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The 300M is hot. I want a black one and maybe put some 20" on that mofo.

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I'm 6'3, 225 and I don't have a problem fitting into my car.

There's actually quite a bit of head room in the Focus.

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My fiancee test drove the newest Focuses (Focii?) and they were the most comfortable "compact" car I've ever been in. Powerful too. The older ones were the crappy ones. The past 4-5 years have yielded a VERY improved Focus.

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A guy at work just got a zx4 focus. It's pretty nice for a small car.

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It comes with an MP3 player too. THAT'S a technology I wish I would have waited for to become standard in cars.

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[QUOTE=Mattyk72]Man, cars are such a touchy subject with people.

I drive a Ford Focus. Why? Because my brother works at a Ford dealership and basically got me a deal that was insane... nearly 50% off the sticker price for a brand spanking new car.

Frankly I don't care much about what I drive, as long as it gets me from here to there, I'm good to go.[/QUOTE]

That's funny I drive a Focus as well, a Redskin Maroon one!!

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[QUOTE=Summo]That's funny I drive a Focus as well, a Redskin Maroon one!![/QUOTE]
If it's a 3 door version, you should paint stripes down the center and put emblems on the side to make it look like a giant Skins helmet!

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I've always wanted to do it with one of those Civic hatchbacks. Those things would look EXACTLY like a helmet. Those or a Suzuki Swift (even though all it would do was sit in the driveway broken down).

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Wow, they re-released the Swift. It looks pretty hot now!

[IMG]http://avto-russia.ru/images/stories/suzuki/suzuki_swift2.jpg[/IMG]

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection]I've always wanted to do it with one of those Civic hatchbacks. Those things would look EXACTLY like a helmet. Those or a Suzuki Swift (even though all it would do was sit in the driveway broken down).[/QUOTE]
Use a VW bug!

V-Dub engineering, yaaaaaaaah

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Representing Deutchland!

Bugs would WORK for the helmet, but MAN I would feel like my balls got snipped if I drove that.

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection]Representing Deutchland!

Bugs would WORK for the helmet, but MAN I would feel like my balls got snipped if I drove that.[/QUOTE]
lol, yeah. Get an old one. People seem to respect those more.

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[quote=Summo]That's funny I drive a Focus as well, a Redskin Maroon one!![/quote]

Mine's black... and no I'm not a racist.

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[quote=TheMalcolmConnection]Representing Deutchland!

Bugs would WORK for the helmet, but MAN I would feel like my balls got snipped if I drove that.[/quote]

What's a bigger insult to a man, driving a Jetta or a bug?

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[QUOTE=Mattyk72]Mine's black... and no I'm not a racist.[/QUOTE]
Honkey.

Always getting the black man to tote you around like you're a king.

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[quote=Mattyk72]What's a bigger insult to a man, driving a Jetta or a bug?[/quote]

If I see a guy driving a Jetta, I'm thinking, "Wow, your girlfriend must be a chickenhead." Now when I see a guy driving a BUG, I'm thinking, "Wow, your boyfriend must be a chickenhead."

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[quote=Mattyk72]Mine's black... and no I'm not a racist.[/quote]

I prefer the PC term for cars. Your car is AFRICAN AMERICAN. Just like my silver car is CYBORG AMERICAN. White cars are European American.

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection]I prefer the PC term for cars. Your car is AFRICAN AMERICAN. Just like my silver car is CYBORG AMERICAN. White cars are European American.[/QUOTE]

So my maroon Focus would be considered a Red Neck American?

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NATIVE AMERICAN. Primered trucks are Redneck American. :biggthump

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection]If I see a guy driving a Jetta, I'm thinking, "Wow, your girlfriend must be a chickenhead." Now when I see a guy driving a BUG, I'm thinking, "Wow, your boyfriend must be a chickenhead."[/QUOTE]

LMAO! Very similar to what I think when I see a dude driving a Mini Cooper: "Bet his boyfriend is the masculine one in that relationship".

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HAHA! I'm still undecided on the whole Mini Cooper thing. Sometimes they look OK and sometimes it would feel very homoerotic driving one.

Just drive the old Suzuki Swift. NO ONE will question your heterosexuality.

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection]HAHA! I'm still undecided on the whole Mini Cooper thing. Sometimes they look OK and sometimes it would feel very homoerotic driving one.

Just drive the old Suzuki Swift. NO ONE will question your heterosexuality.[/QUOTE]

True story!

I used to work with a guy who immigrated here from Russia and was out shopping for his first car, specifically a sports car. He was very excited... he thought that owning a car was an extremely American thing to do.

He bought a one, presumably based on the suggestion of a woman who also worked in the office. About a week later, I was outside smoking and heard him berating her in his thick-ish accent about the car he had just bought:

"Why did you not tell me that the Miata is a homosexual car?"

