Car Buying

Do you dread shopping for a car? I do, too. I don’t do it often. My cars are usually driven til they are useless for even a trade-in. But eventually, you’re going to have to go shopping. New or used? Lease or purchase? Is it more important to have room for the kids and their friends, or to save money on fuel? Will the latest innovation be the best investment, or will it be obsolete next year? I don’t know the answers.  Who does?

The Ten Most Expensive Cars.

If you’ve got $200,000 to spare, and want to really feel macho, try the Ghurka. Its way more than a Hummer.

Supercars! With slideshows.

The future of cars? See the Russian Quattroflex, pictured here.  (via Spluch)

The Useless Men have advice for women trying to buy a car.

Peter gives us an overview of the Automotive History of Australia.

Bad day at the Lube Shop.

For sale: Ukrainian second hand car. More pictures at Just Elite, where they note that they don’t know who is selling it, because they figure the original owner must be dead.

Honest car advertising. Audio NSFW!  

AUTOMOTIVE ACRONYMS

(lifted from It Occured to Me)

BMW - Big Money Waste

BUICK - Big Ugly Indestructible Compact Killer

CHEVROLET - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips

CHEVY - Cheapest Heap Ever Visioned Yet

DODGE - Drips Oil Drops Grease Everywhere

FIAT - Fix It Again Tomorrow

FORD - Found On Road Dead

GM - Grinding Metal

GMC - Gotta Mechanic Coming

HONDA - Hold On, Not Done Accelerating

JEEP - Just Enough Engine Power

KIA - Killed In Action

MAZDA - Made At Zoo by Demented Apes

MG - Mostly Garaged

OLDSMOBILE - Old Ladies Driving Slowly Making Others Behind Increasingly Late Everyday

PINTO - Powerful Incendiary, Neatly Toasts Occupants

PLYMOUTH - Please Let Your Mother Out from Under The Hood

PONTIAC - Poor Old Nebraskan, Thinks It's A Cadillac

PORSCHE - Piece Of Rusty Scrap, Cost Highly Expensive

SUBARU - Still Usable But All Rusty Underneath

TOYOTA - The One You Ought To Avoid

VW - Virtually Worthless

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USED CAR DEALERSHIP

It was a small town and the patrolman was making his evening rounds. As he was checking a used car lot, he came upon two little old ladies sitting in a used car. He stopped and asked them why they were sitting there in the car. Were they trying to steal it?

"Heavens no, we bought it."

"Then why don't you drive it away."

"We can't drive."

"Then why did you buy it?"

"We were told that if we bought a Used car here we'd get screwed .... So we're just waiting.”

Thought for today: I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

PS Happy Birthday today to my favorite dirty old man, Carl (actor212) of Simply Left Behind! Go over and wish him a good one. 

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Comments

[Peter]

A piece of advice I once got; If you can't afford a Dodge, Dodge a Ford.

[RockyJay]

I gotta get me one of those Ghurgas...

[Keeper]

Car dealers, we've all seen their ads, but what do they really mean?
WARNING!! Not for the pious, very coarse language! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015r1WBckn0&mode=related&search= Note, there are still some honest car dealers. Good luck!

[Miss Cellania]

There have been some reports of people having trouble leaving a comment today. I think kthe issue is resolved now! Thanks for your patience... and thanks for letting me know about it!

[actor212]

Well thank you for the kind brithday words, MissC!

As a driver of a Virtually Worthless Passat, I'm OK with that characterization.

Just means the secret is safe of how much fun they are to drive ;-)

[THE Michael]

Having seen a comment dissappear on another blog, I have decided to forego the heartbreak and stress that leaving one here might induce upon me, resulting in Delayed Comment Dissapearance Dissappointment Syndrome, and instead just say that I have enjoyed every episode of Ms C's Blog since I have discovered it. If this should happen to show up, please ignore it. Most of my comments are intelligent, insightful, and incredibly witty, and I can't afford to have something this inane be confused with my usual brilliant retorts. I am so certain that this will not show up that I am not using spellcheck, so please excuse any typos that may have gotten past my usual highly accurate fingers.

[CGHill]

As a former Mazda owner who would probably still own one if it hadn't been wrecked last summer, I offer the following acronym, which fits even better:

"Major Asshole Zipping Down Alleyways"

My favorite rendering of "Oldsmobile," incidentally, is "Old, Leisurely-Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Inferior Leftover Equipment."

[Senor]

I always whisper to the car salesman that I'm going to buy a car from him and also get him fired. I'm batting 75%. It's almost too easy.

[Adrian MacNair]

May I suggest the entity for your traveling needs?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/IT_%28South_Park%3B_The_Entity%29.jpeg/250px-IT_%28South_Park%3B_The_Entity%29.jpeg

[Chad K]

Great source of information. Keep up the good work.

[miss]

really funny with the names ... i love it...keep working mate