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From: Mike Hunter on 27 Nov 2009 20:49 Good for you, CR says Lexus' are a good used car to buy. "Cleo Baines Hafsteder" <cleo(a)gbaines.net> wrote in message news:hepgfo$1lk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > > "Desertphile" <desertphile(a)invalid-address.net> wrote in message > news:7jb0h5trhc3m8fn7v1sqs3cs43nlru4vuu(a)4ax.com... >> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:39 -0800, "Cleo Baines Hafsteder" >> <cleo(a)gbaines.net> wrote: >> >>> jealous you can't afford to purchase a TOYOTA? >> >> Who can? >> >> > I can afford Lexus. Not only can I afford Lexus, I just purchased one. > >
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 28 Nov 2009 17:25 On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:49:44 +0000, someone(a)some.domain wrote: >>My Mom has an apartment downstairs. After an amazingly messy divorce I >>took the 'in law' apartment and pretty much pay the bills so my Mom lives >>relatively free. in2dadark likes to spin it the other way... >> >>What I get out of it: parking for my SEVEN cars (moslty beaters and a >>Scion tC) and a heated garage for the Supra. ;) >> >> >> > ya gots yer priorities strait. Actually, when I first came back here the heated garage was for my '85 Hachiroku! http://image.turbomagazine.com/f/9904107/turp_0410_01_z+toyota_corolla_drift_car+front_view.jpg http://www.drifting.es/fotos/coches/toyota/corolla/toyota-corolla-levin.jpg (No existing picture of my own...)
From: someone on 28 Nov 2009 22:03 In article <pan.2009.11.28.22.25.22.475778(a)e86.GTS>, =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote: >On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:49:44 +0000, someone(a)some.domain wrote: > >>>My Mom has an apartment downstairs. After an amazingly messy divorce I >>>took the 'in law' apartment and pretty much pay the bills so my Mom lives >>>relatively free. in2dadark likes to spin it the other way... >>> >>>What I get out of it: parking for my SEVEN cars (moslty beaters and a >>>Scion tC) and a heated garage for the Supra. ;) >>> >>> >>> >> ya gots yer priorities strait. > >Actually, when I first came back here the heated garage was for my '85 >Hachiroku! > >http://image.turbomagazine.com/f/9904107/turp_0410_01_z+toyota_corolla_drift_ca >r+front_view.jpg > >http://www.drifting.es/fotos/coches/toyota/corolla/toyota-corolla-levin.jpg > >(No existing picture of my own...) > > > did you break it?
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 29 Nov 2009 19:42 On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:03:21 +0000, someone(a)some.domain wrote: > In article <pan.2009.11.28.22.25.22.475778(a)e86.GTS>, > =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote: >>On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:49:44 +0000, someone(a)some.domain wrote: >> >>>>My Mom has an apartment downstairs. After an amazingly messy divorce I >>>>took the 'in law' apartment and pretty much pay the bills so my Mom >>>>lives relatively free. in2dadark likes to spin it the other way... >>>> >>>>What I get out of it: parking for my SEVEN cars (moslty beaters and a >>>>Scion tC) and a heated garage for the Supra. ;) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ya gots yer priorities strait. >> >>Actually, when I first came back here the heated garage was for my '85 >>Hachiroku! >> >>http://image.turbomagazine.com/f/9904107/turp_0410_01_z+toyota_corolla_drift_ca >>r+front_view.jpg >> >>http://www.drifting.es/fotos/coches/toyota/corolla/toyota-corolla-levin.jpg >> >>(No existing picture of my own...) >> >> >> > did you break it? It's a bit worn. 260,000 fun-filled miles, and in New England, sheet metal just doesn't last much longer than 20 years, even though it only was driven 1 winter. It's in my backyard, waiting patiently. But the Supra is getting all the tme and money... I have my eye on an '88 Corolla FX that the body is in much better shape, and a lot of the parts (including the 4A-GE Twin-Cam) can be moved to with very little effort... ;)
From: E. Meyer on 30 Nov 2009 11:01
On 11/27/09 8:38 AM, in article 8dCdnWrqedf_eZLWnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d(a)giganews.com, "z(a)tink.net" <z(a)tink.net> wrote: > <someone(a)some.domain> wrote in message > news:%8CPm.279529$Jp1.66565(a)en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com... >> In article >> <d9b14ab6-de86-4e4b-9b0f-b323f98f7409(a)r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> phaeton <blahbleh666(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> This isn't new, either, suggesting that Toyota's troubles may be more >>>> of a developing pattern than a one-time aberration. Two years ago, >>>> before two-thirds of Detroit's automakers were tempered by the fires >>>> of bankruptcy, the editor of the ostensibly "Japanese-loving" Consumer >>>> Reports apologized to readers for recommending the problem-plagued >>>> Camry V-6. >>>> >>>> He also said the magazine had decided new Toyota models could no >>>> longer be given the benefit of the doubt -- or its prized >>>> "recommended" label. And Toyota's V-8 powered Tundra four-wheel drive >>>> pickup was labeled "unreliable" by the magazine, the unofficial Bible >>>> to discerning car and truck buyers. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I always take everything Consumer Reports says with a grain of salt. >> >> yeah, a 50 mile square grain. > > I have my own theory about Consumer Reports Ratings, when the ratings are a > reflection of public response - who responds to the typical survey? Who > writes letter to the editor? Who calls a corporate complaint/compliment > line? Those who are not happy. So, in my own little not so humble opinion, > CR public response ratings are skewed to the negative. > That may be true, but every time I have looked up CR's ratings for any car I've owned over the past 40 years, the problems they predicted have matched exactly with what I experienced. |