Just got my first car!

[FreakBaller12]

Famous last words. I really hope you are careful in that thing but knowing the mind of a 17 year old it won't be long before you wrap yourself around something. Do us all a favor and make sure you wear your seatbelt and keep your insurance up to date so the other drivers are covered too. Oh and when your fingers are hovering over your keyboard ready to type something witty in response to this, keep this in mind... you keep telling us how fast it is. I wish you all the luck in the world, God knows I needed when i was your age.

Yea I know, that's why my mom was unhappy I got this. I feal like there's a time and place for having fun, but most of the time it's a no. I do realize I have a heavy foot(like most 17 yo's do) but I think I'll be okay.

[billybob_81067]

Of all the stupid stuff I did in cars.

[memory] Powerslideing my moms Metro( ) into parking spots beside other cars. Doing the same with my cousins Integra. Jumping 4-wheeler ramps with my Nissan Frontier. Driving 55 in the field behind my house and then pulling the handbrake on my POS 240 and doing 360's until the car stopped.[/memory]

The only time I had a wreck was when I tried not to hit a cat.
I was in a Civic doing 5mph UNDER the speed limit going to work. I see a cat a little ways down the road walking toward me in the middle of the road. I start to get over(read: not swerving) and right when I get to the cat my pass tire drops off the road. I pull the car back up on the road and start to go off the other side. I turn the other way and go off the right side of the road and into a culvert where my car flips 1 and 1/4 times landing on the pass side and staying like that. I shut the car off, open the drivers side door and crawl out through the drivers side(the only window that didn't break). I stand on the drivers side of the car and shut the door and look to see where I'm going to jump off to make sure that there wasn't any poision Ivy or snakes. Walk up to the road. Thats when I started to shake.

The lesson for today kids is do not try to avoid hitting cats...

My friend told me a story once of how a black cat crossed the road in front of his dad (AL) while he was driving and AL took off after it and jumped a couple curbs in his car trying to chase it down and run it over because of the bad luck. LOL What a

[BeaverEater]

A heavy food only leads to trouble, accidents and most commonly speeding tickets. You also get a lot worse mpgs but that shouldnt matter too much in that car. Speeding tickets will just rape your monthly insurance costs so be careful.

[rifleman wi]

Did you pick out the car? I always thought the new eclipse's were more chick cars than anything, but thats just because like every girl at my school has one.

thats funny.. true tho too.. my aunt, chick neighbor and girl i work with all have them too..

[slade]

The lesson for today kids is do not try to avoid hitting cats...

and suddenly... my dislike for you increases that much.

[billybob_81067]

and suddenly... my dislike for you increases that much.

And suddenly I don't care what people on the internet think.... Oh wait, I haven't cared about that in ages!

[DWill]

Good luck...I've been through 5 cars in my first 3 years driving, and although none of it was my fault I would still advise a first time driver to get something much much cheaper due to my circumstances. However done is done and it is a much nicer car than I ever had so have fun and be careful!

[frop]

Since when were Eclipses fast?

[FreakBaller12]

Since when were Eclipses fast?

since when were you cool?


For my first car, 200 horses is alot. It's definatly not slow for it's price, I'll tell you that.

[FreakBaller12]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MITSU...22422644QQrdZ1

If I buy that, does the key have to be programmed to my car?

[frop]

since when were you cool?


For my first car, 200 horses is alot. It's definatly not slow for it's price, I'll tell you that.

Ever since I didn't try to be cool.

I suppose you're right, as far as newer cars go. Just remember that fast is a relative term.

[wad04]

whoa! 5 cars in 3 years? please tell us the story.

[DWill]

It was all just bad luck. First was a 3 car pileup. The guy in front of the lady that I hit decided to stop about 100 ft. from a green light on a 50 mph road on a wet day for no reason. That was my favorite car too, a '89 240 T. Next my transmission went out while I was on a bridge, boy was that embarrassing since it held up everyone for a few minutes. That was a '86 240 DL. Lets see after that was the Mercedes ('79 450 SE with a 6.9L engine with 405 ft/lbs of torque, this car was tons of fun but I could literally watch the gas gauge move towards empty, which needless to say wasn't kind to my wallet) in which the brakes went out on me and ended up in the ditch. The next was a mazda mx-6 which I got for dirt cheap and out of the kindness of my heart gave to my bro for his 16 birthday. Now I'm rolling in a '94 blazer S-10 which I hear have a unfortunate tendecy to flip in certain situations. Lets hope I don't have stories about that.

[skife]

Since when were Eclipses fast?

First gen eclipses were quick... awd and a turbo 4 cylinder was wicked....


now a 6cyl front wheel drive N/A not much fun, espically in an automatic.


fast is a very relitave term.

[anomoly40]

Yeah the GSX's and the GST's are the only ones worth having.
The newer ones aren't very tuneable from what I hear. Don't go throwing that "2 Fast 2 Furious" crap up in my face either. All it had was chrome and a paint job.