some may appreciate the registration plates. 

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Her Lincolns were Midnight blue.

She lovs blue cars.
Mine is red. I've had 3 red cars so far.
It really doesn't matter, as long as it works.
Some hate/ridicule red cars or the people who drive them. Isn't that ridiculous?????
We like what we like... Some little sporty sexy cars look very sharp in red... candy apple red can be a fun car!
 
Our current car is a 2000 Ford Focus 1.8 LX with 183,000 miles on the odometer and still going strong.


 


It's predecessor was a rather better looking 1997 Ford Fiesta 1.25 Ghia, but unfortunately as is the way with Fords corrosion got the better of her undercarriage and it would have been too expensive for us to repair.


 


Fortunately it was sold on to a mechanic who did the work himself and put the car back on the road, however it was declared off the road about 6 months ago and now the registration number can no longer be found on the DVLA website, indicating it may have been scrapped. 


 


 

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2000 Buick Park Avenue.Bought 9 years ago, second one.Need some soft ride, can't ride in brother's new MB, too much jarring getting through to my joints and back. It works well and does better mileage than many would guess.Paid for, cheap to insure, dead reliable.

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chevy equinox

dont have it yet but picking it up monday afternoon so excited always wanted one from the time thay came out got my wish.charcoal grey very nice.i will post pics after i get it.
 
I have had lots of cars over the years. I always had GM stuff but I had a Buick Park Avenue that fell apart at 100,000 miles. I was tired of having problems and breakdowns so I switched to Toyota. My current car is a Camry hybrid. My wife has the van in the back.
Nicholas

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I am not a car person or have a passion for them-my brothers do,however.I currently have a 2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited.Enjoy this car alot-and it gets me to and from work in even the most worst weather!I work an "essentual Person" job so I have to make an effort to get to work no matter what.The Toyota has been up to that.And its as reliable as the old school Maytag washer!When I bought my car--there was a Highlander in the showroom with a big sign on it that read "500,000 miles"The car was owned by a farm feed dealer-used it to delivor pig and turkey feeds to farms.I mentioned to the salesman--"I want to keep my car that long-you can put that sign on my car when I trade it in!"The dealer said that Highlander was still rideable-and asked if I wanted to buy it!--He asked"You want a second car don't you?"Nice--but too expensive.
 
My last 4 vehicles have been Toyota made. I have sworn off of GM and Chrysler after having numerous problems with their vehicles. I have yet to try Ford. Currently I have a 2012 Toyota Venza AWD. Previous to that I had a 2008 Lexus (division of Toyota) IS250 AWD, 2004 Toyota Solara, and a 2001 Toyota Solara.

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Hyundai Elantra

I've always had a soft spot for smaller cars. I've had larger cars, and for some reason, I've always gone back to smaller ones. I guess it's because my very first car was a small Honda and I've just gotten used to them - plus I enjoy driving an economically efficient vehicle due to my 45 min commute to work.

It's been a very comfortable car so far and came with an excellent warranty! Has everything I need on it and gets loads of compliments!

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My Current ride is a Hyundai i20 1.6 Turbo. Its wickedly fast. I bought it because I needed something with better fuel consumption due the the fac that I had moved our vacshop to a bigger premises but it was much much further away. It was supposed to be my to and from work car but it has become my all the time car due to the fact its so much fun to drive and a bit of a sleeper, Its looks hide the monster beneath.
I have always had massive cars before, and this is my first pocket rocket.

I also have a Merc e class 124 series that has a 5L v8 fitted. This now hardly gets driven :( . I love mercs and am busy with another Merc project having just finished off a 123 coupe and then selling it to someone with far to much money :)

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I am currently driving my second Jeep a 2004 Grand Cherokee with 50,400 miles on it. The first Jeep GC a 1998 ZJ body died a terrible death when it's engine came through the firewall.
I got the current one a week after that wreck, just don't drive that much anymore. Never know when you are going to meet a drunk, so I either stay off the road when possible, or drive a big vehicle.
 
These days smaller cars are just as safe as big cars Often even safer than big cars that are only a few years old. Just view u tube to see what happens when they smash a smart car into a 10 year old s class Merc. Logic dictates that you would be better off on the big merc but modern saftey features say other wise.

many of your bigger SUV's actually have a poorer crash rating than smaller cars due to their harder design for off road or commercial underpinnings. If your car has poor crumple zones to absorb impact you become the crumple zone.

