>>>>>>>>>I drive the STS mostly for the leg-room but would probably go to Chrysler 300 for my next car... A certified car about 2 years old usually gives you a better warrantee than new and in the case of the STS or Eldorado I get every couple years means a Cadillac at the price of a new Toyota. You can pick up a 300C or 300 Touring with some pretty impressive goodies for the same price as the Camaro, if you get a certified car about 2 or 3 years old that originally listed for 47K +.
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>>>>>>>>But the 300 has a shorter wheelbase than my 2002 Stratus. Having a 6' 3" husband with long legs, our next vehicle will probably be some form of crossover.
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>>>>>>>My daughter drove a rental Stratus and loved it. She was convinced it was going to be her next car. Then she fell in love with the Dodge Charger. When it came time to buy, we settled on the more economic Chevy Malibu. At least the grille is great :) All kidding aside, it's a great car and drives like her Pontiac G6 which we drove to Colorado and back and was very comfortable. The interior is almost identical too.
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>>>>>>I rented a 'Malibu' a couple of years ago, sorry Dad had a '75 Malibu that was one of the sweetest driving cars I've ever had the pleasure in, and while I did like the performance of the car, two things made me completely batcrap:
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>>>>>>1) The damn shifter paddles. This is an automatic, thankyewverramush, and I don't care that you can put it in 'manual' mode. Hate 'em and they made it so there was no way for me to comfortably hold the steering wheel
>>>>>>2) The rear seat headrests. They take the lower corners out of the rear view mirror.
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>>>>>I really like good visibility in a car.
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>>>>>I've go a volvo v70 estate. The pillars on the windscreen sides seem to be angled and of a width where they always obscure traffic when coming out of a side turning. I always move my head to check behind the pillar especially for bikes but I wonder how many other drivers do.
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>>>>>This idiot was seen driving on the M4 during the last snowfall here.
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>>>>>http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/21/snow-covered-audi-a3-pictured-driving-along-m4-motorway-in-south-wales-3359877/
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>>>>Wonder why they blurred the number plate ?
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>>>SN57 VHL (I'd love to know who it was. I see no reason that persons face shouldn't be plastered all over the press)
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>>Guess he might get a visit from the plod......
>>Actually my car looks like that - but I only moved it a few feet :-}
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>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265333/Big-freeze-4-days-Chaos-roads-rail-runways-worse-snow-returns.html
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>>> scroll down quite a bit.
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>If there's a lot of snow on the car I usually clear it with a broom. That includes the roof all the windows and bonnet. Its annoying when peoplel are dropping slabs of snow and ice in front of following traffic.


January 1966 I was stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas. We had about 12 inches of snowfall during the night. I had to clean off all the ice and snow from my 1961 Chevrolet Impala, before driving to the Air Base. Due to the conditions of the road I was driving slowly.

As I was driving down a steep hill one block down and one block up, a white Cadillac was coming from the opposite direction. The car was covered with ice and snow and the driver had made a porthole about 12 inches in diameter to see out of. All the windows were covered in ice except for that small clearing on the drivers side. I could see a woman’s face against the porthole and suddenly she lost control of the vehicle.

The Cadillac made three 360 degree turns and I had to maneuver to keep from getting wiped out, as she drove past me without hitting any of the parked cars on the street. I can still see her eyes!