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[mightyace]

That's an awesome Caddy! I've always wanted to get an Eldorado of the 1992-2002 vintage. Hopefully one day- they're among the most beautiful cars of the 90s, especially the 92-96 version. The only legitimate rival they had for awesome 90s cars is the 95-00 Olds Aurora or the Allanté, but I'd take an Eldorado over either of those.

In looks, yes.  And, at times, it has been my go to vehicle.  However, it currently overheats, loses coolant, drinks power steering fluid and has a bad engine mount.  Other than that, it's great! 

1992 Chevy Caprice Station Wagon (under repair)

That too is an awesome vehicle. Last generation of the full-size station wagon. Great car- good utility, amazing size, decent looks (especially if you have a wood package), wonderful highway cruiser.  Can I have your car fleet? Pretty please?

I don't have the wood package, but otherwise yes.  I call it my civil war car.  It's blue on top (north) and gray on the bottom (south).

And, all four vehicles are over 200,000 miles.

[oscar]

Most of my daily driving, and road tripping, is now done in my plain-Jane blue 2008 Prius.  Here's a rear view (photo by Richie Kennedy): 



I also have a 2006 Nissan Titan with a camper shell.  That used to be my road trip vehicle ($4/gal. gas in 2008 changed that), but nowadays I use the truck mainly for camping, snowstorms, and other trips where I need four-wheel drive.



Both still have the rare bumper sticker for the late Hawaii Superferry auto ferry system, with the distinctive psuedo-Interstate H-4 shield.  So it's really easy to spot my ride at a road enthusiasts meet.

[KEK Inc.]

Jeez!  What's with all of the bumper stickers!!! 

I'm not a big fan of the Prius.  It looks ugly, but I guess the price at the pump isn't too ugly.    I've heard the Prius has a braking issue, though, and that's not necessarily something you'd want a car to earn notoriety on. 

[oscar]

I've heard the Prius has a braking issue, though, and that's not necessarily something you'd want a car to earn notoriety on. 

Never have had, or heard of, any braking issues -- the regenerative brakes feel a little different, but you get used to it quickly.  The Prius is better known for unintended acceleration issues -- about the last problem you'd expect from such an underpowered car -- but I'm inclined to think that's a bum rap.

[njroadhorse]

I drive a mint green 2005 Ford Escape XLT with 215000 miles on it! I love that car so much.  Pretty good fuel economy, great handling, lots of space, and great acceleration.

[Chris]

Here's all the cars I've ever owned, or in the case of the Wrangler driven regularly
And the car I had before that- 1990 Dodge Colt. Overlapped with the Liberty for a couple months, but I sold it when I moved to Wyoming. This car was a beast- great gas mileage, shockingly good handling. 4-speed manual. Ton of fun to drive.  I'd rather drive that than some of the rich kid college cars in the background (that newish Mustang, newish BMW, that blue GTO por ejemplo). That was among the least valuable cars on the University of Puget Sound campus, but that was a good thing. It was like a go cart. Only cost $600 to buy and fix to good running condition.  I really regret selling it but I couldn't afford to keep it nor could I  manage the logistics of moving two cars from Washington to Wyoming. This was the best kind of car- I don't know a ton about the mechanics of cars, but I could pop the hood and fix anything. Nothing fancy, not even power steering. I was in full control of everything that happened behind the wheel of that vehicle unlike these fancy new cars with automatics, ABS, power steering, traction control, and a whole host of other things that take the fun out of driving. It was just a car. That's the way they should be.

The Colt is known in Europe as a Mitsubishi Colt, other than the name, the car appears to be the same.

I drive a 2004 Renault Kangoo car-based commercial van. Actually, this post is typed right from the drivers seat from a wifi connection at McDonalds in Switzerland.
It's not the most beautiful car around, but it's reliable, affordable and practical. It has a 1.6 liter 70 HP turbodiesel engine that gets 49 miles per gallon and has no problem getting around on the mountain passes I've driven today. A 12 - 15% incline can be done at 40 - 50 miles per hour, no problem. Even passing a truck uphill is no problem, even with the only 70 horse power this thing has. Thanks to the diesel engine, you don't need a 200+ horse power car to have a powerful engine.

