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#224890 14-Jun-2009 14:40

steveonz:

Well I was having a discussion with a friend a few weeks ago about the particular car, and just thought it was fitting that the GZ car was a PT. Just fitting I suppose, I didn’t want to show the posts becasue it’s a tad cheeky.

Would you care to elaborate? And dig yourself a deeper hole? How is it fitting?

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#224891 14-Jun-2009 14:41

rscole86:
steveonz:

Well I was having a discussion with a friend a few weeks ago about the particular car, and just thought it was fitting that the GZ car was a PT. Just fitting I suppose, I didn’t want to show the posts becasue it’s a tad cheeky.

Would you care to elaborate? And dig yourself a deeper hole? How is it fitting?

I hope he's not saying that GZ is ugly ;) :P

/ducks

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#224897 14-Jun-2009 15:00

Aaroona: I hope he's not saying that GZ is ugly ;) :P

/ducks

He's saying GZ is ugly, my car is ugly and he's digging a bigger hole...

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#224898 14-Jun-2009 15:04

In that case..
/me slaps steveonz over the head with a smelly wet fish

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#224931 14-Jun-2009 16:34

looks like the stavic has tinted windows so at least you could hide in the back... i had to endure being driven around in a Austin Maxi as a teenager which i think is far worse... (going back a couple decades now)

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#224933 14-Jun-2009 16:36

Pt is a bit of an acquired taste. Not something I would buy. I'm far to much of a fan my Japanese reliability/cheap parts/parts availability/things mechanics don't go ewwww at.

And the ugliest car award possibly goes to those Subaru Impreza things which are made to look oldschool, they have a completely different front cut and weird circle tail lights. Also the Nissan Figaro and Toyota Will VI (The VS is a good looking car)

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#224935 14-Jun-2009 16:39

lxsw20: I'm far to much of a fan my Japanese reliability/cheap parts/parts availability/things mechanics don't go ewwww at.

$1923. This is how much I paid last Friday for parts and service on my PT Cruiser. Had to have something fixex in the radiator/fan module control, plus a couple of belts and the air conditioning which wasn't working because of the fan...

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#224937 14-Jun-2009 16:45

The Sirion is a remarkably nice car to both drive and inside is spacious, I'd thought the worst at first glance. The i-car though really was a pile of spuds, too narrow and long. The Smart fortwo was surprisingly nice to drive also, I generally like large cars so I was quite surprised, mys last attempt to drive a tiny car resulted in me ripping the crankshaft in two on the motorway and having to "rev and ride" it on one cylinder all the way home like a victa lawnmower (to the garage that was fixing mine) whoooops!

Yes, Chrysler 300c, they also run on 4 cylinders until 8 are needed and are just meaty yet stylish (in my opinion) but I appreciate smaller vehicles recently, drive a 1980's MR2 as they are well balanced on the road and have very good visibility and as I say, the Daihatsu gave me an insight that small shopping trolleys are not all just "rubbbish" (though some like that i-car are.)

I find bulky, bulbous back ends on any car both dangerous and super-ugly, I notice rear-view cameras as very popular on modern cars so you don't mow the neighbours children down, utterly idiotic designs, try changing lanes any many of them too, works old car was deadly on the motorway.

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#224938 14-Jun-2009 16:51

lxsw20: I'm far to much of a fan my Japanese reliability/cheap parts/parts availability/things mechanics don't go ewwww at.

You don't want the bad luck I had with my 2002 nissan primera then, cost me 75% again what I paid for it ($10,000) over just two years of driving it for 40,000 KM's and still did not have a heater that worked or started on cold mornings. The 1956 car I was driving could at least acheive those things.

Have the MR2 as my interim car until I upgrade after recovering from the financial pain it caused.

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#224940 14-Jun-2009 16:55

Freitasm, I've spotted one in Khandallah-Johnsonville area plate [Geekz1] is that yours? nice car, I admired it!

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#224941 14-Jun-2009 16:57

paradoxsm: Freitasm, I've spotted one in Khandallah-Johnsonville area plate [Geekz1] is that yours? nice car, I admired it!

Yep, GEEKZ1.

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#224942 14-Jun-2009 16:57

paradoxsm: Freitasm, I've spotted one in Khandallah-Johnsonville area plate [Geekz1] is that yours? nice car, I admired it!

That just gave me an image from rove...if you saw it you'll know what I was talking about...

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#224953 14-Jun-2009 17:25

mitsi diamante 98 - $5600. owned for 4 years. cambelt - $2000. fuel sensor - $1600 (happened 1 week after repair cambelt they had to remove the whole cambelt and reinstall - i claimed the cambelt change caused the fault but to no avail). exhaust - $500. front ball joint - $700. plus servicing and tyres ...

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#224954 14-Jun-2009 17:28

freitasm:
lxsw20: I'm far to much of a fan my Japanese reliability/cheap parts/parts availability/things mechanics don't go ewwww at.

$1923. This is how much I paid last Friday for parts and service on my PT Cruiser. Had to have something fixex in the radiator/fan module control, plus a couple of belts and the air conditioning which wasn't working because of the fan...

Hey MF, were you one of the first ones to get a PT in NZ? because from memory, there was a recall for a safety thing..

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

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#224966 14-Jun-2009 18:05

freitasm:
Aaroona: I hope he's not saying that GZ is ugly ;) :P

/ducks

He's saying GZ is ugly, my car is ugly and he's digging a bigger hole...

Well now that you mention it, the GZ site doesn’t line up very well when you change the text sizing. Perhaps you could use some better css styles or even use tables (horrible I know) to fix the navigation up the top.

I wouldn’t normally complain :)

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