I read somewhere they operate with a licensed American engine, and that some European nations are trying to replace it with a non-American one… Yeah, it’s a development of an F-18 engine.

Thanks, I feel a lot better about this car now. I’m going to keep an eye out for a deal (unlikely as it is in the time of tariffs), but I’ll hold on for now. Another car payment is not what we need right now.

Btw, I kinda get that this community was probably intended for folks who are real gear heads into cooler cars than my Soul. As a mod, do you mind more content along the lines of daily driver type cars? There’s not really another option I can find for an active community around Lemmy.

I was looking over it tonight and thinking, it’s not such a bad little car in a lot of ways. It’s lower mileage than any of its siblings I’ve seen for sale. I’m getting the oil changed every 5,000 miles or less. I just had this work done, and I just replaced the PCV valve myself and threw in a new air filter. I’m also seriously considering going to top tier gas–right now it’s cheap Murphy’s gas, and I worry about what that’ll do long term.

On the other hand, I know it should be time for the plugs and coil packs to be replaced soon, though. Also, I’m thinking it’s gotta be way past time to change the transmission fluid, if that’s even possible–not sure if it’s one of those sealed deals you see in modern cars or not. I’m not sure what else I ought to look at. I’ve looked for a Haynes or Chilton manual, but it looks like there isn’t one, at least not here in the States.

Would you keep it if it were you?

In theory, CarMax might give me up to $6,000. I don’t want a new car payment, but everything I can get around that amount is much higher mileage and much older, though. I did see a 2013 Honda Fit with 50,000 miles for around $11,500, and I’ve heard good things about those.

I’m holding out hope for a good used Honda or Toyota to come along.

I’d really like a Prius. We have a CRV hybrid, and I dearly love getting above 40 miles/gallon. The only concern is the longevity of those hybrid batteries, though a lot of people say they last far longer than expected.

Yeah. Intelligent growth is too much to hope for, I guess.

Is it possible the doctors at the CDC showed him something that would finally change his mind and he had enough of a conscience to care for the lives on the line?

Probably not, but I can hope, I guess.

I would have thought this was entrapment. Is this somehow not entrapment?