@nish I believe so. I don’t remember the super details, but it was DOHC 1.6L, sadly not the VTEC. At the age it was, it was probably outputting like 75HP haha! I went to Vermont once in it and almost couldn’t get up a few of the hills/mountains. He was struggling bad. Because of this car, I plan to continue getting manual transmissions as long as I can. Assuming I come back stateside I wanna get a 2010 Honda Accord sport. I’ve heard they have excellent transmissions/gear boxes.
2008 infiniti as a daily, for the weekend…tba
2008 Manual Audi A3, soon to be switched for something bit modern.
Thanks to some successful Pokemon sales, I got my 14 Subaru WRX repainted 
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I sold my 2001 Hyundai Sonata when I moved into the city in 2014/15 - didn’t make sense to keep it when I could go anywhere by bike and often for much faster and without the high cost.
So now I just have a bike, but looking to get a new one.
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Currently I drive this 2013 Golf R. I moved to a condo without a garage, so I needed one car that could do everything and I wouldn’t feel too bad about parking outside. I had a Cherokee like yours back in the day and I miss it dearly.
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My first car was a white Daihatsu Cuore from 2009. Very small car from the outside, with basically no front nor back, but the inside four-seat space was actually surprisingly large. I had two colleagues of 2 meters (6’5") and 1.8 meters (5’9") sit behind the wheel and the backseat behind it once, and both said they had more room above and at their legs than in their own Mercedes cars. 
I drove it for about a year, but then someone bumped into me on literally my first trip to our new office, and it was deemed totaled by the garage. Still, I paid 4200 euros for it, and received 5k back from insurance, so I basically drove my car for a year and even got 800 euros for free with it. My little brother said I should let people bump into me more often. Below is what it looked like after the crash. Not too bad (neither of us were injured, and we were still able to ‘somewhat’ drive with our cars that day), but because the rear axle was bend and had to be replaced completely, the repair costs would be too much and it was primarily deemed totaled because of that.
After that I drove a lease-from-work car for a while, a Volkswagen Up (still pretty small, but larger than the Daihatsu Cuore).
I’m not much of a car guy tbh. As long as it safely dries me from point A to B I’m fine with it.
And since I switched jobs four months ago to a closer by office, I travel by bicycle, train, and bus and no longer have a car. If I need one, I borrow my parent’s or little brother’s cars if necessary, but most places I visit I can just visit by bicycle or public transport.
Greetz,
Quuador
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Xterras are criminally underrated.
100%. They stopped making them in 2015 and I had a 2007 before this one so it may be my last if they don’t bring it back. Luckily this one only has 52k miles so I should get quite a bit more mileage from it!
Really disappointed to see it’s not this:
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Haha! Ya know after seeing “The Italian Job” I really liked mini coopers, but I’m more of an SUV guy.
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Any other motorcycle riders out there?
I am currently car-less. When I graduated college in 2016, my parents gave me the family car, which was a 2002 Nissan Altima with a v6 engine. They put a lot of money into it before giving it to me in the hopes that it would be roadworthy for a few more years. It made it until this past spring, although I sunk probably another $3k into repairs and whatnot since then. But then the alternator gave out, which would have been a $700-$800 repair (yes, I know it’s usually cheaper, yes, I did get multiple quotes; there’s something about this particular make/model that makes alternator replacements difficult and time-consuming, apparently). This is after putting almost $1k into it this past winter, and $1500 in 2019. Decided it was time to cut my losses, since it seemed like my 20-year-old car had reached a tipping point and would just be an endless money pit.
Ended up junking it for $250, which my longtime mechanic told me was “a really good offer,” but selling a fucking CAR—especially one that had served my family well for so long—for $250 did not feel like a good deal. So, for the past few months, I’ve been relying on my roommate’s car, which he’s cool with since I buy gas, chip in for oil changes, run errands for him, etc.
I could afford a decent car now, but I’ll almost certainly be moving in two months and I’m contemplating a career change within the next year. If said career change pans out, there’s a chance I’d be making much more money than I do now, and I’ve decided I would buy myself a new Tesla (just a Model 3) to celebrate. I’ve wanted a Tesla forever, and although I technically could afford one on my current salary (not rich, just young with few expenses), it would be a dumb buy. Depreciating asset, etc. But I’m using it as kind of a carrot to motivate myself to learn the technical skill set that I would need for a career pivot.
The question is whether I can hold out without a car until I know for sure what my financial situation will look like for the next couple years. I’d really like to just survive without one until I can afford a Tesla, but that might prove infeasible. We’ll see.
On that note, anybody here own a Tesla? Pros and cons? Recommendations?
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I don’t know how to drive (yet). I am determined to get my license by this time next year and am posting to hold myself accountable. Future me of August 2022, unless there have been unexpected events, I will be quite disappointed in you should you fail.
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Don’t have one at the moment, but I used to have a GSXR 600 and a Honda Grom. And I once rented a Tracer 900 on a nice long trip from London to the Isle of Man TT 
. What do you ride?
@originalera, I have a Honda CTX700; it’s not very sporty, but it’s very economical. Otherwise, my daily vehicle is a Honda CRV . . . also not very sporty. 
350Z currently looking to change for an American, either Corvette or Camaro SS:
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Beautiful truck. Whenever my 07 4runner kicks the dust (hopefully not for another 5+ years!), I want to get another 4runner with similar trail kit as your tacoma
This is making me miss my 06 Jeep LJ
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