Awesome Car - High Maintenance
Pros:
POWER EVERYTHING!!! Touch screen controls car. Powerfull engine. Leather everything.
Cons:
Gas mileage. Cost of repairs.
The Bottom Line:
If you can afford to maintain this trophy of a car then it's worth it. But i don't recommend it for a daily commuter.
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Author's Review
I bought this car used in 2006. It had sat in my friends driveway for a few years, but surprisingly it started right up and a simple tune up and oil change is all it took to get it running again. It had only 154,000Km's on the engine and it was in really good shape cosmetically.
The engine is strong and it rides like a dream on the highway. On average I will cruise at 130Km/h at about 2200RPM. So It has a lot more to give. The gas mileage is not so good.. I can usually get around 450Km's on a tank in the city, but on the HWY it's AWESOME!!! Sometimes I can cruise at 7 Litres of gas per 100Km's!
The only bad thing is that the costs to fix this car have been quite expensive. I payed about $700 to have the MAF sensor replaced. Another $780 to have the catalytic converter and harmonic balancer replaced (twice, since the first part was faulty and shattered). I also had to pay $350 USD when my car broke down on the way to Florida from Toronto. The water pump broke and took out the serpentine belt along with it. So over the last year I've shelled out a lot of money to keep it on the road.
The interior of the car is BEAUTIFUL!! Supple black leather everywhere, power EVERYTHING!! The seat is like 8-way power seats and it's both the passenger and driver seats that are power. I have the touch screen system which is the coolest thing I've ever had in a car. All of the features of the touch screen are super-usefull and I don't know how I'm going to drive another car without these features. It looks like an airplane cockpit when you sit inside. It tells you your instant gas mileage with all sorts of numbers and calculations, has an actualy programable trip computer with ETA, calendar, climate control, radio, cd player, car diagnostics, oil change meter, compass navigation, all touch screen controlable!! This car is still way ahead of it's time and I'm going to hate to get rid of it.. But it's costing me too much to keep it on the road and it's getting a bit too old for me to use it as a daily commuter.
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