DOTS: Hate Yourself edition

"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed)
11/13/2018 at 16:25 • Filed to: None

Some of the styling is interesting. I’ll give them that.

DISCUSSION (14)

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Maxima Speed
11/13/2018 at 17:32

Trophy-o

Chariotoflove > Maxima Speed
11/13/2018 at 18:07

This is one of my all time favorite cars.

404 - User No Longer Available > Maxima Speed
11/13/2018 at 18:12

I like the post-refresh version with the larger trunk much better.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > Maxima Speed
11/13/2018 at 20:29

First gen Toronado still blows my mind. It's beautiful. It has an incredible name. I loved it from the first time I saw it online. Then I learned it was FWD. WHY.

shop-teacher > Maxima Speed
11/13/2018 at 21:05

This was my first car. Mine was midnight midnight blue, with a matching interior. I loved the styling. The seats were leaps and bounds the best I’ve ever experienced in any vehicle.

It also bled me freaking dry, it was constantly breaking.

npc58501 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
11/13/2018 at 21:26

FWD in 1966 was considered a revolution and allowed for a front seat with no hump (stuff more people) along with better snow traction (studless snow tires were not invented until the 70s).

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Maxima Speed
11/13/2018 at 21:37

I like this car. And myself. Thank you very much!

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > shop-teacher
11/13/2018 at 21:38

I had the Buick version. I love the styling on both. But damn so I wish it was actually a better car. I used to dream of swapping in a supercharged 3.8.

shop-teacher > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
11/13/2018 at 22:21

I did too!

Yeah, it's a shame they weren't actually good. They were too high tech for their own good. GM quality just wasn't up to the task back then.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Maxima Speed
11/14/2018 at 05:01

kill it with fire

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Maxima Speed
11/14/2018 at 07:33

Those cars are wonderful to drive and gorgeous compared to anything on the road today.

10/10 would take that for a daily.

P.S. I don’t hate myself.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > shop-teacher
11/14/2018 at 07:36

We’ve had a handful of them in our family. Been very trouble free cars for us. The lowest mileage one has ever crapped out was 323k miles.

But getting t-boned by a minivan helped it along. Dad had it tweaked back as close as they could get it and drove it another 30k before the trans gave up the ghost.

shop-teacher > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness
11/14/2018 at 11:14

My dad bought the ‘89 new. He rear-ended somebody hard in ‘91, doing about $5k in damage. Which, in ‘91 dollars, was a big accident. I bought it from them in ‘97, and over the course of the next three years dad and I dumped another $5k into that thing. It was just one thing after another. For all that money, I had a car with completely blown rear suspension (air struts leaked, compressor seized, eventually the rear strut towers bent), the AC didn’t work, and the windshield leaked.

I n 2000, my parents helped me buy a ‘98 S-10, and I gave the Troffeo back to them. Dad dumped another couple grand into the thing, before he gave up and junked it with just over 100k miles on it. What finally did it in was the early ABS system failed, and when it failed it did so in a way that the brakes barely worked. Nobody could fix it.

The reason I mentioned the accident, is I always suspected the damage done early on, contributed to a lot of early failures of weird things. It’s been long enough that I don’t remember most of it anymore. I loved the car, and my dad loved it even more, but gadamn that thing was a money pit.

I wish I had kept the seats from it when we junked it, but I was in college and had nowhere to put them.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > shop-teacher
11/14/2018 at 12:13

I would venture to guess the accident had a lot to do with it.

After my dad’s got wrecked it had a bunch of electronic issues that started popping up, which caused the trans failure ultimately. Prior to being wrecked at 293k it had needed nothing outside a suspension rebuild around 180k and the intake gasket replaced around 225k.

His was also a Blue on Blue 89.

He replaced that one with a Burgundy 1991 Trofeo that had 46k miles on it. He drove that car to 496k miles before trading it on his current 05 Monte Carlo SS ( don’t ask me why, I tried to talk him out of it and still do ), which has been a constant problem child, but it was rode hard and put away wet.

My uncle owned another 89 Trofeo, he sold it around 450k miles. I think he had replaced the instrument cluster once, otherwise just normal wear and tear items like suspension.

If I ever come across one at a good price I will strongly consider it for a cruiser.