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Old 01-31-2013, 05:32 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pete c View Post
Also consider domestics such as a 5 speed fusion or focus. These are pretty decent cars which have the advantage (from a used car buyer's perspective) of having a domestic badge which causes their resale value to drop like a rock.
They made a 5 speed Fusion? I thought even the Nascar versions were 4 speeds.

If I had a $5k budget, and a vehicle that I could use for now, I'd be shopping for some things I can assemble into an "ideal" vehicle. In my mind, that's finding a 4th-generation Camaro with a six-speed manual, and swapping in a 2.2L and 2.73s (or 3.23s) from an S10. But I tend to think based on pure highway mileage, unrealistic usage otherwise, as if an ecomodded vehicle is a sports car aimed specifically for one purpose.
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