What do you drive?

[peteski]

On 7/13/2025 at 9:48 AM, dino246gt said:

I live in CANADA, Winnipeg, so I need a Summer car, and a Winter SUV.

Fortunately, I have both!

I find it laughable that a Ferrari has an 85MPH speedometer. What a joke!  Silly '70s government regulations. I guess when driving a Ferrari you don't need to know how fast you're going. 

[stitchdup]

6 minutes ago, peteski said:

I find it laughable that a Ferrari has an 85MPH speedometer. What a joke!  Silly '70s government regulations. I guess when driving a Ferrari you don't need to know how fast you're going. 

once you pass 70 its already a ticket, might as well make it a surprise too cos everybody likes a surprise

[nickfzr61]

1 hour ago, Quiet Eric said:

Thank you for removing the bananas!

Didn’t expect to find the banana police here too. Lol. 
 

 

[WillyBilly]

58 minutes ago, peteski said:

I find it laughable that a Ferrari has an 85MPH speedometer. What a joke!  Silly '70s government regulations. I guess when driving a Ferrari you don't need to know how fast you're going. 

My 87 Grand National was the same way. It was silly for sure.

[Chuck Most]

Just bought this. 2011 Lincoln Town Car Signature Limited with 169k. Just replaced the belt and tensioner today, and next Friday it's going to the shop to get an exhaust manifold replaced because I'm not screwing with that.

Otherwise, no problems besides cosmetic.

[WillyBilly]

My wife's car and my weekend warrior. Hers is newer, but mine is funnerer. 🤣

Edited August 6 by WillyBilly

[Kenmojr]

2016 Toyota Corolla S with 6 speed manual transmission....

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 7/20/2025 at 4:00 PM, peteski said:

I find it laughable that a Ferrari has an 85MPH speedometer. What a joke!  Silly '70s government regulations. I guess when driving a Ferrari you don't need to know how fast you're going. 

I wonder what kind of inverted-intellect logic-challenged gubmint official thought if the speedo didn't go over 70, nobody would drive that fast. 

I guess if you can't see an indication of high speed, it ceases to exist.

Wait...I used "gubmint" and "logic" in the same sentence.

My most sincere apologies.

[oldcarfan]

Not sure if I shared our daily driver before. We have an older version of this same vehicle but it has 250,000 miles on it and we wanted something with fewer miles. We bought this one last year about this time and immediately left on a 4500 mile trip to Florida. Last week we returned from a trip the other direction. We drove to Salt Lake City via Colorado and the car ate up the road. Here it is at Pike's Peak. We also have a pickup truck but it doesn't get much use anymore since we finished our house.

[MarkJ]

Gary, I'm guessing it's a Lexus because there is no badging on the sides except for the center cap in the wheels that looks like an L. Thats the thing about these standard sized SUV or crossovers. They all have just about the exact same profile appearance and taillights. The only thing that gives them away is the grille. I bet this is a fine ride indeed. I love my little CX-5 Mazda for trips and grocery getting but my fun car is my little Santa Cruz baby truck.

[bytownshaker]

Back in the late sixties we had a 58 or 59 Oldsmobile, it had a really neat speedo. If I remember correctly it had a clear tube and the faster you went the color in the tube changed.

[oldcarfan]

11 hours ago, MarkJ said:

Gary, I'm guessing it's a Lexus because there is no badging on the sides except for the center cap in the wheels that looks like an L. That's the thing about these standard sized SUV or crossovers. They all have just about the exact same profile appearance and taillights. The only thing that gives them away is the grille. I bet this is a fine ride indeed. I love my little CX-5 Mazda for trips and grocery getting but my fun car is my little Santa Cruz baby truck.

Yes, it's an RX350. We considered several different brands, but we'd such luck with our previous RX that we went to the Lexus dealer to look around. They had two lease return cars on the website with very low mileage and a good price. We went to look at the red one, but it was already on a test drive and this one actually had fewer miles and everything just sort of fell into place with the deal. I wasn't sure at the time, but now I kind of like the anonymous quality of the silver. It blends in well. 

Edit: We had a Mazda 5 van for several years and it was a surprisingly sporty car. For us the Hyundai and Mazda dealers are too far away  

Edited Wednesday at 12:58 AM by oldcarfan

[oldcarfan]

On 8/18/2025 at 4:52 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

I wonder what kind of inverted-intellect logic-challenged gubmint official thought if the speedo didn't go over 70, nobody would drive that fast. 

I guess if you can't see an indication of high speed, it ceases to exist.

Wait...I used "gubmint" and "logic" in the same sentence.

My most sincere apologies.

I had a Volvo for a while that had the 85 mph speedo. The car was good for about 144, which is what the guy that passed me got pulled over for. It really ticked off my friend whose Mustang GT topped out at 124.

[MarkJ]

13 hours ago, oldcarfan said:

Yes, it's an RX350. We considered several different brands, but we'd such luck with our previous RX that we went to the Lexus dealer to look around. They had two lease return cars on the website with very low mileage and a good price. We went to look at the red one, but it was already on a test drive and this one actually had fewer miles and everything just sort of fell into place with the deal. I wasn't sure at the time, but now I kind of like the anonymous quality of the silver. It blends in well. 

Edit: We had a Mazda 5 van for several years and it was a surprisingly sporty car. For us the Hyundai and Mazda dealers are too far away  

Just the opposite for me. the Hyundai and Mazda dealerships are close by and owned by the same people who we had good luck buying our last big Silverado from. Had no use for the Silverado anymore and the old 2008 equinox was costing us a bundle on transmission work, so we replaced the 2 chevies with the Mazda and the Hyundai. Much happier with these two vehicles.