My First actually NEW car!

"maximillious" (maximillious) 11/07/2013 at 12:58 • Filed to: None

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I am going tonight to the Dealership to talk price and discuss the trade in value of my current car. This would be the first new car I have ever bought and I am terribly excited :D

Corson Currently Coupein' It > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 12:59

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So what are you looking at?

bradledy > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 12:59

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...what's the car??

MooseKnuckles > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 13:00

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What do you have, what are you getting?

maximillious > Corson Currently Coupein' It 11/07/2013 at 13:04

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It's a surprise but it is Def an oppo favorite

maximillious > MooseKnuckles 11/07/2013 at 13:05

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I have a Focus SVT and I will post pictures if I buy it, I still have to haggle the price... it is an oppo favorite

maximillious > bradledy 11/07/2013 at 13:06

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My trade in is an SVT focus. The new car is a surprise, its an oppo favorite, I dont want to say it yet tho because If i cant get the price I want Ill be looking at something else

Leadbull > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 13:09

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The answer is always Miata.

Corson Currently Coupein' It > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 13:12

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Oooh, now I need to know...

oldirtybootz > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 13:17

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Good luck! I bought my first new car 3 years ago with the help of my parents and I just traded it on the first car I ever bought on my own. It's a good feeling.

Where have all the lightweights gone? > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 13:17

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Toyobaru?

maximillious > Where have all the lightweights gone? 11/07/2013 at 13:24

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I test drove that but its not practical enough for my life, its also not as fun to drive as what I am potentially buying. But it certainly made my top five list.

maximillious > oldirtybootz 11/07/2013 at 13:26

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I am very excited I just want to make sure I get a fair deal on the SVT and a fair price on the new one. What they had the online price at was pretty awesome for the car so I am thinking most of the negotiation will be centered around the SVT trade in value

Where have all the lightweights gone? > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 13:33

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Is it one of the following: WRX/MS3/Focus ST?

duurtlang > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 13:33

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Focus ST?

maximillious > Where have all the lightweights gone? 11/07/2013 at 13:35

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Possibly.

maximillious > duurtlang 11/07/2013 at 13:35

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That car certainly is on the top five.

gbbts > Where have all the lightweights gone? 11/07/2013 at 14:08

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Wagon?

Alex87f > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 14:23

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Miata? Lotus Elise?

oldirtybootz > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 15:09

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What are SVTs going for these days? They only gave me $7k for my 2010 Focus with 70k miles.

maximillious > Alex87f 11/07/2013 at 15:32

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yes

bradledy > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 16:09

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El suspenso!

maximillious > oldirtybootz 11/07/2013 at 16:20

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Umm im not sure really, mine has 45k miles and its in perfect condition body and interior wise. I am going to push for 7 but I imagine a dealer will go lower than that.

oldirtybootz > maximillious 11/07/2013 at 18:58

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Just keep in mind that dealers will always want to give you the low end of book value and they'll try to find anything wrong with it to do so.

maximillious > oldirtybootz 11/08/2013 at 10:55

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Oh they certainly did try to do that. They offered me 2750 for a 45k mile SVT. I lolled really loud and told them they had a long walk up to meet me. I then explained to them how a salesman at another location had told me how hard it was becoming to sell the car i was looking at, and also reminded them of the impending winter (as if on cue it started to snow) I ended up getting my way. It also didnt hurt that I was in a town that is known for its dense population of boy racers

oldirtybootz > maximillious 11/08/2013 at 12:12

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So what did they end up giving you for it? And when will the secret be revealed??

maximillious > oldirtybootz 11/08/2013 at 12:21

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Just under what i paid for it. right around 5.5k. I will throw up some pics tonight once I go pick it up. They had to do the pre delivery shit because I finally signed everything around 9pm last night haha

oldirtybootz > maximillious 11/08/2013 at 12:35

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I'm making the Obama "not bad" face. I was going to guess $4k or $4.5k

I'm looking forward to seeing what you got.

maximillious > oldirtybootz 11/08/2013 at 12:55

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Yeah I would have taken 4-4.5 happily... I came back at their 2750 with 6k and then they came back with 5.5 ish so I jumped on it. didnt really expect it. And I am also looking forward to seeing what I got. This is the longest day of work of my life. I just want to be driving my new whip (said like Stewie Griffin accentuating the H)

