New Car

[ChinoCharles]

Ding, dong, the Vue is dead.

Picked up a 2011 Toyota Corolla S. Mark my words: I will never buy another domestic vehicle again. You heard it here first.

[shaneinhisroom]

Shit if you waited 5 months I would have sold you my XRS at a very reasonable price. haha enjoy the TuRD man.

[ChinoCharles]

Its fine, I wanted the warranty and the 0.9% financing. The dealership I bought at has their own lifetime drivetrain warranty, too, not that I'll ever need it... its a freekin' Corolla. DD forever!

[TSi+WRX]

I kid you not, one of my aunt's family literally never does any maintenance on their car - the tires get air, if they're lucky , but certainly no oil-changes or any other kind of preventative maintenance. I seriously don't think they even add washer fluid.

Their 90-something Corolla lasted well into the decade-plus range, logging close to 200K miles, before it just died.

They were more than happy with it.

[shaneinhisroom]

200K on no oil changes?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Actually I remember when I saw a BMW broken down that had 80k miles on 1 fluid change. It was pretty eye opening.

[TSi+WRX]

Yep. The car just up and died one day.

For this family, though, they treated their cars as disposable objects. Use them until they die, then buy another.

[motozachl]

Excellent DD fine choice

[ChinoCharles]

I'm really just enjoying the shit out of the car. A few truths:

Every car should have bluetooth.
Moon roofs are amazeballs.
The range on the lock/unlock on the key fob is amazeballs.
Gas mileage on the first tank was 30 MPG dead nuts. Daddy like.
It has a pleasant amount of pep for that gas mileage. 140 HP isn't going to set the world on fire but for a DD I'll take it.
Materials on the interior have come a long way for the Corolla.

I dig it!

[shaneinhisroom]

I get 32mpg and 40+ more hp! but that doesn't kick in until 6500 rpm :(

[ChinoCharles]

Here Shane, have a cookie.