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phi1

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Hi there, I am currently in process of moving to florida and I will require a car/truck over there. I have around $15k to spend. I currently drive a seat leon cupra r but after being over here for almost 3 months now I would want an automatic.

I am moving to go to college (uni) but insurance shouldn't be to much and will be taken care off. I want something that I couldn't get in england. I also while at college work at a construction company so I might benifit from a pickup. If I was to get a pickup I would want a diesel or a fast v8 of some kind. But anyway I want something interesting compared to england.

So just to recap, can be a car or truck, could be 2 seats or more, fuel is not a problem, v8, big diesel "cummins" "powerstroke" etc

Thanks Phil
 
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Surely if you bought a diesel over there you'd be looked on at best as some sort of quirky Brit and at worst as belonging in the circus?
 
[TW]Fox;19740259 said:
Because almost everything over there is an auto.
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...don't see why what other people drive makes a difference.

Jonny69 said:
Maybe the same reason I want an auto as well. I can't be assed changing gear all the time when an auto box can do it for me.
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MT makes driving more enjoyable/engaging, and you'll likely get better fuel economy - but if he wants a pick up truck for just lugging things around, then perhaps I can understand.
 
Have you ever been to the USA?

The roads suit an auto, the fuel costs suit an auto and almost all cars on the market are autos.

What other people drive does make a difference - finding a manual in anything but a sports car is like finding a needle in a haystack.
 
Fair enough. I just imagine getting bored with an auto tbh. If you've got a v8 under the bonnet, would rather have a MT.
 
tbh, after driving some good auto cars I can't see me wanting a manual over here. In england maybe on the "b" roads going for a blast but it's all straight roads with interstates and lights etc. You can just sit back and relax and as fox said fuel is really cheap compaired to our prices. My father has let me borrow his 08 plate lincoln navigator 5.4 v8 while I have been over sorting things out and it's been perfect although a little slow and drives like a bus compaired to the seat.

And as for buying a diesel truck I guess it's almost considered rednecky but to be honest I don't really care I am not going to put big stacks on it and big tractor tyres etc. I just want to get something that I couldn't buy in england.
 
Deific said:
Fair enough. I just imagine getting bored with an auto tbh. If you've got a v8 under the bonnet, would rather have a MT.
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When you drive mostly straight highways and avenues ...really not a lot has more than a slight curve to it, running between one set of lights and another ...you'ed want an auto too, a manual will quickly become irritating, believe me.

Take Calgary for instance, driving around it, you just move on a big wide multilane road from one set of traffic lights to the next in blocks ...or somewhere smaller you'ed be doing it between stop signs instead and perhaps the road wouldn't be multilane ...but it's the same thing ...it's really not like driving in the UK. And then you get out of the city or town and you have a more or less straight highway from horrizon to horrizon.

Perfect for autos ...annoying in a manual for anything but a quick pleasure blast somewhere. If you didn't have all the stop signs and lights a manual would be fine, but you do, in my experience of mostly driving in Canada, around the cities you actually stop more than in the UK because of the way they are designed, speed up, slow down ...stop, and repeat over and over.
 
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Because then you can relax to the sound of DAG DAG DAG DAG DAG - the 6L diesels or whatever are so frickin noisy :p

Get an F-350, they are so massive :D
 
the 5.9 or 6.7 cummins will beat the petrol ones no problems, plus you can get 400hp 1500nm torque very cheaply
** to add, if you liek big, a ram dually makes an f350 look like a fiesta
 
sovietspybob said:
If it were me it'd be a big diesel truck, as you can get wafty petrol V8 cars over here although there by no means common.

But i'd love to own a properly big (6 litres+) V8 or straight 6 diesel truck!
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Those big diesel trucks are massively noisy, they sound like HGV tractor units, unless you want to routinely pull some seriously heavy stuff I see no good reason to live with one of those day to day.

GMC actually have an advert on the tv in Alberta at the moment where they extoll the virtues of how economical their V8 Sierra pickup is (the petrol one) ...usually they just talk about power :p ...made me smile anyway.

It's funny though because on the whole the automotive adverts aren't so much about how green a particular vehicle is or how economical it is or weather or not it gives you a certain 'je ne sais quoi' more about how rugged and manly it is and how much power it has and ...importantly in Canada ...how much **** in can pull up a mountain.
 
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