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You may have seen the commercials on TV from "Freecreditreport.com." They have been convicted of fraud by the FTC at least twice now; I would advise you to not do any business with them. What they do is provide you with your "free" credit report but sneakily sign you up for their monthly...

Yup. Purpose built chassis > jack-of-all-trades.

Looks like Toyota tried to make the Matrix look more like a Yaris 3-door (see the front end). (blarf)The previous Matrix did look edgy, but this new one looks bland, bland, bland. Kind of like what they did with the new xD versus the old xA. "Hey, let's include more boring, that will boost...

Depending on how long their money reserves hold out, we might just get to see how stupid they can be. (puke)

Looks like they out-jeeped Jeep?

The fact that they based this sport compact on an SUV chassis = (hand) 'Nuff said.

My Probe was excellent... if you don't count the radio buttons falling off after several years. :rolleyes:

Yeah - I wish they would add AWD to the 3 instead of the 6. I see this platform as a money-saving move; otherwise Ford needs to (RTM)

(blarf)I thought that was a screenshot of the 10th anniversary Hyundai Elantra until I saw the word "GTI." WTF could the designer have been thinking?

This is why the MZS3 doesn't have AWD. Sure, the WRX and Evo have awd. How long have Mitsu and Subaru been doing turbo awd cars? A long, long time. If Mazda can't do little things like build a proper intercooler for a turbo, or building a car that doesn't need a new ECU reflash every 5...

Right you are. When you realize the new Civic Si has 200hp stock, then you will realize this thing must have at least 200hp stock and cost $20k or less. That is all...

No worries on the visors - the visors in my WRX are cheaper than those I had in my base Probe lol...

Think about how much you are going to be doing each thing you want your car to do? For example, if you're going to use your car for grocery-getter/daily commute 95% of the time, then money-wise you'd be better off getting a cheap MZ3 and a used Miata, which would whip either car's butt in...

I'd look around for different replacement windshields. The ones for our Scoobies are around $400 from the factory but I hear there is another brand that is only ~$200. I wonder if this is a problem with more recent cars in general; on the scooby forum there is a giant multi-page thread about...

Looks very sweet. Yeah, back end looks like a Tourag and front end looks like a Murano/RX8 lovechild. I hate SUV's but dang I want one. That's the sign of good styling. (drive)