Car-shopping: whole lot of nothing

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 10/22/2016 at 19:45 • Filed to: car shopping

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But I did learn one thing: my wife HATES these Camry coupes. She normally doesn’t give two shits about cars. You can see the pain in her eyes when I blather on about the allroad or the Paseo. Extreme indifference. But when I told her last week that I wanted to buy that Purple 377k-mile SE Coupe I posted on here, she actually had an opinion:

“That car... is SO ugly, and it’s automatic? This is nothing like any of the other cars you like!”

Just so you all know, my wife went from “you should buy something nice and safe and maybe automatic” to “you should buy something you love so you can keep it instead of selling it every year and shopping for cars all the time.”

This is totally unfair. Yeah I’ve bought six vehicles in the last six years, sold five of them, sold my last car after just five months of ownership but... Where was I going with this again?

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dogisbadob > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 19:52

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That Camry coupe is awesome. SO MUCH cooler than the fugly-ass Solara that tried to be marketed as a separate model.

Coupes look better, and are better, when they are just 2-door versions of their sedan counterparts. (of course, this only applies to cars that are available in both coupe and sedan form)

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 19:52

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You’re a lucky man?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > dogisbadob 10/22/2016 at 19:54

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Yes, the only thing that makes this coupe imperfect is the fact that you cant get a stick with the V6 SE

Monkey B > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 19:55

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I’ve been driving for 26 years and have owned somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-45 cars...6 in 6 years is pretty mild I’d say, just tell her it could be worse!

IMO, half the fun is finding new ones. Sometimes I trip on them and they follow me home, sometimes they require some searching. At the end of the day it’s all part of my love affair with cars. Enjoy, you’re doing it right.

Monkey B > dogisbadob 10/22/2016 at 19:58

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ugh...Solara. Only thing worse is the Solara convertible. I think the price of entry for those is menopause and gray hair.

LongbowMkII > dogisbadob 10/22/2016 at 20:00

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The first solara looks good. The second looks like a blob.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 20:10

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She seems like a normal healthy adult.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/22/2016 at 20:15

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Yep, but she chose to marry me anyway.

CalzoneGolem > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 20:16

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My wife feels strongly about the Honda Element.

Maxima Speed > dogisbadob 10/22/2016 at 20:18

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Hey! Don’t talk about my new baby like that!  I’ve had it less than a week (it replaces my beautiful Mazda 6 that someone destroyed), and I’m still trying to get used to it. In person it has a strange elegance in some ways. Just happy it has 4 wheels and is reliable. Now I’m gonna go cry about my Mazda 6, which is sitting in a pile in my yard

CalzoneGolem > Monkey B 10/22/2016 at 20:20

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I have been driving for about twenty years. I have owned 6 cars. I currently own 1/3 of them.

Frenchlicker > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 20:25

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I’ve decided to go a solid adult route on my next car. I’m not aiming for cheapest I can get that runs. I am trying to future proof myself. Therefore I am searching for a four door F150 with 100k miles or less.

greenagain > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 21:38

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If flipping junkers makes you happy then down put up with the built trip beat-down.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > greenagain 10/22/2016 at 21:40

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I’ve never flipped a car.

cluelessk > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 22:08

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Wouldn’t you want your Wife driving something safer?

Safety tech has come so far since then. Something from at least the mid 2000's would be way safer. Side curtain airbags plus they’d be way more advanced.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > cluelessk 10/22/2016 at 22:21

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My wife has a safe car, this is shopping for me

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 22:37

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Thank God Toyota listened and threw in a stick for the first-gen Solara V6.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/22/2016 at 23:44

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I’ve realized you really do need to love your car.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/23/2016 at 02:52

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The Camry and Accord from the early to mid-1990s had extremely solid engineering and quality.

Not overly fancy, just solidly good cars.

What’s your budget and what area are you looking in?

cluelessk > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/23/2016 at 09:48

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Don’t know how I misread that.

Do yourself a favour and get something more interesting.

Friend owned a mint Camry Coupe in high school. Was pretty boring. Unique but nothing else really.