Very nice choice Paul
306hp out of a 3.7 I6 is nuts, I wish Ford could have done that with the 2valve 4.6
This car is still the 3.5L engine, the 3.7 is over 325hp now! But still, I agree with you 100%. I also love the way the powerband feels in this car. Its not brutal like a mustang, its like a smooth "woosh" of power that keeps building until it shifts. This thing redlines over 7000rpms!
Thanks Ryan! I needed the AWD living here in the mountains which limited my choices a great deal, otherwise I would have expanded my searching into the rest of the FWD market.
Thethirdeye88- I have no plans to mod it. I have enough money pits as it is to add this one to that list. However...
I plan to tint the windows, add a better ipod hookup to it, and next year get a set of summer wheels so that I can put a good set of winter tires on the wheels that are on it now. But that is my only plans as of now. i don't mess with the daily drivers too much.
BlackVert- Thanks! As for the insurance, yes its getting up there but the nice thing is that the '95, the '94, and my wife's Mr2 all get put on storage insurance from ~November through April/May. This helps cut down tremendously on cost. The G is almost $200 more per year to insure than the Edge, an although it makes me sick, I love the car and was able to make it work. This is the most expensive car I have to insure as its just under $800/year for full coverage, but the rest of my vehicles all fall under $600/year with the focus of all things being the next highest. The Cobra is something lke $20 more a year than my 'vert, which really is only around $10 since its only insured 5-6 months a year. I also qualify for multi-car discounts, and low mileage discounts since all but the edge and focus see less than 5000 miles/year. I am getting an agreed upon value policy for the '95 this spring and it will drop my insurance tremendously according to my agent. I will admit its going to be a little tight the next few months since I will have our Edge a little while longer before the lease is up. We may have jumped the gun a little buy buying this car a few months before our lease was up, but at the same time I didn't want to
HAVE to buy a car I didn't want if I had waited and didn't find what I was looking for. BTW- an M roadster is an awesome car. I will say though that after all the research I just did on cost of ownership, etc I doubt there will ever be anything in my garage from Germany. We almost bought a MB C280 AWD but after seeing that it would cost ~$1000 a year just to drive it between oil changes (which the dealer must do in order to ensure the warranty isn't voided), their schedule A and B annual maintenance, and insurance I knew it wasn't the car for me. BMW, although not as bad, was in a similar situation.
Adam, those are some nice choices you are looking at. AWD was a must have for us and as such the acura's were out, the BMW was out due to cost of ownership, the Audi's were out as nothing in my price range did anything for me and their electrical and sensor problems as of late scared me off, and although I LOVE the look of the Lexus, they are much smaller inside than the G and I couldn't find a used one that was affordable. Since we have kids we needed as much room as possible and in this segment the G wins in front and rear passenger room. We even drove an M35 and although it was much larger, but we didn't love it and the gas mileage had me running. I took it out on the highway and the best i saw from it was 17mpg. YIKES! I took our g out on the same highway and saw 25+mpg. Heck, I just managed almost 26mpg in it on a recent trip to Pittsburgh which is climbing one mountain after another from here which doesn't help mileage at all. Good luck with your searching!
In all seriousness I did get a new car, but its not a mustang, although it feels as though it'd give my '94 cobra a run for its money! After a lot of looking and contemplating what vehicle would make a good replacement for our leased ford edge, my wife and I made a purchase yesterday. I haven't been this excited or satisfied with a car in a long time. Its a '07 Infiniti G35X. This car is THE family car for me. Its fast (306hp/268tq), nimble, roomy, classy, its AWD, and I got almost 26mpg in it today! I love this thing. I looked into all of the offerings out there and this came out on top in every aspect that was important to me. I wanted to stay with a domestic vehicle but quite frankly they have nothing comparable to offer IMO. Here's a few pics I took of it tonight. I'll be tinting the windows very soon.
