I used to own only foreign cars
Posted By: LinK on 2008-11-17
In Reply to: Is your car foreign or American? - GabbyChick
I had Mazdas when I was younger. Then I married my husband, and he works for a Chrysler/Jeep dealship so no more foreign cars for me, but I do love my Jeep.
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My car is foreign...sm
I have always owned foeign cars. I currently drive a new Kia Spectra. I just bought it in May of this year. I am quite proud of it. It gets great mileage for me especially on road trips. I drove a VW New Beetle before I got the Kia, and I currently have it up for sale right now. It was a 99 model. Before the VW, I had a Toyota Corolla. Those are great cars. Before the Corolla I had a Toyota Camry. Before the Camry I had a Mitsibishi Eclipse. My first car was a Toyota Tercel. I don't have anything against American I just always like the cars I picked.
Foreign Films . . .
My Favorite - "Raise the Red Lantern". Also, "My Life in Pink".
Foreign dictators
I am getting a string of foreign dictators, the kind who can barely speak English. On top of that, they are disorganized, mumbly. It just irks me that I have to lose money listening to their rambling, unintelligible gibberish, long pauses. They have sick people in their own countries, why aren't they there taking care of them? I get 2 or 3 of these people and my line count goes right down the tubes.
I don't want to hear from you bleeding hearts - all the mularkey about we are all immigrants, etc. I don't want to hear about how your favorite dictators are foreigners. I'm not talking about dictators with accents, I'm talking about doctors who cannot speak decent English and yet are allowed to practice here.
Is your car foreign or American?
I have a 2005 Chevy Malibu Maxx. My last car is a 93 Buick Century wagon. I sold it to my nephew and he's still driving it. My car before that was a 2004 Chevy Malibu Maxx.
Both Maxxes have 3.5 motors. I'm squeezing out an average of 24 mpg. I do mostly city driving. On a road trip last month the average was 38.6 mpg. The Buick wagon has a 3.3. The car is bigger so the mileage was lower but around 18 mpg.
I have not owned a foreign car since 1996.
I have never owned a foreign car.
My old 1991 Dodge pickup has 450,000 miles on it and I bet it will see half a million. It is a 3/4 ton pickup and still averages about 23 miles to the gallon. Can't beat that. Also have a 2005 Ford F250 and a 2008 Dodge Charger that I am in love with.
when your ancestors came here from foreign lands
face what you're suggesting? (and I'm not talking about the situation with Mexico, rather ALL foreign countries actually)
ALL your relatives/kin came from some foreign land, that is unless you are a Native American. Think y'all better think before you type on this subject...and try to remember what all your grandparents or great-grandparents, (or even some parents today) had to go through so that YOU all can live and be free (and some of them did not do it legally)....Think Ellis Island...for one place.... where everyone just GRABBED names.....
those who live in glass houses or lived in glass houses via ancestry should never throw stones.....
I think, JMO, that we should CLOSE THE DOORS TO EVERYBODY.....and then get rid of the wet-foot-dry-foot policy ongoing in Florida too that merely caters to the Cubans......and to nobody else trying to escape their country(ies) for the same exact reasons (sociopolitcoeconomical reasons) as the Cubans. We should close our borders because of running out of natural resources and we already are having problems taking care of our own.
jes' my nickel's worth....LOL
I have traveled to foreign countries,
went to Greece just with my daughter when she was 12 and have visited lots of other countries just me and the children when they were young. I drive out of state frequently as have family in another state. I also go on vacations with meeting up with tours, people I don’t know but get to know with the time spent with them. I love traveling and if I want on DH to go, would never get around to it. I never fear traveling alone, have a good auto and go!
SIL foreign booty call.
My SIL is on a plane right now flying from Texas to France then to Cairo, Egypt to meet a man she met on second life. (A website/chat room/game). She and my bro always talk about how they cannot afford to get their car fixed, lawnmower fixed and 3 months ago brother told me that they cannot afford their house payment so they refinanced; but she managed to scrape up the money and do this....and worse my brother is standing by her because he does not believe in divorce. Another thing is they have 2 young children she left behind to go on her booty call.
Bro is trying to convince himself and me that she is merely on vacation. He said he cried when she left; and when I called him he said he had been sitting in front of his computer tracking down flights to see exactly where she is (there is evidently a website that does this). I said "I wonder how much time she is wasting wondering what you and the boys are doing." I cannot believe my SIL is that crazy. She is in her mid 30s. I can see a teenager wanting to do this. If she is not concerned about her H or kids, then she should be concerned about her own life. I thought Egypt was one of those countries were crimes against women were taken very lightly...I could be wrong. I thought human rights in general were taken lightly. I mentioned this to brother that I would be afraid that he might be luring her there and going to keep her as a slave. Brother said well, stuff like that happens here too. I said and this is why you travel in a group, not alone like she is. I don’t know if she is lodging with him or in a hotel/motel nearby. Knowing her stupidity now and her limited means, she is probably lodging with him.
