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The only cuck is you for living in your cucktry.

>>15454135
What country? Even here in America I was able to get a mazda3 with a manual

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>>15454135
>Driving Matters
>All underpowered Econoboxes

>Driving Matters
>No MazdaSpeed series

>Driving Matters
>Most of the lineup is a slow, bloated crossover

I gave up on Mazda after they dropped the MS3. I was considering buying a Mazda3 if they came out with a new MS3, but I ended up buying a Focus ST instead.

Probably the bmw, depending on how many bells and whistles he gets. The Lincoln is almost definitely hit and miss, it might be alright, but nobody buys enough of them to know, and ford isn't exactly the highest on build quality and reliability.

Not sure about audi, everything I've heard says that it will be a shitbox that is in the shop most of the time, and I doubt they're anything special in terms of longevity. I don't really know though, the BMW is probably the safest bet, but they don't exactly have the best reputation (according to Americans anyway), and the other choices are in all honesty nightmares for reliability. Some faggot is going to reply to this trying to say how much he hates the BMW he can't afford (and therefore they're shit), but it kind of shits on the other options you've mentioned.

>>15453921
>What's the long term reliability on a brand new car?

Unless one of those is like the 4th year of a model, who the hell knows. BMW claims to engineer their cars to last 10 years or something without major service, but that seems like bullshit to me. I have no experience with them though, other than I liked the 1 series, but the stuff I read about their reliability made me reconsider.

VAG's car in general I would tend to avoid. I worked at one of the parts stores up until recently, and they always had super goofy things wrong with them that we couldn't get parts for. Now, the parts availability isn't the concern with the whole internet available to ship you what you want, but the fact that the shit kept happening is the real concern. That stuff had over 100k on it usually, though.

I don't know shit about Lincoln.

>>15453921
I have no experience with any cars above, OP, that's a starting point.

Imo it's about the configuration. Does your father know, what he wants? Let's say he expects:
> a 2 liter turbo
> AWD
> heated F+R seats
> the best infotainment system available.
Look for their names for each of those cars and google that with "problem" or such and the latest model year. People tend to complain. Complain, even if it's something they don't know how to use/maintain it p r o p e r l y. Filter what's just a complaint and what seems to describe those cars downsides and then you got their images right. There are youtube channels describing things, like The Humble Mechanic tells how certain thing fails in exact VWs and similar. No one can remotely guarantee you anything and it's not that anything is meant to fail right after warranty expires. Current german cars can probably last over a decade without a single problem but only if you take their near no tolerances for service intervals and procedures.

I'd take a 6 cylinder AT BMW in black with the comfiest seats available and put an effort to read the manual thoroughly, then visit german forum motor talk (or whatever) for service advices.

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>249,000 miles
>spray paint
>no interior
>absolute shit

And a steal at only $7,000!

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/cto/5667155664.html

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>-you'll look like an idiot driving this thing. but you are an idiot, so no big deal

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Motorsports is a joke

Who cares? The Porsche's and Aston's are faster now. Not to mention the Corvette's are faster and won't let the Ferrari's win and Ford certainly won't make it easy for Ferrari either.

>>15453659
This.

Either make it a one-make series or stop fucking with things.

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Here's another Ford Prelude.

Why did honda make both the integra and the prelude? They're both fwd coupes, why make almost identical, yet different type of car?

>>15453059
Integra was more track oriented, Prelude was more of a grand tourer. Plus Honda was swimming in money at the time and just having fun.

>>15452802
yes it's overkill in the sense that your engine doesn't NEED it.
but it is better for the car and you'll make the extra $10 back several times over because it will SLIGHTLY improve your gas mileage.

>>15452802
Just use synthetic. It probably came with that originally. I just used synthetic on my sister's first gen.

>>15452860
>Economy car
>Factory synthetic oil
Lol no

is the m4 really worth it over the m2 op? i did not think it was

>>15452638
If you're going to run it into the ground over a couple of decades, the Mustang. If you're just going to get rid of it in a few years then the BMW since it will still have some resale value.

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>>15452638
Btfo

what car op

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>>15452571
2000 rs coupe with 130k miles, had a leaky headgasket i tired to bring em down but obviously failed. orig price was 5900. other than that it was clean as fuck

Is it too late, what do /o/?

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>>15452500
Not the corvette

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>>15452500
budget?
>pic maybe related

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>>15452505
or the camaro

in order of importance, this is how you fix a car
>having a clean title
>rust repairs
>electrical repairs
>mechanical repairs
>troubleshooting little shit
>interior
It also helps if the car is worth something to begin with

>>15452413
It ain't worth shit but lets say the floorboards needed replacement because of severe rust.
I have no idea where to even start with that.

I can understand mechanics much better, i wrench on my bike all the time but obv bikes are different to cars.

>>15452419
cant you search youtube on rust repairs like that?

You paid too much for that garbage.

Fuck yeah HSVs are awesome 25k is a great price !!!

>>15452242
Cute G8 GT

/o/ pls help

>>15451925
Its not an S5.

Expensive to maintain.
Run the VIN
Expensive
More expensive
Have at least half of what the car is selling for for maintenance/repairs.

>>15452514
It's certified with fewer than 5,000 miles, hopefully there isn't anything that needs repairing. I don't doubt it'll be expensive to maintain, but I can shoulder that.

Out of curiosity, would you say that it's expensive because it's not reliable, or because the parts themselves are expensive?

>>15451812
Ok

is that rhino liner?

Not that funny of a joke anyway, as a mechanic, I've seen it many times where people would paint their rotors.

>>15451812
Congrats anon. Good job. Good goy.

is that a thing?

here is a random car i found, searched for a mustang since they had the most dickhead owners. first result.
http://peoria.craigslist.org/cto/5681807593.html

NOPE no keywords.

>>15451620
280z sucked anyway. id part it out

It's probably less effort to just deal with not having a card for a week and go to the bank to withdraw some daily-use cash than to spend your time prying at a piece of plastic.

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