Last year in June my wife was driving the car I pictured above. It was pouring down with rain ( first heavy rain for a few weeks) Their was a large diesle spill on the road and she hit it and went straight into a bridge post at about 60 kph

She walked away from the accident with no injury's and again thanks to modern technology they simply unbolted the front end and fitted a new one. We had the car back in two weeks. 7 months on not a rattle or a squeek from it. The repair bill for the car came to just over $7000.00 thank heavens for insurance .

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Yea Gareth,
You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.
You put a 2,000 lb vehicle against a 5,000 lb one and physics will tell you the little guy will lose.
My head-on experience was with a Ford F-150
I guess it could have been repaired, but the damage was extensive outside and inside due to the air-bag deployment. Insurance company declared it a total loss, in all honesty with that much damage I didn't want it back.

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Alan, Cory, Clayton...

Alan, that's a great looking station wagon! Some friends of mine had the Buick Estate version, I believe that's what it was called. It was like riding in a Cadillac, white with the woodgrain and buckskin interior, it was the bomb!

Cory, that's a great color, gun-metal grayish, I'm sure there's a proper name for it. Two friends of mine have Elantras, and one is on their third Sonata, and they all love them. I have rented Sonatas and Kia Optimas and was very impressed, they have to be hurting Toyota and Honda sales big time.

Clayton, those were the days of the Wagoneers, chrome everywhere! If I ever saw one of those in pristine condtion on a lot, I would plotz! That's a great color on your pic. You don't see many of those around here, I think they might've rusted badly in the midwest. I know I've seen a few of them in movies, but rarely in person anymore.
 
Cars

I currently have a 1981 Pontiac Trans Am Nascar edition pace car replica that is enjoying it's annual nap while Winter rages on. She comes out in May. My Summer driver is a 1996 Caprice and my year round car is a red 2013 Impala LT with moon roof and a monster 3.6 liter V6 under hood that really makes this car fly when needed and gets 31 plus MPG on the open road. I only have a pic of the 96 Caprice at the moment and here she is with only 88K miles on the clock. No troubles with these GM cars. There is a reason Caprices, Impalas, Crown Vic and Taurus's were used for law enforcement and severe taxi use. They are long lasting reliable sedans and all the ones my family and friends have owned over the years have been very reliable overall.

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Joel
I Love the Caprice . We never got them here but their are a few floating around because of Movies that are been Filmed in Cape Town. Most are in USA Cop Car Colours although I ave seen a few yellow ones too. I love how big they are. With most of our cars been German or Japanese based we do not get really big cars here so these stand out in traffic.

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My family is also loyal to Toyota. Our current vehicles are a 2007 Camry Hybrid and a 2006 Sequoia. Absolutely zero mechanical issues over the life of the cars. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many times we'll drive over a 100 miles a day in the Camry.  Most their use was in the hot central Arizona desert, which can be brutal. Both have about 120,000 miles on them, but with such great </span>reliability we don't plan on turing them in anytime soon. 


 


<span style="font-size: 12pt;">However, I must say that Grand Wagoneer is </span>pretty sleek. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">  I'd </span>probably prefer a smaller early Cherokee, but you can't go wrong with a woody!  <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>
 
kirbyloverdan

that doesn't prove anything. In that crash test is a 1950's Chevy Bel Air the people who poted above are talking about cars made in the 1980's and 1990's. Since the 1950's safety in cars has gotten better by so much. Comparing a 1950's car to a more modern one is simply not reasonable considering how many safety features a 1950's car lacks. The cars the people above are talking about are made in the 1980's and 1990's where safety was improved. Those cars actually have air bags and other safety innovations that they didn't have in the 50's. That crash test you provided proves nothing but that cars in the 50's were not safe. In the 1990's the safety in cars has been changed so much.
 
I just upgraded ...

<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">I had been driving a 2008 Honda Civic LX for the last four years, and this past August I decided that it was time for a change.  So I bought my first Hyundai: a 2013 Sonata GLS.  It's a radical departure from everything I've ever driven!  It has everything in it that I wanted and then some.</span>


 


<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Hyundai has come a long way here in the USA since their first car, the Excel, debuted in 1986: they've made great strides in design and quality, and because I'd heard nothing but good things about them from people I knew who had them I decided I'd give one a try -- and I'm glad I did.</span>


 


<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Oh -- in the 30+ years that I've been driving I've also owned two Fords, a Chrysler, a Suzuki, two Nissans, a Mitsubishi, a Pontiac, an Oldsmobile, and four Chevrolets.  And I'm sorry to say but because of all the problems that the company itself has been embroiled in PLUS an extremely bad customer service experience I had with a local dealership, I will never buy another GM vehicle.  I wish I didn't have to feel this way about an American company, but ...</span>


 


<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Bill W.</span>

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Tyler.