She also runs around until 3 to 4 in the morning with a local/newly divorced man. I tried to convince my brother that we are there for him, he is not alone. He does not have to go through this emotional torture but he must be the co-dependent type and wants to hang on.
77 lincoln and 93 mercury -- never foreign
the Lincoln is currently in storage, as 8 mph is not really practical. never had a foreign car, was raised by dad to never do such a thing
So we should now ALSO be experts on every foreign culture?
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VERY hard when the names are foreign! DUH.
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I agree - and in a foreign country nonetheless! (sm)
What if she woke up and wandered out or if there was a fire or if someone came in and got her? No way in this world would I have done that. I have stayed in hotels by myself with my kids and the most I ever did was go to the vending machine on the same floor and right back while they were sleeping and I was nervous to do that!
I knew the site was hijacked but not by a foreign country. Which one?
The main board has a post saying that MTStars was sold.
Mine isn't a foreign body but rather attempted activity with the doc.....
I typed this report. The female doc was very calm and normal during the entire report. Male presented with penile pain and discharge. I get to the plan and she is saying she recommends he go to a urologist but he requested only "female" urologists and there was not 1 in any of the local or extended local areas, blah, blah, blah and I am kinda thinking to myself this was a little bit strange. Then she gets to the end and proceeds stating she needs me to type a separate note and title it incident note. He unclothed himself as soon as she walked in, was playing with it, and was trying to get her to play with it, etc. She gave great detailed info and I was laughing so hard throughout it it was so hard to type it. I know it wasn't funny for them but hearing the incident was hilarious for me. I was just picturing working in the office when all this was going on. Turns out he had done the nurse the same way and what I didn't get was why the doctor wasn't forewarned so she could make sure someone assisted her in the room or possibly this did happen but wasn't in her incident report.
cars
I totally agree. We were thinking about buying another car. Both of our cars have around 97,000. One is a van and needs a new sliding door and we have a smaller car that needs a left fender, but you're right no payments, which I totally adore, so I guess we'll fix both. The van needs a major tuneup, but still cheaper than buying a new car.
Cars
I am really a sad case and actually have saved all the cars (almost) that I have ever bought. My car insurance man loves me because some of them are actually insured in case I drive them. Three of them are in the back of the house and are awaiting restoration whenever we "get around to intermediate telephone consultation" and one is actually ready to be painted and have the seats redone. I do care about engines and it has a huge one. We could use it to race for pinkslip (if we were so inclined). I like to start the engine and listen to it. I know that sounds crazy. One of my favorites is a volkswagon I got in my 20s and it now is an antique. I just bought another new car that I love and I am trying to force myself to sell the almost new one I was driving before I bought the brand new one, but when I start to sell it I feel like I am losing a "friend." Soon, I will need to rent a building to keep them in and get another extra job to pay all the expenses. I envy you the ability to keep your collection down to model cars. I like those too, but I can't drive them so that wrecks it for me. I want a vintage Jag and I know someday I will get one even if they do have bummer electrical systems. Glad to know I am not the only female who loves cars!
we got old cars too...sm
and both boys learned to do just about everything including pulling out a tranny and engine and going to the junkyard to find parts...
My fave was a ོ Pontiac Tempest...Way back when the boys were little I was pulled over by a young police officer who asked why the kids weren't in seatbelts...I said, "Well, they didn't become standard installation until 1967"...She didn't believe me, had to call in to verify the fact and just gave me a courtesy ticket. Of course, I had them custom installed so I didn't get stopped in that small burg in upstate NY.
Love the old cars....No computer brain pieces that take out the entire electrical system....a coupla bolts to take out an alternator, couple to take out a starter...and they're made of real metal and don't crush like the plastic juice box cars they make nowadays.
Too bad the car companies haven't gotten around to installing rollbars in cars...But, then they're in the business of selling more cars, not saving lives.  Cat
Old cars
My 20-year-old nephew and I still talk about the times we spent going to the junk yard to find the fender, headlight, etc. for his Plymouth Horizon -- I think. We had a great time and really bonded. It just impressed me that they were not interested in muscle cars, or trucks or a Mustang and just happy and content that they had a car that ran and took them where they were going. In fact, he was picked for graduate of the year with the most unusual car, also got picked for best looking, most likely to suceed and another one but could keep only one and he kept the one about the car because he said it meant a lot to him as we worked on getting the parts and then he and his step grandfather worked on putting it together. Cost me all of $150 to help him replace the parts and gave me so much more in return.
Have an extremely strong accent when speaking foreign languages,....nm
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P.S. I'm not into gas guzzing cars either.
