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2022 Mitsubishi Mirage meets your criteria

That's hilarious

I'd rather drive this car now in 2022 than many offerings. It certainly is an honest car, just like people used to be. (in comparison to now) .....ok rant off. :)

That's pretty neat

and ran forever... unlike modern shit boxes!

I routinely get 40-ish on the highway with my modern Civic, non-hybrid, so it is not out of the question today.

CUVs are taller (less aerodynamic) and a lot heavier, plus they have probably 3x the horsepower of this car.

Priced at less than 8 grand too ,almost 40 miles per gallon of gas ,great basic transportation..

Individual preferences, I suppose. By your description it sounds as if we’re very similar in age. In college my mom gave me her 2 year old diesel Suburban. I had the privilege of driving around that tank for several years. Interestingly enough, my college was selected to test several Subaru Justy “mules.” That was the smallest car I have ever driven, and my diesel Suburban was a race car compared to the Subaru. I truly cannot understand how some folks fit In economy cars. While I was about 100lbs lighter those days, at 6’5” I remember my knees against the steering wheel in the Justy.

I love the show that they show regular cars

Government mandates have made technology and safety priorities in automotive manufacturing. This inevitably will have an affect on prices. The new vehicles you describe exist, albeit in 3rd world countries.

Mirage is as close as you can get, why haven't you bought one yet?

@@haroldbeauchamp3770 The things that were once "luxuries" are now standard and the general buying population won't settle for any less amenities. Try selling a new 2023 car with no stereo, A/C, or power steering, and the minimum required safety features.

@@shinobusensui9395- Looked at one a couple years ago, decided to keep my Honda Fit instead.

There is a ‘90 Tercel EZ Hatch just sitting in somebody’s driveway across from my apartment. It has the 3E Motor.

Agree with your comment. My first car was a 1980 Tercel coupe, with an aftermarket rag top and aluminum honeycomb wheels! Man, still miss that car, probably still on the road!!

Great car is Toyota Tercel

Toyota Tercel is great and nice small little car

I'm gonna go get the papers get the papers.

Practicality;value

Great 👍 point.

True.

Bruh a new civic is 36k base model in the driveway. Capitalism has run amok. The only segment where this is true is mercedesbenz which go out at 76% negative equity, zero down high interest. That's astonishing.

@@alextube1101 Now those are some really smart financial decision.

I owned one there was very little performance..God forbid if u had the automatic

It seems like every review these days is for a luxury SUV or 100,000$+ electric car, post covid though even honda Civic's are quite high in price.

@@thomasrudy6132 They're pushing an agenda, they're part of the PBS system, after all. The rest of us slobs will have to resort to used Toyota Corollas or e bikes.

​@@Kingsoupturbo Yep. Lots of greed in the car industry.

There was an episode that showed how the Tercel was sold to Spence and Doug purchased their first 2nd generation Jeep Grand Cherokee from a shyster salesman. Later on, the 2nd generation Jeep Grand Cherokee became a 3rd generation Grand Cherokee with no explanation.

@@Jose_hernandez970 Oh yes, I do remember that silver Jeep he bought to replace it without Carrie knowing. I've been going back watching old episodes on Peacock. My favorite sitcom of that era for sure!

@@Jose_hernandez970 yes. I remember another episode from season 1 which is probably a Christmas episode in which their Toyota Tercel station wagon had broke down at some point. Carrie's father, Arthur, had given them a "douchenberger" car for Christmas which is actually an Austin Mini Cooper.

Was theirs brown? I think I remember clear shots of it in the garage.

@@gavinvalentino6002 yes it was.

I can attest to its handling. My first car was a ‘90 coupe. It handled even better once I slammed it on better tires lol

Sad but true.

Automatic at that time was probably a 3 speed. Giving up two gears would have made that car one heck of a dog!

