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The minis are entertaining. The 5 speed manuals are lemons, google 'midlands' 5speed. The 6 speeds are a Getrag unit and are solid. They do a pile of weird other shit too tho. Mates girlfriend had...

The 3.0 also have a surprising tow rating for a sedan

They're arguably worse than the Ovlov :ORLY:

Noooooo

Only cunty thing the Accord Euros seem to do in my experience is cook the odd alternator regulator once in a while (ie the occasional car, not all the time), Honda charge $2k to get one reco'd, but...

Ah but they actually handle, as opposed to crapped out 2 ton taxis with suspension from the 1930s ;)

Example: I have a 2004 Volvo V50 in here this morning, needs a left hand drive shaft, and both front lower arm inner rear bushes. The bushes cost us $50+ (for a generic bush, which is all fine and...

Yep in the 70's 80's and early 90's that was certainly true. Death traps. Much much better now

True but remember that larger open road km readings are prob better than something Joe Auckland has spent two hours in traffic in, five days a week, racking up a measly 80 odd km.

$5-6k will get...

This sort of thing

All the leather towbar, sunroof etc, quite highy 'optioned' (there will be tons of other little things too), and from a dealer
Honda Accord Euro 2004 | Trade Me

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Accord

Did I mention comfortable? Toyota, while being (used to be anyway, a lot of the new stuff is garbage) the benchmark for reliability, were always really shit in the seat department.

2.4, quick enough on open road, good around town, good looking, four door, mid size sedan, comfy, well equipped, good on gas, reliable as fuck, comfortable, good resale, cheap/easy to source parts......

I am stupid enough to still work on cars for a living and I wouldn't put a cent into any volvo, ever. Same goes for any Euro crap really, unless you shit money and can take a $5k bill without wincing...