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Oh my. I looked at a picture. Oh my.If you like the performance of a Porsche but not the expense, try a VW GTI. Made by the very same factory. Gets up and goes. Cheaper to care for. My ex-roomie had one and would let me drive it now and then. I'd get on the freeway and... vrooom!!!
Oh my. I looked at a picture. Oh my.
Gots to have my sporty car look.
No boxy for me.
....how about a Lil Red Corvette?....Swifty, we finally agree on something! I don't like the Boxster either.
I prefer a Cayman (she looks a lot like my RX-8, eh?)
Or a 911 Carrera
I've fixed it but for next time:
You know what I love? I love that you are a teacher and talk like this! Always makes me smile!
You guys know how I love my car, a red Mazda RX-8. Well, I think it's totaled.
This morning, the rain was coming down pretty hard, but no harder than usual in the last year that I've lived back here in the country.
I drive about 12 miles on back roads to work, and set off this morning at 7 A.M. The first few miles, I was going through some good-sized puddles, but nothing major. However, when I got about halfway to work, I crossed a little overpass bridge, and went right into some very deep water over the road. Before you tell me I was not too smart to have driven into the water, please know that I was not trying to 'make it though.' There simply was no indication that it was that deep. It looked like a perfectly normal-sized puddle, just like the others I'd driven through. I just didn't know it was that deep.
My car (being the good little car he is) didn't stall. The water was about 2 feet deep at that point, and the rain had started to come down more heavily. I called 911 and they said they'd send someone. Every few minutes, I kept trying to back out to the little bridge I'd just crossed. The water wasn't as deep there. After about 15 minutes I was able to back, inch by inch, onto the bridge. I couldn't back any further, because there was water on the other side of the bridge that wasn't quite as deep, but still too much for my low-riding car.
I saw the emergency vehicles arrive on the other side of the deep expanse of water. After a while, when I had finally decided that I was going to have to think about swimming once my car was under, an emergency truck finally started across the water. At that point, it was about four feet deep, and I thought surely the truck would stall or not be able to get to me. It took about 5 minutes for them to travel to me. Right when they got on the bridge, water started pouring into my car on the passenger side. The water on the bridge had increased to about one foot. I grabbed my purse and got in the emergency truck.
We then had to traverse back across the four-feet-deep lake of water they had just come through to get to dry road. The guy then took me on to work and called a towing service to go get my car. They had to wait until the waters receded and, by that time, the water had covered my car over the hood. Inside was about a foot of water. The mechanic there said it would probably be totaled because once water gets in the engine, even if they're able to 'fix' it now, there are always problems later...like with lights or the computer or how it runs, etc.
I am very happy to not be drowned, but I'm very sick about my car. I looked for that particular car for over a year before I found it. If you guys think about it, keep an eye out for an RX-8 that has the following description. I'm kind of picky about my cars, so it pretty much has to have all these things for me to want to buy it. Also, I'm in Kentucky, so wouldn't want to drive to say, Montana, to get it.
Mazda RX-8
2007-2011
Red exterior
Manual transmission (deal breaker)
Red/black leather interior
Sunroof
Fewer than 75,000 miles would be nice
Here's a picture someone took and posted on Facebook. You can see how deep the water is on the emergency truck. The water doesn't look that deep on the bridge, but it's deceptive. About two minutes after this pic was taken is when the water started pouring into my car.
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If I can't get another RX-8, guess it's time for a Porsche!
I'm glad the emergency vehicle got to you soon. I'm glad you had a cell phone. How did we survive without cell phones? I had an old VW Bug for 20 years and I loved it like it was family. I cried when it caught on fire (fule line slipped off while I was driving).
Most of the ladies here need their right hand free in order to text, shuffle through their purses, and apply makeup at 75 mph.
Most of the ladies here need their right hand free in order to text, shuffle through their purses, and apply makeup at 75 mph.
I leaned to use stick when I was 16 on a VW convertible Bug. At 17 I learned to use a manual stick on the steering wheel of an old Impala. Anybody remember manual sticks on the steering wheel?
First car I owned was a manual stick on the steering wheel. 1962.I leaned to use stick when I was 16 on a VW convertible Bug. At 17 I learned to use a manual stick on the steering wheel of an old Impala. Anybody remember manual sticks on the steering wheel?
I leaned to use stick when I was 16 on a VW convertible Bug. At 17 I learned to use a manual stick on the steering wheel of an old Impala. Anybody remember manual sticks on the steering wheel?
Dashboard is the word here, also. Can't remember any vehicle here having anything like that. My 1960 Corvair was an automatic and the little transmission lever was on the dashboard.Yup I remember them on old Vauxhalls in the UK. I also had an old Renault that had a stick shift which came out of the middle of the dashboard (is that the same word in the US?)
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Most of the ladies here need their right hand free in order to text, shuffle through their purses, and apply makeup at 75 mph.
That is a skillet worthy comment, if I ever saw one! *BONK*
Dashboard is the word here, also. Can't remember any vehicle here having anything like that. My 1960 Corvair was an automatic and the little transmission lever was on the dashboard.
Similar, but mine was a little different with the lever on the side of the gear display. No "P" either. You put it in 'N,' pulled the emergency brake, and placed a brick in back of a tire. You also didn't need a key to operate the car.
