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Post by fancollector12 on Aug 27, 2014 0:15:08 GMT -5
Interesting, I'd have to find one of the older manual ones, that's all I really know how to drive... Cherokees are easier to find then manual Grand Cherokees, which are impossible to find. |
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Post by Jordan U on Aug 27, 2014 9:25:22 GMT -5
I'm surprised they made them for so little time. I guess that's typical now on regular vehicles, nobody wants a manual anymore for some reason. By the time I would want to get one, it'll probably be impossible to find either. And there's no way I'm getting one of the recent abominations of it like they started selling in either 2013 or 2014.
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Post by fancollector12 on Aug 28, 2014 0:16:27 GMT -5
I'm surprised they made them for so little time. I guess that's typical now on regular vehicles, nobody wants a manual anymore for some reason. By the time I would want to get one, it'll probably be impossible to find either. And there's no way I'm getting one of the recent abominations of it like they started selling in either 2013 or 2014. Well as I said the regular Cherokees are easier to find in manual transmissions because they made them from 1984-2001. The Grand Cherokees were only made with manuals in limited numbers for only 2 years. Sadly, the number of people who know how to drive, or just plain want, a manual transmission, is declining  |
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Post by Jordan U on Aug 28, 2014 6:32:03 GMT -5
Well as I said the regular Cherokees are easier to find in manual transmissions because they made them from 1984-2001. The Grand Cherokees were only made with manuals in limited numbers for only 2 years. Sadly, the number of people who know how to drive, or just plain want, a manual transmission, is declining This is very true. Most people in my generation know what a manual shift is when they see it, but they have no idea how to use it and often have never ridden in a vehicle with it. |
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Post by Jordan U on Oct 13, 2014 10:56:54 GMT -5
My grandparents have a 1969 Pontiac Firebird, which they bought new and have owned since then. They don't use it anymore, it has been replaced by a Toyota Camry probably about 10 years ago. If they ever get rid of the Firebird, I'll probably end up with it. Unfortunately at around 7 MPG, its really not affordable to use regularly given I have to drive almost 40 minutes just to get to work.
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Post by fancollector12 on Oct 13, 2014 13:06:24 GMT -5
My grandparents have a 1969 Pontiac Firebird, which they bought new and have owned since then. They don't use it anymore, it has been replaced by a Toyota Camry probably about 10 years ago. If they ever get rid of the Firebird, I'll probably end up with it. Unfortunately at around 7 MPG, its really not affordable to use regularly given I have to drive almost 40 minutes just to get to work. Wow they drove it that long?! How cool! My aunt has owned a '92 Chevy Camaro RS 5.0 since new and she has other cars now but it has 191k on it (: |
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Post by Jordan U on Oct 13, 2014 14:04:36 GMT -5
Wow they drove it that long?! How cool! My aunt has owned a '92 Chevy Camaro RS 5.0 since new and she has other cars now but it has 191k on it (: Nice! Nobody around here has cool cars that they use regularly anymore, I think a lot of it has to do with the junk that they put on the roads in the winter, it just corrodes everything so badly. The whole story behind the Firebird is as follows: It was the first car that my grandmother bought, she used it to get to work and such for a long time. Then she got an injury in her back which kept her in bed for many years. My grandfather has a Mustang at the time, so he used that. The Firebird sat pretty idle for a while with nobody to drive it. A few years later when her son was in high school, he started using it to go to school. Then when he went to college, he used it for a little while then he got a Jeep Wrangler like mine because he was a first responder and needed to be able to get anywhere in any weather conditions. That was the end of the regular use of the Firebird, which was sometime in the 90s, so I guess its been a little more than 10 years. Either way, it was still in use for much longer than most people kept them. I don't know how many miles it has on it in total, but my grandfather had the engine rebuild sometime not long before they stopped using it, so it must have had quite a few. Since the rebuild, it only has a few thousand. So far its seen 3 generations of our family, me being the third as that's what I learned to drive in! Other than my Jeep, its the only manual vehicle we have in the family. Unfortunately my grandfather sold the Mustang many years back, I'm pretty sure that was even before my time. Today he has a Chevy Silverado, which I think is about 13 years old. They're thinking of getting rid of their Camry because my grandmother wants something with 4 wheel drive, but I've been trying to tell her she should keep the Camry. Its only got around 150,000 on it, that's probably less than half its lifespan. I've seen those with over 350,000! |
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Post by fancollector12 on Oct 13, 2014 18:45:08 GMT -5
