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05-23-2008, 08:03 AM | #1 |
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Just rented an
Eclipse for the weekend. We are driving down to NY. It was the last car they had! Not sure if it is the 4 or 6 engine. But it is a two door coupe, so that should be fun to switch it up a bit. Anyone ever drive one of these?
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05-23-2008, 08:43 AM | #2 |
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New ones are 6 cylinder... look fugly thou'
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05-23-2008, 11:25 AM | #3 |
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I am pretty sure that they have a 4 and a 6 available. The latter putting out like 250 horse or something. But I dont know anything about Mitsubitis, nor have ever driven one, so we will see how it goes!
But if it was between that or a honda civic, or corolla, I would take the Eclipse any day. I asked about a Stang, Vette and the Corssfire convertable, but he is like, we dont have them. So I asked what other cars he had, and he said the premium car was the Eclipse at $400 for three days, and I said are you crazy? And negotiated 50 per day or $150 for the whole deal with the Eclipse. (Dont want to rack up excess miles on the Bimmer lease, and GF car is out of commish.)
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05-27-2008, 11:56 AM | #4 |
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This car was reliable and efficient! no issues. (It was the 4 banger) Drove from Boston to Long Island on one tank of gas. Just had to fill it up before I returned it. Blind spots are a KILLER in this car. No doubt I was happy to be back in my car. The best surprise was the 100 channels of XM radio for free!
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05-27-2008, 01:01 PM | #5 |
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Yay for 100 channels of commercial free music that somehow all manage to have shitty music on. (Unless it's gotten better since I canceled my sub a few years ago)
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I thought it was pretty good
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Unless of course you want a religious or sports station, but if you want music? You're screwed.
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05-27-2008, 06:15 PM | #8 | |
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wasnt bad at all either. had it in a rental kia spectra.... lol....
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05-28-2008, 09:23 PM | #10 |
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Avis in Natick. They were the best price, and I actually negotiated the price down a bit. Good customer service. Only thing was the car was dirty as SH when I picked it up
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05-28-2008, 09:30 PM | #12 |
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XM for free? Nice. I just remember a new red eclipse trying to race me 3 times in a one week span when we kept seeing each other all over the city last year.
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05-28-2008, 10:03 PM | #13 |
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In other news, I looked at the eclipse for a few minutes and decided to see what people were doing with them. Apparently, there's a supercharger kit out pushing up to 400whp!? For $5k no less! Granted it's FWD, but I want 400whp
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05-29-2008, 12:38 AM | #14 |
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The eclipse is a tank in terms of handling. My '06 Civ EX coupe felt much lighter, but was damp on power. Woulda gone with the Eclipse anyways.
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05-29-2008, 11:27 AM | #15 |
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lol. Yea a friend of mine got stuck with one too. If you want to see how the car holds itself up We managed to video our trip so your in luck
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05-29-2008, 01:20 PM | #16 |
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I rented a Hyundai Sonata for three weeks earlier in the month. Getting that thing to accelerate was like flying a jet. Before it would move the engine had to wind itself up. So I nearly had to schedule all of my lane changes down the interstate: if I needed to change lanes I had to remember to hit the accelerator a tenth of a mile before moving.
As for the XM radio, it's a load of crap. The station I had it on played the same thirty songs over and over. So, I changed to another station; I got one with the same songs over and over AND the same commercials over and over. When I drove under trees or highway bridges it would cut out and then come back on 200 yards down the road.
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