Jason Reece > maximillious 11/27/2013 at 02:27

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I remember one of my best friends in high school running up to me one morning, excited out of her mind telling me that she got a brand new car over the weekend! This was in 1992 (Senior Year) and I tried to contain my disgust, pity and laughter as we approached her new Chevy Cavalier!

maximillious > Jason Reece 11/27/2013 at 10:15

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oh god dude! That was the staple car of my highschool parking lot. How many fights broke out because people got into the wrong car! People started doing things to them to tell them apart, like putting ridiculous spoilers and the hubcap spinners on them. Some even went as far as to put flames down the side so they knew which car was theirs. I mean that is why they put all that crap on there right? to know which car was theirs.... not because they actually thought it was cool yeah????? oh.

Jason Reece > maximillious 11/27/2013 at 19:03

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There were quite a few in our parking lot, too. And it was always girls with huge hair and poofy/crispy bangs teased way up in the air! There is a city one county over called Kennesaw and they referred to the big bangs as the "Kennesaw Claw"! =)

Most of the guys drove trucks, usually 4WD and covered in mud. I was one of the cool dudes- I drove a '91 Civic Si 3-door my senior year and I loved that thing! But as good as my taste was in which kind of car to drive, I was a victim of the questionable colors that plagued the late 80s and early 90s.....my Civic Si was Tahitian Green (almost Teal, but uglier)!

Jason Reece > Jason Reece 11/27/2013 at 19:30

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Actually I need to make an addendum to my previous posting. My small town only had three car dealerships when I was in high school- Chevrolet, Pontiac/Buick/GMC and Chrysler/Plymouth. If you were poor or lower-middle-class (or your home was parked on a rented 'lot'), you drove a Cavalier. If you were from a family with a few more dollars, you drove a Sunbird or (if you were a popular girl who put-out for anyone) you might even get a base model Grand Am!

The Pontiac dealer put a godawful decal package on all of their Sunbirds one year including a huge 'screaming chicken' inspired by the Trans-Am. We called those Sun-chickens. The girls who drove them were always overweight and wore those stretchy stirrup pants that were a few sizes too small. I learned what a King-Size CAMEL TOE was long before most of the world heard the term Camel Toe.....if I wasn't gay when I saw one of those for the first time, that would have certainly put me over the fence faster than Mary Lou Retton! Those gals would 'put out' for anyone, anytime, but there was a horrible running joke that the only way you could have sex with the really heavy ones would be to throw flour on them and aim for the wet spot! The most horrible thing was that I'm the one who started the joke...

There were also a few dozen 'uppity' girls whose fathers were doctors, lawyers, judges, county officials, or involved in some other lucrative criminal enterprise. Several of them had Berettas (all GTU models), but the Queen B's drove Trans Am GTAs, Z28 Convertibles, and one even had a Dodge Stealth. The girls who were star athletes (and weren't sluts or lesbians) had the most intersting cars in the parking lot. My sister had a yellow '89 Prelude Si 4WS, her best friend had a white '85 300ZX Turbo and the two other straight girls on the Varsity softball team had an '87 or '88 Toyota Supra Turbo and the other had a Chrysler Conquest TSi ('88-ish). The athletic girls who put out (and most cheerleaders) drove Buick Regals or Olds Cutlass Supremes. There were tons of those at my school!

The lesbian female athletes usually drove jacked up 4x4 pickups (Subarus had not yet reached North Georgia)! =)

maximillious > Jason Reece 11/27/2013 at 23:21

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This was one very entertaining read. I must say, we may have gone to the same school only in different states. Where I grew up the car assignments were very similar but there were some differences. Mind you this was 2002-2006 so please keep this in mind

The hicks in the school always had a few cars. Primarily they drove farm trucks, late 80s ford, dodge and chevy that they ceaselessly argued over what was better. Then there was the kids from the families with a name and money. Generally these kids would roll in something like Tiburons, Eclipses and Cougars. Then there were the not quite rich and not quite hick kids. Generally they had the Cavalier Z24, or some submodel, a Neon, escorts and the occasional gran prix (gran pris) as i liked to call them. Then there were the kids that cared about the car they drove. (this didnt mean they were cool people) First was the 5.0 fox body driven by a TOTAL douche. There was also the girl with the turbo charged custom painted and modded Civic hatchback (she was the shit) Then there was me with my cherry red Integra GS-R and the only other "import" in the lot was a glass packed Civic coupe with some poorly painted body kit. OH and my friend with the Dodge Stealth. There were a few motorcycle kids but they usually fell into the 5.0 fox body or money kid group. Then there were the kids that just didnt give a shit and drove what their parents let them. Oh and kids that bought Avengers but they clearly had something missing in every way.

