Has anyone bought a used car that you would be ashamed of telling others how much you spent on it?
And while the price may be bizarre to others, perhaps it only makes sense to you?
Has anyone bought a used car that you would be ashamed of telling others how much you spent on it?
the only cool car worth overpaying for used is the Chevy SS
True story, I got an STi in '07 and went to meetups. I got challenged by a dude in a Cobalt SS that was made to look like a lower-trim Cobalt. He brought 4 passengers and I thought I was about to destroy him. I got fucking pwnt. It was modded, mine wasn't, but goddamn I started modding immediately. Years later I found a video of that race on streetfire and still have it. I also didn't know about brake boosting. These are legit for roll races.
upload. now
Okay, it's on my old HDD but I've seen it in the last 2 weeks. It'll take a minute to find it and create a burner youtube acct. But I'll do it.
Here you go, go to 2:30.
?si=rSXbDXHDPpoibNz3
damn son. Also peak 2007tube right there with the white text on blue background, love it
VGH..... SO MVCH SOVL..........
It was a better time. I was never kidding when I said I street raced a lot.
>tfw you lose to the chase car too
Those were the days.
Back when I thought I was fast
Nice ;). As long as you had a good time, you win. I’ve never seen someone shift so fast lol.
Chevy cobalt ss are different than chevy ss
Idk a lot of people seem to get these conflated lol
Cobalt/HHR SS's are worth every penny.
In my defense I did find it bone stock and low mileage
Everyone thinks I got screwed on this for $1650 but these are few and far between these days, everything is in perfect shape.
>everything is in perfect shape
Yeah especially that strap holding the hood on
Yeah I suppose so
I bought a non-running parts car for a fairly cheap $1800 but it was during the COVID lockdowns bullshit so it ended up at about $3k once I got it shipped to me...
17k for an 01 tacoma
worth it to me because it had a ton of good work done on it and very low miles but everyone raises eyebrow when i tell them what i paid
I paid 900 for this and have about 40k into it
This was a week after I bought it
>40k into it
and it's still slow and na.
Not for long.
I paid $18,000 over the course of two years for a 2016 v6 chally
i had heard rumors they would end production and i figured it was my last chance to get one at non-assrape prices.
actually ended up being an incredibly good deal as similar cars were going for over 23k and the prices just kept going up and up. i actually watched my car's estimated resale value increase every month for the first year.
looking up the vin it seems it sold to the previous owner for 16k in 2018, so even though i bought on the climb i didn't get as fucked as people trying to buy challys right now, and it's probably the mot reliable, satisfying car i've ever driven.
>v6
Lmao you got bamboozled
nah i did my research, that's why i didn't just buy a really cheap 3.5 or pre-eagle hemi, those would have been bamboozling.
the pentastar is an absolute goat of an engine. it saved chrysler, trolled merc and nissan, and is one of the most powerful mopar engines of all time, beating even the 5.7 in specific hp. great for tuning too, 50 free hp just hiding there in the vvt program.
The Pentastar is decent. I had one in a 14 Wrangler 2 door 6-spd that’s the same weight as a 16 V6 chally wally. The only issue was it only seems to make decent power after 4500rpm or so iirc, which wasn’t ideal in a short wheelbase top heavy wrangler. It’s probably better in a chally. Enjoy your shit.
yeahhhh the power delivery is all wrong for an off-roader. it's imo a terrible engine for vans, trucks and wranglers. it's functionally an american copy of a nissan vq but with simpler parts, it doesn't have the displacement to make a good truck engine. even nissan ups the vq to 4L for the frontier and suvs but the 4.0 and turbo pentastars chrysler planned never materialized so the 3.6 is what we get. the vvt goes into high lift at 4k and from there to 6500 it really truly sings.
i wasn't expecting to like it really, but it has a really nice, almost turbo-like power delivery and flat torque curve so you can accelerate strongly in any gear. revving it out has this interesting jet engine feel that is the opposite of a V8, instead of a big gob of neck-snapping torque at low rpm you have a relatively calm launch, and what feels like a rolling wave of nearly infinite power at high RPM. It just keeps revving and pulling. The higher it revs the harder it pulls right up till it smacks the limiter or you pull the next gear. in a chally, yeah it's fun as fuck don't let anyone tell you different.
i also just find its whole troubled development story and reasons for existing highly amusing, particularly the fact that Fiat bought Chrysler just to get it despite also owning the company that invented V6s, Lancia.
