What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

Agree with Hobesters.

Remember that cars aren't investments and in the end no one gives a swine what you drive as long as you keep it presentable. I drive a 2001 Ford Focus S2 that still gets me compliments (maybe one a year, and usually from my wife).

[Forlorn Drifter]

"Presentable" is a matter of opinion. Our shitty ass flatbed is completely unpresentable in most people's eyes, but I like it because nobody wants to drive near us, thus we have nice open road around us.

And I don't think very many cars past '95 are "presentable" because they all look the freaking same.

[mjmjr25]

Forlorn, you missed the point, and goes without saying, very disrespectfully so.

What hobie said, and is accurate about, is that a Ford being made today likely has as many foreign parts as a Kia being made today. Buying Ford / GM / Chrysler no longer equates to "buying American" - i'll have to check for accuracy, but I recall a report in Time a couple years back, but in the report, it stated something to the effect that buying a Toyota brought more money into the US economy than buying GM, and that Toyota had grown more jobs in the US than GM had as well.

[Luke]

"Presentable" is a matter of opinion.

Okay.

In other words: Clean inside and out with no major flaws.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Guys, did you miss the whole "pre 95" stuff in my first post? I couldn't care less about current cars, because I don't really like them. The new sports cars and fancy ass trucks are nice, but they aren't metal enough for me, along with the fact that I don't like the way they drive, I overcorrect a ton because I'm used to driving older vehicles.

And I was pissed at Hobie for essentially saying that I was going to crash my car. That's a pretty damn wrong thing to say.

"Presentable" is a matter of opinion.

Okay.

In other words: Clean inside and out with no major flaws.

If you wrap a piece of shit with a bow, its still a piece of shit.

[Luke]

If you wrap a piece of shit with a bow, its still a piece of shit.

Is this some sort of joke about the fact I wear bow ties?

[Forlorn Drifter]

If you wrap a piece of shit with a bow, its still a piece of shit.

Is this some sort of joke about the fact I wear bow ties?

Yes.

[prfsnl_gmr]

*sigh*

Sounds great, FD...You clearly have everything figured out. Be sure to keep us updated on every facet of your exceptionally interesting life, and we - along with everyone else that has cared enough to offer you advice - will be sure to ignore you...

[Forlorn Drifter]

*sigh*

Sounds great, FD...You clearly have everything figured out. Be sure to keep us updated on every facet of your exceptionally interesting life, and we - along with everyone else that has cared enough to offer you advice - will be sure to ignore you...

I've done better here than anywhere else, honestly. I have issues with getting advice because of my extremely low self esteem, which leads to me overreacting to criticism, along with issues even asking for help.

[mjmjr25]

...but when you get advice you just asked for - you get defensive and argumentative.

Sadly, we've had this very conversation before.