let's see mine's pretty easy actually uh i just got done reading a a magazine or a couple magazine articles about the uh new Saturns
uh-huh
um and although i can't afford it right now i would just like love to have one
oh really you like uh so you're an American
you want to buy American
well
no regardless of that fact it's the best car in the class for the best cheapest amount of money
i'm interested in having it for uh doing a little auto cross racing uh closed circuit racing and uh it seems to just blow the competition competition competition away
um
in terms of handling uh acceleration
handling power everything yeah it just got like the top rating it was compared up against uh
let's see
there was like the Mazda
M X three uh Nissan's whatever their two N X two thousand
the Civic S I
and it just you know it it dominated over all of them everybody all the uh raters loved it i like the i like the styling and i seen a few of them actually race and they seem to be really good cars for it
what about Mustang GTs
Mustang GTs uh can't afford it
those so you're talking about ones in a lower lower end price price range
right yeah i'm a graduate student
let's face it i don't make any money so
right
well you can wait till you graduate and you'll have plenty of money you can buy whatever you want
yeah
yeah we'll see then
yeah right now i'm stuck i i've got a a Pontiac Sunbird Turbo
that it's fast but unreliable and trying to get it prepared for racing but it's it would be nice just like scrap it and go for the go Saturn
right would you use that for city driving and racing
oh yeah i'd do it i'd use it for both the nice thing about auto crossing is you can you can do both
auto crossing is what kind of track is that
uh just like a um
um
set up a lot of times and it's like really large uh parking lots
okay and you put up set up the track pylons okay
and pylons and things
tight turns hard acceleration i've seen a lot of Mustangs uh compete
and
it's interesting they get dominated by the Corvettes that are also in their class
oh really yeah i would guess so
yeah
uh what are you thinking about buying
uh i think i'd like to get uh BMW or if i go the German route which i'm kind of leaning towards right now but
uh or maybe a Honda i mean a a Acura Legend
the Legend
uh a Lexus
uh
uh S C three hundred maybe
uh-huh
something on that order i haven't really determined if i like the the Japanese or the if i like them enough to purchase one
yeah
you know because your BMWs your German cars have good reputations i think
yeah well i was i was actually in uh a lot of the BMW's are produced in uh uh Stuttgart and uh and Munich and i was i was there this uh summer
yes
i i was really impressed by the uh the uh factory uh tours and such for BMW
the
yeah they their they have the whole philosophy i mean they they kind of even brainwash themselves into thinking they're better
which is kind of hard to take
yeah uh
i mean as you're walking through that little tour in uh Munich it's kind of they're trying to brainwash you too
oh of course of course they are they want you to buy their car yeah there it was it was interesting i was at i i also went to uh the Porsche and uh it was it was amazing how they were completely opposed
oh really
yeah the uh
yeah the uh the BMW is really oh like oh we have all these like high tech things and everything is put together with exacting tolerances and
and then you go to Porsche and it's like well uh these cars are completely handmade and no two of them are alike
um
yeah that's
and so it's like completely opposed i don't know which do i like better i think i like the Porsche's philosophy a little bit better although it's not really practical
no it's not realistic
unless it's it's a toy
yeah if you can afford that kind of a toy then i guess so
let's face it
yeah yeah but it it BMW's good for that what kind of driving just like commuting you'd want to do it use it for
yeah just work short trips no mileage no heavy mileage i'm putting on less than fifteen thousand miles a year
wow yeah
so it's pretty minimal
that's cool
lasts a long time that's mainly what i'm looking for
yeah that's good i also i was impressed by uh
by the Mercedes too
oh yeah
i really i really like the Mercedes the factory was nice and
but
but if if you have a problem with a Mercedes you take it into a shop they're going to they're going to hit you up for just all kinds of things
and is it different for the for the BMW
uh i think well something on the order of a three series it's probably different once you get up in the five series and higher then
probably
all your repair costs go up significantly
right i can imagine that
so i'm kind yeah i'm not sure if i really want