[corco]

The Colt is known in Europe as a Mitsubishi Colt, other than the name, the car appears to be the same.

Yeah- in the 80s and 90s Chrysler owned a substantial chunk of Mitsubishi-I don't know if it was a controlling interest, but a large chunk of it. This car is a Mitsubishi product- even under the hood and on the window glass the car had the three diamonds shown prominently. Chrysler pretty much let Mitsubishi make their small cars for them before the Neon came out, so you could buy a Dodge Colt, a Plymouth Colt, or an Eagle Summit in North America, all of which were substantially exactly the same car. If you went over to Mitsubishi in North America, the car was called a Mirage, but was also substantially the same car.

I doubt I will ever own another car that stretches my "Buy American only" policy so thin- this car was made in Japan by (a partially Chrysler-controlled) Mitsubishi; it just happened to be sold at a Dodge dealer.

I figured for the cost I couldn't afford to be too picky- this seemed like a good car that needed minimal work to get up to running condition and one that would be simple enough to fix, plus pretty much all of the super-subcompact American cars (a class below the Escort/Cavalier) of the early 90s were made in Japan or Korea by Japanese or Korean manufacturers (Festiva (Kia Pride), Colt (Mitsubishi Colt), Metro (Suzuki Cultus)), so it was unavoidable

[Ian]

Here is the my dad's 1997 Ford F-150 that I hope to get when he gets a new truck...

[Eth]

My car

It's a 2010 Mazda 3 (black, as you can just barely tell) and this photo was taken about five months ago when I was wondering how the hell I was going to dig out from what was, at the time, roughly four or five times the total amount of snow I'd dealt with in the previous 23 years.

Prior to that, I owned a 2000 Ford Taurus for a few years; that was my first car.

[Crazy Volvo Guy]

The daily driver, 1990 Volvo 760:





My 6th Volvo which I just acquired a month ago and a harking back to my first car/Volvo, also a 1990 760.  Side note, I added WI and IL to my list of states on the trip to buy that car as well as nearly clinching I-65.  I now only lack Montgomery to Mobile.

The perpetual project, 1984 Volvo 240:



My 5th Volvo, bought in 2008 and has barely been driven 30 miles since.

[NJRoadfan]

The perpetual project, 1984 Volvo 240:



My 5th Volvo, bought in 2008 and has barely been driven 30 miles since.

Looks like the dog might get upset if you move his shady spot.

[aswnl]

Living in Europe, my car type will probably be unknown to you.
It's an Opel Zafira  (just like this one, mine is a diesel, built in 2004, today at 200000 km ~  125,000 miles.)

[oscar]

Jeez!  What's with all of the bumper stickers!!!

Just reminded yesterday of one reason for the stickers on my Prius (one of my rides, pictured several posts above) -- blue Priuses (Prii?) are a dime a dozen where I live, and often I end up in a parking space next to one or even two of them, as happened yesterday.  The stickers help make it easier for me, and fellow Prius owners, to distinguish my car from all the others. 

They also make clear that I'm not a fan of the local pro football team, and that my politics are not exactly what one might expect from a Prius owner in Virginia's bluest county.

[KEK Inc.]

Jeez!  What's with all of the bumper stickers!!!

Just reminded yesterday of one reason for the stickers on my Prius (one of my rides, pictured several posts above) -- blue Priuses (Prii?) are a dime a dozen where I live, and often I end up in a parking space next to one or even two of them, as happened yesterday.  The stickers help make it easier for me, and fellow Prius owners, to distinguish my car from all the others. 

They also make clear that I'm not a fan of the local pro football team, and that my politics are not exactly what one might expect from a Prius owner in Virginia's bluest county.

I know plenty of conservative Prius owners, but I suppose it does go against the political stereotype.

I rarely see other charcoal colored Nissan Maximas, and I remember where I park, so that's not an issue for me. 

[Truvelo]

My car

It's a 2010 Mazda 3 (black, as you can just barely tell) and this photo was taken about five months ago when I was wondering how the hell I was going to dig out from what was, at the time, roughly four or five times the total amount of snow I'd dealt with in the previous 23 years.

What a way to treat a new car

My car is a 2007 Ford Mondeo. As aswnl mentioned in his post, it's a model produced in Europe that may not be known in North America. Here's a few pictures taken recently in Scotland.

