Originally Posted by pizzaguy
Well, I guess I better "s%%t or get off the pot"....
Found a pretty graphite 6 speed coupe two weeks ago. He just took the price down to $8995!
I drove it again tonight. THis has to be the cleanest 100,000 mile car I've ever seen. I am no mechanic, but I can't find anything wrong with it. Not one DROP of oil in the engine compartment - no leaking that I could find from anything!
Only "Weaknesses":
The clutch seems a LITTLE worn, but not at all bad or grabby or anything. The fourway flashers sometimes only flash the left side. Everything else worked (but I forgot to verify the cruise works tonight, tho I THINK I tested it last time I drove it.)
Will that "tighthead1" guy in Arizona approve of this one for pizza?
Gonna try to make up my mind tonight and call him in the morning. DAMN, but Coupes sure have a lot of blind spots! I will also say that I am no longer so sure the 6 speeds are faster than automatics. It seems like the car pulls harder .... yet the delay due to shifting ... hmmmm, might take me some time to 'get it' with the sports-car-like shift in these cars. This aint my Ford Ranger's transmission, that is for sure.
Yea, it IS this pretty:
Once you set the mirrors correctly much of the blind spots goes away. Set them to where you have to turn your head all the way to the left to see down the side of the car. Do the same on the right. Then leave them the he!! alone till you get used to it. Then you will want to do all your vehicles that way. As for power, I don't think one is faster than the other till you get into the twisties. The Six speed will murder an auto if your utilizing it correctly. Another little trick when your shifting hard is to let the shifter find third. If you push it out of 2nd the shifter will go to center, right below third. That little light on the dashboard should be blinking at all times if your doing things right.
