View Poll Results: Which car should TeLLy rent for a week?
Hyundai Accent - it's like a tiny tiny Tiburon with no HP!
1
5.56%
Toyota Echo - something about that centred gauge cluster makes me smile
6
33.33%
Something else! Sheesh, what's wrong with you???
9
50.00%
Don't rent a car, I will drive you to and from work all week (can't blame me for trying)
2
11.11%
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Which car to rent?
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Yes, it's an Acura EL
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Which car to rent?
Well jiggle wiggles, I'm dropping my baby off at the bodyshop tomorrow night, pickin up a rental the next day. So here it is - which car should I rent? Budget and availability restrict me to the Hyundai Accent or the Toyota Echo (sedan). So..what do you think?
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Rep Power: 347 Oh well then, I'd say the lesser of the two evils... lol, I don't want to put it that way, but I'm not the biggest fan of either of them so the Echo kinda won.
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Yes, it's an Acura EL
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Rep Power: 368 I was actually gonna go, but I had salsa lessons, and then I sold my springs and stock shocks to a couple of peeps. Then I cleaned out my car, and I was so tired after I didn't even have the energy to vacuum it.
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Rep Power: 0 Having had the unfortunate experience of driving both of those cars as rentals before, I would say the Accent is marginally better (like comparing one peice of poo to another though 
). I take it you want to keep costs down, so thats why you are picking from the lowest category?
). I take it you want to keep costs down, so thats why you are picking from the lowest category? Thread Starter
Yes, it's an Acura EL
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Rep Power: 368 Yup - I have other costs to consider, such as an upcoming wedding I have to attend, new stereo setup, and moving into an apartment this fall.
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Originally Posted by TeLLy
Tell that to the one that smoked me on the highway last week.
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Yes, it's an Acura EL
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Rep Power: 368 Hey pharoh, I just came back from BKS - quote starts at $600 for lip kit all around. A tiny bit more for a full bumper, but it all depends how the stuff fits. If he doesn't have to fuqq around with it, then the price stays around 6 bills. If some modding is involved (fitment issues) then the price rises rather significantly.
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Originally Posted by TeLLy
Hey pharoh, I just came back from BKS - quote starts at $600 for lip kit all around. A tiny bit more for a full bumper, but it all depends how the stuff fits. If he doesn't have to fuqq around with it, then the price stays around 6 bills. If some modding is involved (fitment issues) then the price rises rather significantly.
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Yes, it's an Acura EL
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Rep Power: 368 Unless you're swapped or FI'd there's no way you're smokin V6 Tibs, underpowered as they may be.
Accents shouldn't even try the stoplight-to-stoplight thing. I wonder if Hyundai engineered some sort of clutch/acceleration delay mechanism so the car couldn't be floored, thus saving the driver the embarrassment of being utterly raped during a street confrontation. OK it's early and I need coffee.
Update: my whole family refuses to pick me up from work to drop me at the rental place. So now I have to take a $30 cab to pick up my rental. Stupid family.
Accents shouldn't even try the stoplight-to-stoplight thing. I wonder if Hyundai engineered some sort of clutch/acceleration delay mechanism so the car couldn't be floored, thus saving the driver the embarrassment of being utterly raped during a street confrontation. OK it's early and I need coffee.
Update: my whole family refuses to pick me up from work to drop me at the rental place. So now I have to take a $30 cab to pick up my rental. Stupid family.
