All cars before the list below were just **** boxes.
2004 VW Jetta (had the coil packs problem and had rental for 5 months while the coil packs were on backorder)
2004 Ford Escape (110k miles before trading)
2009 Ford Escape (not as much fun as the 2004), also had a second car which was a 2006 Mini Cooper S Convertible
Laid off so traded both of the above for a 2010 Mini Cooper S Clubman (dealer had to buy it back for timing chain issues)
Mini sold me a 2012 Mini Cooper S Clubman to replace the 2010.
2015 Mini Cooper JCW Hardtop (great car until winter time) Snow tires and or rims and snow were too expensive to justify. Traded for my 2017 Renegade Latitude with 18" wheels and MySky.
How far down this well to go?
82 Dodge Aries Station Wagon
80 Plymouth K car
86 Plymouth Reliant (could be wrong about the year)
87 Mustang 5.0
93 Nissan Sentra
94 Eclipse GSX
87 Porsche 944 Turbo
95 Mitsubishi gallant
88 Dodge Shelby Daytona
93 Ford Taurus
2000 Hyundai Tiburon
2003 WV Jetta
2009 VW Jetta Wolfsburg
2010 Mercedes C300 Sport (manual tans.)
2018 Jeep Renegade
Wow - weird seeing it listed out like that. Up until the Porsche I was working in the IT industry and was laid off for a few years working terrible jobs.
We had a Honda CR-V. My wife’s vechicle. It was an all wheel drive. Everything worked great. Typical Honda quality. Reliable as a claw hammer. Great SUV, but kinda boring to drive. The AWD does not work like a 4x4. We are both over 60, and wanted something more fun. We bought a new Trail Hawk. Nowhere near the bells and whistles or storage capacity the CR-V had, but more fun to drive. Happy with it so far.
04.5’ Jetta GLI just prior to the Jeep. Before that in no particular order, a handful of various GTI’s, forester, BMW 525i TDS, mkiv golf R32, talon tsi awd, Acura legend, Altima, 91’ Toyota pickup.. I think that’s it lol. I will have another R32. That was the best thing ever until it acted like a VW
Traded in my 2002 PT Cruiser for the Renegade. I bought the PT in 06 with very low miles on it (a little over 12,000). At the time I traded it in, it was around 160,000 miles. I had it rebuilt from the ground up in the fall of 2016 (new motor, front and rear suspension, tires, you name it - all new), just to have the new motor cause nothing but problems nearly every week. Ten months and 6k later, since I couldn't trust the PT to drive anywhere without breaking down, I traded it in. I miss it, but not the problems I had. It was fun to drive, but the Renegade is even more so.
Before that, I had a Mitsubishi Eclipse, Chevy Cavalier, and a Mustang.
Sold my '96 Jeep Cherokee Classic 4X4 this year, still going strong at 180k+ miles. I miss it. Love my 4X2 2018 Rene with 6k miles on it, but just tried it out in the Kansas City snow for the first time and on a 10 deg. uphill grade the right front wheel spun and forward motion stopped (from 5 mph). Disabled traction control. Spun again. Re-enabled traction control and the RF wheel spun again. Here I come, again, dealer.
I was driving a 2008 Suzuki SX4 (which I loved) that got totaled as a moving truck slammed into it while it was parked.
I've had many "off road" vehicles before, but was wanting a road vehicle that was like a beefed up AWD. This (Renegade TH) was it. I just wish Jeep would ditch the "4x4' badging already, as they're not fooling anyone (we all know it's not 4x4, it AWD, just like many other AWD's). Other than that... it fits it's niche perfectly.
Well newest to last.......
13 Subie Crosstrek
08 Subie Tribeka
07 Wrangler Jk (2 door)
02 Nissan XTerra
99 VW Passat
94 Jeep Cherokee (last of the old inline 6 "4.0")
92 Mazda Miata
88 Ford Mustang GT (had 2 - totaled one)
87 Pontiac SunBird GT Turbo
68 Pontiac GTO (somewhat street legal )
77 Pontiac Le Mons (Car I learned to drive in)
79 & 82 Wranglers - off road beach beaters back in the 80's
Besides the Desert Hawk Renegade - I currently have an 18 Chevy Traverse ("kid" transport), and an 01 BMW Z3 weekend car
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