Our New Ride-

[ticker]

Picked this up on Saturday to replace my wifes 97 Tercel. Its a 2003 but it only has 15000 miles on it. Not a nissan but I got it at the nissan dealer. BTW what is up with the nissan versa. It looks like someone sh*t an Altima.

PS stole the pic from the dealer-Its been cloudy since we got it.

Edited October 23, 2006 by ticker

[navygz19]

It's a Protege5, sweet! Those things always looked like a lot of fun to drive. Good handling, MPG, looks and utility. Low miles, good price, nice choice!

[ticker]

Guess i forgot to mention it was the Mazda Protege5. Super fun to drive, especially with the manual shift option on the auto tranny. Its a little under powered (130hp)but the handling is super crisp and sporty. That coupled with the leather seats and new car smell is honestly making me kinda jealous. The pathy is feeling kinda old after sitting in the shiny like new interior of her car. Its funny because a Mazda was never even in the world of cars we were looking at (Nissan, Toyota, Honda), but it had great consumer reviews and its was seriously the nicest(newer) car we looked at in our price range. Its my understanding that is was the last to be an all japanese model as well, hopefully this will mean lots of carefree driving. The only thing I'm worried about is the low profile all season Dunlop 5000M tires. They don't look like they would be all that usefull in the snow. Oddly enough when I went to the tirerack web site to check out tires they have a protege5 wheelin in the snow as their header. The tires got Ok ratings for minor snow fall. This puts me into a major delima. For obvious reasons(pathy) I love snow, so do I pray for lots of it as usuall and feel guilty or hope for a mild winter and be bummed like last year. I'm going with guilt-I grew up going to catholic church-I can handle it.

[Casey.T]

I'm going with guilt-I grew up going to catholic church-I can handle it

Thank goodness for confession :secret:

[tecciball]

so how much did you pay?

[ticker]

about $14,500. Its pretty much fully loaded, and only has 15,000 miles on it. Not really sure how a 2003 has only 15,000 miles. The dealer bought it at auction so we were thinking that it was a repo or seized. Anyway wifey loves it so I'm happy.

[zonianbrat]

That is one nice looking ride!! Congrats.

[tecciball]

a happy wife is worth way more than $14500, so you got a bargain on all counts!

[davekell]

atleat its not a ford or chevy hehehehe.

[GrimGreg]

The only thing I'm worried about is the low profile all season Dunlop 5000M tires. They don't look like they would be all that usefull in the snow. Oddly enough when I went to the tirerack web site to check out tires they have a protege5 wheelin in the snow as their header. The tires got Ok ratings for minor snow fall. This puts me into a major delima. For obvious reasons(pathy) I love snow, so do I pray for lots of it as usuall and feel guilty or hope for a mild winter and be bummed like last year. I'm going with guilt-I grew up going to catholic church-I can handle it.

Do they give a rating for how it handles in SALT? :furious:

 

They close the roads here if there is snow on them

[navygz19]

atleat its not a ford or chevy hehehehe.

Don't bet on it...I'm sure in '03 the P5's were sharing some sorts of pieces from the FoMoCo parts bin

Either way, nice ride dude

Find yourself an aftermarket turbo from the Mazdaspeed Protege and have yourself a pretty sweet drag car