okay what kind of car are you thinking about buying next
well what a what what do we currently have i have a Subaru uh G O X T
what year
eighty eight
oh okay well i have a ninety Honda Civic and i'm ready to get rid of it actually no well
oh yeah it's not pretty old
i had i had an eighty eight that i really liked then it got wrecked and so i bought a ninety um because i i really liked my eighty eight and i've had a lot of problems with this one so
so you think their quality control's going down over there uh kind of
well you it's it's kind of funny um i know a lot
well i i i think we're going to see that i think uh that the quality that the Japan carmakers had is slipping a little bit while American carmakers are trying to get their butt together so
oh
yeah
it's it's true it's definitely true because
but but that's one reason i uh i've had no problems with my Subaru that's one reason i went with it because i Subaru had a good reputation uh for you know low maintenance so
yeah well Honda does too that's why i was really
well no there's there's no question but you have a nineteen i mean i've got to see i mean i've seen and i've had friends that have uh like uh eighty one or eighty uh Celicas
uh-huh
and those things just keep ticking i mean they just it can rack up a a hundred fifty K on them and they're still beating on them
yeah
that's true
that's true
and it's just amazing and i mean they got and you know they're not making them like that now you know so but they're still they're still a lot i think definitely better than the uh American carmaker and stuff
no not at all
oh i i definitely agree with you there because i had uh uh
uh Ford T Bird before i got my Honda and it was the worst car i've ever owned and um that's why i mean i was so tickled with my Honda it was just a wonderful car and then it got wrecked
yeah
and you know i wouldn't even look at another car i just went and bought a Honda i mean i didn't even i didn't look around or anything i just said that this is what i want and i really have had a lot of problems with it but
yeah
well maybe you need to unload it on somebody else
i don't know
well i'll probably hold on to it since it's still under warranty but
in the first twelve months that i owned it it was in the shop an average of about once a month it was in the shop about twelve times the first twelve months yeah it was i was really
yeah that's a lot
disappointed because i was you know so hyped up on Honda so yeah
oh well
anyway so what's your next purchase supposed to be
well i know this
oh really if you had a choice of your car what would you get
well it's this is going to sound really strange but i really like to have a Mazda MPV van i really like those and i have kids so
i'm not sure i'm real familiar with the body style on that
they're a lot i don't like the new style like of the Toyota van and the the new Chevy Lumina van i don't like those styles um the MPV is more of uh uh just uh
uh-huh that's
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i don't know what you normal i don't know how to explain more of an old fashioned type
i i'm not sure how to explain it i mean it looks i guess kind of like uh the Chevy Aerostar or Arrow
yeah
yeah
uh what Astro Astro i guess is what it something like that but i used to really like the looks of the MPV because it looks more like a minivan rather than i think
oh okay yeah
do you have uh do you have a family okay well that's probably influenced maybe a little bit
yeah i have a couple kids so
oh yeah definitely but i know that it's got to have a radio
it's got to have air conditioning i'm sure you can relate to air conditioning
oh yeah
um living in Arizona but and cruise control and tinted windows that's about it i mean it's got to have those things otherwise i don't care
yeah well when i bought my car it was right out of college and uh you know i always been looking for something sporty and i ended up getting you know basically something that i could
you know afford
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the only gripe i have
is performance i i probably uh a few girls that i've gone out with i've had uh like Mazda RX seven's and stuff and they're they're pretty fun to drive so
yeah
so i think that's what uh i i'm going to have to get next time around i keep i keep holding holding off i mean i could i could upgrade now if i wanted to but i just i it's just such a huge expense and
oh really
and uh i i'm just going to keep holding off but i'm definitely going to look for something uh in the you know nice performance you know yeah
sports car i'd like to have a sports car too but it's not practical for me but
yeah i'm in are you still there
yeah
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there's some kind of problems hello
hello okay
are you still there this is something's wrong i don't know it sounds funny though doesn't it
wonder what happened
hum anyway
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um but i'll probably um
it just depends i know that's what i want but i don't know if i'll get myself to
spend that kind of money you're looking at you know for a new RX seven or a Supra or something you're looking at twenty five K or something like that so
oh at least yeah
anyway but
i know well new cars aren't cheap anyway but
anyway my ultimate car though the the one that i really want is uh five sixty or so Mercedes so maybe someday
huh yeah we have we all have those kind of dreams too don't we what i'd really like to have
yeah
that's the only one that i you know i see you know i see uh you know early on that that that says it says you there
yeah
this is strange
hello okay
hello i think something's wrong with this i hope it's recording
i hope it's not my you there
yeah
it may be my phone um anyway it's the only car that says you know sporty and class uh so
yeah you're right yep
uh kind of what i'm but it's at the other one my brother's got a Miata and those are fun
oh those are nice yeah they're they're cute cars
and uh i
yeah well he did he had a a red Miata
uh-huh
and uh he actually they came out with a European racing green
uh Miata that's a limited edition they're only going to make like three or four thousand so he went out and he traded the other one in and got this one and i'm like um
oh
wow i haven't seen those
but uh i haven't seen one yet either but supposedly they have some real wood built in to like the clutch and all this and the steering wheel so it's it's very authentic and there only is supposed to be limited edition so it may be may be a good investment
wow
oh yeah definitely if it's a limited edition usually no matter what it is if it's a limited edition it's usually worth something later on
if it
yeah
uh-huh but uh i think
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hello
yeah
okay yeah i got off my pace or my cordless phone anyway uh hope it's not going bad it's going to bum me out um but he i think he he only spent you know the low twenties so
oh
really
i don't know
now see i would have never figured that i would have figured that to be a lot more than that for something that's limited edition
well i don't know i think the demands gone uh down a little bit i think you can the prices aren't as high you know and the the Miata Miata was first introduced uh
and well they weren't really that bad though when they were introduced were they
what yeah the demand is so high that uh you know they were going to retail them around like third you know
thirteen standard you know and you get your options you're looking at fifteen or sixteen fifteen but there were you know people were buying them for nineteen and twenty
yeah that's true
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and um
they they may have gone down a little bit but i they're still pretty much in demand
hum
i think there's another car coming in it's supposed to come out and compete with that Miata and i can't remember what i read about that but so that's interesting i mean i would think somebody would try to compete with that because it is very popular so
huh
yeah it really is have you seen the new uh Dodge Stealth the the real nice one yeah yeah the Mitsubishi is real nice looking too now those are nice
but
oh yeah yeah and the Mitsubishi three thousand GT is the same same
yeah well that's that's that's the same manufacturer and stuff so they just market them but uh yeah those are and those are supposed to be
right
right
very performance power i mean they're there is yeah big time
the expensive ones they have a cheaper model too that you can get for about seventeen thousand but those are pretty stripped and there's nothing there's really that one's just more for looks you know it doesn't have any really the performance that the expensive one does
yeah
you know but i've seen one of those and it's not that great i mean because they really
i think they're they're only around uh twenty nine K
yeah the like i mean they have um better it's not quite as nice for a little bit less
yeah
yeah they're not really that bad but i don't know like i said it's it's still not practical for me i have a hard time looking at cars like that because i think now there's no way i can do that
yeah i'm being
single and no other responsibilities for yourself i guess you know it's i can i can i've been pretty happy i've i've haven't tried to upgrade myself right now that's uh
right
you know i could i could have you know get something nice and upgrade but i just uh i'm consulting right now so
oh really
i just made my first job hop about eight months ago so uh
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