{"id":982,"date":"2010-03-05T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:43:24","slug":"fantacura-mk-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/fantacura-mk-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantacura Mk II"},"content":{"rendered":"

My old 2001 Acura EL had a list of problems that were only getting worse and had to do with its 236,500 km plus age. So it was time to upgrade!<\/p>\n

My wife Lindsay and I had three cars on our list, all used cars in that 3 to 4 year old or 40,000 km to 70,000 km range that generally defines the off-lease market — and they all needed to have a helping of sportiness and quirkiness. <\/p>\n

All manual, all with a high level of trim.<\/p>\n

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The cars on our list were:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Mazda 3 Sport<\/strong> (wagon), as a sporty car with good use of space.<\/li>\n
  2. SAAB 9-3<\/strong>, as it represented a bit of bargon given the companies current predicament. I even wrote into the AutoBlog podcast about my idea. It’s the very last thing they talk about at 1 hour, 28 minutes<\/a> – they read the year wrong, but they don’t like the Saab manual either)\n<\/li>\n
  3. Acura CSX<\/strong>, the Canada-only Super Civic that replace my EL in the lineup<\/li>\n
  4. … maybe a compelling Honda Civic, Fit, or a Suburu could have squeezed in there, but probably not.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I consider buying a used car “family policy”, as I don’t want to pay for that initial depreciation, but I do want all of that high cost kit. I’m quite willing to diagnose the faults off a range of used cars from across Ontario and ride around like the Princess and the Pea on test drives until I find the perfect car.<\/p>\n

    Lindsay, not so much. In the end that just meant I could look at even more cars!<\/p>\n

    I settled on a 2007 Acura CSX, black with black tint, a 5spd manual and the 2.0 VTEC 155 hp engine. No leather this time (Lindsay’s happier, I’m not so much, but warming<\/em> to not having leather).<\/p>\n

    I like the car a lot, but even though I have an AUX (headphone jack) input on the new CSX, I really do miss the after-market adaptor my old EL had to let me control the iPod (iPhone) from the regular car stereo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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