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can you say oxymoron?!

try having a 35.7 gallon fuel tank like my F-150. nearly $70 to fill up at the current CA gas prices...and I only get 14 - 17 MPG. ...damn, I need to get me a 3s...

where the hell are you people getting your info from? Nav system DOES NOT require the safety package. It requires a choice of one other package, which means either Sport Package, ABS/Airbag Package, or HID. Now, if you get the HID package, you must get the Sport Package and ABS Package. Go...

read the law yourself for your state. go to www.lemonlawusa.com and select the appropriate state.

I agree with a lot of what you said carperformance3, but the whole 3 months/ 3000 miles thing is bogus and made up by oil manufacturers. i don't know about your shop, but whenever I get my oil changed on my F-150 by my dealer, they put a sticker on the window that says I need another oil change...

those are some expensive o-rings. i am the R&D Manager at an O-Ring company and even the best quality o-rings for service in motor oil we sell for 16 cents. We sell to directly to large companies like Ford and distributors, but $6 for an O-ring is highway robbery even when it is being resold...

there are more opinions on this than you can shake a stick at. this post is just my opinion and you are free to disregard everything I say. i don't know about this forum, but on www.f150online.com this question comes up weekly and there are peope that advocate a whole forum just for oil since...

better to have the slave cylinder go out under warranty than later on. that gets expensive. s***, while they're at it, if they'd do it, you might want to have them replace the master cylinder too. they are both involved in the same hydraulic system so I wonder how they know it is the slave or...

you guys are forgetting the taxes that the Brits pay that would make it $32,000. If you take away their 19% sales tax and 22% import tax that they pay which is in that price, it comes down to more like $22K-$23K. Not bad. It is still an economy car on steriods, but for the price, power, and...

i don't know if i am reading your post correctly. are you saying that 18k is about $18K? if so, then you are dreaming. the exchange rate as of today is $1.762 per 1. As stated earlier by someone, 18K is about $32K.

there is a 19% sales tax on vehicles in the UK and they pay an additional 22% import tax. for the current Mazda 3 at say $16,000, they would pay an equivalent of $22,560. Taxes are a b****, but it ain't our problems, it's theirs. I'll let you do the math for the MazdaSpeed prices.

there's some info about the MazdaSpeed 3 out there. Here are some links: http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/22/pf/autos/mag0401_mazdaspeed_miata/ (about halfway down) http://auto.consumerguide.com/auto/new/reviews/full/index.cfm/id/38029 (read the "news" section)

dealers often BS. if you do your research using www.kbb.com, www.edmunds.com and the like, you will probably walk in their knowing more about the car than they do. good luck.

Macadonious, I'm not going to flame you beacuase you are entitled to your opinion. A word of advice from me, the Research & Development Manager at a high performance seals company, is that a good science is produced by a good question and a well stated problem. Instead of giving solutions, you...

What brand is that muffler? It looks like a generic brand to me, but I could be wrong. It's good that it is stainless steel, but quality might be an issue. You never know with a generic brand.

meh, nothing special.

keep trying to get it at invoice or a few hundred bucks below. it is very possible, you just have to be persistent. they know that you have a choice of several other good cars in the same class as the new 3, so that sounds like more a of a line to me. The 3 is a great new car, but dealers...

So I've been lurking here for a little while because I am interested in buying a 3. Does anyone know when the 2005 models will be available or when we can place orders for a 2005 3? I don't want a 2004 since there have been some problems and we are so close to the 2005's being released. Thanks.

yeah, i think in CA a car is considered new until 6k miles. not bad, but i'm with you, it ain't new if it has 1k miles on it. my truck had 52 miles on it when i bought it, which is the way it should be. but hey, your folks bought you a car which ain't a bad thing. and just so we don't have...

Dave2521, actually that is not true for California. I encourage you to look at the link I posted above for state by state laws. they are different in each state. for California it is actually 4 times in the shop and 30 days total. There is a lot of wiggle room in the 30 days so it is hard to...