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Ten Cars with Booming Sales Since the Recession Began
The Blaze ^ | 11-14-11 | Becket Adams

Posted on 11/14/2011 11:48:13 PM PST by Lazlo in PA

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To: afraidfortherepublic
My dealer says no — that they are so popular that they don’t need to advertise. But, who really believes a car dealer?!

I heard that about the Town Car. We buy those off lease. Look where they are today. Gone. Companies are going to get rid of popular V8's to make these ridiculous CAFE standards. Volts all around whether you want one or not.

41 posted on 11/15/2011 7:14:38 AM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Kraut engineering is oh-so-fine, I agree. The problem for those vehicles here in the intermountain west is that you can’t find parts, dealer service or a whole host of other things to keep them going.

Despite a very high net worth economic base, you’re hard pressed to see any Benz, Audi, or other high-end vehicles here in Wyoming outside of Jackson Hole.

If there were more Benz parts (and when I mean ‘parts’, I mean pull-offs from a junk yard), available, I’d be hip for one of the 80’s Benz, especially the wagon with the I-5 diesel. Wonderful car.

I won’t own a new GM vehicle, and I never liked the pre-bailout ones either. My big iron is Ford.


42 posted on 11/15/2011 7:16:57 AM PST by NVDave
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"Subaru"

I assume new Subarus come with leftist decals already applied?

43 posted on 11/15/2011 8:33:24 AM PST by driftless2
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To: LibertyRocks

Have you looked at the Ford Flex? They can be found used at a big discount from original selling price, and are available in AWD. It’s a full-size wagon, but worth a look at least.

I’ve had one for about a year, and my family loves it more the longer we have it. It sits up reasonably high, gets 22mpg on the highway and can carry 7 adults comfortably. Competing products with the same level of options as our Flex were selling for $10K above what we paid for ours, and the low-milage Flex SEL we purchased is loaded with tons of features. No problems with it at all so far.


44 posted on 11/15/2011 9:30:17 AM PST by Fletcher J
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To: driftless2

Nope.

They’re just a solid little car with all wheel drive and a horizontally opposed 2.5L engine that’s been in their cars for so long, they’ve gotten all the bugs out of it.

Who drives it is the least of our concerns. I want a vehicle that, when it is -20F and snowing in Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas or other places where we frequently are in the winter, will a) start, b) be able to drive on the roads.

Most American cars cannot manage these simple, simple requirements.


45 posted on 11/15/2011 10:16:33 AM PST by NVDave
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To: NVDave

Not intended for you, but a general joke about Subarus I’ve seen around my area. A great many of them are festooned with leftist/lib slogans. My wife and I were passing one a while ago, and I joked about how many decals would be on it. As we passed the car, we noticed there were a number of decals plastered on it, but they were all religious ones. My wife said “see, they’re not all leftist decals!!!” The very next Subaru we passed had all the usual leftist decals. But to be fair, I have seen a number with no decals whatsoever.


46 posted on 11/15/2011 11:40:12 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Fletcher J

That might not be a bad option for us. I’ll definitely look into it! Thanks. :)


47 posted on 11/15/2011 12:29:32 PM PST by LibertyRocks
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To: exit82

Thanks, definitely another option to look at re: leasing. I appreciate the pointers. :)


48 posted on 11/15/2011 12:31:32 PM PST by LibertyRocks
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49 posted on 11/15/2011 12:54:33 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: driftless2

Yes, I know. I’ve seen them too. And on Volvo’s, Saab’s and a whole host of other cars. Around union areas, you see plenty of them on F-150’s and Chevy pickups as well.


50 posted on 11/15/2011 1:58:33 PM PST by NVDave
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The young inexperienced drivers did not know how to shift properly, so aside from crashing, they toasted the synchromesh in the gearbox, thus lunching the whole thing


51 posted on 11/15/2011 2:10:53 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Lazlo in PA

They both have their merits. I’vehad a few big block molars as well,...


52 posted on 11/15/2011 2:12:53 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: driftless2

I’d put a FUBO sticker on, but the local 0bamanite swine would trash it...


53 posted on 11/15/2011 2:18:32 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Really, you should see the cars that Skoda (which is Opel, I think) are building today: extremely solid little sedans with the nicest purring diesels you’ve ever seen. Taxi drivers love them in the middle east and Europe, and regularly take them well beyond 500,000km.


54 posted on 11/16/2011 1:15:50 AM PST by golux
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To: Walkingfeather

THE COMMENT HAS MORE THAN ONE PART WHICH PART DO U THINK IS A JOKE?


55 posted on 11/17/2011 12:23:08 AM PST by flat
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To: Walkingfeather

WALKING FEATHER....

bwahahhahahah the joke must be that yer walking soooo it looks like you don’t have a ride at all hahaaah

how, chief!


56 posted on 11/17/2011 12:26:57 AM PST by flat
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To: flat

WOW, ya know... sometimes there are just no words....


57 posted on 11/17/2011 10:51:25 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: Walkingfeather

‘WOW, ya know... sometimes there are just no words.’

Walkin’/F

YER JUST YOU just don’t seem proud to be an AMERICAN,
here are some words for ya
....step forward lad, be a man....be an AMERICAN MAN....how about those words...they good enough for ya...?

HEY, you aint one a them America haters are ya? what the hey..? DID you serve in the UNITED STATES MILITARY at all?


58 posted on 11/18/2011 3:35:49 AM PST by flat
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To: sheik yerbouty

Molars and mopars


59 posted on 11/19/2011 1:19:22 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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