1959 Triumph TR3 ($300)
1970 Datsun 2000 ($1350)
1976 Dodge Maxivan ($4000, 1st new vehicle)
1963 Rambler 770 ($200)
1966 Ford Custom 500 ($200)
1980 Chevy Citation ($6500, 2nd new car)
197? Chevy Impala ($300)
1965 Plymouth Valiant ($125)
1983 Nissan Sentra ($4949, 3rd new car)
1978 Ford Econoline ($2200)
1986 Ford Taurus ($4500)
1978 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler ($1300)
1987 Saab 9000 Turbo 5-speed ($10K, for bride)
1987 Saab 9000 Turbo 5-speed ($10K, for self)
(Between those 2 Saabs, we ran up more than a 550K miles, nothing important broke, 28mpg@80mph)
* 2002 Mini Cooper S 6-speed ($21K, 9th yellow one in the US, 4th new car)
* 2004 Acura TL ($30K, for bride, 5th new car)
* 1967 Mercedes SE250 Cabriolet ($35K)
* Current cars
I probably forgot some.
Next: ????
I want a non-small station wagon that's not a dog. Mercedes cost too much, Volvo might be OK, new Buick TourX (Opel Insignia) might be OK. Am in no rush.
But if Honda sold Accord wagons here, I'd get one tomorrow... the new Accords with the 2.0T and 10-speed-auto are crazy-good cars.
If I wanted a luxo car, I'd wait a year or 2, then hunt around for a used Genesis G80 3.3T AWD. http://autoweek.com/...nder-hands-down Great cars, but their new badge and non-rep means the used car value is gonna sink like a stone.
My bride totaled the Acura TL... while exiting the Interstate, she dodged a damn cat on the exit ramp... sideswiped some of those waist-high concrete barrier slabs... crunched the front left corner... got Every_Single_Panel down the driver's side... and got the left rear too... (she wasn't fooling around... it's not that easy to do all that at once with just one little swerve)... the insurance company tried to low-ball me... but I caught their appraiser in a lazy mistake... so they high-balled me instead... I simply pointed out how their guy was a lazy idiot and they spontaneously offered me more than I had asked for, which was a nice surprise...
We were This Close to getting a new 2019 Mazda 6 Signature... I really, really like that car, so did she, we were gonna sleep on it... but we drove by a CarMax on the way home... and I wondered if they might have any Genesis G80's. We ended up with a Genesis G80... we didn't even talk about it, we just drove it around, looked at each other and nodded (which in retrospect seems kinda odd)... 24K miles, seems new, a pretty "paresian gray" that's either grayish-blue or blueish-gray, depending on the color of the sky... $22K because CarMax's computer got confused and/or was ignorant about the option packages that were on it (it was $52K new)... it's loaded with lotsa smart stuff that actually works... it has plenty of oomph and gets 27 mpg with the cruise on 90...
I got on the interstate in ATL, turned on smart cruise and didn't touch a pedal for 300 miles... in normal traffic, as long as there are cars between me and the upcoming red light I never have to use pedals... it stops, it starts, it slows down, it speeds up, it stops again and so on. It's just when you hit a red light or stop sign where nobody's in front of you that you have to touch the brake...other than that, it mostly doesn't requires the use of pedals... (I know some of you are used to this, but actually using it is new to me...)
It's not as limber as the TL was... it's more luxo in tone... so when you're on a fun-able curvy road, and you ask it to do something that's much different than what it's already doing, it doesn't exactly protest, but it pauses for just a tiny split second to say "Are you sure about this?"... but if you keep at it, it will do exactly what you tell it to... which surprised me... I didn't think it would, but it does... it's a very good car... and it gets better when you give it just a hint about what you're about to ask it to do, just before you do it... communication is a 2-way street....
But that Acura TL was a great car... had it 15 years, it ran like a top, always worked, and it had a very nice combination of smooth comfort with some ample athleticism in there... the only thing that screwed up was the outside memory mirrors tied to the memory seats... the passenger's side broke twice, fixed once... it'd just go whamp-whamp-whamp a few times and then stop, you'd have to use the buttons to adjust it... other than that, it was about perfect...