Wow they drove it that long?! How cool! My aunt has owned a '92 Chevy Camaro RS 5.0 since new and she has other cars now but it has 191k on it (: Nice! Nobody around here has cool cars that they use regularly anymore, I think a lot of it has to do with the junk that they put on the roads in the winter, it just corrodes everything so badly. The whole story behind the Firebird is as follows: It was the first car that my grandmother bought, she used it to get to work and such for a long time. Then she got an injury in her back which kept her in bed for many years. My grandfather has a Mustang at the time, so he used that. The Firebird sat pretty idle for a while with nobody to drive it. A few years later when her son was in high school, he started using it to go to school. Then when he went to college, he used it for a little while then he got a Jeep Wrangler like mine because he was a first responder and needed to be able to get anywhere in any weather conditions. That was the end of the regular use of the Firebird, which was sometime in the 90s, so I guess its been a little more than 10 years. Either way, it was still in use for much longer than most people kept them. I don't know how many miles it has on it in total, but my grandfather had the engine rebuild sometime not long before they stopped using it, so it must have had quite a few. Since the rebuild, it only has a few thousand. So far its seen 3 generations of our family, me being the third as that's what I learned to drive in! Other than my Jeep, its the only manual vehicle we have in the family. Unfortunately my grandfather sold the Mustang many years back, I'm pretty sure that was even before my time. Today he has a Chevy Silverado, which I think is about 13 years old. They're thinking of getting rid of their Camry because my grandmother wants something with 4 wheel drive, but I've been trying to tell her she should keep the Camry. Its only got around 150,000 on it, that's probably less than half its lifespan. I've seen those with over 350,000! My aunt has an '06 Ford Mustang GT Convertible, a '13 Ford Explorer, and a '98 Dodge RAM 2500 Club Cab 5.9L Magnum 4X4 in addition to the Camaro. |
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Post by fancollector12 on Oct 13, 2014 18:46:49 GMT -5
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Post by Jordan U on Oct 13, 2014 19:20:44 GMT -5
Not bad, red is the color I want too. Unfortunately, I really don't want to spend any money on large token items like that because I'm trying to save up for a house as soon as possible. I would only use it for things like fan hauls (trying to fit any amount of fans in my Wrangler is a little interesting…), or if I wanted to go to the skatepark with a few of my friends…things of that nature, nothing essential. One day... |
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Post by fancollector12 on Oct 13, 2014 23:10:05 GMT -5
Not bad, red is the color I want too. Unfortunately, I really don't want to spend any money on large token items like that because I'm trying to save up for a house as soon as possible. I would only use it for things like fan hauls (trying to fit any amount of fans in my Wrangler is a little interesting…), or if I wanted to go to the skatepark with a few of my friends…things of that nature, nothing essential. One day... Eh I've never driven a manual Grand Cherokee before, but I'd assume that it's only as exciting to drive as the automatic version... you're better off with your Wrangler if you want manual. The '94 Grand Cherokee I had was green, and so is my '02 Grand Cherokee, both which are automatics. The '94 was a V8, the '02 is an I6. |
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Post by ransom on Oct 14, 2014 18:33:05 GMT -5
2005 Saab 9-3 2.0t  Selling it in a couple weeks though. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 22:04:54 GMT -5
2005 Saab 9-3 2.0t Selling it in a couple weeks though. what new car going to be? |
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Post by fancollector12 on Oct 14, 2014 22:32:40 GMT -5
2005 Saab 9-3 2.0t Selling it in a couple weeks though. I always liked Saabs and almost got a '91 900S non-turbo 5speed convertible, but it was in bad shape cosmetically so I passed it up. |
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Post by Jordan U on Oct 15, 2014 10:34:26 GMT -5
Not bad, red is the color I want too. Unfortunately, I really don't want to spend any money on large token items like that because I'm trying to save up for a house as soon as possible. I would only use it for things like fan hauls (trying to fit any amount of fans in my Wrangler is a little interesting…), or if I wanted to go to the skatepark with a few of my friends…things of that nature, nothing essential. One day... Eh I've never driven a manual Grand Cherokee before, but I'd assume that it's only as exciting to drive as the automatic version... you're better off with your Wrangler if you want manual. The '94 Grand Cherokee I had was green, and so is my '02 Grand Cherokee, both which are automatics. The '94 was a V8, the '02 is an I6. From my experience, anything manual is more exciting than automatic. I haven't driven automatic much, but when I did I really didn't like it, you have much less control over the vehicle. I wouldn't consider getting an automatic vehicle anytime soon. The Wrangler is one of few vehicles that still has a proper manual shift to it, which was one of the reasons I ended up with it. Like I said before, the only reason I'd want a Cherokee is for purposes of transporting larger quanitites of things or more people, not for something I'd use on a regular basis. |
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