What car SWMBO edition

Rufledt wrote: .........and when she's happy I'm happy.

I'm going on almost 28 years of marriage; this is the plan I follow.

In reply to Rufledt: Oh, you made it sound worse than it is, but berkeleyed up 6 year old paint isn't good. It's just speculation on my part that Ford would give him maybe $100-$200 more dollars to give you a good deal on a new car versus a used car since he's the sales manager.

Here's what you do. Send her to the dealer. Drink a bunch of beer. Be happy with whatever she comes back in. You're already a step ahead in that your wife can drive a stick (mine pulled the stunt on me once and I had to go to the dealer to GET the damn car- she bought herself a manual! and couldn't drive one yet)

In reply to Mr_Clutch42:

I only made the civic sound SLIGHTLY worse than it was. The trunk didn't have scrapes, it looked like lots of deep rock chips, the kind you get on the front bumper. Never seen those on a trunk before... The scratches up the A pillar were quite perplexing... my dad and I spent quite a bit of time speculating how some of the scratches were even possible. The only other place I've seen those scrape patterns was on my in-law's Camry, and my wife didn't know how they got there (she was married to me by then)

Bonus- the in-laws can't drive stick shifts so they get to wreck rental cars when they visit instead of ours. Ever seen someone with a long truck or semi not swing wide enough and jump the curb with the inside tire? Not unusual. Ever seen someone do it in a corolla so bad that they high center the thing on said curb? I have. The scraping noises still haunt me . At least the cars are all toyota appliances.

In reply to mndsm:

We did something sort of similar and purchased her g20 before she got good at driving stick. Before that though she had a lot of practice and instruction with my g25 game wheel and a couple PC Sims (mainly live for speed and rfactor which both have decent clutch pedal simulations) and she was able to drive the car around during the test drive

ryanty22 wrote:

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

1988RedT2 wrote: Why are you asking here? SWMBO will let you know what she wants.

I'm with Red here. Why ask us? My SWMBO has had 2 Mustang Convertibles in a row, all season tires and Michigan winters. What does she want need out of a car. To me, both those choices are appliance cars so maybe she doesn't care. If that's the case then the Honda.

A 2008 impreza is an appliance car?

absolutely. By now probly a rusty appliance with leaking headgaskets. Look underneath it.