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James wrote:
I don't buy my cars to impress people, I buy them to have means of getting from Point A to Point B.

The last car I paid cash for was a 2006 RAV4, purchased in 2008. Hardly a "junker". And I drive my daughter home from her after school care less than a mile each day, hitting one light and topping out at about 25 mph in a suburban neighborhood. I think we'll be fine, but thanks for your concern.

grateful wrote:
We should really have an Old Man Smackdown thread.

grateful wrote:
We should really have an Old Man Smackdown thread.

Julian, wrote:

grateful wrote:
We should really have an Old Man Smackdown thread.

We tried making a designated "Atomic and James Ford have a two-man bull session all day long thread," and they used it for like 5 minutes and just prefer to vomit all over every other thread on here. Except Just Announced BECAUSE THIS COMMUNITY IS BASED ON KILLSALY AND AZAGHAL'S DRY RECITATION OF NOISE ROCK SHOWS NO ONE BUT THEM WILL EVER CONSIDER ATTENDING. THAT'S SACRED!!!

atomic wrote:

James wrote:
I don't buy my cars to impress people, I buy them to have means of getting from Point A to Point B.

The last car I paid cash for was a 2006 RAV4, purchased in 2008. Hardly a "junker". And I drive my daughter home from her after school care less than a mile each day, hitting one light and topping out at about 25 mph in a suburban neighborhood. I think we'll be fine, but thanks for your concern.

2006 Toyota RAV 4 is a junker.  I had one of those cars for a loaner when I took my car in for service once.  I had no leg room.  It had no acceleration, poor handling and poor braking.  I can only imagine if it was such a poor car when it was new how bad it would be now.   And you bought the car for your wife.  It wasn't for you.

I don't buy cars to impress people.  I like safe cars.  And a 19 year old car isn't safe.  I certainly wouldn't drive a child I claim to care about in it.  And I am guessing it was a pretty awful car when you bought it.

But the whole point is you can't afford a decent car and you can't afford concert tickets and you can only afford half a beer a night which is all fine but you somehow think you are better than everyone else and you are giving people life advice.

I put the maximum into my 401k each year.  I know how to save.  If I am paying 0 percent interest on one car and 3.19 percent on the other with a good size down payment on both. I don't have any credit card debt.  I owe a pittance on my mortgage.  My total debt is less than my yearly income.  There is a difference between being responsible and being cheap.  I don't give anyone life advice as I am certainly not an expert.


You can keep driving your broken down cars but don't act like you know everything.

James wrote:
I thought this WAS the bull session thread. What one are you referring to, Mr Julian?

Yada wrote:

atomic wrote:

James wrote:
I don't buy my cars to impress people, I buy them to have means of getting from Point A to Point B.

The last car I paid cash for was a 2006 RAV4, purchased in 2008. Hardly a "junker". And I drive my daughter home from her after school care less than a mile each day, hitting one light and topping out at about 25 mph in a suburban neighborhood. I think we'll be fine, but thanks for your concern.

2006 Toyota RAV 4 is a junker.  I had one of those cars for a loaner when I took my car in for service once.  I had no leg room.  It had no acceleration, poor handling and poor braking.  I can only imagine if it was such a poor car when it was new how bad it would be now.   And you bought the car for your wife.  It wasn't for you.

I don't buy cars to impress people.  I like safe cars.  And a 19 year old car isn't safe.  I certainly wouldn't drive a child I claim to care about in it.  And I am guessing it was a pretty awful car when you bought it.

But the whole point is you can't afford a decent car and you can't afford concert tickets and you can only afford half a beer a night which is all fine but you somehow think you are better than everyone else and you are giving people life advice.

I put the maximum into my 401k each year.  I know how to save.  If I am paying 0 percent interest on one car and 3.19 percent on the other with a good size down payment on both. I don't have any credit card debt.  I owe a pittance on my mortgage.  My total debt is less than my yearly income.  There is a difference between being responsible and being cheap.  I don't give anyone life advice as I am certainly not an expert.


You can keep driving your broken down cars but don't act like you know everything.

can't make this shit up.

atomic wrote:
2006 Toyota RAV 4 is a junker.  I had one of those cars for a loaner when I took my car in for service once. 

James wrote:
Don't even get my started on that library lady I once dated.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Don't even get my started on that library lady I once dated.

And atomic's wife does story time at a library? James once lived in the great city of Bawlmore? Hmmm….

James wrote:
Mine was a rental.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Don't even get my started on that library lady I once dated.

And atomic's wife does story time at a library? James once lived in the great city of Bawlmore? Hmmm….

K8teebug wrote:
Can the world please stop talking about Justin Bieber?  Thank you.

Julian, wrote:

atomic wrote:
2006 Toyota RAV 4 is a junker.  I had one of those cars for a loaner when I took my car in for service once. 

What an amazing example of kismet that is! That you just so happened to have the same year, make, and model car as James Ford once as a rental. The odds against such a thing are really quite staggering, but all in this community are equally lucky that you JUST SO HAPPENED to once drive one of these vehicles and can share your assessment of this vehicle. Just imagine if instead you had been given a 2005 Camry as your loaner: why, you'd have nothing to share assessment-wise on James' car at all as you certainly wouldn't make up such a unverifiable claim. It's just nice that the messageboard Gods sometimes work these sort of things out for us.

grateful wrote:
I fucking love my Mercedes.

James wrote:
I'm going to trust Consumer Reports over Atomic Reports.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/video-hub/cars/suvs/toyota-rav4-20062012-road-test/14684583001/63260437001/

Also, it's possible you may hae had the 4cylinder, 2 wheel drive. The 6 cylinder, 4wd performs wel, i'm happy to report.