@@444mopar I know! I was so happy to have a 5 spd

Rio is surprisingly good

*derp*

The 4-speed! You *know* it's budget when they take away the metal & materials for the 5th gear the others have.

At least it was a good econobox, not POS Chevette or Escort.

Bought the price of a fully loaded econobox now

Wow that's a lot! But the base model was 40% lower, more like $16,000 in today's dollars.

@@runoflife87 dude the escort was legendary

@@ROBinJVILLE 1st gen US Escort? Are you kidding me? Yet another victim of American engineering. The 2nd one was OK thought, but it was bascally a Mazda.

Yes, it was but then again maybe, one way or others, slatfatf.

*Nope, not even.*

@@gavinvalentino6002 Not even what?

I’m in Northeast Arizona and the last time I saw one was an old Indian dude loading up cases of Budweiser into the hatch. I’m a 30 year master mechanic I can’t remember ever putting a wrench on one. I asked him how it’s treated him all these years and he said he only drives it from the Reservation to the corner store once a month and he’s still got the original brakes. I didn’t know whether to be amazed or scared for the other drivers on the road.

You make a valid point. Anything smaller than a full size truck or suv is too small for my large frame.

Toyota (and other companies) make and sell cars in India for less than $7500.00.

@@johnreitz5676 But don’t get into an accident in one of those especially the Tata Nano which supposedly is the cheapest car in the world. A collision with a fully loaded shopping cart would probably be fatal.😸

@@patricknesbitt4003 They stopped making the Nano in 2018....4 years ago. Safety is always a relative thing. Even a Renault Kwid, which starts at less than $5000.00 is safer than most any car made 25 years ago.

Only when used, then?

@@gavinvalentino6002 new and later used

Toyota tried a couple of recalls to try and fix the carb. Bad design. The only solution was fuel injection.

Only problem I had was that I had to replace the distributor cap twice, but it was a cheap, easy fix. Other than that I had no real problems for the eight years I owned mine...

@Senrab what kind of issues? Any 28 year old car will have some minor problems, just about how many quirks do you want to live with? Are these just minor livable issues or else

Um ya, it's a '94! do you realize it's '22 now?

@@Tom-cp6yj 22 years ago was 2001, try 29 years ago.

Those were 1985 Fiats in that movie. FIAT=Fix It Again Tomorrow

10,000$ back then is the equivalent of 27,000$ in today’s money. When you look at all the equipment and refinement of current cars, they’re cheap. You can buy a Chevrolet spark for 13,000$, and it has a lot more standard equipment and is much safer than this old Tercel

@@smoguli thank god someone who gets this. A Chevy spark is also able to keep up with traffic and you aren't the crumple zones in it. These econoboxes were good... 30 years ago

@@smoguli I know quite a few people who’ve survived crashes in old 80’s Toyotas. The 1988-92 Corolla was the best one. My dad’s friend has a 2016 Nissan Micra S, Manual transmission👍, only a Canadian car. Brand new it cost only $9,995 Canadian. Going on almost 7 years, it’s still running like brand new. The manual transmission is very fun to drive. I enjoy shifting manual in a car on the slower end instead of a 400 horsepower automatic transmission car doing it all for me. A Chevy Spark won’t last 300,000 miles like an old Tercel. Reliability is non-existent anymore. I’ve seen those old 80’s & early 90’s Toyotas with 300,000 miles, a couple with even more than that. If my dad’s friends Nissan Micra was automatic, it wouldn’t be reliable, horrible Jatco automatic. Stick shift, no problem, gonna outlast most parts on the car.

If you ask me, any car with a manual transmission should have a tach. 🤷‍♂

No oil pressure or voltmeter gauges as well, totally unacceptable.

Not for another 25 years from when this aired, and the Corolla is still a major player in the Us market to this day of course

@@gtemnykh I was referring to subcompacts like Yaris, Fit.

Not to be confused with the Isuzu Infidel, the preferred vehicle of the Taliban.