I just feel very sorry for any poor soul who buys a Dodge...
Any kind of Dodge. Its like a Toyota without the reliability.
Automotive Cream of Wheat (with no sugar).
On 10/29/2010 8:15 AM, Phil Tegtmeier wrote:
Has any one looked at the Dodge Grand Caravan
recently....I have not,
but have seen a couple in parking lots and they appear to be a
little
bigger,beefier and have more of the trick stuff.
Just a thought
Phil
On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Mike Fleischer wrote:
Ah
Well hate to say it (BTW nice on the Cambridge lady D)....
Chevy Avalanche
Ford F150 Extended cab
Ford F150 Raptor (costs more, bet definitely has the cool
factor)
Seriously anything else is just a glorified minivan, so you
might as
well go with Dennis and get the Odyssey... Try and find a good
use
for the lipstick holder :). Those trucks, at least, would haul
your
Elise to the track and back :), and other toys. Also you are in
the South now, its not Detroit, if you don't drive a pickup
people will be
looking for your pinky ring.
As for the Elise... I was in the hunt for one when the Vette
found
me... Cool little cars, but the road trip I took this summer, I
would never have attempted in an Elise. Snappy at the limit and
requires contortion and flexibility to get out of one (and
perhaps
Crisco), though I am pretty small. Q-porte is pretty, no idea
on
reliability, seems unlikely it would go 200k without costing a
fortune. Good luck!
BR,
Mike
On 10/28/2010 12:46 PM, Dennis Liu
wrote:The
killer part of your query is the two dogs -- at some point,
when your
daughter gets old enough and you start schlepping lots of
kidlet
friends around, you're going to need a decent-sized SUV or
better yet,
station wagon, so the dogs can get the back (mostly) to
themselves.
My
immediate recommendation is a Subaru - Forester or Outback.
Meets all
of your requirements thoroughly, except perhaps the "kinda
cool"
thing. Unless you're a lesbian from Cambridge and you
haven't told us.
If
it were me, I'd happily suck it up and buy a fully loaded
Odyssey,
with the rear DVD. Something smaller? Mazda 5. But since
I'm sure
you'd hate the thought of that, perhaps an Acura MDX -
better than the
Lexus, IMHO. Followed closely by the Infiniti FX35/45.
Mazda CX-9
too.
The
European SUVs/crossovers are more expensive and less
reliable, though
I'd consider the Cayenne, or better yet, the Turbodiesel
Toureg, if
you can find one. Or the Audi Q7 diesel. All of these, and
the BMW
X5/X3 and MB ML/GLK can go to 200k miles, but will require
$$$$ in
maintenance, much more so than the Japanese. Some like the
Volvo
XC90, but I try not to think about it.
I'd
personally prefer a wagon, like the A6 / Allroad, or the
E350 or 535xi.
Something
new? If you can get over your bowtie-red leaning, consider
the 2011
Ford Edge sport.
HTH!
vty,
--Dennis
From: Lee Lingo
[mailto:lee.s.lingo [at] gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday,
October 28,
2010 1:02 PM
To: The
FerrariList; Dennis
Liu
Subject: Car
replacement time
Hi folks, long time no post.
Been relocating from Detroit, MI, to Madisonville, Ky. Most
of my
time has been taken up orchestrating the whole shebang.
Anyway, the family truckster, our '02 Olds Bravada thats
responsible
for carting us, our daughter, our two huskys and various gear
to and
fro is starting to show serious signs of hesitation when doing
its
chores. Despite the fact that I'd planned to keep driving it
to 250k,
it looks like it'll fall 75k short of my goal.
So I'm looking for a new work horse. I'm open to suggestions,
any and
all.
Requirements are that it gets decent gas mileage, have the
ability to
haul 3 people and two dogs when necessary, be kinda cool since
I'll be
driving it mostly, be relatively lite on repair costs and if
possible,
moderately maintainable by me, be well built enough to last
200k MI,
and lastly, $40k or less. Preferably much less. I set the
bar @ 40
because that's what it would cost to replace the Bravada with
a like
kind/size new vehicle. I'm open to new and used.
That being said, I would like to solicit the collective
knowledge
trust for real info on the Porsche Cayenne turbo &
Maserati QP in
particular. And as an aside, the Lotus Elise as well.
Thanks for any and all suggestions and feel free to reply
direct if
you prefer.
Lee Lingo
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