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MacJones

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mgartner0622 said:
I just bought this last weekend.

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Scion TC Release Series with a Manual Gearbox, Premium Audio, and Panoramic Sunroof. 167HP Toyota Inline 4.
It's not a sports car by any means, but it handles very well for what it is. Someday I'll also hopefully be able to find a car that's not silver.


On a side note, never buy a tandem garage. It might look like it can hold 4 cars, and it does, but it's a huge hassle to deal with.

EDIT - The image is hosted on my MobileMe, so if you click to view larger it will download to your computer. Just a warning.
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Nice! I bought a 2008 Scion tC back in August and still love it! I went from a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 150k miles to the 08 tC with 41k miles so it was a huge upgrade for me.

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SK360

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neiltc13 said:
Does anyone actually believe these computerised MPG meters?

I have one in my car (Ford Fiesta) and when I actually measure it manually I find the two numbers are quite different.

The way I measure is that when I need fuel, I fill the tank up completely and take the mileage since the last fill. I measure how much fuel I used against how many miles I did to come up with the MPG. It never matches the number my car says, even if I reset it at the same time as the trip computer in the petrol station.
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I track on fuelly.com as well. Mind you this was only one short 80 mile trip on cruise control, my overall average sucks because I normally drive like a jackass. lol.
 
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r i c h

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sk1wbw said:
So how was it? Just like I saw in all those awesome Youtube videos? I bet that was a blast!
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Fantastic! :) However, there's no way I'm jumping it (like the Youtube stuff shows)...it's my only vehicle and I'd feel like a real jackass if I totaled it and still had to make the payments LOL.
 
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sk1wbw

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r i c h said:
Fantastic! :) However, there's no way I'm jumping it (like the Youtube stuff shows)...it's my only vehicle and I'd feel like a real jackass if I totaled it and still had to make the payments LOL.
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Haha, yeah you're right. Get it covered in mud and post a pic. That's what I really wanna see, a muddy truck. :)
 
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mgartner0622

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MacJones said:
Nice! I bought a 2008 Scion tC back in August and still love it! I went from a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 150k miles to the 08 tC with 41k miles so it was a huge upgrade for me.
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To be honest I like that color a lot better than my silver one. I found one, but it had quite a few door dings and the dash also had holes drilled in it from what looked to be turbo and boost gauges so I was a bit awry of buying the car. I wish I had the projector headlights like yours though, they seem to work much better.
 
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MacJones

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mgartner0622 said:
To be honest I like that color a lot better than my silver one. I found one, but it had quite a few door dings and the dash also had holes drilled in it from what looked to be turbo and boost gauges so I was a bit awry of buying the car. I wish I had the projector headlights like yours though, they seem to work much better.
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I almost bought a silver one but mine was in better condition and it came with tinted windows and white/red LED lights in the dash. This color is pretty hard to keep clean, silver would be much better I think. The projector headlights are really nice and I put some bright white HID lights in them.
 
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mgartner0622

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MacJones said:
I almost bought a silver one but mine was in better condition and it came with tinted windows and white/red LED lights in the dash. This color is pretty hard to keep clean, silver would be much better I think. The projector headlights are really nice and I put some bright white HID lights in them.
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Yeah, tinted windows are a must almost everywhere. I'm getting mine tinted at the end of next week, as dark as legally possible. (I think it's 20% light in)
 
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Jony Mac

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Not my photo, but picked one of these up the other day. VW CC (Passatt CC) Black on Black, and no front license plate cover. I havent had the chance to take any photos yet. Maybe this weekend after I wax it.

Picked up the Mariner 4 months ago for my wife. Once again not my photo.
 

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Heres my car my '07 Fiat Grande Punto that I got for my birthday last year. I thought for the photo i'd give it a top gear magazine style effect :D Taken at an abandon warehouse just on the outskirts of town.

Its not much but its not a bad first car I would like to say insurance is nice and reasonable, but for any young driver living in the UK thats simply not true. Insurance is OUTRAGEOUSLY & INSANELY EXPENSIVE


My First Car by Ryan J. Nicholson, on Flickr
 
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After a few years of saving up and not updating the Macs, (*sadface*) I purchased this Volkswagen Golf. Couldn't be more happy of it. <3 :D
 
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neiltc13 said:
Does anyone actually believe these computerised MPG meters?

I have one in my car (Ford Fiesta) and when I actually measure it manually I find the two numbers are quite different.

The way I measure is that when I need fuel, I fill the tank up completely and take the mileage since the last fill. I measure how much fuel I used against how many miles I did to come up with the MPG. It never matches the number my car says, even if I reset it at the same time as the trip computer in the petrol station.
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I've found the ones in my Hondas are within .1 MPG of hand calculated.
 
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yg17

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neiltc13 said:
Does anyone actually believe these computerised MPG meters?

I have one in my car (Ford Fiesta) and when I actually measure it manually I find the two numbers are quite different.

The way I measure is that when I need fuel, I fill the tank up completely and take the mileage since the last fill. I measure how much fuel I used against how many miles I did to come up with the MPG. It never matches the number my car says, even if I reset it at the same time as the trip computer in the petrol station.
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I only recently started tracking my gas mileage in the past few weeks, but after 3 fillups, I've found the MPG on my trip computer (VW Golf GTI) is about 6% less than the manual calculation (same method you used).

Neither the trip computer or fillup method are 100% accurate though. Actual MPG is probably somewhere in between.
 
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dukebound85

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neiltc13 said:
Does anyone actually believe these computerised MPG meters?

I have one in my car (Ford Fiesta) and when I actually measure it manually I find the two numbers are quite different.

The way I measure is that when I need fuel, I fill the tank up completely and take the mileage since the last fill. I measure how much fuel I used against how many miles I did to come up with the MPG. It never matches the number my car says, even if I reset it at the same time as the trip computer in the petrol station.
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I use gas cubby. Over 10,000 miles in my subaru, the trip computer was overestimating by 1.5mpgs over the calculations done with gas cubby over that mileage.
 
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RaceTripper

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dukebound85 said:
I use gas cubby. Over 10,000 miles in my subaru, the trip computer was overestimating by 1.5mpgs over the calculations done with gas cubby over that mileage.
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Yeah, the trip computer on my STi is worthless. Overestimates gas mileage by about 10%. Tells me I'm getting 21 MPG, when it's really more like 19.

I just check the old fashioned way. Fill the tank, divide trip miles by gals filled, reset trip.
 
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