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02-13-2007, 10:00 PM
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vroom vroom
Drives: lil red 5-door Join Date: Sep 2006
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And according to a couple of reviews I read, they drive badass too...
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02-13-2007, 10:03 PM
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For a starting price of just under $23,000, that car had better drive REALLY badass.
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02-13-2007, 10:05 PM
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vroom vroom
Drives: lil red 5-door Join Date: Sep 2006
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ahhahahahaa yeah that's always a good point
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02-13-2007, 10:10 PM
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Look mum no stars!!
Drives: Toyota Yaris 06 Join Date: Aug 2006
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i love mazda 3's..............that was my 1st choice of a car...2nd was a yaris....3rd was a tiida.....
i cant drive big cars :(
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02-13-2007, 10:19 PM
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vroom vroom
Drives: lil red 5-door Join Date: Sep 2006
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I stongly considered it as well... but... almost double the price of a Yaris... and no manual transmission option on the 1.8 liter engine, only 1.6... How crap is that?
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02-13-2007, 10:21 PM
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Almost as "crap" as us not getting tachs.
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02-13-2007, 10:35 PM
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   Chino... this is for you! +582 
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02-13-2007, 10:49 PM
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WOOT!
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02-13-2007, 10:54 PM
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vroom vroom
Drives: lil red 5-door Join Date: Sep 2006
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true, true... At least an external tach can be added semi-easily... Transmission swap? a little more involved...
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02-13-2007, 10:59 PM
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You've got a point there!
Man, we're just full of points tonight. [I need to go to bed, LOL] |
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02-13-2007, 11:07 PM
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vroom vroom
Drives: lil red 5-door Join Date: Sep 2006
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yeah better be careful we don't poke our eyes out with all those sharp points
 But this got me thinking, out of curiosity, in the US, do most models of japanese imported cars have a manual transmission option?
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02-13-2007, 11:13 PM
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Badum-CHA!
I would say most small cars have a manual option. Doesn't matter if they're imports or domestic. Less and less larger cars have a true manual option. A handfull have tiptronic, but it isn't the same as stomping that clutch. In short, American drivers are sissies. |
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02-13-2007, 11:23 PM
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vroom vroom
Drives: lil red 5-door Join Date: Sep 2006
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It's a sad state here too... even the "sport" models (new ford focus with 2.0 engine, or Mazda 3 sport wagon for example) are automatic only... I had to go with the bottom trim level of the Yaris since that's the only one with a manual... so what, manual transmissions are a status symbol of the poor?
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02-19-2007, 11:42 PM
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CAMRY FTW!
Drives: Camry LE V-6 (225,000+ miles) Join Date: Jul 2006
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2.3L 250Hp FTW! I think I may get that car instead of the Yaris. 
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02-19-2007, 04:03 PM
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GIGA...DRILL...BREAKER!!!
Drives: Lagann. ;P Join Date: Feb 2006
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Weird. You realize that the new Smart Fortwo with a 900cc 3 cylinder engine will be producing 15 more HP than the 1.3 L Mazda 2, right? Something about that just seems wrong...
 It better get some DARN good mileage, if that's the case! it IS a sharp little thing, though. ~YR
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02-19-2007, 11:54 PM
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don,t mazda smoke more from the exhaust then tires seems when i see a car blowing smoke more often then not it is mazda if not a toyota get a honda or a nissan just what i have come to know in over half a
 century its your money just have fun
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02-25-2007, 09:12 PM
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CAMRY FTW!
Drives: Camry LE V-6 (225,000+ miles) Join Date: Jul 2006
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Huh? I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you said.
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03-06-2007, 08:03 PM
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stop staring my star perv
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