Plan B Forum

I just rolled over 50,000 miles in my 2010 KIA Forte EX sedan. It's my "everyday" and only driver. (Below, not mine, but identical.) So what do you own... and not what you wish you owned?

2014 Toyota Corolla - lease expires May 6. I shall miss that $170/month payment as the next will doubtless cost more

...and we've made sure to be under the 24,000 mile limit too. We've rented cars to do three major road trips just to avoid that red line.

Like this only ours is white:

I have a 1994 Nissan Sentra on which i have just recently clocked 80,000 miles (clearly I do not use it very much), It has turned out to be a great car with very low maintenance required. The only repair over $500 I have had to make was when the air conditioning went a few years ago. I had a major debate with myself about whether to put that much into it, but I'm glad I did, , so now I can keep it until it dies and then not buy another one for as long as I continue living in the city (which will probably be forever). I'll rely on ZipCars or whatever for the little that I require a car around town.


(also not mine, but similar - mine is also red, but has dark rubber bumpers which work a lot better when needing to parallel park in tight spots)

2000 Ford Focus, black, 140,000 on the clock. The radio is very quirky, the auto tranny gets weird in hard left turns, A/C died three years ago. But it runs.
Still needs no oil between 6k changes. It was the first Forcus delivered to a retail buyer in Delaware. Confused the marketing people who wanted to make a big deal about it, but we were way out of the 'younger, first new car buyer' target market.

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2015 Subaru Forester, 30k on the dial.
Had a 2002 PT Cruiser before that with 150k on it. Actually I still have it, but it is off the road in my yard. Thinking of turning it into a planter but it still runs. Wife is bugging me to sell it, but I am procrastinating

This one isn't mine, but I've got its twin sister.



2000 Mercury Villager, "Estate" trim level w/power everything and leather seats.  170K miles; gave $2100 for it last July when I had to turn over my mother's Ford minivan to the court-appointed 'guardians' to sell as part of her downsizing; I asked them to give me a price on it and perhaps I would purchase it from her 'estate', but they never gave me an answer in a reasonable time so I said "screw 'em" and got this instead.  Runs pretty good and I should be able to get at least two or three years out of it before it starts to nickle-and-dime me to death.

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2006 Scion xB. This is a photo of its twin brother (because I don't yet know how to get a photo from my computer to the interwebs....)

2006 Scion xB. This is a photo of its twin brother (because I don't yet know how to get a photo from my computer to the interwebs....)

5 speed standard transmission, fantastic gas mileage,and horrible in a cross wind.

kristina wrote:2006 Scion xB. This is a photo of its twin brother (because I don't yet know how to get a photo from my computer to the interwebs....)

5 speed standard transmission, fantastic gas mileage,and horrible in a cross wind.

You know how that vehicle got its name, don't you?  When the design was approved someone said that it still looks like it's jut a box on wheels.  So the marketing people took the word "Box", spelled it backwards ('xoB'), and then realized that 'xoB' and 'SOB' are too close to each other so they dropped the 'O'.

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Bicycle Bill wrote:... When the design was approved someone said that it still looks like it's jut a box on wheels.  So the marketing people took the word "Box", spelled it backwards ('xoB'), and then realized that 'xoB' and 'SOB' are too close to each other so they dropped the 'O'...

I'm not sure about that. I heard it was due to it looking like the Proctor-Silex XB, 2-slice toaster. I need to check further, I'll report back.

This is kinda the twin to my Reva, a 1999 RAV4 4DR AWD in mystic teal mica color.

I say 'kinda' because Reva has some redneck body work & primer only on the front end where some ditzy lady turned left right in front of me and on the back door where during an MS flare up suffering cognitive deficits I backed into a light pole behind the car wash while backing out.

She has 157k miles on her and just croaked on the highway traveling back to Maine from Massachusetts last night; thanks to AAA Premier membership she was safely transported to the auto shop where she is getting a new water pump and timing belt, plus being checked out for anything that might forestall passing state inspection.

I figure she's good for another 100k miles easy, she has almost no rust after more than a decade out West, and so long as repairs average less than $100/mo it beats a car payment - especially with my credit rating at present - by a mile.

Plus I get very attached to automobiles and this one has road tripped me & my dogs across the USA - and parts of Canada - to the tune of 18,000+ miles (6 times cross country). Love my Reva!

eta: And yes she sports a Bernie 2016 bumper sticker, along with one that says 'wag more, bark less.'

I mostly split my time between my rusted-out '76 Datsun Kingcab pickup (which has 450,000 miles on it) and my '91 Nissan Pathfinder which has almost 275,000 miles on it.

But I have lots of others, my grocery run car is a '78 Datsun station wagon I got when I was in high school in 1991, and it has over 320,000 miles on it.

In fact, I would suspect the only vehicle I own with less than 100,000 miles on it is my AM General M35A2 "Deuce" which the odometer just turned 90,000. Of course, it might not be original, most of the gauges have been replaced.

2012 Honda Civic.................paid for.

except mine is f100 and black and blue w/white top (my own custom paint job!) at 50 ft and 50 mph it looks ok...

oldr_n_wsr wrote:2015 Subaru Forester, 30k on the dial.
Had a 2002 PT Cruiser before that with 150k on it. Actually I still have it, but it is off the road in my yard. Thinking of turning it into a planter but it still runs. Wife is bugging me to sell it, but I am procrastinating

1998 Subaru Outback, and a small dog or two. Bomb-proof, cheap, easy to fix, gets me up and back to Sydney, if needed, in reasonable comfort.

I've got a 2004 Dodge Sprinter van (made by Daimler-Benz back when they were merged with Chrysler) with over 420,000 miles on it. It still runs, and still gets >23mpg, but it's very rusty and rattly and I only use it anymore when I need to carry something really BIG. Mine looks just like this, except that mine also has an additional sliding door on the driver's side: But my daily driver is a 2009 Nissan Cube with only 180,000 miles on the clock..

A lot of times someone elses automobile depending on where I have to be ,my daily driver is an o6 Dakota 4dr ,4wd ,with deplorable gas mileage and very questionable reliabilty ,despite being well maintained .
Worst 3 vehicles,2000 Ford Focus(paid well over 13k for it ,roll up windows ,spit out a halfshaft and wheel at 80 k,dropped a valve at 114 K (despite being over maintained ) new 95 Honda Passport ,real POS .paid over 22k ,for it .(used 99 Honda Passport another Joaner ,(Wifes idea -musta been in a flood or something ) the bewst cars have been the Honda sedans .

I've often wondered what kinds of people drive electric toasters such as the Scion XBox and the Cube. kristina and econo being examples, I'm even more confused

I've wondered the same thing about folks who choose to drive a Jimmy or cars with stupid names like that.

for some reason my truck always seems to be featured in horror movies and Viagra commercials.....


econoline drives a dodge van?

GMC=jimmy

holly drives a 1990 Cherokee