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- Desertbreh
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Nothing wrong with the 4.3. The torks made it a marine I/O staple for decades.
- max225
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taco is about 1/2 to 1/3 the price of the bronco... I probably wouldn't get the raptor as cool as it is... because I have no use case for it... per say... Other than just have a 0FG tank to roll around town in. I doubt it's a great travel vehicle. Which is actually a key thing I am looking for.
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If you want to travel in a BroncoRaptor, just get a Raptor.max225 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:22 pmtaco is about 1/2 to 1/3 the price of the bronco... I probably wouldn't get the raptor as cool as it is... because I have no use case for it... per say... Other than just have a 0FG tank to roll around town in. I doubt it's a great travel vehicle. Which is actually a key thing I am looking for.
He says the ride quality is excellent... seems kind of wasteful I can't really imagine buying a car like that, a regular Wrangler already pushes upon my limits.max225 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:22 pmtaco is about 1/2 to 1/3 the price of the bronco... I probably wouldn't get the raptor as cool as it is... because I have no use case for it... per say... Other than just have a 0FG tank to roll around town in. I doubt it's a great travel vehicle. Which is actually a key thing I am looking for.
My BIL is getting a Bronco this week, he's had an order in for... years? I'm curious to see the spec and drive it.
- golftdibrad1
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Agree. Knowledgeable, sarcastic, Likes old vw's and miatas... if only he wasn't a dude.
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:28 pm I'm happy for Brad because nobody jerks it to the Miata harder on this forum and that is the Crown Prince of Miatas.
- Johnny_P
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I’m sure you’d be visiting a gas station even more, since this would get like 12 mpg highway.max225 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:22 pmtaco is about 1/2 to 1/3 the price of the bronco... I probably wouldn't get the raptor as cool as it is... because I have no use case for it... per say... Other than just have a 0FG tank to roll around town in. I doubt it's a great travel vehicle. Which is actually a key thing I am looking for.
Yeah I dunno. Bronco seems cool on paper. They make more sense than a wrangler to me, but IMO have less appeal because they don’t look as cool. Subjective tho.
- max225
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Raptor doesn’t fit in garage. We went over this.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:28 pmIf you want to travel in a BroncoRaptor, just get a Raptor.max225 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:22 pm
taco is about 1/2 to 1/3 the price of the bronco... I probably wouldn't get the raptor as cool as it is... because I have no use case for it... per say... Other than just have a 0FG tank to roll around town in. I doubt it's a great travel vehicle. Which is actually a key thing I am looking for.
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I was semi toying with the idea of a 392 wrongler. Imo it’s the simpler better vehicle for me… but hates em. And it’s 2x the cost of a with nothing to show for it other than bruuub which can be fun arguablyJohnny_P wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:06 pmI’m sure you’d be visiting a gas station even more, since this would get like 12 mpg highway.max225 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:22 pm
taco is about 1/2 to 1/3 the price of the bronco... I probably wouldn't get the raptor as cool as it is... because I have no use case for it... per say... Other than just have a 0FG tank to roll around town in. I doubt it's a great travel vehicle. Which is actually a key thing I am looking for.
Yeah I dunno. Bronco seems cool on paper. They make more sense than a wrangler to me, but IMO have less appeal because they don’t look as cool. Subjective tho.
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- Johnny_P
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Well she can’t get into them without a ladder, so.
Lisa can’t either. She legit could not get into the Rubicon at the auto show. She was preggers tho so that might have played into it.
Funny enough I think my is in the 'you can pry this out of my cold, dead hands' camp now and doesn't seem to notice how terrible of a vehicle it is
I saw her put the tent top back this AM while leaving for work.
I saw her put the tent top back this AM while leaving for work.
- Desertbreh
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- max225
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Epic Resale maybe. its not 2021 anymore. They are dropping like G wagons in the secondary market at the moment.
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- CaleDeRoo
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That car was done by the SRT team. It's the best driving Wrangler, but process that however you want.
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Drive it, but not in the winter. I'll "restore" it slowly starting with the interior, then maybe repaint it in the stock color if I like it that much in a few years.
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:40 pm My guess would be that Chris took some time off because he has read the dialogue on this page 1,345 times and decided to spend some of his free time doing something besides beating a horse to death.
- max225
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$4300 drop in 28 days. Yea with a $4300 a month car payment + fuel/insurance etc... 5k a month gets me my current house on a hill. I'll be waiting until this normalizes.
$4300 drop in 28 days. Yea with a $4300 a month car payment + fuel/insurance etc... 5k a month gets me my current house on a hill. I'll be waiting until this normalizes.
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I love the Colorado ZR2 story Detroit! So awesome, this is what cars are all about and what they're supposed to be about.
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:05 pm DFD. The forum where everybody makes the same choices and then tells anybody trying to join the club that they are the stupidest motherfucker to ever walk the earth.
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Hunted become the hunter baby.max225 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:35 pm https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventory ... 83208/NONE
$4300 drop in 28 days. Yea with a $4300 a month car payment + fuel/insurance etc... 5k a month gets me my current house on a hill. I'll be waiting until this normalizes.
- max225
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Wholesale value chart... shit is dropping around 1% a week as of late... you can do the from here.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:54 pmHunted become the hunter baby.max225 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:35 pm https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventory ... 83208/NONE
$4300 drop in 28 days. Yea with a $4300 a month car payment + fuel/insurance etc... 5k a month gets me my current house on a hill. I'll be waiting until this normalizes.
Yep, the ongoing Carvana offers on my Beemah reflect worse than that. I will probably end up bailing on the BRZ when I can only get $12K for the thing by December.
- golftdibrad1
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so fuck car and sports cars all together amirite?
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:28 pm I'm happy for Brad because nobody jerks it to the Miata harder on this forum and that is the Crown Prince of Miatas.
- max225
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No, but fuck paying above msrp for used pieces of shit for sure.
I'm still in the game but this is all making me more indecisive than ever.
Right now I'm mulling over just driving the BMW for another year and seeing what happens with cars/life, buying the BRZ I have on order, purchasing another Corvette (C6/7), keeping BMW and getting an NC Miata or something else fun/not expensive... maybe even trying to get a GR Corolla or Hype R next year if the economy really shits to the point that they're available for mere mortals. At that point though I'll probably get shit canned and no longer be mere mortal status.
- golftdibrad1
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With the real restraints of time, space, and money there is really nothing I want. I kinda would like a newer miata/fiata just for the reliability factor? but my old car drives better. A three series hardtop convertible would be a good dd/family mountain slayer but $$ and in no rush to get into bmw life again. The wife unit will likely need a car before me, unless I off the volt before it starts breaking in favor of aforementioned BMW or replacement commuter pod. We are thinking about a camper too.D Griff wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 10:14 am
I'm still in the game but this is all making me more indecisive than ever.
Right now I'm mulling over just driving the BMW for another year and seeing what happens with cars/life, buying the BRZ I have on order, purchasing another Corvette (C6/7), keeping BMW and getting an NC Miata or something else fun/not expensive... maybe even trying to get a GR Corolla or Hype R next year if the economy really shits to the point that they're available for mere mortals. At that point though I'll probably get shit canned and no longer be mere mortal status.
Oh and since I didn't buy that turbo miata, a new to me multistrada 900 in next couple years would be
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:28 pm I'm happy for Brad because nobody jerks it to the Miata harder on this forum and that is the Crown Prince of Miatas.