This makes me want another K-veriant. Maybe a Shadow, or early Caravan.
This makes me want another K-veriant. Maybe a Shadow, or early Caravan.
Get a shelby CSX, they are available for very very cheap occasionally. The last one I saw was in pick and pull, and the one before that was an ex showroom stock car that had been for sale for $800 for 6 months before I looked at it.
NickF40 wrote: bahaha still got's to give them respect, like said, for turboing EVERYTHING besides the office chairs!
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE turbo dodges, and had a 2.4T in my neon...but a stout bottom end does not a reliable car make. That said, I do think that the TD reputation for unreliability has more to do with owners who treated them as disposable cars...the same is true for the later neons.
Nathan
njansenv wrote:NickF40 wrote: bahaha still got's to give them respect, like said, for turboing EVERYTHING besides the office chairs!Don't get me wrong, I LOVE turbo dodges, and had a 2.4T in my neon...but a stout bottom end does not a reliable car make. That said, I do think that the TD reputation for unreliability has more to do with owners who treated them as disposable cars...the same is true for the later neons. Nathan
This!
Neons are also supposedly unreliable, however I know of four within a close group of family and friends that have well over 200k on theirs without any signficant issues.
The problem with cheap cars is that they are generally treated as such. People buy them, pound the E36 M3 out of them, then throw them away without "wasting" any money on maintenance.
I'm not saying I think these are the most reliable cars out there at this point...I mean, they are 20+ years old. But, for what they are, they can still be built to be reliable, strong performers.
All this talk 2.2 talk is making me want to go out and blast around my my R/T. 
njansenv wrote:NickF40 wrote: bahaha still got's to give them respect, like said, for turboing EVERYTHING besides the office chairs!That said, I do think that the TD reputation for unreliability has more to do with owners who treated them as disposable cars...the same is true for the later neons. Nathan
Honestly, I think that's the case with most "unreliable" modern cars. my buddy has had two escorts with over 600K collectively. My parents had a few Omnis, I wrecked one that had 223K on it, the other we sold at 125K, neither had any real issues. I've also seen Hondas and Toyotas that are falling apart, or in the JY with 100K on them.
Get a shelby CSX, they are available for very very cheap occasionally. The last one I saw was in pick and pull, and the one before that was an ex showroom stock car that had been for sale for $800 for 6 months before I looked at it.
Get a CSX to fix up and drive on the street. Get a shadow to pound on or drive everywhere else.
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