We had one girl with a subie who i was sure would be a lesbo but that never panned out. Shocked.

In the end I knew driving into the lot that, next to the tuner civic girl, i had the most kick ass car. Growing up in a small middle america town however, meant that everyone disagreed completely because it wasnt american.

Oh and we had a kid that drove a short bus to school, this isnt a joke. He bought a short bus added couches and a sound system and daily drove it to school. It was so very originally dubbed "The Party Bus" And of course it was painted a camo green.

I dont think our upbringings differed very much.

Jason Reece > maximillious 11/28/2013 at 06:33

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It sounds like only the decade and location are changed and the rest of the story is much the same! I grew up in North Georgia, about an hour north-northeast of Atlanta in the mountains. My high school career was from 1989 to 1992. I managed to get the hell out of there in 3.5 years rather than the full four. Technically I didn't 'graduate' until Jan 5, 1993, but the lsat day I attended class was Dec 20, 1992 so I claim 1992 as my end date!

Did you ever hear of a show called "Popular" on The WB from 1999 to 2001? It was an early Ryan Murphy (Glee) creation. The setting was a high school with all these LARGER than LIFE characters and it is more hilarious now than ever. Tammy Lynn Michaels (former wife of Melissa Etheridge) was the most over-the-top, evil-to-the-core bitch to ever walk the halls of a high school. But the character that made me blow soda out of my nose or laugh so hard that I almost peed myself was called Mary Cherry. She was played by Leslie Grossman (Jennie Garth's best friend Lauren on 'What I Like About You') and was ridiculously Southern, rich, dumb as a piece of toast and guaranteed to make you laugh out loud! Ryan Murphy had a rule that he always had to be on set whenever a Mary Cherry scene was being filmed. And at some point in the show, every other character pondered aloud "Is Mary Cherry retarded? or sometimes they said "borderline-retarded"; like there's a difference? Here's a clip from my favorite episode-

Back on topic, there were actually less than 10 Japanese cars in a parking lot of around 250-300 cars at my school. I've mentioned all of them except my best firiend who had a charcoal gray 1990 Prelude 2.0S. But for almost two years before getting the Prelude, his first car was the one I found very amsuing- a 1984 Chrysler Laser XE Turbo (Dodge Daytona twin). It was Metallic Shit Brown with tan leather, the dash and center console were covered in illegible digital readouts. But the best feature was the Chrysler EVA (Electronic Voice Assist) that literally used the same voice and same technology as the Speak-and-Spell (which dated back to 1978). I can still hear that annoying goddamn robotic voice saying, "Engine overheating! Engine damage may occur!" over and over....it had a blown head gasket, we knew it was overheating and we were actually trying to kill it!

But my first car was far cooler and pretty damn suave back in those days- a 1986 Honda Accord LXi 4-door, light-medum blue with dark blue inteior, 5-speed, moonroof, and the same engine used in the '86-'87 Prelude Si. Even though it was rated at just 110hp, with the 5-speed manual I could embarrass almost every other car at my school in a stop-light drag race! =) I got it in 1990 and barely one year later I went airborne jumping a hill in a neighborhood near school and didn't quite land on all fours, so to speak. Instead, I touched down on my right front wheel first and went into a roll....rolled six times before coming to a rest and even with the moonroof open and all four windows down, me and my two friends in the car with me unbuckled our seatbelts and walked away without a single scratch! To this day my parenets still think a deer ran out of in front of me and I swerved causing it to roll....if Ii had told them what really happened, they wouldn't have allowed me to get another car and certainly not the '91 Civic Si that I chose!!!

I thought of one more character and her equally weird/ugly/freaky/dorky car that deserve a menton. Her name was Kiska and it was actually very hard to tell whether she was slow/mentally handicapped or uber-smart and socially-deficient (like Dr. Brennan on BONES). But she was the school's sole Latin student, so I doubt she was 'slow'. Her car was a 1985-ish Plymouth Turismo Duster, burgundy with burgundy velour interior and bad CV joints that made gut-wrenching noises constantly until one of the half-shafts finally broke and had to fix them.