>it saved chrysler
Chysler is literally worse off now, they only make 2 cars lol. They're on their way to being a dead brand. Dodge/Jeep will soldier on under stellantis.
>trolled merc and nissan
Maybe in some retards fantasies.
>and is one of the most powerful mopar engines of all time
No it's not.
>beating even the 5.7 in specific hp
Who cares about this homosexual metric when there are Challengers that make over 3x the power.
>great for tuning too, 50 free hp just hiding there in the vvt program.
Show me a single before/after dyno to back this up.
wrong
Chrysler makes 14 different cars with the Pentastar as their power plant
when I say Chrysler I mean the "Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram" arm of FCA/Stellantis, or what used to be the Chrysler Corporation, not the actual Chrysler car brand which yes only has two models.
During the last days of the Daimler shitfest the Pentastar was developed in secret and nobody at Daimler knew about it. It was specifically to surpass the Nissan VQ35 because Chrysler brass where concerned that Daimler or Cerberus might sell them to Nissan, and Nissan wanted to basically cannibalize the brands. So the Pentastar was to be the last hail mary, a good old American atom bomb to go off on Carlos Ghosn's desk. An engine so good that Nissan would be forced to leave the prized Mopar Powertrain division alone. It worked so well that Nissan just fucked off and developed the VQ further. the VQ38HR is Nissan's ultimate response to this corporate snub, outrevving the Pentastar by 500 rpm and producing over 330 hp, but producing less torque across the power band, averaging out to equal.
Now Mercedes, they didn't like that Chrysler had been able to basically build an entirely new engine from scratch during their assraping in the middle of an economic recession so they took the few early prototype technical specs they were legally owners of and built the M276, which incorporates a lot of the same ideas and packaging decisions.
Fiat in the end bought Chrysler because the Italians discovered that none of them could make a good n/a v6 that didn't blow up constantly, but the Pentastar was too reliable for "socioeconomic reasons" I'm sure, and they demanded fuel economy shit like the stupid plastic oil cooler/filter assembly that tends to give the engine a bad internet reputation more than it actually breaks.
without the Pentastar there would be no Hellcat or Demon, no Mopar at all. They would have been dissolved by Nissan and you could maybe buy a chally wally hat.
You write like an emotional female. All emotion, no logic or fact. You were raised by a single mother.
>without the Pentastar there would be no Hellcat or Demon, no Mopar at all. They would have been dissolved by Nissan and you could maybe buy a chally wally hat.
When the Challenger returned in '08 it was V8 only you fucking idiot, a V6 wasn't even offered until '09.
> All emotion, no logic or fact.
and what the fuck is your post then, dick twister?
what is this gayass insult
>uuhhh ur a girl
is that how you cope with the fact you'll never talk to a real one?
it is all fact btw you can look it up on allpar and ask the actual engineers who worked on it.
The V6 was always an option on the Charger, 300, and Magnum since release. The problem was, this was the 3.5 EGG V6 meant to power Intrepids and the 2.8 EER from the Sebring, which were barely powerful enough for these new heavier sedans. Even the early 3g 5.7 Hemi of the time made 250 whp. Early 5.7s are pretty slow. The new Challenger, which underneath the aircraft carrier bodykit, is simply a Charger with 6 inches taken out of the middle, the roof chopped and the front doors elongated, needed far more powerful engines to really stand out. It got a special 6.1L Hemi for its first years and was only available as an SRT model, there was no R/T or SE/SXT. By the time those models rolled around Chrysler was desperate for hard cash and LXes were selling like fucking hotcakes, so they kind of halfassedly rolled the last of the EGG and pre-Eagle into the last few model years of Challys before Cerberus' cash let them update the styling and actually produce the Pentastar and Eagle.
The Pentastar was developed in, and for the Challenger and the other LX/LD cars. They designed it purposely for performance, because they unironically do sell these cars as "performance vehicles". Says so on the website. It is only by virtue of the Pentastar being an extremely versatile engine and Chrysler being equal parts ambitious but cheap, that it also happens to power the delivery van that is bringing you your huge box of dragon dildos today.
Even now, it has surpassed the Hemi and straight piped, ebay supercharged, hybrid V6 Charger Daytonas will rule the night in their stead.
What's wrong with dragon dildos?
nothing, it's just whew
every WEEK man?
what do you do, get them stuck up there?
i had a friend buy a 2020 toyota tacoma with 45k miles on it for 40k in 2022. the dude loves it but damn.