You are so correct. I personally love the Lincoln Town Cars and Cadillacs.
Every safety feature is there. There are so many airbags it's like being surrounded by a giant marshmallow!
I know VERY well how "unsafe" those big cars from the 50s were.
One July5,back in the '60s, a drunk driver ran a stop sign, hit our car head on. This was before DUIs, DWIs, lawsuits, Oprah!
The front seats was like a sofa "bench". There were NO seatbelts in the car... they came later.
We were hit so hard, I was thrown into the back of the front seat. I was seated in the back seat.
I ended up w/ a broken back. To this day, I have absolutely NO recollection of it at all. The mind CAN be very kind. When my mom died, I found all of the papers detailing the entire event.
I'm sure it's better I don't recall it. I DO remember wearing a brace for years, though.
So, yes, everyone realizes how unsafe older cars can be.
But, 1990s............. whole different story.
 
I drive the inventor of gasoline powered automobile

And the pioneer of today's safety features in automobiles ,Numerous technological innovations have been introduced on Mercedes-Benz automobiles throughout the many years of their production, including:

The internal combustion engined automobile was developed independently by Benz and Daimler & Maybach in 1886
Daimler invented the honeycomb radiator of the type still used on all water-cooled vehicles today
Daimler invented the float carburetor which was used until replaced by fuel injection
The "drop chassis" – the car originally designated the "Mercedes" by Daimler was also the first car with a modern configuration, having the carriage lowered and set between the front and rear wheels, with a front engine and powered rear wheels. All earlier cars were "horseless carriages", which had high centres of gravity and various engine/drive-train configurations
The first passenger road car to have brakes on all four wheels (1924)[72]
In 1936, the Mercedes-Benz 260 D was the first diesel powered passenger car.
Mercedes-Benz were the first to offer direct fuel injection on the Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing
The "safety cage" or "safety cell" construction with front and rear crumple zones was first developed by Mercedes-Benz in 1951. This is considered by many as the most important innovation in automobile construction from a safety standpoint[5][verification needed]
In 1959, Mercedes-Benz patented a device that prevents drive wheels from spinning by intervening at the engine, transmission, or brakes. In 1987, Mercedes-Benz applied its patent by introducing a traction control system that worked under both braking and acceleration
an Anti-Lock Brake system (ABS) was first offered on the W116 450SEL 6.9. They became standard on the W12The (W211) E320 CDI which has a variable geometry turbocharger (VGT) 3.0-litre V6 common rail diesel engine (producing 224 hp or 167 kW), set three world endurance records. It covered 100,000 miles (160,000 km) in a record time, with an average speed of 224.823 km/h (139.70 mph). Three identical cars did the endurance run (one set above record) and the other two cars set world records for time taken to cover 100,000 kilometres (62,137 mi) and 50,000 miles (80,000 km) respectively. After all three cars had completed the run, their combined distance was 300,000 miles (480,000 km) (all records were FIA approved).[74][clarification needed]
Mercedes-Benz pioneered a system called Pre-Safe to detect an imminent crash – and prepares the car's safety systems to respond optimally. It also calculates the optimal braking force required to avoid an accident in emergency situations, and makes it immediately available for when the driver depresses the brake pedal. Occupants are also prepared by tightening the seat belt, closing the sunroof and windows, and moving the seats into the optimal position.6 S-Class starting production in 1979 and first sold in most markets iAt 181 horsepower per litre, the M133 engine installed in Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG is the most powerful series production four-cylinder turbocharged motor (as of June 2013) and has one of the highest power density for a passenger vehicle.[75]
Half a century of vehicle safety innovation helped win Mercedes-Benz the Safety Award at the 2007 What Car? Awards.[72]n 1980.
Airbags were first introduced in the European market, beginning with model year 1981 S-Class.
Mercedes-Benz was the first to introduce pre-tensioners to seat belts on the 1981 S-Class. In the event of a crash, a pre-tensioner will tighten the belt instantaneously, removing any 'slack' in the belt, which prevents the occupant from jerking forward in a crash
In September 2003, Mercedes-Benz introduced the world's first seven-speed automatic transmission called '7G-Tronic'
Electronic Stability Programme (ESP), brake assist,[73] and many other types of safety equipment were all developed, tested, and implemented into passenger cars – first – by Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz has not made a large fuss about its innovations, and has even licensed them for use by competitors – in the name of improving automobile and passenger safety. As a result, crumple zones and anti-lock brakes (ABS) are now standard on all modern vehicles.

"The best or nothing "
"When only the best will do "
I love their mottos

Dan

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