This isnt my car, Im just surprised its lasted this long....
http://www.voaautosales.com/inventory.php?id=5277303
This isnt my car, Im just surprised its lasted this long....
http://www.voaautosales.com/inventory.php?id=5277303
That's because it's in Pontiac, Michigan and it's a foreign car.
I asked our CFO in Detroit if anybody bought any other cars on the sales car program besides GM, Ford, or Chrysler - you know, something like an Accord?
She says; "No, nobody drives a foreign car". (that was back in February, 2011)
wbjones wrote: she does realize that the Accord isn't a "foreign" car, doesn't she ?
She was 100% serious.
I guess you would be surprised how many foreign cars there are in Pontiac, and Oakland county. I would guess the majority of people shopping at the VOA retail lot just don't want an 83 Civic wagon with 60 horsepower and a manual trans. I think it's cool but I wouldn't spend $2300 on it either.
I don't think I' will ever buy another vehicle from the salt belt. Folks idea of rust free up there is about a 1/4 in deep worth of rust away from my idea of rust free.
In reply to FranktheTank:
Rust free in Michigan more or less means it isn't dangerously structurally comprised and/or ugly quite yet. Asking about rust underneath is mandatory when looking at cars. I could probably get away with selling the Prizm I just bought, with slightly crusty rear arches and very perforated spare tire and tool wells as rust free. My Yugo was more or less a "rust free" car, a summer of rust repair later its still got metal missing in spots.
That being said, the car in question looks solid as hell. I have a theory the Japanese played with crazy rustproofing compounds on the production line in the 80s, this is why you occasionally see a perfect one when the rest are piles of rust.
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