I wanna see your rusted, dented, smoking, chugging, stinky old beater. I've been driving a 98 Sunfire Se for a good 6 months now. I hate it, but love it at the same time. It's dented, rusty, ugly, and slightly gay, but it gets 600km to a tank and hasn't failed on me yet.
Only future mod planned is dark window tint...so nobody can see who's drivng it.
I'll post some pics tomorrow, in the meantime, show me what ya got.
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Here's my whip. 2.2 litres of pure automatic fury. Hey at least the AC works and I get a workout everytime I have to roll the windows down.
I've yet to wash it since I started driving it, I just wait till it rains. Note the dents in the rear quarter panel and the squashed hood. My mom backed into it coming out of the garage, the hood shakes a lot when I'm on the highway now.
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My '94 Mazda 626 is my beater these days. PITA owning two cars.
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“One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that if you drive into London at 6am, half of the cars on the roads are Porsches and Astons. Whereas if you go in at ten to nine, they’re all Renaults. Simple solution, then. You want a nice car? Get up earlier and do more work.”
My '94 Mazda 626 is my beater these days. PITA owning two cars.
try owning like 8 cars like me. it gets hard just finding places to store them.
my beater/winter car is my MTX KL 97 626. (sad cause so many dream of them) lol. still tons of mods. euro projector headlights, M edition mx6 seats, very rare mx6 lip spoiler. efini badge, lowered, bigger rear sway bar. prd rstb, king6 fstb. tons and tons more.
i had a 89 probe LX as my beater for the last like 5-6 years, and id still have it now, but had a son last year. so had to get a 4 door beater as a replacement. and of course it had to be another mazda.
1991 Mazda Miata, 1.6T, tein full coil overs, greddy turbo, cxracing intercooler, godspeed racing radiator, rota torques, Yokohama rubber, hard dog hardcore double diagonal roll bar. It's fun, I guess. Lol
mine: 93 ZE, clutchmaster clutch, fidanza flywheel, poly motor mounts, HS CAI, HS headers, ractive exhaust, F&R strut bars, ground controls on illuminas, SS clutch line, espec heads/corners and much much more!! hers: 93 ZE. pretty much the same mods. + F&R drilled rotors, STS, h&r's
^^I plan to park it and rebuild/restore it when December comes. Right now, I'm rebuilding/restoring the hath, so this does for me under 15-mile commute.
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Your geese try to take down our planes. Thats close to an act of war.
I always wondered what MSP wheels would look like on an MX6. Now i know.
“One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that if you drive into London at 6am, half of the cars on the roads are Porsches and Astons. Whereas if you go in at ten to nine, they’re all Renaults. Simple solution, then. You want a nice car? Get up earlier and do more work.”
Not the actual car I drive, but the same thing - Hyundai Getz. 1.4L auto. It really.....doesn't move.
Company provided including fuel card. Costs ~$40AU to fill the tank and lasts me around a week/450kms (mostly in start/stop peak hour traffic, or flogging it because I am running late between appointments).
I can't get the seating position right and when I do find myself somewhat comfortable, I can't see half the speedo. I think these cars are made for little Korean people only. But what do you expect from the cheapest car to buy, own and run. For a little city run-about, they are pretty good.
Not the actual car I drive, but the same thing - Hyundai Getz. 1.4L auto. It really.....doesn't move.
Company provided including fuel card. Costs ~$40AU to fill the tank and lasts me around a week/450kms (mostly in start/stop peak hour traffic, or flogging it because I am running late between appointments).
I can't get the seating position right and when I do find myself somewhat comfortable, I can't see half the speedo. I think these cars are made for little Korean people only. But what do you expect from the cheapest car to buy, own and run. For a little city run-about, they are pretty good.
haha nice - i had one of those as a rental up in Cairns - the certainly don't move. My beater/daily is actually metalmatrix's old car - 1995 LS - it looks fairly sharp still short of the beginnings of some rust
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