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Re: I'm lucky to be alive
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lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us
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Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:04:42 GMT
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mcambron@pacbell^spamcake^.net
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Frank Filz wrote:
> In lugnet.people, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > Glad you came out okay!
Ditto!
> > Time for some car shopping. I can see you in a huge SUV with no handling,
> > little stopping power, and poor rollover incidence *but* high pirate ship
> > hauling ability by the way...
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> Nah, I don't do SUVs. Full sized vans maybe. I am giving serious consideration
> to a station wagon though (I had just about settled on a Saturn wagon [the
> small one, not the new large one, that one's a bit more than I want to spend,
> though it looks like it has good potential] until I read today's consumer
> reports which almost totally panned the Saturn [though they were looking at
> sedans not wagons]).
Well, since you mentioned station wagons, I have to put my two cents in! I drive
a Volvo 240 DL wagon and I love it! It holds tons of LEGO (you should have seen
what I packed into it during Target's January clearance!), still gets 24-26 mpg
(my NLSO can make it get 28-30), doesn't really look old (they all look pretty
much alike), and is still going strong at over 267,000 miles. It is also a frugal
choice if you do what we do and buy a used one (3-5 years old) and drive it for a
while. I was going to replace it with an 850 wagon when it reached 200,000 miles,
but it ran perfectly fine, so there was no reason to. Now I'll think about a
newer one again at 300,000 miles.
Of course, the drawbacks are that if you are not married with kids I can't imagine
why you would want to drive one. Also, Ford has taken over the Volvo car
division, so I don't know if that has affected the quality. And parts tend to be
expensive.
Maggie "I love my Volvo!" C.
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| (...) on (...) No, just being piloted by a doctor... (...) I'm not sure that would be worthwhile down here. After a couple months in the car, I doubt the pictures would come out terribly good. (...) Nah, I don't do SUVs. Full sized vans maybe. I am (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us)
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