[bugo]

My car is a 2007 Ford Mondeo. As aswnl mentioned in his post, it's a model produced in Europe that may not be known in North America.

The Mondeo was sold in North America from 1995 to 2000 as the Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique.  They were infamous for having poor reliability and a cramped rear seat.  The Mercury model was nicknamed the "Mercury Mistake."  My dad had a Contour and it was nothing but trouble.  I have heard the European versions were better cars than the US versions.

[J N Winkler]

My car is a 2007 Ford Mondeo. As aswnl mentioned in his post, it's a model produced in Europe that may not be known in North America.

Yes and no.  The original Mondeo was designed as a "world car" and a variant of it was marketed in North America as the Ford Contour.  It went out of production in 2000 because it was considered too small for its market segment.  It was about the same size as a third-generation Nissan Maxima (which I drove for over 10 years), but was smaller than the fourth- and fifth-generation Maximas and the contemporary Camry models, which were considered its principal competitors.

I road-tested a Contour soon after it came out and quite liked its road feel.

[Truvelo]

Aren't the Contour models based on the earlier Mondeo with the smiley grille? I've seen some of the those whilst in the US and the front end is pretty much the same as the 1996-1999 Mondeo. I don't think there's anything like the 2000-2007 Mondeo in North America.

[Chris]

I saw a Toyota Solara in France last week, which is rare, because they aren't sold in Europe. It had German plates from Kaiserslautern, where 50,000 American soldiers live, so I assumed it was brought overseas by a soldier stationed in Kaiserslautern/Ramstein.

[J N Winkler]

He or she might even have been posted to TRADOC before--the "Chantilly Toyota" license plate frame (itself sized correctly for a North American rather than German license plate) hints at that.

[Chris]

I got the picture from Wikipedia actually. The car I saw was a similar model with a US size German license plate.

[Michael in Philly]

My car

It's a 2010 Mazda 3 (black, as you can just barely tell) and this photo was taken about five months ago when I was wondering how the hell I was going to dig out from what was, at the time, roughly four or five times the total amount of snow I'd dealt with in the previous 23 years.

Prior to that, I owned a 2000 Ford Taurus for a few years; that was my first car.

The benefits of living five blocks from work:  I just didn't drive for about three weeks.

[KEK Inc.]

My car is a 2007 Ford Mondeo. As aswnl mentioned in his post, it's a model produced in Europe that may not be known in North America.

The Mondeo was sold in North America from 1995 to 2000 as the Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique.  They were infamous for having poor reliability and a cramped rear seat.  The Mercury model was nicknamed the "Mercury Mistake."  My dad had a Contour and it was nothing but trouble.  I have heard the European versions were better cars than the US versions.

lol, that's my first car.  (The Mercury Mystique)

They had really good fuel mileage, even after it got Americanized with the cat.  The handling wasn't bad.  Everything else though...

Anyways, I'm perfectly content with my Nissan Maxima.  It only has 65,000 miles on it, and I won't drive it around much in college.  It's a big step up from the Mystique.

And my personal favorite...  A Mondeo getting raped by a 747 jet engine's crosswind.

[cu2010]

My first car was a Mistake as well...and everything they say about them is true. They look nice, and they're decent on gas (though the gas gauge in mine was screwed up...when it got filled it stayed on "F" forever but then quickly went down to "E")...but I (and my family who passed it to me) went through brakes about every six months...it got expensive fast.  Add to that that the car hated it when I got above 65...it started rattling like hell as soon as the needle hit 66. The car got passed on to my sister and, needless to say, has been since taken off the road after it became just too expensive to maintain.

I currently drive an invisible Batmobile.   

[hm insulators]

Aren't the Contour models based on the earlier Mondeo with the smiley grille? I've seen some of the those whilst in the US and the front end is pretty much the same as the 1996-1999 Mondeo. I don't think there's anything like the 2000-2007 Mondeo in North America.

Thank you for those beautiful pictures of Scotland, and some nice insulators on the poles in the second picture. (Looks like those poles go for some distance, too.)

Let me get my hiking boots, my backpack, canteen, lunch, plane ticket to Scotland... Any more pictures?