I GOT A CAR!!!!

I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR I GOT A CAR

Whew. Deep breaths, Sug.

So almost exactly a year ago, my car died. For the last year, I've been bumming rides off people, borrowing cars and in general, being a pain in the butt and a free loader.

WELL NO MORE!!

Starting today I am a legit car owner! With car payments and everything.

2006 Saturn Vue. 90,000 miles (I know, but considering my mom's car has 175,000 and my brother's has almost 190,000, that's good for my family)

Will post pics in the event that I get any.

I'm so happy I just don't know what to do with myself. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't get a car soon. I was absolutely losing my mind.

Post your first car, or your current car, or the ways in which you would slowly lose your mind if you didn't have a car.

I don't have a car. I either walk to where I need to go (which isn't often), or I catch a ride with my brother when he's planning on going where I need to go. It rather sucks. I do intend on getting a car, but that's not until after I get a job and get some money for one.

Oh, and congrats on the car, by the way.

This makes me feel good that my 2003 ranger has only 80,000 miles on it.

My 2008 Triumph has 1,800 miles on it, and my 1968 Corvette has 132,000 miles on it.

I've never owned a Saturn, but I read in an old Motor Trend magazine (three years ago or so) that Saturn owners, in general, have the highest "satisfaction rate" with their vehicles.

Best of luck with the "new" car.

It's got less miles on it than your wife...

Grats on the new car!

thanks guys!

Yeah, my family has never owned a Saturn before, but we've heard pretty good things about it, so I'm optimistic. It's good to hear that though.

Also - it's new to me

Never saw myself as the SUV type, but I really really like it. Pictures have been taken, but we have no way of uploading them to the computer.

thanks guys!

Yeah, my family has never owned a Saturn before, but we've heard pretty good things about it, so I'm optimistic. It's good to hear that though.

Also - it's new to me

Never saw myself as the SUV type, but I really really like it. Pictures have been taken, but we have no way of uploading them to the computer.

Feels good to look at that title and see your name written on there, doesn't it?

That is until the registration / insurance bills come.

She doesn't have the title - she's making payments.

I hear the Saturn Vue is awesome. Congrats!

Congratulations!!

Now you have NO excuses next time..

my parents have a vue, it's alright unless you're riding in the back, then it's uncomfortable.

Registration fees were included in the cost of the car, but insurance and loan bills are not going to be fun but it felt good to see my name written there briefly before they took it away!

JLee: YAY!!! I can make it out next time!!

The_Lost_One: Well that's fine for me, sucks for any suckers I stick back there My dog seemed to really like the backseat though.

And thanks Antony! That's good to hear

My grandmother was able to get me a new car by co-signing. If it wasn't for her I would have had a 15% APR because I didn't have any credit, then. She has a perfect score so by her co-signing, that got me a low rate (I think 5 or so).

But having your own ride is awesome. I got to pick out the car I wanted.

Congratulations on the new car. My first car was a 1984 Nissan-Datsun 200SX. It had over 200,000 miles on it when I bought it for $350. I drove it for about 2 years. My 2nd car was a 1993 Mazda Protege. I paid $3500 cash for it years ago. I still have it but plan to sell it soon. I recently bought my wife a 2009 Toyota Yaris which we both love. We were quite lucky because it was one of the few Toyota's that didn't seem to be caught up in the whole brake recall issue. I actually don't care much for cars & am planning to move back to the city soon in an area where I'll be able to ride a bicycle more often. It's nice to have a car when you need one though.

My parents have the same exact car and model. They loved it until someone crashed into it, doing damage to the subframe and breaking everything attached to the left wheel.

Saturn makes good vehicles, not the nicest, but good lifespans. Grats.

My last payment on my car is tomorrow. Celebrate!

I've owned a few vehicles....

1. 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra
first car, fun to drive around...
transmission fail


2. 1989 Buick Lesabre
that car was a tank and i miss it, survived 2 wrecks which totalled 1 vehicle which rear-ended me at a stop sign (didnt even make a dent!!!) and punched a hole in the side of a matrix that cut me off.

alternator fail+transmission fail

3. 1990 Plymouth Acclaim bought it for like $400, ran pretty well i had to fix it up a little, lasted almost a year then catalytic converter went...fixed that.
Transmission Fail (219,900ish miles though)

4. 1994 Ford Ranger bought this one off the street..., learned a lesson though...bring my friends with me next time. i needed a vehicle bad though and didnt want to make payments. the underside was ****ed when i took it for inspection. lead spring busted off, could've been bad.

