New Job!

[alhope34]

I am officially leaving the Aquarium Services business for good September 21st. I have a new job lined up for the 24th. General labourer for a company that builds new condos all over down town Toronto. Going from $9 an hour garbage customer service job, to a $15 an hour labouring job. I know I will love it much more than customer service, I have done work like that before. I'm just so happy to be leaving the customer service world, I had to put it up somewhere.

More money also means possibly a new Yaris. I will be getting a new car in the late spring/early summer for sure, but I am still staying on the Yaris insurance. When I want to save gas, I'll use the Yaris, when I want to go for a week end drive, use my other car. I'm thinking about 3 different cars right now, all completely different. If people have some opinions on these cars, I'd like to hear them.

1st choice would be 96-97 Ford Probe GT. I had one before, a 94. Had 300,000kms on it and it died. But the 1/8th of the time that the Probe worked, I loved it. 2nd choice would be '70-72 Oldsmobile Cutlas S 2dr. 350ci V8 and 4 speed manual. And my last choice would be 2003 Saturn Ion 4dr coupe. I love the looks of all of these cars, but based on availability I'd say the Probe and Ion would be the likely choices. Both have pros and cons.

Probe..

Pros:
-Very fast for 2.5L
-Easy to tune
-most are found with 5sp manual
-relatively light
-looks amazing (to me)
-POP UP HEADLIGHTS!!!

Cons:
-very unreliable
-engine very unstable at the smallest vacuum leak
-sometimes things go wrong for no reason and no one knows why. The car just seems to hate you.
-uses premium fuel only

Ion..

Pros:
-reliable
-powerful enough
-looks pretty good for a car that doesn't have pop-up headlights
-pretty good on fuel for a 2.2L

Cons:
-no pop-up headlights
-higher price
-more on insurance
-not much after market support, defenetly not as much as the Probe
-could be seen as a "fake" coupe for having two 1/2 doors.

All in all, I really want another Probe GT. Anyway, tell me what you guys think!

-Allan