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$20,000 is less than most cars cost
You should have no problem getting a home loan for that amount ANYWHERE. They will probably try to jack up the interest rate because of your bad credit score, but don't let them. Bargain with them and if they won't deal, tell them you'll go to the bank next door. Get them down to 6.5% or less if you can.
Good luck!
Do teens still get cars of their own
Do people still buy cars for their teens or do they share cars? Do you pay for insurance or do they have to get a job and pay for it? My parents gave me nada, but that seems extreme, so I would like to know what other people consider normal.
AMEN! We had old cars that we put sm
in their names (they didn't drive them, they had their own cars) so that they could have an insurance policiy in their names. If we had put them on our insurance policy we wouldn't be able to afford insurance to this day because of the driving record! I laugh because the youngest is a firefighter now and drives the truck all the time! I guess all that "fast driving" prepared him for something! haha
This is an invitation to get crushed between cars when
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natural bug cleaner for cars...anybody got one?
Does anybody know of a natural solution to remove bugs from your car without ruining the paint job? thanks
Cars that drive on the ground.
I was sure everybody would be having cars that fly by now.
Also, I thought that sidewalks would move and we would not have to walk at all.
I never thought we'd still be cooking on top the stove, I thought there would be replicators (little machines we hit a button and comes out our supper or drinks).
For some reason, the Walt Disney version of the future, a ride which no longer exists in Orlando, BTW was my idea of the 21st century. Turns out that it is much different.
Yet, what do we have that we would have never thought about?
The Internet. 30 years ago such an idea would seem impossible.
I have two teens of driving age who both have their own cars. sm
My older teen is 19. She pays for her own insurance, but is on my policy. I will pay for my 17 year old until he is 19. I got them both used cars, and now if they want to sell them and get another one, that's up to them.
I agree with this. I drive all my cars to death.
I've been married 23 years, and between the hubby and I, we've had four new cars in all that time, five if you want to count the car he brought into the marriage with him, which was a couple of years old at the time. For me, I had a 1986 Aerostar van which I bought new and drove to death, and now have a 1998 Windstar van with 110,000 miles on it, plus a really cool custom Yakima rack for my kayaks! We do buy all of our cars new, and it's lovely to have long stretches without any car payments, like right now. DH is driving a 2001 Taurus. But he's got lots of miles on that due to long commute to work and traveling to clients. Bought that one with no money down at 0% because my hubby, a CPA, loved the idea of free money. So that was the biggest car loan we ever had, but the loan cost us nothing. The Taurus has about 160,000 on it, and DH is starting to warm to the idea of replacing it. We're considering either a camry hybrid to save on gas, or a nice sturdy Volvo, because statistics show that Volvos average almost 20 years on the road.
Pfaltzgraff, books, cars, shoes
When I was a rich yuppie I collected a ton of Pfaltzgraff (tea rose), then I decided I had way more than I'll ever use so I quit. I'll never have enough books though. I also have some cars waiting to be restored and my guy is into that. We also have some toy vehicles that keep accumulating. I need to get rid of some of the shoes though, its just so hard to throw them away!
That sounds strange, cars in with property but
now much do you have to pay?
I had a home when we married, stability yes and the cars
I had 2, a van and a bigger vehicle, both on their last tires. He first bought me a green Toyota, glad to get that and then went and traded for a silver BMW. I did not have a clue as to what he had bought me. That was 9 years ago and since that time he has bought me 2 more brand new BMWs. I am not looking that gift horse in the mouth! He is a jewel who had been my friend before marriage and I was not looking for anyone to marry when he happened along. Best move I ever made when I suggested marriage. Married in Las Vegas and happy ever since. I am finally spoiled and loving it.
Like Oprah giving poor people new cars
It never occurred to her that they couldn't afford to pay the income tax on them.
Anyone know organizations where people can apply for donated cars? (sm)
I am trying to help a family that is in desperate need of a vehicle so that the dad can keep his job and take care of his family. They live far enough out that there are no buses and no one to carpool with. I know there are organizations who can help. Can anyone direct me? Thank you so much in advance.
After years of owning only American cars, I now own a Prius.
I'm getting 50 mpg even on the PA turnpike. I'm extremely happy with it and would buy another in a heartbeat. Earlier in the year, Toyota announced that they will be building Prius in the U.S., too.
Carfax relies on owners of the cars to report problems
We bought a "perfect" car, ྙ Olds (in 2000) that only had 45,000 miles on it. Loved that car but it was a flood car.The engine was still good but everything power plus the frame gave out in 5 years. Wouldn't pass inspection and had to junk it.
Nothing on Carfax had any of this info. So I'll never pay for a Carfax report again.
Also blessed w/a great hubs, partner, and father to the kids. Fixes our cars, scrubs the carpets,
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When 2 cars ride side by side on the interstate...sm
and block traffic so nobody can pass. I will get irate over this. I don't know where people's brains are.
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