Long story short, I got a great deal and therefore I can has new car.

Sticker price was $14,000 I got it for $10,000.  43,000 Miles.

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I think Eclipses are girly yet nifty, but not my kind of car.

But, grats anyway.

I do admitt it is a bit of a girly car but same goes for the miata which is one of my all time favorite cars. 

It sure as hell beats my old corolla.

bavo12 wrote: unless it can go over 180 or go off road im not interested...

As if you ever have or ever will go over 180...

Top speed is irrelevant, and Eclipses are perfectly nice cars.  I also agree that this is one of the best Eclipse body styles out there.

bavo12 wrote: look all im sayin is that i prefer really fast cars and offroad vehicles. that is my opinion and there not scientific fact. so dont get mad about  it

Not mad - and I also like fast cars. 

Just noting that 180 mph is a ridiculously high number when discussing street cars.  There aren't more than a couple of dozen street-legal cars that are physically capable of driving at that speed, and it would be suicidal and homicidal to do so on the street.  You might as well have said a million zillion mph.

bavo12 wrote: yeah Akhmed your right, but still nice to know you could go that fast (who said anything about them being street legal)

You know that most race cars never hit 180 either, right?

That kind of speed is found in NASCAR, F1, and some forms of drag racing, but that's about it.

I apologize for going on about this, but it is one of my pet peeves when people get fixated on bizarrely high speeds.

Many cars that people think of as fast cannot do 180.  Mustangs cannot do 180 without serious modifications.  Corvettes only recently passed 180, and unless you have a ZR1, barely so.

Ferraris didn't generally break 180 until the 1980s, and most Lotus Esprits could not (and none of the current Lotus cars can).  Only the very last model NSX cracked 180.

Porsche Cayman S cannot reach 180 mph.  Most German cars in general are electronically limited to 125 or 155, including the various AMG models.

The list goes on.  180 mph is really, really fast.

just curious what do yall think of the new challenger (im not saying it goes 180 but not to bad for 40000 

I can't even began to imagine what it would be like to be going 180.  Every pebble in the road turns into a gaint boulder.

Would be fun thought.

Now, the GT-R, there's a car designed to answer the age-old question:  "Will people drive a dull-slash-hideous-looking car if it drives really well?"  The answer, apparently, is yes.

i like the new camaros and skyline GTR's.

The new challanger, id rather set it on fire and roll it off a cliff. it weighs 4k lbs. its not fast, even with the hemi, at that weight.

SandMan wrote: Okay, so here's a semi-related question... When and how did the word "whip" become a synonym for a car? Sounds retarded to me, but then... I'm old. (Compared to most of you, anyway...)

I don't know when, but the 1st time I heard it used to refer to a car a lost it and laughed uncontrollably.  So now it's part of my vocabulary.

choopie911 wrote: sporx wrote: i think that the car is really cute... That's because its a pretty girly car. Anytime I see them, its a chick driving.

This is the real problem, of course.  Eclipses are in that category of "cars that are not as sporty as they look."  They look like they ought to drive on rails, but they don't.  They are basically a Mitsu Corolla with a body kit.  Still decent cars, but sports cars they ain't.