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Fez Hammersticks

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What art thou driving?

What has your eye?

What are you pipe-dreaming about?

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(Subaru Legacy)

I'm definitely looking to get one of these. Preferably the limited 3.6R version. Black on black, with the Tommy Kaira body kit, and the STi hood scoop. Sinister Suby.

Go!​
 
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Fez Von Savage said:
What art thou driving?

What has your eye?

What are you pipe-dreaming about?

27580682_347118165789228_1149911488446595072_n.jpg

(Subaru Legacy)

I'm definitely looking to get one of these. Preferably the limited 3.6R version. Black on black, with the Tommy Kaira body kit, and the STi hood scoop. Sinister Suby.

Go!​
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Really FAMS? You trying out as an extra for The Fast and Furious?
 
HCP said:
Got one of these as a rental once for work. I was SO lost trying to drive that thing, or even start it.
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I love it...it took awhile to adjust to it...driving to Corvalis from Eugene....69 mpg.....don't care for the first two models but mine is a 3rd generation with two motors..it's a great ride...a bit fancier than the low end models
 
This looks sorta like my first:

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My first car was a '64 Olds Dynamic 88 (awesome tank) ,a '67 Olds Cutlass, and a shitty 73 Fiat (Fix It Again Tony). Once rode in these. IMG_2483.JPG ...in the drivers seat and the rear bench.
 
I have 2 upcoming car purchases coming up. We need to replace my wife's 2015 e-Golf (lease is coming to an end) - she loves driving an electric car, so probably another one, the new e-Golf has more range (125 miles) so this is the likely replacement, but we will go look at the new Leaf as well. There is no way to get a Model 3 in time - although the one that I have seen was very cool. Maybe the one car after that one will be one of those.

Also, my oldest is going to take her driving test in a couple of months, and assuming she passes - we probably would need to get a cheapo car for her to drive around, as my wife needs her car and we do not want her to drive one of the old crocks that I keep as my drivers. Maybe I will come up to Portland and find her an old lifted Subaru with a snorkel (she does not need one, but I would love to have a small lifted car based thing to bomb around on dirt tracks)
 
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andalusian said:
I have 2 upcoming car purchases coming up. We need to replace my wife's 2016 e-Golf (lease is coming to an end) - she loves driving an electric car, so probably another one, the new e-Golf has more range (125 miles) so this is the likely replacement, but we will go look at the new Leaf as well. There is no way to get a Model 3 in time - although the one that I have seen was very cool. Maybe the one car after that one will be one of those.

Also, my oldest is going to take her driving test in a couple of months, and assuming she passes - we probably would need to get a cheapo car for her to drive around, as my wife needs her car and we do not want her to drive one of the old crocks that I keep as my drivers. Maybe I will come up to Portland and find her an old lifted Subaru with a snorkel (she does not need one, but I would love to have a small lifted car based thing to bomb around on dirt tracks)
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We have the 2016 e-golf as well. Have nothing but good things to say about it. My wife uses it to commute to work. Gets about 110 Miles/Charge on it, though it's not rated for that.

The new VW ID Hatchback to go into production November 2019

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Denny Crane said:
We have the 2016 e-golf as well. Have nothing but good things to say about it. My wife uses it to commute to work. Gets about 110 Miles/Charge on it, though it's not rated for that.
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Ours is actually a 2015 - we got an early one. It is rated at 83 and used to get close to 100 - but after almost 3 years, the range certainly is not that great anymore - it is a 75 miles car now when it is warm. I think the only issue I have with the e-Golf is that because it is not active cooling for the batteries - they lose range, or at least ours did. That's why you lease new technology I guess. Other than that - it is really an excellent car.

The new VW ID Hatchback to go into production November 2019

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Yeah, I do not think the better half is willing to wait. We either get a stop-gap car or she drives our long-distance family car daily (we have an old Lexus GX470 that is almost never used, other than long trips / all family driving). I suspect that we will just get another lease, and look at maybe buying the car after that one - with the hope that batteries are better and it makes sense to do so.

FWIW - I am still driving my 1993 Mazda Miata as my daily driver. That car looks like a barbie car, but it is one of the toughest little cars ever made. That thing just keeps on ticking, despite living outside and acting as my race car back in the day (for 5 years it did maybe 10,000 miles in PIR swapping paint). In more than 20 years it never once had any unscheduled work other than a radiator replacement I did a couple of years ago when it started to slowly leak. I changed the water pump at the same time. I suspect that this car will continue to go for a long time. Only thing I can think that might stop it is smog. At 25 years old for an engine that has never been opened once, it must have some carbon buildup that a simple change of the cat will not fix.

If it ever fails - I might just make it a project car and drop an old LS engine there and go terrorizing the neighborhood.
 
andalusian said:
Ours is actually a 2015 - we got an early one. It is rated at 83 and used to get close to 100 - but after almost 3 years, the range certainly is not that great anymore - it is a 75 miles car now when it is warm. I think the only issue I have with the e-Golf is that because it is not active cooling for the batteries - they lose range, or at least ours did. That's why you lease new technology I guess. Other than that - it is really an excellent car.



Yeah, I do not think the better half is willing to wait. We either get a stop-gap car or she drives our long-distance family car daily (we have an old Lexus GX470 that is almost never used, other than long trips / all family driving). I suspect that we will just get another lease, and look at maybe buying the car after that one - with the hope that batteries are better and it makes sense to do so.
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We leased the e-golf exactly because when the lease is up the tech in the newer models would be that much better. It's rated 85, too.

A 2 year lease would get you to the new VW Id car. Or a 3 year lease would get you to 2nd year model, which might be better.

The new bus looks fantastic, too, but won't be available until later.
 
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