Aurezalia
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Talk to me about it - specifically the 2007. Anyone have any experience with it?
It seems to have what I'm looking for, as far as I can tell. It gets good fuel economy, is in my price range, gets good mark on crash tests, etc.
Give me the low-down on how it works with car seats. I know the Liberty plays well with Radians, does the Patriot inherit that as well?
Does it have 3-across capabilities? My Elantra right now pretty much only does 3 Radians, so you can't get much worse than that. It looks like it's only an inch and a half less hiproom than the Liberty - how does that translate IRL?
It is CVT (Bleh) but it seems to be really reliable - and pretty much any fuel-efficient SUV that meets my needs that I'm looking at has it. I may just have to deal. I suppose I could get a manual, but then I'd have to work on my skills - I'm a bit rusty.
I don't care about resale value. Whatever I buy is going to be driven into the ground - so I care much more about reliability than resale value.
If there's something really awfully terrible about it that I've yet to discover and your only advice is to stay far, far away - please, for the love of god, help me find an SUV for under 10k that gets 20+ MPG city! :dizzy:
It seems to have what I'm looking for, as far as I can tell. It gets good fuel economy, is in my price range, gets good mark on crash tests, etc.
Give me the low-down on how it works with car seats. I know the Liberty plays well with Radians, does the Patriot inherit that as well?
Does it have 3-across capabilities? My Elantra right now pretty much only does 3 Radians, so you can't get much worse than that. It looks like it's only an inch and a half less hiproom than the Liberty - how does that translate IRL?
It is CVT (Bleh) but it seems to be really reliable - and pretty much any fuel-efficient SUV that meets my needs that I'm looking at has it. I may just have to deal. I suppose I could get a manual, but then I'd have to work on my skills - I'm a bit rusty.
I don't care about resale value. Whatever I buy is going to be driven into the ground - so I care much more about reliability than resale value.
If there's something really awfully terrible about it that I've yet to discover and your only advice is to stay far, far away - please, for the love of god, help me find an SUV for under 10k that gets 20+ MPG city! :dizzy: