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"91 Jeep Cherokee Sport

Four wheel drive owns your face.

And so does my Jeep.

Krista's 22 year old sister Larceny borrowed Krista's Jeep, and Larceny and I went mudding once. We got stuck, because Krista's Cherokee doesn't have decent mudding tires. STILL, it was a jolly old time.

Here's pic:



I've always been happy Krista has a sister; Larceny is pretty hardcore, a girl after my own heart.

Good fortune,

- Icarus makes stuff up, but only when necessary...

I don't, I'm not going to either.

Okay now, if you're willing to wait 18 years... maybe I can have a talk with my mom and we'll see what we can do about a sister.

And how did you know my Jeep lacks good muddin' tires?! Stalx0r! Seriously though, they're almost bald because of how bad we beat the s*** out of that thing. That's what Jeeps are for though, I say.

m car is a pair of Nike trainers

1997 Honda Accord SE. I'm such a freaking miser that I had to break down in tears and ask my wife for permission to buy a 10 year old car that has leather seats. Hah!

2004 Daihatsu terios. (very small 4WD). They look like toy cars, but i bought it cos I got used to the high driving position after having a campervan and it's cheap on fuel. I rarely have other people in the car so I don't need lots of passenger space. It's quite a pleasant car to drive, has a sense of 'fun' about it. I've only had it about a month. I don't expect to be doing any offroad stuff in it. I have no experience of that and I'm middle aged with a bad back.

I still have the campervan, it's 1987 Toyota commuter, diesel. I'll be selling it shortly, hoping to get something newer, maybe a Ford Transit.

I got my mom's old subaru outback. It's excellent in the snow.

"All those who wander are not lost..." I like that.

Nice ride Icarus.

I drive a 2002 Ford Focus.

Tim

A rather unimpressive, no frills 2005 Chevy thing that I wish desperately was either a Mini Cooper or a BMW. At least it's new and I'm keeping it well maintained, in teh hope that I can trade up someday in the near future.

Is it an HHR?

Tim

Citroen zx and ford escort. I am selling the escort for £523.

I don’t like driving, but since I have to, I chose a very sensible vehicle:
a 2000 Honda Civic EX. I’ve had it for about 5 months, now and I love it.
I’ve gotten 38mpg with it, and it’s not even a hybrid (I do wish I had a Prius
though). Another great thing about hondas is that just about any cool gadget
is available for them. I have a two-channel aux-in adapter that I use for
directly connecting my satellite radio and my OGG player.

I drive a 97 Chevy Blazer

I miss my old '90 Talon, what a kickass car. Too expensive to maintain, though, parts were almost nonexistent ($350 for an alternator!! !! !), tires were 205/55R16, aka twice as much as all the others. Weight was almost perfect 50/50, you could drift that thing like no other car, amazing. Also, the stock 2.0 motor was bulletproof, never had a problem with it, still took me to 110 on the freeway after all the abuse.

It began to slowly fall apart, little things here and there, until one day there was no driver's side door handle (froze off), the paint delaminated from the hood (yay Chrysler paint!) the 980 pound hatch ate those hydraulic keeper-upper thingys (technical term, try and keep up) the busted CV joints leading to a camber problem which I discovered when I sliced the living sh*t out of my hands on the steel belt poking through the tires at their innermost edge despite the remainder of the tire having most of its tread, the passenger (power) window getting stuck halfway due to a blown relay which you could not buy, and a popup headlight which pointed high and left after it took one for the team - a deer went kamikaze on me at dusk and I hit it, the light imparting just enough spin onto it that instead of hitting me straight in the mouth, it went to the side, throat-firsting my sideview mirror. I was picking bloody, matted hair and ribbons of flesh off it for a week.

I loved the way you sat in that thing, most cars are not amenable to my size, so it was a nice treat. (Except for the emergency brake handle which seemed purpose-built to separate my right kneecap from my leg, that is.) It was more like you WORE that car than sat in it, you didn't have to think about it, it just did it, an extension of YOU.

After I drove it into the ground I picked up a 92 Jetta. If you like a total crap joke of a car made out of plastic that snaps off in your hand in the wintertime, taillights which come unplugged at random times, weird and unpredictable handling, ergonomic design by John Merrick, an electrical system governed by no known laws of nature, all windows soaked inside and out with condensation at all times of the year no matter what, speakers that cut in and out at random, and an engine so weak it couldn't pull a dying hoor off a pisspot, get one. You won't be disappointed.

The Eagle looked like this, except no gray and I had air in the tires:



The Jetta: