That’s pretty good… question is… did he sell it? I remember yrs ago some woman got a lot of attention for her ad for a wedding dress written similarly on ebay… he got cold feet and the wedding didn’t take place. She actually ended up selling it for a very high price… real high.
The thing is, it’s amusing hyperbole, but it’s not that far off. I bought a used 1998 Corolla in 2003 to commute to work. Never a problem. In 2009, I bought a new car and gave the Corolla to my daughter. She’s still driving it. The sum total of maintenance (besides the normal tires, batteries, bulbs, brakes, plugs, fluids and filters): I replaced the starter and the valve cover gasket. That’s it. Closing in on a quarter million miles, still gets 35 mpg, AC blows cold, everything works. Amazing.
Great timing for this, as I recently leased my first Toyota, a Corolla XSE hatchback.
I never thought I’d ever buy a Toyota - seemed to be sensible, reliable cars, but boring and cheap.
I bought it basically on impulse - had been car shopping for 18 months, my 11y/o WRX hatchback was barely clinging to life and I couldn’t find any direct replacement for it.
The Corolla hatch was the first manual transmission hatchback I was able to find available for a test-drive.
I drove it, and said, “good enough, I’ll take it.”
(deciding to lease freed me from looking for the “perfect” car)
The car is great - I really like the exterior styling (I tell everyone it’s not as fast as it looks) and it drives just fine.
It’s no where near as fun as the WRX, it has 100 fewer HP, but it also gets >10 more mpg and takes regular gas, where the WRX demanded premium.
TL;DR start here:
ANYWAY (have I ever mentioned that brevity is not one of my strengths?) -
What I really came here to mention is my favorite thing about my new Corolla hatch - the faux dual exhaust.
In the back bumper are two chrome rings which appear to be dual exhaust finishers. However, on closer inspection, the rings don’t surround exhaust pipes, they surround a matte-black plastic fill.
If you crouch down and look under the bumper, below the right-hand chrome ring, you’ll see a plain, regular old tail pipe.
I find it hilarious, and it’s one of the first things I point out to people who admire my new car.
@djslack Did you lose it or did someone pinch it?
My favorite rhyme in song lyrics is at the end of this Who (Pete Townshend) song:
Did you pinch my brasso
Nick my gelt you asshole
The whole song is kinda cute, lyrics-wise.
Inspired by having an envelope containing $50k cash vanish along with the beautiful young woman he had spent the night with at a motel.
When he woke up in the morning, they both were gone.
I had a 1993 Corolla, 300K+ miles, never had major service aside from the timing belt, a new alternator and a radiator cap. Sold it in 2014 (when it was old enough to go out on it’s own), and I see it on the road regularly …
um…lol?
I am in awe.
Psst! @mediocrebot!
The word “awe” is related to the word “awesome”.
Awesome, @mediocrebot
@f00l
Ok now I miss having @mediocrebot be an awesome asshole.
Sigh.
@f00l What the awesome fuck happened to @mediocrebot? It’s making me nervous.
@f00l @mediocrebot @OldCatLady Awesome! Tools! Drools! The bat-shrieking hysteria of Gormenghast in a library engulfed in flame! AWESOME!
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@f00l @mediocrebot @OldCatLady Kinda the opposite of nervous here, more serene, but it is odd.
@mediocrebot awe, there he is
@mediocrebot @moonhat
It’s awesome that @mediocrebot re-committed to the awesome duty of being awesome.
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
The new Corolla carries on the tradition:
@gardenald I watched this whole video. So. Many. Memories.
So awesome, I love it.
I’m once again reminded of Big Bill Hell’s.
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
That’s pretty good… question is… did he sell it? I remember yrs ago some woman got a lot of attention for her ad for a wedding dress written similarly on ebay… he got cold feet and the wedding didn’t take place. She actually ended up selling it for a very high price… real high.
The thing is, it’s amusing hyperbole, but it’s not that far off. I bought a used 1998 Corolla in 2003 to commute to work. Never a problem. In 2009, I bought a new car and gave the Corolla to my daughter. She’s still driving it. The sum total of maintenance (besides the normal tires, batteries, bulbs, brakes, plugs, fluids and filters): I replaced the starter and the valve cover gasket. That’s it. Closing in on a quarter million miles, still gets 35 mpg, AC blows cold, everything works. Amazing.
Great timing for this, as I recently leased my first Toyota, a Corolla XSE hatchback.
I never thought I’d ever buy a Toyota - seemed to be sensible, reliable cars, but boring and cheap.
I bought it basically on impulse - had been car shopping for 18 months, my 11y/o WRX hatchback was barely clinging to life and I couldn’t find any direct replacement for it.
The Corolla hatch was the first manual transmission hatchback I was able to find available for a test-drive.
I drove it, and said, “good enough, I’ll take it.”
(deciding to lease freed me from looking for the “perfect” car)
The car is great - I really like the exterior styling (I tell everyone it’s not as fast as it looks) and it drives just fine.
It’s no where near as fun as the WRX, it has 100 fewer HP, but it also gets >10 more mpg and takes regular gas, where the WRX demanded premium.
TL;DR start here:
ANYWAY (have I ever mentioned that brevity is not one of my strengths?) -
What I really came here to mention is my favorite thing about my new Corolla hatch - the faux dual exhaust.
In the back bumper are two chrome rings which appear to be dual exhaust finishers. However, on closer inspection, the rings don’t surround exhaust pipes, they surround a matte-black plastic fill.
If you crouch down and look under the bumper, below the right-hand chrome ring, you’ll see a plain, regular old tail pipe.
I find it hilarious, and it’s one of the first things I point out to people who admire my new car.
(mine’s black)
@DennisG2014 the cool thing about them not being real exhaust is then you don’t have to deal with them turning black on you.
@DennisG2014 @djslack Apparently, once your exhaust goes black, it never goes back…
@DennisG2014 Fake exhaust outlet? Hey, your Corolla is as good as an Audi or Mercedes!
Congrats! The
Scion IMCorolla Hatchback is a perfectly sensible choice.@DennisG2014 @shahnm mine went back once, but then I lost my can of brasso when I moved and I haven’t bought any more.
@DennisG2014
You should celebrate your inner raconteur and predeliction for loquaciousness.
@djslack Did you lose it or did someone pinch it?
My favorite rhyme in song lyrics is at the end of this Who (Pete Townshend) song:
The whole song is kinda cute, lyrics-wise.
Inspired by having an envelope containing $50k cash vanish along with the beautiful young woman he had spent the night with at a motel.
When he woke up in the morning, they both were gone.
@mike808 It would appear that your tongue also shines as brightly as the Olympic medal adorning the neck of the most talented loser of the pack.
@djslack And, since the song has now been stuck in my head for the last 3 hours, I realized it also has one of the worst rhymes in song lyrics:
I had a 1993 Corolla, 300K+ miles, never had major service aside from the timing belt, a new alternator and a radiator cap. Sold it in 2014 (when it was old enough to go out on it’s own), and I see it on the road regularly …