5. 1998 Chevy Tracker first car i had to make payments on, bought it at 41,900 miles on it, had a 3 month warranty on it tranny went on it the last week, good thing it was under warranty, got it fixed. it's really good on gas, but to go anywhere you gotta put your foot through the floor. it's rusting out near the wheel wells. my friends think i got ripped off, but i haven't had any major problems with it aside from what i got fixed when it was under warranty. My only complaint is that the transmission doesnt take kindly to hills and throws it to 5,000 rpms.

I'm starting to think you don't know how to drive, with that many transmission failures. :p

First car - '96 Town and Country Mini-Van. PIMP-MOBILE. A tree hit me, totalled my car.
NO CAR FOR A WHILE

'95 Ford F-150. So many things wrong with it, had to give up. For the last 6 months I was parking on hills because the starter broke and I was too cheap to fix it.

Now - 97' Subaru Outback.

First car I actually owned was my mom's 2002 Ford Taurus that she gave (well, mostly gave, I had to make a couple of the last few payments) to me in college. Got rid of it in January of last year. Was never anything wrong with it, ran fine, very roomy car, just wasn't what I wanted.

Replaced it with a brand new 2009 Ford Fusion, which I love. Can't wait to pay it off next month too (been making huge payments on it to pay it off early and cut down on interest).

1998 Ford Explorer

2009 Ford Mustang GT... totalled 8 days later

2010 Ford Mustang

The front clip redesign on the 2010 makes it worth it. The car looks soooo much better now.

First car - 1973 Ford LTD - Fell asleep while driving, hit a pole. Currently has 99,700 miles.

Current - 2005 Toyota Prius - ~92k miles. I miss my LTD ._.

heh, nah all the cars i've owned before my current one had over 100,000 miles on them. bought my tracker at 41,900 miles. i've been told i got ripped off (paid $6500 for it), but it's still running.

also, all of them are automatic transmissions.

First and only car, a '99 Acura Integra GS-R with 88k miles. Love it to death.

Are you rich?

I'm guessing that he has insurance.

I bet his rates are through the roof.

Your intake gasket is going to go bad and you'll get oil in the intake.

Classic saturn problem.

Rob, which models? My sister's '98 SL2 burns oil. I noticed that my '02 has a different manifold... it's plastic, and some of the related parts are changed, like the throttle body. I wonder if they fixed that, too.

On almost every saturn I've looked at 96+ with over 90,000 miles and up.

Their idea of a gasket is usually that goopy goop. I forget what you call it. It's something I would use if I were too lazy to cut a gasket for something you couldn't buy one for.

Saturns engines are the pinnacle of cheap engineering, but somehow they've managed to make the damn things reliable. Their transmissions kinda suck though, I'm not sure if they actually manufacture them or not.

I was looking at saturns not too long ago, I need something super cheap that gets better mileage than my truck. My truck gets REALLY awesome mileage for it's size on the highway, because I have a very very very tall rear differential, but it struggles at the low end. Any time I'm not on the highway I'm lucky to get like 6mpg. On the highway however I've been making 20-24 pretty reliably.

For the intake manifold? They look like metal, maybe with silicone inserts or something.

Apparently they revised it in 00-01 for the DOHC engines to solve complaints about coolant leaks.

Also the Vue seems to have a different engine (V6).

I've seen people use JB Weld for gaskets before. It's funny. Try prying off a head or something that's been fixed on with JB Weld.

2001 Chrysler Sebring Coupe. First and only car.

1998 Volvo S70- Totalled when someone didn't yield on green and tried to gun across traffic.

2007 Jetta Wolfsberg Edition- My beautiful Poppers!

Current car history:

High school: VW Fox
College: VW Golf
Currently: VW Golf GTI

Grats Steph!!

No. Like JLee said, insurance covered my previous car. It probably was for the best, since the GT was very expensive and the V6 much less so.


I don't know what typical insurance rates are, only what I pay. I pay ~$2k/year, which I expect is on the higher end, but I only have a $43.66 accident surcharge on my latest bill. How does this compare to your rates? Could I save $XXX by switching to GEICO? haha

Er...what? Must be a different kind of poppers than I'm thinking of...

I don't know, it depends on how much coverage you have. I have minimum coverage, partly because my car isn't worth it and partly because, in the long term, collision coverage is a huge waste of money. I pay about $960/year with Allstate, and that's after a minor collision where I was at fault. I'd be paying a good 1300 or more per year using ANY other agency, including Geico. I couldn't believe how cheap Allstate was after just having an accident in March (I purchased this policy last week).

I suppose 2K/year isn't so bad if you have a lot of coverage and an accident surcharge.