what's your biggest regret when it comes to cars?

[benwerks]

Nope, I figured I had another year before looking for another vehicle. Wife got impatient traded in the car I was driving now I'm on the hunt. And there are no $3-4000 Mirages to be found. Yet. So I'll get a beater that hopefully I don't lose too much money on until I find a cheapo special Mirage.

right on. well then, there is another 3 cylinder, all wheel drive, 5 speed or cvt micro car! its the old used subaru justy!! its justy what the doctor ordered

[Cobrajet]

I should have kept my '88 Pontiac Fiero Formula. It was a super fun car that I got for next to nothing from a local wrecking yard. Ironically, it had suffered an engine fire. The fire melted the distributor, plug wires, most of the engine wiring harness, and most of the vacuum hoses, but it did no damage to the body or paint. The wrecking yard even let me rewire the engine right there in their shop. Once I replaced everything I fired the car up and drove it home.

Mine was a very tidy, low-mileage, one owner car in bright red with a manual transmission, tan cloth interior, and a sunroof. Completely stock. Had working AC and new tires. From what I have learned since then, the '88 was the best-of-breed for Fieros. GM completely redid the suspension on them so they finally handled as good as they looked. Mine cornered like a cat on shag carpet.

Then, in true GM fashion, they killed off the car the following year. It was identical to this one.

[AtomicPunk]

Biggest regret is selling my '85 VW Cabrio.

I also miss my left-handed Epiphone SG guitar.

Right out of boot camp in San Diego, 1985 I bought a new Kramer Baretta. Then I traded it for a very used Gibson SG, which I foolishly traded on a Jackson stray. Would love to have the Baretta and SG back, just to play again. Not for the resale value. Currently have a EVH Wolfgang special and love it.

[MetroMPG]

I should have kept my '88 Pontiac Fiero Formula.

Was that the V6 model?

[Wallythacker]

I should have kept my '88 Pontiac Fiero Formula. It was a super fun car that I got for next to nothing from a local wrecking yard. Ironically, it had suffered an engine fire. The fire melted the distributor, plug wires, most of the engine wiring harness, and most of the vacuum hoses, but it did no damage to the body or paint. The wrecking yard even let me rewire the engine right there in their shop. Once I replaced everything I fired the car up and drove it home.

Mine was a very tidy, low-mileage, one owner car in bright red with a manual transmission, tan cloth interior, and a sunroof. Completely stock. Had working AC and new tires. From what I have learned since then, the '88 was the best-of-breed for Fieros. GM completely redid the suspension on them so they finally handled as good as they looked. Mine cornered like a cat on shag carpet.

Then, in true GM fashion, they killed off the car the following year. It was identical to this one.

They are such a beautiful car. Styling unmatched by anything else North American, and most of the European cars also. Sporty, well equipped, affordable. What's not to like? I've lost count of the number of clean Fieros I used to see sitting in front yards with for sale signs on them. Price, $500 in many cases. The Pontiac division was miles ahead of the rest of GM. GTO, Fiero, Aztek, impressive lineup.

It was unforgivable the US .gov ordered Pontiac, and not useless Buick, shut down.

[Eggman]

It was unforgivable the US .gov ordered Pontiac, and not useless Buick, shut down.

I liked Pontiac over Buick also, but this Jalopnik article answers the question:

Why did GM kill Pontiac and Hummer and sell Saab, but keep GMC and Buick? The answer is that the first three were not profitable and viable in the marketplace, while the last two were. It's really pretty simple. GM knew that, but it took their taxpayer-funded saviors to get them to euthanize some of their flagging brands.

[Dirk Diggler]

My biggest regret was dumping a bunch of money into a 2004 Subaru Outback H6 3.0. Ill never go Subaru again, theyre reliability is overrated IMO. I only had a 140k and every sensor went out, the cat converter fried, and it was leaking oil constantly. Not to mention because it was a bixer style flat 6 it was a ***** to work on costing me extra labor costs. I ended up selling it for $1300 because the new cat converter costs $3000 alone to repair. Also AWD is expensive when you have to replace all 4 tires to match a new one you purchased because of a flat.

[Cobrajet]

Was that the V6 model?

Yessir!

[Cobrajet]

They are such a beautiful car. Styling unmatched by anything else North American, and most of the European cars also. Sporty, well equipped, affordable. What's not to like? I've lost count of the number of clean Fieros I used to see sitting in front yards with for sale signs on them. Price, $500 in many cases. The Pontiac division was miles ahead of the rest of GM. GTO, Fiero, Aztek, impressive lineup.

It was unforgivable the US .gov ordered Pontiac, and not useless Buick, shut down.

I got mine in '97 or early '98. Nobody wanted anything to do with Fieros then, as they had developed a mostly undeserved bad reputation. Really nice ones could be had cheap. Especially ones that had tried to incinerate themselves!

[Fummins]

I had an 86' fiero. It had the crappy tech 4 2.5l and a 4sp iirc. Was a 2m4 model. Didn't keep it for long. One of the guys at work here had a fiero with a 305 in it mated to a factory fiero standard transmission. I'll have to see if I can find some pics of it. It looked totally stock.

The only Justy I saw in person was in the back of the junkyard I worked at. Was in decent shape too.