GotHandling?

GotHumour?

Jeepers people are so uptight
If you must know I love CRXs and NSXs....
also I use to own a Honduh oh Honda sorry.

GotHandling?

GotMidol??

glowck

I would like an ICE CREAM SANDWICH PLEASE.

The only Honda I would ever own is a riding lawn mower, and weed wacker Oh wait my friend drives one CIVIC.

IF I got paid for my advice I would not be rich.

jaje

i also chew out people who say mazduh as its cars are generally well built

Bruce95fmla

it's a nice ute ... we call them baby H2's around here ... cause they look like a baby hummer ..

nice buy and see ya around bro

BarryG

Well I've been getting along well now with the Element. Almost 3k miles and lovin' it. Drives so incredibly smooth and handles well and I need the space.

My g/f's '00 Jetta (POS) was giving her problems. Lately the A/C died completely (w/only 60k miles!...POS) and was gonna cost a ton since it was the compressor. I talked into trading it in for a '03 5spd silver Protege 5. Has the subwoofer in the back too. $13,500 with rebate plus tax, tags, process, and freight. Just over $15k out the door and got about $6000 on her trade and they didn't notice the A/C wasn't working.

Freakin' thing drives awesome. So much fun and she really likes it of course.

proman

cool so you can still be a part of the protege community.

BarryG

Yeah as long as I'm dating her, I'm back in Protege land at least part-time. I drove it tonight about 15 miles on the freeway and some back roads with her. Of course I like to drive them the way they're meant to be driven.....I didn't rag it really hard but I do lean into turns and maximize the fun factor.

But of course it's new and the g/f starts getting paranoid and accuses me of driving reckless. I'm sure many on this board have been thru this agony before. She drives it like it's a Buick more or less. I've attempted to explain to her that these cars are made to play......it's worthless. When I had my ES, I could do what I wanted and if she complained.......hey it was my car. But this is her car and she's paying for it so I guess I'll have to control myself a little.......or just not drive it much....not worth the nagging.

But car is such a gem. Probably b/c I haven't been in a Pro for almost 3 months now but this 5 feels so tight. I love the new leather wrapped shift **** too and subwoofer is nice. I can't wait until I got enough money to comfortably afford another $400/mo. I'm definitely getting something I can toss around.....ie....Protege ES....or MazdaSpeed (BTW....the new '03.5 rear wings on them look much better than the old ones I think). Maybe I'll just bite the bullet and find a used, low mileage 2.0 DX manual as a 2nd car. Probably could find one of those for $10K. For now I'll just have to wait for new car fever/paranoia to wear off in the g/f....assuming it ever does.

icynelly

Am I the only one that still remembers this is the same guy who networks and makes 70K plus a year? Im pretty sure BarryG that you can afford a protege AND an element

moldypillow

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=ugly_cars

"Style is the element lacking most in this cubist atrocity. Everything about this car screams "tacky." This car just looks terrible; it looks like it was designed by a blind child with arthritis. In a coma. Whoever chose the color scheme for this car was probably asked to do so at gun point, because I don't think it's possible to choose two uglier colors.

This is coming from a guy who has the color-coordination skills of Stevie Wonder, if that tells you anything (I'm straight).

I have to give Honda credit though: at least they chose a name dumb enough to suit the car. What kind of name is "Element"? What next, the Honda Isotope? Fortunately, this is one Element you won't find on the periodic table. I wanted to rate this one lower, but it's nice to see big companies like Honda giving blind designers a chance."