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tmc keep up the analogies.the whole girlfriend, boyfriend thing is a riot.and yes,to drive a mini cooper is like declaring broke mountain your favorite flick of all time

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[quote=Dave Butz Baby!]True story!

I used to work with a guy who immigrated here from Russia and was out shopping for his first car, specifically a sports car. He was very excited... he thought that owning a car was an extremely American thing to do.

He bought a one, presumably based on the suggestion of a woman who also worked in the office. About a week later, I was outside smoking and heard him berating her in his thick-ish accent about the car he had just bought:

"Why did you not tell me that the Miata is a homosexual car?"[/quote]

LOL great story!

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NO WAY! That's hilarious. To the Miata's credit, it's not a homosexual car so much as it's an I-can't-afford-a-Corvette-for-my-midlife-crisis car.

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I'm a non-sequiter fan myself dmek. All know this. BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY ROCKIN' EVERYWHERE.

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection]NO WAY! That's hilarious. To the Miata's credit, it's not a homosexual car so much as it's an I-can't-afford-a-Corvette-for-my-midlife-crisis car.[/QUOTE]

I don't necessarily think the Miata is homosexual either. Apparently, the problem was he was getting hit on by dudes while he was driving it.

If he was out cruising parks in NW DC at 3AM in the new Miata, I couldn't tell you.

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HAHAHAHAHA. I was with my fiancee in a Daiquari Bar in TN one night and she left to use the bathroom and within 3 minutes a guy's hand was on my thigh. I nearly hit the mother f*cker off the stool. Can't guys just keep their hands off of me? :(

True story. Non-serious final comment.

I guess it's the whole idea of a guy being in a Daiquari bar. Fat Tuesday's is the only hetero bar like that.

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tmc,it might be the daiquiri thing that tipped him off :)

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[QUOTE=Dave Butz Baby!]True story!

I used to work with a guy who immigrated here from Russia and was out shopping for his first car, specifically a sports car. He was very excited... he thought that owning a car was an extremely American thing to do.

He bought a one, presumably based on the suggestion of a woman who also worked in the office. About a week later, I was outside smoking and heard him berating her in his thick-ish accent about the car he had just bought:

"Why did you not tell me that the Miata is a homosexual car?"[/QUOTE]

LOL


Here is another true story...a study partner (sounds homosexual already) back in college had a Miata. He gave me a ride (oh, how so homosexual) home and a couple I noticed of times people in other cars staring at us while at an intersection. I thought they just liked the car and didn't realize the stigma associated with Miatas until well after the said ride.

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p.s. Jetta, Miata, and Bug are in.

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[QUOTE=saden1]After minutes of research and countless of keystrokes I have found a list of [URL="http://www.gay.com/content/slideshow/?coll=290&order=1&navpath=/channels/style/auto/slideshow"]Top 12 Gay Cars[/URL] according to Gay People. Enjoy.

p.s. Jetta, Miata, and Bug are in.[/QUOTE]

LMAO... these are too funny...

[B]Ford F150:[/B] [I][B]What makes it gay? [/B][/I] It looks like some interior decorator sprinkled his fairy dust all over the dashboard.

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p.s. Jetta, Miata, and Bug are in.[/quote]

"Although the Jetta comes in many powertrain configurations, including a fuel-sipping, clean-burning diesel, our favorite is the 1.8-liter turbo (called 1.8T), which has more than enough scoot for squirting in and out of city traffic."

You can cut the innuendo with a KNIFE on that site.

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[quote=TheMalcolmConnection]Wow, they re-released the Swift. It looks pretty hot now!

[IMG]http://avto-russia.ru/images/stories/suzuki/suzuki_swift2.jpg[/IMG][/quote]

Stay away from Suzuki, as well as Kia. They're some of the LEAST reliable cars on the road. This is a case where you DO get what you pay for.

Hot? HA!

Now the Dodge Magnum is a HOT car.

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It's hot, and I like Dodges but DAMN they've GOT to do something about those transmissions. Worst transmissions of any car on the road.

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[quote=TheMalcolmConnection]It's hot, and I like Dodges but DAMN they've GOT to do something about those transmissions. Worst transmissions of any car on the road.[/quote]

I think they have have resolved that. I had a '96 Dodge that lost it's tranny at 115K miles. Then again, I drove 75,000 miles THAT YEAR.

I kept it until about 140K and traded it in on a reliable (so far with 100K) Ford.

My wife's 2000 Pontiac Sunfire has not had a SINGLE problem at all and we have 80K on the clock so far.

American cars are what I buy. I've never had problems with them, unlike the VW I owned in college. That thing nickel and dimed me to DEATH until someone hit me head-on. :)

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On the real. VWs SUCK reliability-wise. Yeah, if I were going to buy American, I'd be buying Ford. I know more than a dozen of my buddies who had Dodge trannys crap out on them in the first year of owning them.

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So can we call TMC the King of the Trannies? Or Queen?

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And her Adam's apple was as big as her balls.

That's how I like MY women.

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stop it,your scaring me