• Uranium3006
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    2810 months ago

    ones that run are in the high four digits, and the days of a sub $1000 running beater are over

    • doc
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      1610 months ago

      I’m hanging on to my sub $1000 beater. Late 90s Civic with 240k miles and no clear coat still has better mpg than our newish CRV.

      • @marx2k
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        610 months ago

        My 2022 crv hybrid gets about the same mileage as my wife’s stick shift 2012 civic!

      • @machinin
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        310 months ago

        20 years ago I bought a civic for $1200 from Craigslist. Sold it 10 years ago for $1600. They’re great cars.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          My first ever car was a 95 civic 2-door. Beat it to hell, fucked up a wheel so that there was a 1/4" of clearance between tire and wheel well, the exhaust fell off, the computer was starting to act up, and I still kick myself for letting my friend talk me into selling it for a 2003 ford escape. That got sold for a song after I fucked up the engine head trying to fix the second popped spark plug it had…