I tried to explain to my wife's grandkid

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Originally Posted By: gmh101357
I did change all my motorcycle's but the car and where to dump the used oil was a big problem back then.....I would change my car but where to dump it...the yard.....pour it in the garbage can and hope nobody notices? 1.5 quarts to 2 is easy to dump but a 455 and used filter is hard. That's when I started taking mine to the corner Texaco just to not having to find a place to dump used oil.


Changed all of your motorcycle's what?
 
Originally Posted By: VetteElite
NO WAY somebody could prefer a Yaris to a Mustang, right? The Yaris literally has nothing going for it. The most bland car to ever exist.


I suspect my kids might--they'd note the lack of rear doors and once we showed them how to climb in, they'd probably be rather put off. They MIGHT like a good spin around the block, but methinks the lack of four doors would be a big turnoff.

Doesn't help that dear old dad would rather have the Yaris either.
 
Originally Posted By: gmh101357
A yaris and a v-8 mustang should not be mentioned in the same sentence together IMHO


One exception "I was driving my Mustang GT and this Yaris was being a Milka Duno and not moving out of the way so I gave it the chrome horn" or some variation of above.

I was actually kinda shocked when I got my 5.0 and the first question from most kids was "what is the mpg?" Really? Like I bought the car because I cared about the mpg. It is 14.4 combined if you are interested.
 
LMAO that dumba$$ asked me the same thing.....i told it uses 93 octane and i may get 15 mpg if im lucky. I could care less about mpg unless we get to gpm....
 
Originally Posted By: gmh101357
he is into phones.....not cars. He likes a yaris more than my mustang gt


"Some people you just can't reach..."
 
Originally Posted By: Leo99
Originally Posted By: VetteElite
Originally Posted By: gmh101357
he is into phones.....not cars. He likes a yaris more than my mustang gt


As a younger guy, I understand the first point.

However, please tell me that's hyperbole on the second point. NO WAY somebody could prefer a Yaris to a Mustang, right? The Yaris literally has nothing going for it. The most bland car to ever exist.


The Yaris goes from point A to point B for the least cost. A lot of today's young folk are very practical.


I must hang out with some good guys then. I'm in my early 20s and haven't really seen that. I do see a trend towards luxury/nice cars instead of powerful ones, however. A lot of my buddies want SUVs or cars like the new Impala for practicality instead of something like a Camaro. But honestly, the idea that young people only care about going from point A to B isn't a fair assessment. There have always been people who view cars as simple appliances and don't get any enjoyment out of driving, but on the other side there are always people who love driving (and I'm proud to be one of them). But yes, MPG is a big concern with almost everyone my age---except me: my next car is going to be either a Mustang or Camaro with a V8.
 
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Originally Posted By: Leo99


The Yaris goes from point A to point B for the least cost. A lot of today's young folk are very practical.


You must be on a different planet. The "young folk" around here all think they need $50,000 pickup trucks.
 
Originally Posted By: deoxy4
Cut's into their game time on their cell phones I guess.


LoL ... no kidding. They would go absolutely nuts without being connected to them 24/7.
 
Originally Posted By: BrocLuno
What about the kids who are actually waiting for autonomous cars so they can game and snap chat w/o ever even looking at the road...


They are drooling for such a car. It's too much trouble to try and drive while texting.
 
Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
Originally Posted By: BrocLuno
What about the kids who are actually waiting for autonomous cars so they can game and snap chat w/o ever even looking at the road...


They are drooling for such a car. It's too much trouble to try and drive while texting.


We really need to keep these people out of the car business. Apple has many lobbyist in Washington. They're trying to take power away from individual patent holders.

We normally think of big oil, and big agricultural companies as evil, but Google, apple facebook and Microsoft are the biggest evils ever to exist on the planet.
 
Originally Posted By: Leo99
Originally Posted By: VetteElite
Originally Posted By: gmh101357
he is into phones.....not cars. He likes a yaris more than my mustang gt


As a younger guy, I understand the first point.

However, please tell me that's hyperbole on the second point. NO WAY somebody could prefer a Yaris to a Mustang, right? The Yaris literally has nothing going for it. The most bland car to ever exist.


The Yaris goes from point A to point B for the least cost. A lot of today's young folk are very practical.


Sadly, I have a buddy who just traded in his challenger R/T for a 1.0 Fiesta. He actually just wants something eco-friendly and would have gotten something hybrid but he couldn't afford it.
 
I want to go on record...

I would definitely take a Yaris with a stick over any "Stang" with a slushbox.

If forced between the two would even take the Yaris over the Stang because if I was strong-armed into a car that can't handle, the Yaris has an excuse... and would be cheaper.


Also, those self-driving cars are for drooling incontinent baby-boomers... not the youngsters. Anyone under 30 can text with a stick if they can use three petals.
 
Originally Posted By: FutureDoc
I want to go on record...

I would definitely take a Yaris with a stick over any "Stang" with a slushbox.

That's OK. As much as I love my manuals, I don't think I would, unless it was going to be strictly for city driving where parking space is at a premium.
 
Originally Posted By: turtlevette

We really need to keep these people out of the car business. Apple has many lobbyist in Washington. They're trying to take power away from individual patent holders.

We normally think of big oil, and big agricultural companies as evil, but Google, apple facebook and Microsoft are the biggest evils ever to exist on the planet.


Yup, Adolph Hitler had nothing on Steve Jobs!!!
 
Originally Posted By: Charlie1935
When my Mom passed I found a ledger she had kept in the mid 1940s.
Oil change & grease job on Dad's 37 Chrysler less than $2.00.
Of course wages were much lower then also.


An online calculator tells me that would be about $26 today, not too bad.
I'd guess that car did not have a disposable oil filter, if it had one at all?
Seems like grease points have disappeared, too, hadn't thought about those in years.
 
Originally Posted By: FutureDoc
I want to go on record...

I would definitely take a Yaris with a stick over any "Stang" with a slushbox.

If forced between the two would even take the Yaris over the Stang because if I was strong-armed into a car that can't handle, the Yaris has an excuse... and would be cheaper.


Also, those self-driving cars are for drooling incontinent baby-boomers... not the youngsters. Anyone under 30 can text with a stick if they can use three petals.


Haha that is very true. In fact, what I just said about my buddy trading his R/T Challenger for the 1.0T Fiesta..was exactly that. Slushbox Challenger, manual Fiesta.
 
Originally Posted By: ccap41
Originally Posted By: FutureDoc
I want to go on record...

I would definitely take a Yaris with a stick over any "Stang" with a slushbox.

If forced between the two would even take the Yaris over the Stang because if I was strong-armed into a car that can't handle, the Yaris has an excuse... and would be cheaper.


Also, those self-driving cars are for drooling incontinent baby-boomers... not the youngsters. Anyone under 30 can text with a stick if they can use three petals.


Haha that is very true. In fact, what I just said about my buddy trading his R/T Challenger for the 1.0T Fiesta..was exactly that. Slushbox Challenger, manual Fiesta.


Meh, I traded my manual M5 in for the auto Charger. Would I have preferred a stick? In some circumstances perhaps. However the auto is excellent and behaves a lot like a manual would with downshifts to correspond with braking/engine braking as well as the ability to use the paddle shifters.

Is it a manual replacement? No. There's certainly a niceness with changing gears that an auto just can't recreate. However, it brings with it some traits/behaviours that are excellent in their own right and it is most certainly welcome to have over the stick when in bumper-to-bumper on the 401 or DVP, situations where driving stick was absolutely awful.
 
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